The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.

clared that within 4S hours he will
sue the city for breach of contract.
| Twenty trunks belonging to Ar
thur Phipps, one of the Pittsburg
| group of steel millionaires, were
burned at Los Angeles. 1t is be-
lieved that prior to the fire the
trunks were rified of their contents,
valued at $4,000.
A delegation of Germans called
upon President Roosevelt at Oyster
Bay and objected to what they con-
slider restricted legislation in Ameri-
can custom houses against imports
from Germany.
| In letter to Governor Vardaman,
of Mississippi, Mr.. Bryan says that
he was largely induced to favor pub
lie ownership of railroads because Of
corrupting influence of railroads in
politics.
Plans are now being completed for
| the rebuilding of the Kansas City
| Southern Railroad. Horace G. Burt
is in personal charge of the surveys.
At the unwilling of the Mckinley
statue in Columbus, o., there was a
panic among the crowd just as Gov
ernor Harris had begun his speech.
A woman standing in front of the
stand where Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth was seated tainted, and in the
effort to carry her out the crowd be-
came manageable. No one was
seriously hurt.
New counsel in the Thaw case ap-
peared when John II. Iselin, former
assistant district attorney, called at
the Tombs and registered as asso-
ciate counsel for Harry X. Thaw, the
| murderer of Stanford White. Mr..
Iselin was closeted with Thaw for
an hour.
The body of H. X. Wampole, a
wealthy Philadelphia manufacturer
of chemicals, was found in Goat
River, New York. He had been miss
ing for several days. 1t is believed
he committed suicide.
Five men were arrested in Chicago
on the charge of selling bogus bonds.
Surrounding the arrest of DR.. w.
w. Turver, of Buffalo, is a mystery
which is battling to the police. DR..
Turver conducts private maternity
hospital and is under indictment for
illegitimate practices. A few days
ago the body of Miss Edith Primer
was shipped to Hoboken, N. ]. 1t is
believed she died as the result of a
criminal operation in DR.. Turner'S
hospital.
The trial of Cornelius P. Shea and
16 other officials of the labor organ1-
cations of Chicago who were con-
nected with the teamsters' strike of
1905 began. The cases have been
pending on the Criminal Court docket
since June, 1905. The prediction is
made that the trials will consume
years time and cost 100000.
In an interview in Pittsburg Presi-
dent John Mitchell, of the Miners
Union, heartily Endorsed President
Gompers' stand in entering the po-
litical campaigns.
There was lively fist fight on the
deck of the steamship Graf Walder-
see, in which a number of Polish i'm
migrants were the combatants.
After being fugitive from justice
for nearly year, Granville M. Gwye,
cashier of the Bank of Hayti, Mo-,
returned and surrendered.
At Denver, Col, Alva Adams, of
Pueblo, was nominated by the Demo-
cratic State Convention for governor
by reclamation.
Dissatisfied stockholders of the
Pullman Company are asking for a
distribution of the accumulated large
surplus.
Col. w. H. Knauss, of Columbus,
O., was elected president of the Union
Veterans Legion.
The United States Rubber Com
uany has established branch in
Great Britain.
Connecticut is reported to have
raised an unprecedented tobacco crop.
At Albany, N. Y, certificate of
| incorporation of the Commercial
Gable Company of Cuba was filed
with the secretary of state. 1t is
organized with capital of 100000
to operate telegraphic communica-
ton between New York and Havana
by way of Florida and Key West.
| At Findley, o., plea of mot
guilty" was entered in the Probate
Court by John d. Rockefeller on the
charge of violating the Antitrust
Law through the Standard Oil Com
pany. Mr.. Rockefeller was not per-
sonally in court. He pleaded through
an attorney.
| Lightning struck f1agpole on a
16-story building in New York. The
employees of the Butterick Pattern
Company, mostly girls, were for a
minute thrown into panic.
Because she would not give up
property that belonged to his dead
wife, Harry Diamond, aged % years,
shot and killed Mrs. Bertha Cohen,
his mother-in-law.
Former Congressman Thec2Cre A.
Bell was nominated for governor of
California by the State Democratic
Convention at Sacramento.
Atlantic City was chosen as the
place for the next convention OF the
Order of Hoo-Hoos.
| Seven trainmen were killed in a
railroad collision at Ringgold, Ga.
Twelve persons were killed in a
wreck on the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road at Sudbury.
| Foreign.
A bogus message of sympathy to