The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-03-16
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Traction Expert James Dalrymple, of
Glasgow, has reported to Mayor Dunno,
of Chicago, that the Western metropolis
is not ready for municipal control of rail-
ways, but that the city should acquire the
traction lines as their charters expire.
District Attorney William T. jerome
has sued William Randolph Hearst for
100000, alleging that he has been libelled
in the New York American and Journal.
United States Deputy Marshals Oils
trop, Tuttle and Carey were shot to
death by band of Indians headed by
the Wickliffe brothers, in Indian Terri
| tory.
Leonard Bright Roth, fiance of Miss
Pauline w. Bancroft, of Wilmington,
Del, was killed in an accident in mill
in England.
President Roosevelt states that he is
not taking part in the negotiations be-
tween the coal mine operators and work
men.
Members of the Interstate Commerce
|. Commission began an investigation of the
Standard Oil Company in Kansas.
After being out all night, jury found
DR.. ]. B. Mathews, accused of the muir
der of his wife in Greensboro, N. e.,
guilty of murder in the second degree.
He was sentenced to 20 years in the
penitentiary.
DR.. Oliver C. Haugh, accused of
poisoning his father, mother and several
other members of the family, and then
setting the house on fire, at Dayton, o.,
has been found guilty of murder in
the first degree.
Mrs. Edward M. Standifer, of At
lanta, Ca, shot and killed her I8-year-
old sister, Miss Whisenant, because
Mrs Standifer believed her husband
was attentive to the unmarried woman
The sentence of Mrs. Antionette
Tolla, who was to be hanged in New
Jersey for the murder Of Joseph Sonta,
has been committed to seven and
half years in prison.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte
states that his next annual report will
| have something to say about battle
| ships of the Dreadnaught class.
Gen. Henry c. Corbin, who has re-
turned from the Orient, says there
will be no war between the United
|
The late Mrs. J. Thompson Swann's
estate, valued at 100000, is reported
to have been left to Princeton Univer-
sity, and will be devoted to the develop
ment of the graduate school.
The Allen-Higgins Company, manu-
facturers of wall paper, at Worcester,
| Mass, was placed in charge of re-
ceiver. The indebtedness is estimated
at $1o7,7oo.
L. Stuckey, editor of the Peoples De-
naands, of Shreveport, La, was shot
and killed by A. M. Goodwin, editor of
the Colfax Chronical, at Colfax, La.
The president and two vice presidents
of the Mutual Reserve Insurance Com
pany were indicted by the New York
Grand Jury.
The three convicts who mutined at the
| Missouri Penitentary and killed gate
man were convicted of murder in the
first degree.
| There was mutiny on board the
steamer Massachusetts, while lying at
her Brooklyn dock, in which fireman
was killed.
Three deaths were caused by the col
! lision of a passenger train ON the Della
ware and Hudson with a milk train
near Saratoga.
Two police sergeants and eight pa
trolmen were suspended in St. Louis,
pending investigation of charges in graft
| ing.
District Attorney Devlin, of California,
believes he has strong case against she
Elevator Trust.
Mrs. w. B. Lewaller, of Philadelphia,
has sought the protection of the police
of New Orleans, stating that meet
ing of socialists delegated her to assassi-
nate President Roosevelt and that her
life was in danger because she had not
done so.
Berthe Claiche informed District At
torney Jerome that she paid money to
three members of the vice squad of the
New York police for the privilege of
walking the streets and named 50 police
men who got tribute from other women.
Attorney Whipple declared in a Bos-
ton court that Rogers and Rockefeller,
the Standard Oil magnates, show inso-
lent contempt in declining information
and then asking the court for a decree
in their favor.
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