The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-06-15
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Dr. waiter X. 0llleIle anu NOucIt a.
Granniss, former officials of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company, were indicted
on charges of forgery and held in bail
of $4,000 and 5000, respectively.
Not one miner responded TO the blow
ing of the whistle notifying the strikers
to return to work at Dillondale, 0. The
company accuses the union officials OF
intimidation.
In the United States District Court at
Kansas City the charges against the
Chicago and Alton and the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul Railroad were dis
missed
A mob of 5000 struggling women
crowded around Grace Church, N. ",
to see the wedding of Miss Burke-Roche
and Arthur Burden
R. A. Beard and Crompton Lennon,
officers of the Hygeia Ice Company,
pleaded guilty in Toledo, O., to con-
spiracy in restraint of trade.
The total cash valuation of personal
property in Chicago is $4ooo73,15o, but
for taxation purposes it will be only one
fifth of that amount.
Mrs. Felix Dunmoody, aged Is, wife
of prominent citizen of Memphis,
| Tenn. committed suicide.
The indictments against Postmaster
Greiner, of Buffalo, charging bribery
were dismissed.
The Pennsylvania Railroads own IN
vestigation committee has issued several
thousand circulars to officials of all its
lines calling upon them to give evidence
regarding alleged car discrimination IN
the coal traffic and the acceptance OF
mining stocks.
]. S. Young, of J. S. Young & Co,
of Baltimore, has been ordered by New
York court to produce books and pa.
pers and testify in the investigation OF
the tobacco trust"
Edmund Eschbach shot and fatally
wounded his wife because she refused
to admit him to her home at Fort
Schuyler, N. Y.
Judge Lynde Harrison, prominent
citizen of Connecticut, died at New
Haven of apoplexy.
Three pesons were burned to death
in fire near Walpack Center, N. j.. !.
Llewellyn Randolph Snowden died
suddenly in Philadelphia.
George J. Gould and his associates
have decided upon scheme OF financing
his entire ans-continental system similar
to the plan recently adopted by the South
ern Railway 1t contemplates the issue
of bonds for at least $Ioo,ooo,ooo
Before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission Vice President McCrea, OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad, stated that Pres1-
dent Cassatt has started movement
to stop rebates as soon as he secured
control of the company
Counsel for Capt. Robert ]. Wynne,
of the United States Marine Corps, who
was before a court-martial accused OF
characterization, states that disabilities,
due to sunstroke, warrant captain
Wynne's retirement.
A westbound limited express ran INTO
an open switch near Lancaster, "a,
colliding with construction tram, de-
molishing both locomotives and lnJuring,
a number of passengers.
A total loss of 100000 was caused
by fire following an explosion in
tobacco factory in Hopkinsville, KY,
which for time threatened the de-
struction of the city.
Miss Ethel Rockefeller, daughter OF
William Rockefeller, arrived from Eu-
rope under an assumed name, claiming
she is Swallowed by detectives.
Governor Hayward, of South caro-
lima. has ordered the prosecution OF the
State Dispensary Board on the charge
of malfeasance in office.
Walter L. Houser, secretary OF state
of Wisconsin, was arrested on the
charge of attempting to bride the Com
missioner of Insurance.
l-,~6+ child nf rive
years, who was placed aboard tram
in Texas, has landed alone among
strangers in Missouri.
Mrs. Bertha Binn, widow, and her
fve-year-old son were found dead in
their home at Edgewater, N. J.
Three Spanish gunboats captured by
Admiral Dewey when he took Manila
have been sold as junk.
Rev. James R. Wylie was sentenced
to the Folsom (CaD. Penitentiary Tor
one year for bigamy.
Manager Thomas F. Wilson, OF Mel
son Morris & Co., representing the beef
packers of Chicago, appeared before the
House Committee on Agriculture and
made a general denial of the accusations
in the Neill-Reynolds report regarding
the beef industry.
Proceedings were suddenly stopped
in the court-martial of Capt Robert F.
Wynne, when naval surgeon testified
that Capt. Wynne was affected by sun
stroke to such an extent as to be insen-
sible to his military obligations.
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