The midland journal., 1905-03-31
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

was derailed at Andrews, N. c., with
the result of injuring several persons.
Governor General Wright issued a
proclamation announcing that the census
of the Philippines had been complete,
and that in two years, provided peace
prevails, an election would be called Tor
a general assembly.
Gessler Rosseau, the dynamiter, stated
in New York that the battleship Maine
had been blonw up by mistake with an
internal machine he had furnished to
Cuban filibusters to blow up Spanish
warship.
The city of Louisville and the superin-
tendent of the workhouse were indicted
by the federal grand jury for violating
the statute forbidding peonage.
Mrs. Mary Brockwell, of Paducah,
KY, confessed that she murdered her
three children so that she could marry
George Albutton.
The annual report of the Sloss-Shef-
field Steel and Iron Company shows a
decrease of $I,Io2,oo4 in the net earnings
for the year.
The Chevalier, fraternal insurance
company, with headquarters in Akron.
o., has been forced into the hands of
a receiver.
Charles Turner, convict in the Wes-
tern Pennsylvania Penitentiary, was
stabbed and killed by Paul Kruger, a
fellow-convict.
The village of Lousberg, Mimi, was
wrecked by tornado and seven persons
were injured, of whom one has died.
Otis Bolts, sentenced to death in
Peoria, ILL.,, for numbering his wife,
laughed as he left the courtroom.
Joseph Harrington, living on West
Mountain, near Glen Falls, N. Y, shot
and killed his brother Elmer.
The overturning of skiff in the Mis-
souri, River, near St. Joseph, Mo-, caused
the drowning of five men.
There was fire panic among the en-
ployes at the shirtwaist factory of Max
Roth, in New York.
Rome Nietens, of Lawrence, Mass,
killed his wife and then downed himself.
August Troutwein was hanged in
Kittaning, Pa, for wife murder.
A Baltimore man who is one OF the
witnesses in the governments inquiry
into the beef combine says he knows
there is a blacklisting process used by
the trust packers.
Twenty-eight Texas convicts on the
plantation of ]. B. S. House, of Hous-
ton, in Fort Bend county, escaped by
saving through the floor of the stockade
with case knives.
Judge Hargis and his nephew and
Sheriff Callahan, of Breathitt county,
KY, were held without bail on the charge
of being involved in the Cockrill muir
der
Thomas Blackburn was burned to
death in cell in the town lookup at
Warrior, Ala, by fire of his own max
ing in an attempt to escape from jail.
DR.. James L. Barton, secretary OF the
American Board of Commissioners for
Missouri, stated that the 100000 Rookie
feller gift was unsolicited.
The Canadian government and city
of Halifax offer a bounty to encourage
the establishment of steel ship building
plant.
Miss Clara Hubert, daughter of Fri
B. Hubert, professor of divinity at the
University of Chicago, committed sui
eide.
General Rosseau, on trial in New
York for sending dynamite bomb to
the steamer Umbria, was found guilty
The police are said to have given up
hope of solving the Stanford poisoning
mystery.
United States Commissioner Herbert
decided, in New York, that Atlantic
Transport Company must reimburse Mrs.
Frances NJ. Barnes for $6,oS8 stolen from
her sateroom on the steamer Minnetonka.
'Thc United States as a World
Power" will be the subject discussed by
distinguished speakers at the meeting
of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science in Philadelphia
Mrs. Mary Walsh and her baby, aged
ono year, were found dead at Larks-
vile, Pa, having been smothered by
gas, which escaped from coal stove
in an adjoining room.
Four of the FIVE persons who were
in rowboat that capsized during a
squall near Ocean Beach, Fla, were
drowned.
A number of passengers were injured
by the collision of a trolley car and a
cable car in Chicago.
There was a run on the Union Saw
ings Bank and Trust Company of Gin
cinnati, which the officials say is due to
a conspiracy.
The court in Cleveland granted a
divorce to the American wife of Count
Tackaes de Kis Joka, a Hungarian
nobleman.
The funeral of DR.. Elmer H. Capen,
president of Tufts College, took place
in Mcdiord, Mass.
The Mormons are said to have decid-
cd to re-establish churches in Illinois.
Maurice Barrymore, the actor, died
at sanitarium at Amityville, N. ].
Two hundred persons were killed by
gas in New York city last year.
Foreign.
British Foreign Secretary Lansdowne
in the House OF Lords said some pro-