The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-01

Domestic.

EySN, dt hiDdLyy IN. L :, idSt hul So1y
as Mr. and Mrs. ]. w. Rogers, of San
Francisco, and disappeared from the no.
tel Friday night, leaving behind them
two children, both boys, aged, respec-
lively, six years and six months. Mr..
and Mrs. Rogers left without paying
their board bill and after getting the
hotel to cash certified check. The
children were taken in charge by the
commissioner of charities, who swore
out warrants for the arrest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Rogers for abandoning the chill
dren.
]. Pierpont Morgan took luncheon
with the President at Sycamore Hill and
discussed with him matters pertaining
to the Canton-Hankow Railroad, in
China. Mr.. Morgan arrived in Oyster
Bay shortly after noon on his yacht the
Corsair.
While in Seattle, Wash, Mr.. Thos.
F. Ryan, who owns stock control of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society,
said he favored federal supervision of
life insurance companies.
When a committee complained to
Mayor Dunno, of Chicago, of the preva-
lence of crime in that city he pointed to
crowded prisons as an evidence OF the
activity of the police.
William Ely, who is held by the Chi
cago police on charges of robbery, is
said by the police to have squandered
100000 in three years.
John Williams, an aeronaut, was
dashed to death by falling 1000 feet.
lie released his grasp on the trapeze of
lis parachute.
Edgar Stachelberg, member of cigar
manufacturing firm of Tampa, Fla, has
been challenged by one of his employees
to Eight duel because Stachelberg or
dered his employees to cease reading an
archistic literature. The challenge will
be ignored.
In his annual report to the War De-
partment General Whit, commander of
the Department of the Missouri, reconl-
mends that married men be barred from
enlistment and that chaplains be prohib-
tied from marrying soldiers.
William H. York, aged II years, who
was one of Guerilla Morgan's raiders
during the Civil War, is in Jefferson
County (Ky) Jail on the charge of the
murder of his brother, aged SO years.
Mr.. Theodore P. Shonts, chairman of
the Isthmian Canal Commission, was a
guest of the President at Oyster Bay,
and discussed with him matters apper-
tanning to the great undertaking.
The discovery of oil in the heart OF
Warren, Pa, has made that town oil
crazy. Wells are being sunk in back
yards of residents. There has been a
phenomenal rise in land values.
A Brooklyn man has asked that his
wife be committed to an industrial home
because he is tired of combing her hair
and sewing buttons on her blouses. She
was committed.
John Moore, negro, 20 years old,
was taken from Jail in Newbern, N. c.,
by mob of 100 armed men and lynched
He attacked woman in country store.
A Philadelphia man became convinced
that he was about to die, and so predicted
in a letter to relative. When about
to post the missive he dropped dead.
A I5-year-old choir boy of Philadel-
phia has been arrested in Philadelphia on
the charge Of burglary. The police say
he has committed over 20 robberies.
Six thousand union carpenters OF Bos-
ton will receive an increase in wages
under the decision of Judge George L.
Wentworth, to whom as special arbi-
traitor the employers and unionists sub
mitted the question of new working
agreement.
The mystery of the loss of trunks and
of other baggage in Western cities is be
ieved to have been solved by the Chi
cago police, who arrested man and
woman. A search of their rooms re-
vealed evidences of the missing baggage.
Mr.. Harry F. Hooper, city register of
Baltimore, was elected vice president
of the American League of Municipali-
ties, in session in Toledo. The league
will hold its next meeting in Chicago.
The Chicago police believe they have
clue to the Mize murder mystery. They
have arrested man for holding up a
woman. The circumstances and meth
DDS employed are similar to those in
the Mize case.
The work of the National Young
Women's Christian Association was out
lined at Lake Geneva by Miss Emma
Hays, one of the national secretaries of
the association.
Frank PUNISH, Chicago swindler, has
been arrested after being out of the PEN
itentiary for only three weeks. He has
spent over 80 years behind the bars.
The report of the fever situation in
New Orleans was encouraging. There
was small report of new cases and
only one death during the night.
Benjamin Kunkle and his daughter
in-law, Mrs. Francis Kunlle, were
drowned in Big Beaver Creek, near