The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic.

other corporations on account of In
| ability to give proper attention to
them.
The annual meeting of the Nation
al Civil Service Reform Association
was begun in New Haven. Addresses
were made by President Daniel c.
Gilman and Secretary Bonaparte.
II is declared that Mrs. Hannah
Graham will appear in court against
| Signor Caruso, the tenor, who is
charged with annoying her, tOmor-
row.
Mime Anastasie Louise de Masay
fired three shots at Gustave Simon, a
New York merchant, in the latter's
office.
The schooner Luis G.. Rabel foun-
dered in four fathoms OF water near
| Charleston, S. c. The crew escaped.
Rev. DR.. Algernon Crapsey, charg
ed with heresy, has been suspended
by the Protestant Episcopal Church.
The condition of Bishop John J.
Tigert, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, is slightly worse.
The annual Horse Show began in
Madison Square Garden with an un-
usually fine list of entries.
Over 40 lives were lost in a col
lision of the steamers Dix and Jeanie
/ on the racine Coast.
The Alabama State Agricultural
School at Athens was blown down by
Sundays storm.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to
a million dollars TO promote inter
national peace.
Alienists have declared that Harry
K. Thaw was insane when he shot
Stanford White
Patrolman Luke Fitzpatrick. of
i Chicago, was killed in a duel with a
Aburglar
The New York Central Railroad,
+ hccused of having granted rebates
mounting to $4,000 to the Ameri-
Ian Sugar Refining Company, was
ound guilty. The trial in the case
bf the American Sugar Refining Com
Dany for accepting rebates will begin
oday.
The New York Central. Railroad
vas found guilty also on the second
Indictment charging the road with
giving rebates'to the Sugar Trust on
sugar shipped from New York city
o Cleveland.
Green Womack. a wealthy Missis-
{ sippi farmer, was indicted by the fed
seral grand jury on a charge of peon-
#age. He is charged with having held
#several negroes as slaves for eight
4years.
Executive officials Of Western roads
contemplate asking the Interstate
s Commerce Commission to serve as
board of arbitration to settle dis
putes between the companies and Of
4 ficials.
In an address before the Interna-
tional Congress on tuberculosis in
New York, DR.. T. d. Crothers de-
clared that consumption and alco-
holism are twin sisters.
A proposed deep waterway scheme
to connect the Great Lakes with the
Gulf of Mexico was launched at a
representative meeting in st. Louis.
h Joaquin Nabuco, the Brazilian am
bassador, refused to answer questions
of the immigrant inspector, which he
considered below his dignity.
A 100000 combine is in for
nation, with Walter Baker, and
Walter NJ Lowney and the Huyler
companies as parent concerns.
The Arctic steamer Roosevelt, with
| Commander Peary aboard, has ar
rived at Chateau Bay, Labrador, hav-
ing been delayed by storms.
The wages. of employees of the
American Express Company VINO are
paid less than $500 a month were
| increased ~ per cent.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, which
is to abandon wooden coaches, has
asked bids for 100 all-steel, nonin-
| flamable passenger coaches.
| After shooting two of the posse
which had surrounded him near
| Fletcher, y. c., Will Harris, the negro
desperate, was killed.
Lord Curzon, of Kedleston, and
his mOther-in-law, Mrs. Letter, ar
rived at New York on the steamer
Baltic from Liverpool.
Mayor Schmitz and Abe Ruef. of
San Francisco, have been indicted on
charges of eXtortion in issuing IL
censes to restaurants.
In an interview in Chicago j..
Pierpont Morgan says he never
wronged anybody, and what he wants
is fair play.
All the large concerns of Boston
and Gloucester have formed fish
combine. capitalized at $5.OOO,OOO.
Rev. James Mason Hoppin, ID. D..
LII. D., emeritus professor of the
History of Art at Yale, died in New
Haven.
Lord CurZon, who married Mary
Letter, arrived in New York to set
tie the estate left by his wife.
The Standard Oil Company declar-
ed a quarterly dividend of $40 a
share.
Two hundred and fifty weavers
struck at Adams, Mass.
! John u. Rockefeller and the direc-
tors of the Standard Oil were in
idcted by an Ohio grand jury for al
legged violation of the Valentine Anti
trust Law.
Foreign.
Cardinal Lecot has informed the
Pope that the French minister of ed
ucation made a 'monStrous error"
in declaring that the Diocesan as
sociatfons formed under the Cardi-
nal,s ansnices were legal. the Cardi-