The midland journal., 1905-03-24
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic


was wrecked near Jellico Junction, Tenn.
The engineer and fireman were caught
beneath the engine and roasted to death.
A number of Congregational minis
ters sent protest to the American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
protesting against the acceptance of a
gift from John D. Rockefeller.
Attorney General Parker, of Massa-
chusetts, recommends that the requisi-
ton of the Governor of New York for
the extradition of Banker Arthur E.
Appleyard be honored. E
Capt. George T. Hodges, chief clerk
| in the quartermaster's department at
West Point, is dead at Newburgh, N.
Y, aged % years.
The controversy between the engi-
neers and the firemen on the New York,
| New Haven and Hartford Railroad has
been adjusted
Fifteen Secret Service men were
brought to Chicago to testify in the Beef
Trust investigation before the federal
grand jury
The Supreme Court of Ohio has de-
clared the criminal as we'll as the civil
section of the Antitrust Law to be
valid
President Palma and the members of
his cabinet visited the United States
warships in the harbor of Havana.
The ashes of the late Senator Edward
0. Wolcott, of Colorado, were buried
in Woodlawn Cemetery.
The body of Mrs. Jane Stanford ar
rived at San Francisco on the steamer
Almeda from Honolulu.
The Supreme Court of Ohio sustained
the validity of the suicide clause in in
surance contracts.
Nal Pruett, the Southern Express
Company's' messenger, was attacked on
his car near Lookout Station, Tenn, by
Will Thomas, former messenger, who
was arrested. Two money packages
were found to be missing.
In his charge to the federal grand
jury in Savannah, Ca, Judge Emory
Speer declared that service in the chain
gang was peonage under the decision Of
the Supreme Court.
Col. J. S. Tam, once nominee for gov
ernor of Iowa on the Democratic ticket,
and distinguished for his services in the
Civil War, died in Des Moines.
Nicholas Weiss presented a check
made payable to himself at a private
bank on the East Side in New York and
was sent to Bellevue Insane Hospital
Judge Kerston, in Chicago, dismissed
the case against Mrs. Jessie Hopkins,
who was on trial for killing her husband,
who had attacked her
Prof. Frank K. Sanders, dean of the
theological department in Yale Univer-
sity, rendered his resignation to the Yale
corporation.
]. E. DAILY, who was acting as mes
senger for the Central Bank of Oakland,
Cal, was held up and robbed of $4,000.
Charles F. Berry, trustee for many
large estates in Boston, is missing, and
about 100000 is involved.
Mrs. Cassie Chadwick denied in Cleve
land that she had ever said that Andrew
Carnegie was her father
Sidney P. Johnston, champion chess
player of Illinois, died in Chicago.
Mrs. Alice Webb Duke threatens to
hire hall and expose some secrets of
the Tobacco Trust
The ice is moving out of the ALE
gheny River, and there is danger of
flood
Peter Conrad, farmer of Canajoha-
rie, N. Y, was murdered, and his neigh
Dor, Daniel Smuller, was arrested on
suspicion.
The cruiser Washington was launched
from the yards of the New York Ship
building Company, at Camden, N. J.
Legal actions seeking to recover trust
funds and to have Augustus T. Gillen-
der now held as lunatic in Ardendale
Sanitarium, near Greenwich, Ct, de-
clared responsible, were begun in New
York and Connecticut.
Mrs. Flora T. Neff, president of the
Cass County Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, thinks President Roose-
welt would be more nearly right if he
urged parents to have better children
instead of more of them.
Mrs. Brownie Rathbone Weaverson
was arrested in New York, charged with
having practiced her oriental art of heal
ing on Mrs. Fannie Rahll with such i'll
success that the patient is close to death.
John R. Kenly, for 10 years general
manager of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail
way, has resigned, and w. N. Royal,
general superintendent of the First di-
vision, will succeed him.
The Panama Canal Commission has
filed an answer to the criticisms of Dr.
G. c. A. L. Reed, whom they charge
with woful ignorance or wilful mis-
statement.
Engineers of the w estern Pacific Rail
road have made surveys for new trans
continental road which will be submitted
to George J. Gould and his associates.
The Pacific express of the Erie Rail-
road plunged down an embankment near
Winfield Station, Ind. Twelve persons
were injured, of whom are likely to
die
Two suits, aggregating $4,000, have
been brought by District Attorney Je-
rome, of New York, against subsidiary
companies of the Tobacco Trust for al
legged violation of the lottery laws.
Foreign
The British Cabinet has decided that