The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-03-17
NEWS m SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

gage of the property.
Three thousand miles without stop,
at the rate of 100 miles or more all
hour, is the capacity of new type of
locomotive which has been ordered by
the Southern Pacific Railroad.
AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, held in Philadelphia, an issue
of new bonds not to exceed $5o,ooo,o 900
was authorized.
Fire destroyed the printing and box
department of the Grand Crossing Tack
Company's plant in Chicago. The loss
is estimated at 100000.
President David Starr Jordan. Of
Stanford University, expressed the opin-
ion that Mrs. ,Stanford's death was not
due to strychnine poisoning.
George NJ. Collier, chief examiner of
engineers of the State of Ohio, was
found guilty of embezzling $I,45o of
the state funds
Samuel K Incl, of North Mount
Pleasant, Pa, was arrested on the charge
of making false affidavit to secure a
pension.
President Roosevelt was elected an
honorary member of the New York Press
Club.
Two persons were burned to death as
the result of gas explosion in Pitts
burg.
Three bandits were garroted in Santi-
ago, Cuba.
The taking of dispositions in the case
brought on the relations of the attorney
general of Kansas against the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe was continued at
Topeka.
The National Board of Fire Under
writers, at special meeting in New
York, threatened to withdraw from Ar
kansas unless the anti-compact law is
repealed.
Charles M. Dunwoody, a prominent
Philadelphia grain merchant, died sud
denly on train while on his way to the
city from his suburban home.
The United States Court in Utica, N.
Y, decided that State Senator Green
must go to Washington for trial in the
postal fraud cases.
George G.. Cochran assistant to the
president of the Erie Railroad Company,
died in New York after an operation for
appendicitis
Miss Mabel Herold, nurse, was mys-
teriously shot in the knee while out
walking near the insane hospital at Bar
tonvile, III.
Judgment for $1,000 was obtained
against Mrs Chadwick in New York by
firm of milliners on protested note.
The remains of Senator Bate, of Ten
L,,~
emonies at Nashville, Tenn.
Henry Blum, New York milk deal
er, was sentenced to Ia days in the
Tombs Prison for adulterating milk.
Mrs. Joseph Nance was found muir
dered on the outskirts of Marysville,
Cal, and her husband was arrested.
President Harper, of the University
of Chicago, is to go to Lakewood for X
ray treatment and recreation.
For the first time in so years Demo-
cratic mayor has been lected at Bangor,
Me.
Thieves dynamted the safe in the
Bank of Benton, KY, escaping with
S., 600.
A hard fight is in prospect between
the Beef Trust and the independent
packers.
Ten persons were injured in collision
near Colorado Springs, Col.
Four thousand Chinese are reported
to be starving in San Francisco.
The strike on the marlborough Rapid
Transit Company's lines in New York
is at an end, the men having been adj
vised by the leaders to apply for rein
statement.
A man known as Hunter de Bowie is
accused in New York of various swim
ding operations in which women were
the victims.
Young Kingdom Gould was hazed by
"The Black Avengers" of Columbia Col
lege.
The committee of the Trunk Line As
ISOLATION in charge of the uniform bill
of ading question has agreed to with
draw the bill, to which objection has
been made, if the shippers will promise
to drop the appeal to the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission.
Chairman ]. Taylor Ellyson, of the
| Virginia Democratic State Committee, is
expected by many to resign some time in
May
William W. Conner, of Somerset coun-
ty, Nd, committed suicide at Norfolk.
Norfolk supervisors paid back into the
treasury S4,SI5 salaries paid to them in
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