The midland journal., 1905-06-23
NEWS m SHORT 0RDER.
The Latest Happenings CONDENSED for Rapid
Reading.
domestic:

S. P. Sheerin, OF Indiana, widely
known in political and business circles,
died suddenly in Chicago while reading
paper at the Independent Telephone
Convention at the Auditorium.
The wife of Rev. Charles ]. Keevil,
pastor of the Second Avenue Baptist
Church, New York, committed suicide
on account of broken health caused by
East Side mission work.
Paul Morton, chairman of the Equi-
table directors, has accepted the resig-
nation of James w. Alexander as presi-
dent and James Hazen Hyde as first
vice president.
President Frank c. Hanplin, of the
City Bank of Boone, Ia, a widely
known member of the Order of Railway
Conductors, dropped dead of apoplexy.
A sensational forgery of stock certif-
Gates, causing loss to banks and trust
companies of about $I,ooo,o 900, has been
unearthed in Philadelphia.
William F. Dean, oldest clerk in the
United States Treasury Department,
died at the home of his daughter, in
Auburn, N Y.
Horace R. Basler fell from railroad
train near Sheridan, Pa, and sustained
injuries which resulted in his death.
John Plummer, who killed L. Dale,
assistant mine foreman, near Bevier,
Mo-, was shot to death by posse.
The thirty-first annual convention of
the Imperial Council of Mystic Shrin-
ers is in session at Niagara Falls.
Simon Ford, colored, who assaulted
white woman near Riverside, Tenn,
was shot to death by a mob.
Gordon Brown, a former school di-
rector of Shenandoah, Pa, was con-
victed of bribery and extortion.
The State Bank of Forestville, N. Y,
closed its doors owing to the failure
of the Fredonia Bank
The Twentieth Century Limited be-
tween New York and Chicago, which
began the new I8-hour schedule Mon
day, got in ahead of time at both East
ern and Western terminals.
The steamer City of Collingwood,
Company of Collingwood, and valued
at $4,000, was totally destroyed by fire
at her dock at Collingwood, Ont.
Two hundred thousand, three hundred
and eighty-two persons have passed
through the gates of the Lewis and
Clark Exposition since the opening day.
Chairman Morton, of the Equitable,
ordered a complete investigation to be
made of the company's affairs by two
firms of expert accountants.
A shower of molten steel following
an explosion caused the death of two
men who were swimming in the Hudson
at New York.
Philip Arbeit, who sold SKINNED and
watered milk on the lower East Side in
New York, was sent to Jail for IS days.
Lightning struck a circus wagon at
Kalamazoo, Mich, killing Advance
Agent w. J. Currier and injuring sew
eral others.
Two little boys looked on while Allen
Dukes killed Thomas ]. Snyder, blind
man, near Murphysboro, ILL.,
Various reports were made to the
General Synod of the Evangelical Lu-
theran Church in Pittsburg.
Supreme Regent Howard c. Virgins,
of the Royal Arcanum, says there is no
occasion for alarm about the condition
of the order, members are being initi-
ated, new applications are being received,
and others are increasing the amounts
of their certificates.
AT the Convention of American Zion
lists in Philadelphia it was decided that
Palestine was the best place for the col
onization of the Jews.
Alvin J. Tucker, of Clyde, New York,
dreamed his uncle had died and left
him legacy of $4,000, and on the fol-
lowing day learned that it had really oc-
CURED.
Six members of the last Arkansas
General Assembly, including the presi-
dent of the Senate, are under indictment
on charges of bribery, perjury and con-
spiracy.
Judge Dickey, of Newburg, N. Y, de-
nounced in open court the defendant,
who was trying to recover second time
money he had loaned on mortgage.
The patrons of the public school at
Little Silver, N. J., insisted on the REIN
statement of the schoolteacher who had
been dismissed because he chewed to-
bacco.
Pascel P. Pratt, millionaire merchant
and banker, died in Buffalo, N. Y. He
had undergone an operation and never
rallied from the shock.
Rear Admiral Sigsbee's squadron sail
ed from Tompkinsville for Cherbourg,
France, where John Paul Jones' body
will be taken on board.
The Bell and the independent tele-
phone companies in Amsterdam, N. Y,
and contiguous cities are indulging in
rate war.
Francis Murphy, the temperance ad-
vocate, who has been i'll six weeks with
blood-poisoning, is recovering slowly.
Foreign
In the British House of Commons
Premier Balfour said he proposed to
appoint a select committee to consider