The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-03-08
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Anson Phelps Stokes, speaking of the
conference of social and political re
formers held at Brick House, Darien.
Ct, says nothing in the line of political
organization has as yet been attempted
Joseph Lipsitz, plaintiff in suit for
damages IN New York, stood stripped to
the skin and permitted his body to be
touched again and again by a white-hot
IRON, to show that the railroad accident
had deprived him of the sense of feeling.
Henry G. Hubert, of Brooklyn. will
sue the State Hospital for the Insane at
Kings Park, L. l., for damages for the
death of his wife, who was given oxalic
acid in mistake for Rochelle salts.
CONSERVATION was caused in Boise City.
Idaho, by the discovery that a large
amount OF powder had been stolen from
various magazines presumably to COM
NIT outrages
The agitation for two-cents-a-mile
tare on steam railroads in rapid
ly spreading in the various states East
and West since the enactiOn of the Ohio
law.
Kansas will drop its custer proceed
ings against the Standard Oil Company,
which have been pending in the Supreme
Court for year
Allen Hall, Fort Worth, Tex, mer-
chant, punched a waiter at the Jeffer
son Hotel, St. Louis, who scoffed at
tip he gave.
Some miSchievous spirits threw snuff
on the stage of the Columbia Theater,
in Boston, Mass, and broke up the per-
formance.
Representative and Mrs Longworth
returned from their bridal tour and went
to thoir Washington home
The New Orleans Board of Health
has offered prizes to persons who can
produce yellow fever mosquito.
Tocloban, the capital of the Island
OF Leyte, Philippines, has been destroyed
by FIRE. Loss 100000.
Sir Alfred Harmsworth, chairman of
the protection committee of the British
pollcyholderS of the New York Mutual
Lie Company, has urged Stuyvesant
Fish not TO resign, but TO continue to
support genuine reforms
Pittsburg Street railways and gas
supply have practically passed from con-
troll of the Philadelphia company to the
United Railways Investment Company
of San Francisco, the deal involving
nearly 100000.
Attorney General Mayer denied the
application of William r. Hearst, who
wanted him to institute proceedings to
annul the charter Of the marlborough
Metropolitan Holding Company.
Secretary Taft discussed government
aid of railways at the hearing of the
House Committee on Territories on the
Lowering bill for the government guar
antee of Alaskan railway bonds.
President Patrick Dolan, of the min
erS of the Pittsburg district, is reported
to have broken down from the severe
strain to which he has been subjected.
DR. II. Preston Pratt, x-ray expert,
said in Chicago that universal blindness
is to be humanity's penalty for the ben
ehts of electricity.
The body of Johann Hoch, the Chi
| cago Bluebeard, was taken from the
potter's field and buried in Elmwood
Cemetery.
The remains of ex- Speaker Henderson
were buried with distinguished honors in
Dubuque, la.
Gustav A. Closson, of Morrisville, Pa,
was sentenced TO be hanged for poison
ing his son.
The Southern Bank and Trust Com
pany of Fort Smith, Ark, closed its
doors.
Plea of guilty was entered in the Nor
folk and Western Railroad $+5oo,ooo
bond forgery case in New York. All
the defendants except Charles 7. c. 7.
Colmey pleaded guilty, and were remand
ed for sentence.
A deal by which the immense ore pro-
pertieS of James J. Hill, on the Mesa
ba Range, pass into control Of the United
States Steel Corporation for 80 years is
about to be consummated.
Two daughters of George Storer, of
| Camden, Michigan, were fatally poisoned
by canned salmon which had been left
in the can sometime after it was opened.
The Board of Directors of the Penn
| sylvania Railroad met in Philadelphia,
and made announcement of several ap
! pointmentS and promotions.
| Plans are afoot to construct Io-mile
elevated road in Chicago to connect with
rapid transit lines interlacing Illinois
and Indiana.
FOREIGN
Professor Albrecht Wirth, of Munich,