Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-08-24

The news IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic

Six hundred Russian Jews. Of Law
renee, Mass, sent memorial to Nj.
Witte and Baron Rosen expressing the
hope for Russian peace at home and
abroad
The Sultan of Sulu presented Secre-
tary Taft and Miss Alice Roosevelt with
numerous gifts and offered his hand in
marriage to the Presidents daughter.
Nine persons were killed and many
were injured in collision between
street car and freight train at Butte,
Mont.
An Internal mechne, loaded with gun
cotton, was received by Police Captain
Miles O'Rcilly, in New York.
The conference of the National Young
Women's Christian Association was held
at Williams Bay, Wis.
The Automobile Club OF Oak Park,
near Chicago, has elected physician
as one of the officers.
The San Francisco Gas and Electric
Company has been acquired by the Rock
efeler interests.
Chicago hotel men and wholesale
butchers have formed a combination to
fight the Beef Trust
The thirteenth annual meeting OF the
National Irrigation Congress began at
Portland, Ore.
The Western National Bank OF Louis
vile has been closed by the federal au-
thorlties.
The Pennsylvania Railroad placed one
Of its fast trains on exhibition at CHI
cago. ,
Mrs Mary Mapes Dodge, editor OF
St. Nicholas, died at Tannersville, N.
Y.
The city gas plant OF Syracuse, Neb,
was blown up.
Near Clarksvillc, Tex, two negroes
were accused of uttering defamatoly re-
marks about white girl. They were
arrested and tried by communicative
white and five colored. They were
found guilty and received lashcs, admin
istered by the colored men.
The walls of the Avenue Iheater
building, in Pittsburg, which was beng
wrecked preparatory to the construction
of new building, fell with a crash'
carrying down IS Italian laborers, bury
ing a number under the debris. None
were killed.
According to Rev. DR.. w. A. ?. Mar
tin, lately president OF the Imperial Iun-
gwan College at Peking, who recently
| arrived at Victoria, the Chinese are
greatly aroused by the JapS' triunphs III
! the war and arc seeking to emulate them.
Hundreds OF thousands OF pounds OF
sulphur were burned in New Orleans
to rid the city OF the tever-intected mos
oui,oes. and the Marine Hospital Corps
now hope to stamp out the disease in
few weeks.
Mr.. James Hazen Hyde, former vice
president of the Equitable Life Assur-
ancc Society. has sold his country place,
on Long Island, to Louis Bossart for
100000, which is about half OF its total
| cost,
President Mitchell is trying to check
the weakness in the United Mlnework-
ers' organization i'll the anthracite region
the union having lost many members in
the Hazlcton and Schuylkill regions.
Joe Ullman, proprietor ct the bridge
! Club in Saratoga, has received deadly
bomb similar to those sent to jacob H.
| Schitf and the Guggenhcims, i'll New
York.
A log raft containing 100000 teet
Of timber will start at an early date
from Stella, Wash, to be towed across
the Pacific Ocean to Shanghai,
The tribes in the Moro provinces OF
Zamboanga. Philippines, gave Secretary
of War Taft and his party great re-
ception.
A project is on hand in New York 70
th, Stands If Will
be the talcst structure ever bulI'
Five Americans and several colons's
are reported to have been killed III
fight between them III Mexico. -.
After an inspection trip in the west
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson IS con-
yinced that some OF the railroads are
making as obnoxious as possible recent
regulations governing livestock ship
mcnt, in order to secure their repeal.
Frank Ward, OF Pueblo, Col, torcee
his daughter to swallow poison, whict
caused her death. He then took the
same drug, which also caused his death
AT Plymouth, Mass, Chicago de
tcctivcs failed to identity George l.
Marsh, suspected OF the murder OF
chauffeur near Chicago several months
ago. 49,.
r. H. Davidson, a Chicago building
contractor, is missing, His friends be
lieve that he has been slugged by la
Dor gang.
Henry D. Davis, Of Cleveland, o., wa
elected president of the fraternal orde
of Eagles, in session i'll Denver, Col
Kipson A. Andrews, former treas
urcr of the Pittsburg Coal Company, i
reported to be dying at Youngstown, y
Minooka, large town bordering, OF
Scranton Pa, is SO good that the whol
police force has been dismissed.
Three negroes who had murdered
women of their own race were hange'
in Memphis.
foreign.
John Hyde, former staistlcian OF tn
United States Department OF Agricult
! urc, in statement made in London, de
nies that he made the estimate OF tn
cotton crop June lower than the re
.oco;,oJ from, officia1 cOrreSDOfld