Catoctin clarion., 1905-06-15
o|tcs to Literature, Local and General News.
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
1he Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

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Corps. Death was caused by apoplexy
The executive council of the Amer
can Federation of Labor-~iet at Scran
ton, Pa, and President Gompcrs re
ported on the growth of the organiza
ton.
Mayor Dunno, of Chicago, and Ton
Johnson are to make a fight i'll th'
next Democratic National Conventio,
for a municipal al-owncrship plank.
DR.. Szentromay Elemicr, who was
sent to this country by his wife to pre-
vent his marriage to widow, com
mitted suicide at Niagara Falls.
While Mrs. w. J. Connors was in thu
bathroom at the Hotel Cadillac, in De
troit, thief store her jewelry from he,
apartments.
Frank G.. Bigclow, the former Mil
waukee bank president, began serving
his Io-year sentence at Fort Leaven
worth prison.
The Chicago and Mobile Security
Company was incorporated in Tren,
ton. n. J.. with all authorized capita
Of $5,ooo,ooo
The Supreme Court in Trenton, N. J.
sustained the constitutionaity Of the law
prohibiting pigeon shooting.
On account Of the prevalence Of small
pox, the schools were ordered to bt
closed in Grand Rapids, Mich.
More than 200 employees at the Phila'
dclphia Mint were suspended indef'
nitcly.
Frank G. Bigcow, dcfaultng prcsl,
dent of the First National Bank of Mil
waukee, pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced in the federal court in Miwau
kcc to 10 years at hard labor i'll the pen
iteniary at Fort Lcavenworth, Kan.
A consolidation OF the 1ngcrsoll- Ser,
gcant Company and the Rand Drill Com.
pany has been made through the incor'
poration of the lngerSoll-Rand Com
pany. The new company VIII have
capital stock of $Io,ooo,ooo.
The fight for the millions Of William
Wcightman, the Philadelphia chems;
was begun in earnest. Sensational
charges were made by the guardian o'
Martha Rogers Wcightman.
The junior oratorjcal contest OF
Prncctun's one hundred and fifty-elghtl
commencement was held, with President
Woodrow Wilson presiding.
Mrs. Alexander Wood, OF Phladel'
phia, wl;o was Miss Louise Geary
daughter of Governor Geary, was mar,
rcd in Stockbridgc Miss, to James +
Ludlow, Of New York.
The boiler OF locomotive attached
10 a heavy loaded freight train exploded
near Quincy, Mass, and several cars
were wrecked and brakeman was serl'
ousIy injured.
In hcad-on collision between two
Texas and New Orleans trains neal
Spochard, Tex, two tralnmcn lost thcil
lives and several others were injured.
Mayor Weaver, OF Philadelphia, has
dccapitaled two organization committing
magistrates. His advisers are planning
to put an independent ticket in the field
Miss Edna Theresa kenton, OF Pmla'
delpha, was secretly married to BIacR
Hawk, a full-bloodcd Indian, who was at
the Carlisle Indian School
Albert 7. Patrick, the convicted mur,
dcrer, retained his nerve when told II
Ossning, n. v, of the decision against
him.
A consolidation mortgage of the Term
inal Railroad and Coal Company fol
$l4ooo,ooo was filed i'll New York.
The Florida Bankers Association met
at Atlantic Beach Fla, and elected otll-
GERS for the coming year.
Scarlet fever has spoiled :he com
menccmcnt plans at Lawrencevillt
School. near Trenton, N. J.
Mabel Gates and George job com
mitted suicide in Kansas City, Mo-, 10y
mutual agreement.
The strike of the miners at the Nor
ris Run Collery, New York, has been
adjusted.
Forty-one members Of the Philadel-
phia Branch OF the National Structural
lronworkcrS and Bridgebuilders were
arrested. One of their members, Ed
ward joyce, of Washington, was mystic
riously shot during meeting OF the
union.
AT Albany, N. Y, the Court of Ap-
peals upheld the conviction OF Lawyer
Albert T. Patrick for murder in the
first degree in causing the death OF
William Marsh Rice, the aged million
aire, in New York on September 23
1000.
Near Ncave, KY, DR.. Edmonds
Courtney was assassinated by the friends
of DR.. William Korney, who was re.
Gently killed. Korney's friends held
Courtney responsible for the former
death.