Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-06-22
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
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Domestic

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began the new IS-hour schedule Mon
day, got in ahead of time at both East
ern and Western terminals.
The steamer City of Collingwood
owned by the North Shore Navigation
Company of Collingwood, and valued
at $4,000, was totally destroyed by fire
at her dock at Colingwood, Ont.
Two hundred thousand, three hundrcc
and eighty-two persons have passed
through the gates of the Lewis anc
| Clark Exposition since the opening day
| Chairman Morton, of the Equitable
ordered a complete investigation to b.
made of the company's affairs by two
firms of expert accountants.
A shower of molten steel following
an explosion caused the death OF two
men who were swimming in the Hudson
at New York.
Philip Arbcit, who sold SKINNED anc
watercd milk on the lower East Side If
New York, was sent to jail for IS days
Lightning struck a circus wagon al
Kalamazoo, Mich, killing Advance
Agent w. J. Currier and injurng sew
cral others.
Two little boys looked on while Alcr
Dukes killed Thomas ]. Snyder, blinc
man, near Murphysboro, H.
Various reports were made to tht
General Synod of the Evangelical Lu
thcran Church in Pittsburg.
Supreme Regent Howard {. Wiggins
of the Royal Arcanum, says there is nc
occasion for alarm about the condition
Of the order, members are being init
atcd, new applications are being received
and others are increasing the amount'
of their certificates.
AT the Convention Of American Zion
lists in Philadelphia it was decided tha'
Palestine was the best place for the col.
oni1ation OF the Jews.
Alvin ]. Tucker, OF Clyde, New York
dreamed his uncle had died and lcf,
him legacy of $4,000, and on the fol
lowing day learned that it had really oc'
cured.
College entrance examinations, con.
Quoted by the college entrance examina.
ton board, will be held today at Ioc
points III the United States and in Eu-
rope.
Six members of the last Arkansas
General Assembly, including the presl-
dent Of the Senate, are under indictment
on charges Of bribery, perjury and con,
SpiraCy.
/ Judge Dicllcy, of Newburg, n. v, de
nounccd in open court the defendant,
who was trying to recover second time
money he had loaned on mortgage.
The patron, OF the public school at
Little Silver, n. J.. insisted on the REIN
statement of the schoolrcachcr who had
been dismissed because he chewcd to-
bacco.
The manual OF the Daughters of the
Faith, about to be issued, declares that
a Catholic divorccc who rCmarrlcS should
be socially ostracl,cd.
Pa,cel p. Pratt. millionaire merchant
and banker, died in Buffalo, n. Y. He
had undergone an operation and never
rallied from the shock,
Rear Admiral SigSbcc'S squadron sail
cd from TompknsyIllc for Cherbourg,
France. where John Paul Jones body
will be taken On board.
The Bell and the independent tec-
phone companies i'll Amsterdam, n ",
and contiguous cities are indulging in a
rate war
lranci, Murphy. the temperance ad-
vocatc, who has been i'll six weeks with
blood poisoning, is recovering slowly.
There was a free fight in the First
Recorders courtroom in New Orleans,
in which all parties produced guns.
Mis-, Mamie Bdbb, a schoolteacher, of
Norway, Me-, will ioin Pcary's cxpcdi-
tion in guest OF the North Pole
During an orgic among the E.skimos
on the Diomcd Islands a native woman
was burned at the stake.
Herman klucscndorf and Mary Kohl
cloped from the poorhouse in Milwau-
kcc and were married