The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-07-14
NEWS N SHORT 9RgERs.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

C. C. Nav. former president of the
Big Bend National Bank of Davenport,
Wash, gave $1,000 bail in Boston TO
answer the charge of misapproprlating
funds.
Dais Collins, colored, who had been
convicted in Jackson, Miss, OF attempt,
ed felonious assault was shot and killed
by his victims brother-in-law.
There was a clash in Newport, n.y.
between the mayor and several police
men and the jailer having Caleb Powers
in charge over the prisoner.
Philip Valvordi and Edward H. Wood
were sentenced to prison in phiiadei-
pha for padding the assessors list.
The Scott Special, on the Santa re
Railroad, made new record IN the
run from Los Angeles to Chicago.
Mrs. Helen johnson, mother OF Mayor
Tom L. johnson, of Cleveland, died at
her home in Brooklyn.
Count Cassini, the retiring Russian
ambassador, sailed from New York Tor
Bremen.
The tug Oneida cut the launch Edna
hin two in the upper bay on BROOK
Ign.
Gus Lee. a sailor on the cruiser West
Virginia has been ordered to the prison
at Wethersheld, Ct, to serve term OF
five years for the killing of a fellow
seaman on board the cruiser.
John R. Wright, a Baptist preacher OF
Columbus, Kan, signed contract to
play the part of John the Baptist in the
new biblical play, "The Holy City,
John w. Wooten, New York law
yer. was sentenced to Sing Sing for
stealing thousand-dollar check:
Bob Mccoy, ranchman living on
the Big Horn River, was shot to death
near Thermopolis, Wyo.
The New York legislature in JOINT
session began the hearing OF the charges
against Judge Hooker. ;.
A receiver was appointed in St LOUIS
for the Peoples United States Bank IN
St. Louis.
County Collector E. J. Mackey COM
mitted suicide at his home, IN Philips
]. H. Thomas shot and killed bur-
glar he caught entering his store IN
Pittsburg.
Paxinosa Inn, summer resort hotel
near Easton. Pa, was destroyed by fire.
John Selby, veteran of the Mexi-
can and Civil Wars, died in Tacoma,
Wash. +ti
1t has developed that the legal pro-
ceedings which resulted in the indict-
ment OF Lawyer Hummel in New York
were instituted by Capt. James J..
Morse, an uncle of Charles w. Morse,
who employed Hummel without his neph-
ew's knowledge.
Theodore H. Price, the New York cot
ton broker, came to Washington and,
through his attorney, called upon Secre-
tary Wilson for a retraction OF the m
plication in his report connecting him
with the cotton-leak scandal.
Walter T. Langdon, son of the assist,
ant superintendent of the insane hospital
at Poughkeepsie, fled with Mrs. janet. l..
Wilson, who made her escape from that
institution.
Miss Emma Frances Potts, Phlla-
delphia society girl, was released on bail
on the charge of stealing valuable ring
from Mrs. Mabelle Jarder.
Lena Duerr, a child of 10, living in
Pittsburg, was "made up" to look older
and married to Robert E. Long by de-
ceived minister in Youngstown, o..
While officers had him custody IN
New York, Berthe Claiche, a French
girl, killed Emil Gerdron, who had made
her life one of abject slavery.
The State Board of Control OF Kan
sas reported that there were many cases
of insanity in counties where religious
revivals had been held.
| John Trout committed suicide in Phlla-
delphia at the home of Miss Emma Da-
Wis, who had refused to marry him.
Mrs. Matilda Won Under, who was be-
lieved to have died 80 years ago, re-
turned to Reading to collect $50 legacy.
Two blocks of the business and resi-
dence section of Goldfeld, New, have
been destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000,
| A quiet Sunday was spent by 1he
President and his family at Oyster Bay.
They attended church in the morning.
Two persons were shot, one probably,
fatally, in a fight between whites and
blacks in New York. -.
| While crazy with drink, Mrs. Eliza
Bradley branded her foster-baby, using
hot fiatiron.