The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-02
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.

| William DeCoSta, cOlored, was ar
rested after testifying in the trial
of Clifford Hooe, charged with per-
jury in connection with the Hartje
| divorce case, and he will be charged
with purjury.
Miss Rosemary Sartoris, daughter
| of Mrs. Nellie Grant-Sartoris and
granddaughter of Gen. U. S. Grant,
was married to George H. Woolston
in New York.
The National w. G. T. U. adopted
resolutions denouncing King Leopold
of Belgium as the author of atrocious
conditions in the Congo Free State.
Pennsylvania Railroad engineers
and firemen west of Pittsburg have
asked for shorter hours and read
justment of wages.
The Standard Oil Company was
fined $4,000 at Findlay, o.
The coroner's jury in the inquest
into the death of William S. Stewart,
of Toronto, Can, who was found
dead in his room in the Saratoga
Hotel, Chicago, returned a verdict
of suicide.
Whine arraigned in the Lond Island
City Police Court, charged with i'm
properly caring for their children,
it was discovered that John and Fan
ME Vepeke were worth 100000.
The jury in the Norfolk Superior
Court awarded a verdict of $4,000
in favor of Miss Grace Colburn, who
sued Motorman Marble for $4,000
damages for breach of promise.
Benjamin F. Faffe is under arrest
in New York, charged with the lar
ceny of jewelry valued at 5000
from the Castleberg Jewelry Com
pany, Pittsburg.
Alexander Berkman, the anarchist,
failed to appear at an anarchist
meeting in Cleveland, and his friends
believe he was kidnapped.
Six firemen were rescued uncon-
scious in a 100000 incendiary fire
at West Pullman, ILL.,, which destroy
ed the Sullivan-Palmer Candy fac
tory and the premises of the Ansell-
Steale Company.
The ship G. F. Sargent, from San
Francisco, collided with an unknown
schooner off Barnegat, on the New
Jersey coast. Seaman William Scott
was knocked overheard and drowned.
Additional criminal suits resulting
from the Hartje divorce case will
probably follow the trial of Clifford
Hooe, the colored coachman, accord
ing to the assistant district attorney.
Frank w Mack, for many years
newspaper man, formerly superln-
dent of the Eastern division of the
Associated Press, died of consump-
ton in Santa Ana, Cal.
The United State bank examiner
has taken charge of the affairs of
the defunet Aetna Bank at Butte,
Mont, and will begin an investigation
of the company.
Four lives were lost, several per-
sons are missing and about SO per-
sons were injured in a fire that des-
troyed an apartment-house in Kan
sas City, Kan.
Augusta Bruning was arraigned in
the Tombs Police Court, New York,
on a charge of bigamy, having
married four husbands within 10
years.
Camille Saint-Saens, the French
composer became seriously i'll on the
steamer La Provence while en- route
from France to this country.
Mrs Mary Dover shot her hus-
band, Thomas Dover, in Mobile, Ala,
in self-defense, infiicting wound in
the head, from which he died.
Further evidence was given before
Interstate Commerce Commission in
Omaha, Neb., of the conditions of
the grain trade in the West.
Rev. DR.. Phillip Melancthon Doc
little, pastor Of the Reformed Church
at North Branch, N. j., for more than
SO years, died suddenly.
The new battleship Minnesota, in
an endurance trial trip off the New
England Coast, maintained an aver
age speed of 1851 knots on hour.
Rev. Dr. Washington GLADDEN. de-
livered an address at the meeting of
the American Missionary Association
on the negro problem.
William Dittmar began a prison
sentence of 20 years for the murder
OF David Howard at Somerville, N. j.,
last June.
A sweeping antiliquor statute was
passed by the Supreme Lodge knights
of Pythias in session in New Orleans.
Charles Page Bryan, American
minister to Portugal, sailed from
New York for Europe on the steamer
| La Savoie.
The freight steamer Hastings,
bound from New York to New Haven,
was burned to the waters edge and
sunk in Long Island Sound off STAN
ford, ct. The crew of IL men got
away in life-boat.