The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-06-01
NEWS IN SHORT ORDEl
The Latest Happenings Condensed
Rcsding.
Domestic.

Superintendent Agnew, of tn
Orleans Society for the Prevent
Cruelty to Children, appealed q
judge of the Juvenile Court to as
putting down the traffic in yoV . 8
which has become quite a tradSNr
Mayor Weaver won his big fig
Philadelphia, the United Gas Impl
ment Company's president sending a
ter to the City Councils withdrawing
offer which caused the municipal c
VII sou.
Mrs Nary Ellen Lease was held e.
in her home, in New York, by two bt,
glars, who held a revolver to her hel
and robbed her of $IIo in cash and $3d%
worth of jewelry and silverware
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, thel
British ambassador TO the United States.
arrived in New York on the steamer
Campania on his return from short
visit to England
The City Council of St. Thomas, Ont,
has petitioned the Canadian government
TO revoke the order to deport the Amer
ican officials of the Pere Marquette
Railroad.
Frank Barker, convicted of the muir
der of his brother and his brothers
wife in Lincoln, Neb., has agreed to
spring the trap and be his own execu-
toner.
Ignazio Trentanelli, an Italian banker,
was arrested in Cleveland, O., on the
charge of embezzling money deposited
by his fellow-countrymen
The Supreme Court of Vermont has
denied the petition for new trial for
Mrs. Mary NJ. Rogers, convicted Of
numbering her husband
There was another slump in May ccE
in the Chicago pit, the attempt to co1er
the market proving disastrous fa@hre.
The receiver was ordered t2Ftake
charge of all the offices of the b<kerage
firm of Haight and E jbnnecti-
Nat Crump. the outlaw. shot Clay
Grubb at Salisbury, Nmh Monday,
was captured after beis idly shot,
The Monument /EsBnal Bank of
Charlestown, M@SS> >fded to go into
The Norfolk & Asouthcrn Railroad
has been Sold/~
= LOUIS LL;eyKS tmerly in business at At
~ Baltimore and convicted in New York
OF grand larceny in the first degree on
the complaint of William Meyer & Co.,
who were one Of the many firms that
accused the defendant of swindling, was
sentenced by Judge Fister to not less
than three, nor more than three years
and one month, in state prison
The motion of Frank B. Lord, which
sought to restrain the directors of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society from
nIutualizing the company, was granted
By Justice Maddox in the Supreme
(Court in Brooklyn.
At Winona Lake the report of the
committee of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church on forms of
worship was recommitted. The ques-
ton will come before the next General
Assembly
At Fort Worth, Tex, the General AS
Church voted against federation, but
continued its committee for conference
with other branches of the church.
At the meeting of the Woman's Home
and Foreign Missionary Society of the
Lutheran Church. in Springfield, O.,
Mrs. p A. Heilman, of Baltimore, was
elected president.
The First National Bank, of Barber
ton, o., has been ordered closed by the
Comptroller of the Currency on the
ground that the bank is insolvent The
capital stock is $4,000.
AT Birmingham, Ala, Isaac Waltes,
secretary of the Mississippi Camel Coal
Company, was mysteriously murdered in
front of his home during Thursday
night
Jesse B. Anthony, superintendent of
the Masonic Home, at Utica, n. Y,
dropped dead just after reading the
burial service over an inmate of the
home
One man is dead and several are Sc
riously injured as the result of a COM
bat among rival gangs on the East Side
of New York
Former Judge Alton B. Parker made
an address before the Illinois State Bar
Association on THE Lawyer in Public
Affairs"
Charles H. Van Brunt, presiding JUS
tice of the Appellate Division of the
New York Supreme Court, is dead.
AT Topeka. Kan, Secretary Shaw gave
assurances that the government is not
facing bankruptcy.
According to New York adviceS, new
interests have entered the Norfolk and
Southern Railway.
AT Peoria, ILL.,, Richard Higgins was
acquitted of the murder of Mrs. Nellie
ThomaSSon.
Foreign
Forty-two persons were arrested at