The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-04-05
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fIeSS OtuO, MIS-. James X. Derrynlll re-
signed as toastmistreSs.
1t was stated that Joseph A. Turner,
the embezzling note teller of the Nation
al Bank of North America in New York,
was a friend of Ruth Rogers, who COM
mitted suicide several weeks ago. He
denies it.
For an April fool joke someone in
serted in a New York newspaper an
advertisement announcing the death of
Emil Niglutsch and caused much TN
easiness among the members of his fam
lily.
A bulletin of the Department of Com
merce and Labor shows that the trade
of the United States with Mexico dur
ing the year of 1905, aggregated $o2,oo
600.
Governor Beekman Winthrop arrived
at New York on his way TO Washington
to present the grievances of the Porto
Ricans to the House committee.
A squad of police had to use their
clubs TO put down town and gown"
fight of Yale students and men and boys
of New Haven.
Steve Green, aged n, was shot dead
by John Waters, Jr., about the same age,
IN quarrel over game of crap in
Lancaster, Pa.
Harry Beard, a planter, living in
Natchez, Miss, was shot by a negro
employe, who, i'll turn, was killed by
Boards brother.
Fear that her home was burning
caused Mrs. Frances Mcguire, of Alton,
deaf-mute, 10 speak for the first time
in her life.
As sequel to a quarrel over FIVE cents,
John Waters, colored, shot and killed
Stephen Green in Lancaster, Pa.
Miss Hattie Crawford, student at the
Friends University, in Wichita, Kan,
felled a burglar and then tainted.
J. G. Sapp was killed by his half
brother, John Miles, well-known tur-
pentine operator, of Georgia.
A petition declaring that "intolerable
wrongs arc being perpetrated i'll the Con-
go region" and signed by Governor
Guild and members of the Massachues
legislature, was forwarded to President
Roosevelt, with the request that some
form of protest be taken.
President Roosevelt will order a troop
of cavalry, two companies of infantry,
part in the celebration of the Mecklen-
berg On. c. Declaration of 1ndepen-
derce
u.
Twenty New York Regiment, and
North America of New York, has con-
iessed to stealing $4,000 of the banks
funds.
Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by her
children, arrived at Fernandina, Fla, and
sailed OH the Mayflower for a cruise in
West Indian waters.
Ilfctri~t ttnr,,a.. Io-o,,,o -o-
clareS the contributions of insurance
fund TO political praties is illegal and inn
moral, and includes criminal intent
Georgia WelleS, leading woman with
the "ClanSman" company, died at New
York hospital following an operation for
appendicitis
Earl Grey, governor general of Cana
da; Lady Grey and Lady Evelyn Grey
are visiting New York.
Within an hour after he had at
tempted TO criminally assault Miss Blair,
4 young white woman, Cotton" a col
ored man, was lynched in West Carroll,
Florida
District Attorney Jerome asked JUS
tice Dowling, of the New York Supreme
Court to call special grand jury 10 in
vestigate the life insurance scandals.
Mrs. Blanche Turner Davis, died i'll
New York from blood-poisoning, due, ac-
cording to her antemortem statement, to
drugs self-administered
After voting down a motion made by
President Mitchell to adopt the 1908
scale the miners convention at India
napolis adjourned sine die
James w. Alexander, former presi-
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, was taken to a private sanitar-
ium at Deerheld, Mass
Two crowded cars collided on the
Williamsburg Bridge, over East River,
and a lady was seriously injured.
The Bank of Victor, Col, in the Grip
pie Creek Dictrict, was robbed OF $Io,-
600.
George w. Perkins, former vice presi-
dent of the New York Life Insurance
Company and member of the firm OF ].
P. Morgan & Co., was arrested, charged
with grand larceny in the first degree,
in connection with the contribution of
$500. so, to political campaign funds.
Patrolman Daniel Strauss, of New
York, who fought in three wars and was
decorated by Marshal MacMahon for
bravery att Magenta and Solferion, COM
mitted suicide.
The bodies of six Greeks or Syrians,
stabbed and hacked to death, were found
in laborers' lodging house in Mime
apoliS.
According to plans arranged, George
II. Perkins will be arraigned before
Justice Moss in New York on the charge
of larceny, growing out of the contri-
button of the New York Life Insurance
Company to political campaign funds.
IORElGN
NJ. Bolkovadze, prominent Georgian
writer, charges that Russian soldiers
are ruthleSsly violating the Georgian
women and children.
Thirty thousand striking French min
erS are engaging in riotouS demonStra-
tons and a thousand more troops have
been ordered TO Lens.
Throughout the Moroccan conference,
Germany has been forced to recognize
that il has not friend in Europe ex-