The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-03-30
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
DOMESTIC

| Governor Cummings, of Iowa, mas
written an open letter to Senator Elk1ns,
of West Virginia, severely attacking HIM
| for his method of cross-examlnlilg MIN
and declaring him to be a railroad
senator.
Lightning struck the Latter Day
Saints Church in Carson, Ia, and killed
Rev. J B Lentz, the preacher, i'll the
pulpit. Several members of the congre-
CATION were stunned.
1t was announced in Pittsburg, that
Miss Margaret Louise Magee, of that
city, was to marry Baron Reid de Ride
nau, an attacle OF the Austrian Legation
at Rome.
The government is Withholding more
than $1,000, which is due Anne E. Smith,
of Hurley, Ulster County, N. Y, until
committee of her person and estate
is appointed.
The residence of Julian Hawthorne,
the novelist, at Yonkers, N. T., was part
ly burned and the family library and a
number of rare manuscripts ruined
Mrs. Cecile Ringe, wanted in Rochester
for alleged forgery, was found acting as
nurse in the almshouse, on Blackwells
| Island.
Gen. Nicanor Bolet- Peraza, formerly
minister of Venezuela at Washington,
died at his home, i'll New York of
pneumonia.
| Cragston, the country home of J.
Pierpont Morgan, at Highland Falls, N.
Y. narrowly escaped destruction by fire.
The negroes of Meridian, Miss, are
living in a state of terror, fearing and
expecting another cyclone.
The battleship Ohio, Admiral Trains
flagship, has followed the battleship Wis
consin to Shanghai.
| Justice O'Sullivan, of General Ses-
sons, states that if intent to fraud IS
shown in the insurance contributions to
campaign funds, officials OF the compan-
les are guilty of laceny.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company
has taken action to recover $3.50, 34I.oo,
with interest, alleged to have been ex-
pended by former President Richard A.
McCurdy.
The interstate Commerce Commission
heard evidence in New York regarding
underbilling and Misrepresentation OF
freight by shippers.
Edward Pullman, Waterman OF the
Knapp Bank at Rochester, N. Y, was
shot to death by burglars he surprised
in the bank.
The Western Pacific Railroad has con-
cluded the purchase of extensive ter
lninal facilities in San Francisco to cost
about 100000.
The Peary Arctic Club dispatched its
annual mail to Commander Peary, the
explorer, now in the Arctic regions.
Miss Grace Zillner, aged 28, was shot
and killed at Mansfield, O., by Roy
Shanks, who then committed suicide.
A large power-house of the Philadel-
phia Rapid Transit Company in that city
was burned. Loss, $I75,ooo.
Major David Price, on trial by court
martial in New York, declared that the
total abstinence pledge exacted from him
in 1908 by an army examining board
was absolutely illegal.
Rev. John S. Cheek, of the First Bap-
fist Church, of Paducah, died from pneu-
monia, which resulted from the strain
and excitement of revival services.
The Grand Lodge officers of the An
cient Order of United Workmen decided
to temporarily raise the rates of mem
bers over S. years OF age.
GtOISe L. DIOCk, tOllHSl SdoiiSA "
the Doylestown (Pa) National Bank,
was convicted of misapplying the funds
of the institution.
The Union Depot of the Chesapeake
and Ohio and the Louisville and Nash
vile Railway Companies, at Winchester,
KY, burned
Hattie Warren, white woman, in tes-
tifying against Robert Spriggs, colored,
in New York, said she had been kept a
white slave behind bars in negro resort
for five months.
Judge Andrew Hamilton declines to
testify before the Fowler committee Of
the New York Life Insurance Company,
but agrees to meet them before a public
tribunal
President Roosevelt has decided that
he cannot interfere in the deportation
of two deserters from the Russian Navy
at San Francisco.
Prof. William Macdonald, of Brown
University, declares that the proposed
railroad rate legislation is step forward
/ in socialism