The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-04-12
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curses on his wife and son. and says he
will drive them out of Zion. Overseer
Zolivia has issued list of $2.sooooo ex-
penditures by Dowie.
The Filipinos, Notwithstanding denials
from Secretary Taft. continue TO fear
that the islands will be sold to Japan.
Prof Adolph Gluct, of Chicago. has
wagered $4,000 that he will tell the
truth for one year.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has de.
clared the Kansas City Live Stock Ex-
changs a trust
The late Z. c. Swift, the packer, left
$Io,ooO,OOO, 5000 of which is wlled to
4 church.
Typhoid fever is epidemic in Pittsburg.
247 new cases being reported in four
days.
Sixty-three labor organizations and
reform associations of Chicago met and
formed a new political organization. the
Progressive Alliance, the policy of which
is national as well as municipal owner
ship of public utilities
Edward A. Hail told the court in Los
Angeles that he had given his nagging
wife 100000, nearly all he had, TO be rid
of her. He got his divorce and is now a
happy drug clerk
During fire in PittSburg. Miss p. c.
Fitzgerald leaped from a tn story
window and was fatally injured. She
fell upon Policeman Charles Hays. who
was seriously hurt.
Elizabeth Pennington and Warren
Smith eloped from Torrington, CT, in
coal gondOla, got disgusted and walked
beck home where the man was arrested
Alva +. Roche and Miss Neisze Van
Der Velde were married in Brooklyn. af-
ter touring II hours in an auto hunting
Tor someont TO tie the knot
Robert g. Proctor. secretary of Senator
Lodge gave bail in Boston to answer the
charge of embezzling a contribution to
the campaign fund
A special service was held in New
York, under the auspices OF the LOYAL
Legion, 70 commemorate the surrender
OF Lee at Appomatox.
Peter Hansen, of North Tacoma.
Wash, trapper, was caught by a snow
avananche. which held him a prisoner
for several days.
Col Thomas Johnson. last surviving
member of the Confederate Congress,
died in Montgomery County. Ky.
Mrs. Roosevelt and her three children
returned to Washington from their cruise
in Southern waters.
Gen. Louis Fitzgerald denies in the
retrial of the suit of Morris c. Mengis
for SI,OOo,OOo that he made promise to
give MengiS the sum mentioned i'll case
the Western Maryland was sold to the
Fuller syndicate
Governor Higgins OF New York,
granted the requisitiou papers of the
Governor of Minnesota for Albert w.
Bartlett, accused OF looting the home
of DR. Pinault in Minnesota.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
passed. a resolution declaring Baltimore
and other commercial rivals got an adj
vantage from differential traffic rates.
Thousands of employees of the New
York Central and Hudson River Rail
road are TO be laid off, owing TO a fall
ing off in freight traffic.
Over two thousand forged signatures
have been found on the mayOrality nomi-
nation papers of William r. Hearst, of
New York.
William c. Inman, of Leon. O., who
left $1,000 in valise in a railroad train,
was lucky enough TO get it back.
Edwin c. Swift, a member of the Chi
Cago meat-packing firm died at the
Quincy House in Boston
The Republic Oil Company has sur
rendered its charters in the States OF
Nebraska, Indiana and Iowa.
Six witnesses from Maryland testified
in the suit of Morris c. Mengis against
Gen. Louis Fitzgerald for a million dol
lars. in connection with the sale OF West
ern Maryland Railroad
Mrs Martin Want Hof, OF Grand
Rapids, Mich, was burned to death by
her husband, who is believed to be de
ranged, and who yelled 'Hurrah for the
flag" as his wife died.
Alfred Walter. formerly general man
ager of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
has succeeded J. NJ. Barr as president
and general manager of the Seaboard
Air Line.
The offices of former President Nc
Curdy, of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, furnished at cost OF $780,
900, have been diSmantled and rented to
a railroad.
The General Assembly at Albany pass
cd the bills regulating the manner ii
which insurance companies shall hold
real estate and prohibiting rebating.
The protected cruiser St. Louis, which
must make p knots an hour, left Phil
adelphia for a builders trial trip.
The Oakland (Cal) Street Car Com
Oanv has rccOoniZed the union of en-