The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-01-04
TfLATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
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DOMESTIC
! le announcement that Lieutenant
Gernor Thorne, of Kentucky, will re-
tiff Governor Beckham's chances for |
Satorial honors can thereby be ad- |
weed may make the Chief Executive
a,ompetitor for Senator Blackburn's |
st.
he New York State Superintendent
Banks in his report to the Legisla-
&c discussed the difficulty of preventing
,honesty on the part of bank officials
d the swindling of immigrants
The independent oil producers Of the
)alinga district, in California, are hav-
a hard fight with the Standard Oil
company.
Goal Oil Johnny" is reported to be
lying in Pttsburg.
The schooner Henry o. Barrett was
wept by tidal wave, and the captain
ind mate were washed overheard and
ost.
A new daylight line of steamers from
Norfolk to Washington is planned.
The federal grand jury of Chicago
has indicted the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad, alleging that rebates of
80 per cent. were given 10 subsidiary
company of the United States Steel Cor
poration.
Richard Wigh,man. formerly a Pres
byterian pastor, told how his mail-order
life insurance company was so successful
that the big life insurance companies
fought him.
Mayor Mcclellan has asked Gen. T.
A. Bingham, I. S. A., TO succeed Nc
Adoo as commissioner of police in New
York
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Arctic explorer, spent two years taking
daily photographs of the magnetic North
Pole.
The vaudeville actress, Lillian Weston,
lett $4,000 in her will for the care OF
her dog. parrot and cage OF love birds.
During night fire some p families
were driven from an apartment-house
with weather 10 below zero i'll Minnea-
polls
The jewelry store OF Schwartz Broth
crs. on Broadway, New York, has been
robbed for the seventh time.
Russell Sage, who has been confined
10 his home with illness, OH hearing that
money on call was up 10 I25 per cent,
went 10 Wall Street and lent $4,000, 900
in three hours at IS or 90 per cent.
Masked men held up and robbed
paymaster of the Delaware River Quarry
and Construction Company of $1,000 near
B'shswick, n. J.
%JameS Hazen Hyde, former first vice
president OF the Equitable Life Insur-
ancc Society, sailed from New York for
France.
The officers Of the Coal Trust in
Cleveland pleaded guilty TO the charge
of violating the antitrust law and were
fined.
\ representative of an American house
in Shanghai says the Chinese boycott of
American goods is extending
n train ran into a trolley car at Ma
hanoy City, Pa, killing two persons and
fatally nJuring one.
Walter B. Hill, chancellor of the Uni
versity of Georgia, died in Athens, Ga,
of pneumonia.
The American Board of Commission
crs for Foreign Missions submitted its
annual report.
The Merchants Trust Company, the
! American Savings Bank and Trust Com
pany and the Mechanics Savings Bank
of Memphis, Tenn, have closed their
doors to be liquidated.
Over twenty leading coal merchants of
| Cincinnati have been indicated by a
grand jury for alleged restrain OF trade
| by controlling prices for fuel.
The interests controlling the merger of
| New York railways will build more sub
ways, new traction lines and extend pres
/ ent systems.
Mrs. Mary Baker G.. Eddy, the Chris
/ tan Scientist, declares the habit of giving
Christmas gifts is a sin. and nonsense.
Iron and steel interests of Pittsburg
and the South are forming a combination
with $I5o,ooo.ooo capital stock.
James Thompson, of Lancaster Coun-
~, Pa, chokcd to death on a piece OF
beefsteak.
Chancellor Walter B. Hill, Of the Uni
versity of Georgia, is critically i'll with
| pneumonia, at his home at Athens, Ga. ..
and the attending physicians state that
nc is now passing through the crisis OF
the disease with the chances against re-
covery.