The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-05
THE NEWS OF THE Week.
Domestic.

| from Fa1rmont Apartments in New
York.
About 1000 printers employed by
the Methodist Book Concern in New
York and Cincinnati will work or
| an eight-hour basis, beginning No
vember 1.
Charles E. Magoon, governor of
the Canal Zone, arrived in New York
He said Chinese labor on the Panama
| Canal was not success.
The Ancient and Honorable Artil-
lery Company of Boston will cele-
brate its two hundred and sixty-ninth
| field day at Atlantic City on Tuesday
The United States Postal Commits
sion is investigating the misuse of
postage by alleged newspapers, caus-
ing deficit of $14,000,OO0.
The Rock River Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church has
granted an eight-hour day to the
printers of its Book Concern.
Over 400 delegates are in attend
ance at the meeting of the Women's
Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen, in Denver
Dean Hurlburt, of Harvard, init
mates that Teddy Roosevelt, Jr.,
was not to blame for his arrest on
Boston Common.
The will of Mrs. Amelia B. Lazarus,
who left an estate of over 100000
to charity, is to be contested by two
nephews.
Justice Bischoff denied the appli-
cation of counsel for Harry K. Thaw
for the removal of his indictment
from the Court of Special Sessions
to the criminal branch of the Su-
preme Court of New York.
A Rochester IN. V motorman
who nursed his sweetheart, suffer-
ing with scarlet fever, contracted
the malady and fell victim to it.
Hannah Lukens, maid of Mrs. A
G.. Vanderbilt, and her companion
were attacked in the Bronx and
robbed.
In Chicago, Mayor Edward F.
Dunno, of that city, was elected
president of the League of American
Municipalities.
An Italian who had eluded the
Black Hand Society for many years
was mysteriously murdered in New
York.
Adolph Marks. Chicago lawyer,
has been added to the staff of law
JClo WIZ Will uSl0Au I1dlIy NAV.
The University of Pennsylvania
opened for the fall term. The fresh
men class numbers nearly 1000.
Cleveland, o., was visited by a
100000 fire, which had it's origin
in an explosion of oil.
Charles G. Kline, an Evanston
(Ind.) merchant, killed his wife and
then himself.
Forty armed and mounted Mexican
revolutionists captured the mining
town of Juminez, placing the mayor,
chief of police and other officers in
jail. Cavalrymen and 40 rangers
from Monterey are on their way to
the scene of the trouble.
The mystery of the dismembered
body found in New York was solved
by the confession of an Armenian,
who said he had killed his brother
and shopped his body into parts,
which he scattered.
In Boston 80 new trolley cars were
destroyed by fire, which consumed
the Washington Avenue division
barns of the Boston and Northern
Street Railroad at Chelsea. The loss
is placed at 100000.
DR.. Abram w. Harris, the former
principal of Tome Institute, Port De-
post, Md, was formally introduced
to the students of Northwestern Uni
versity, of which he is now president
In an address before the Pennsyl-
vania Bankers Association, in Phila-
delphia, Comptroller Ridgely, of the
Treasury, said that directors are re-
sponsible for bank failures.
An Italian girl, an immigrant,
leaped overheard from a steamer in
New York and was drowned. She
| disliked the attentions of fellow
| countryman.
In Chicago two carloads of cold
storage chickens and ten carloads of
meat were condemned by the chief
food inspectors and his assistants.
Another meeting of the National
| Congress on Uniform Divorce Laws
will be held in Philadelphia, begin
ming November 18th.
Bertha Beilstein, the beautiful
Pittsburg girl who killed her mother,
escaped from an insane asylum. She
had outside aid.
The Great Northern Railway was
fined $500 and costs for failure to
provide it's cars with safety appli-
ances.
| Near Ottawa, Canada, three people
were killed and several injured in
the collision of two steamers.
In Salt Lake City Judge Armstrong
decided that county attorney can
not be compelled to issue warrant
| for the arrest of President Joseph
Smith of the Mormon Church, on
the charge that he has five wives.
While playing football at the Law
ranceville IN. J.) Academy John P.
Kennedy, captain and right halfback
of the Lawrenceville team, received
a kick in the head. which proved to
be fatal. His home was in Troy,
N. Y.
Earl Chaplin, a nephew of Russell
Sage, died in the National Soldiers
Home, in Milwaukee.
Foreign.
Baron Mayor des Plauches, Italian
ambassador at Washington, the dean
of the Diplomatic Corps, has resign
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