The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-01-05
THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC


The announcement that Lieutenant
Governor Thorne, of Kentucky, will re-
tire if Governor Beckham's chances for
Senatorial honors can thereby be adj
vanced may make the Chief Executive
competitor for Senator Blackburn
seat.
The New York State Superintendent
of Banks in his report to the Legisla-
ture discussed the difficulty of preventing
dishonesty on the part of bank officials
and the swindling of immigrants.
The independent oil producers of the
Coalinga district, in California, are hav-
ing hard fight with the Standard Oil
Company.
Coal Oil Johnny" is reported to be
dying in Pittsburg
The schooner Henry o. Barrett was
swept by a tidal wave, and the captain
and mate were washed overheard and
lost
A new daylight line of steamers from
Norfolk to Washington is planned
The federal grand jury of Chicago
has indicted the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad, alleging that rebates of
80 per cent. were given to subsidiary
company of the United States Steel Cor
poration.
Richard Wightman, formerly Pres
byterian pastor, told how his mail-order
life insurance company was so successful
that the big life insurance companies
fought him.
Mayor Mcclellan has asked Gen. T.
A. Bingham, U. S. A., to succeed Nc
Adoo as commissioner of police in New
York
Captain Amundsen, the Norwegian
Arctic explorer, spent two years taking
daily photographs of the magnetic North
Pole.
The vaudeville actress, Lillian Weston,
left $4,000 in her will for the care of
her dog, parrot and cage of love birds.
During night fire some II families
were driven from an apartment-house
with weather 10 below zero in Minnea-
polls.
The jewelry store of Schwartz Broth
ers, on Broadway, New York, has been
robbed for the seventh time.
Russell Sage, who has been confined
to his home with illness, on hearing that
money on call was up to IFS per cent,
went to Wall Street and lent $3o, 900, 900
in three hours at IS or 90 per cent.
Masked men held up and robbed a
pay1naster of the Delaware River Quarry
and Construction Company of $1,000 near
Brunswick, N. ].
James Hazep Hyde, former first vice
president OF the Equitable Life lnsur-
ance Society, sailed from New York for
France
The officers of the Coal Trust in
Cleveland pleaded guilty to the charge
of violating the antitrust law and were
fined.
A representative of an American house
in Shanghai says the Chinese boycott OF
American goods is extending.
A train ran into trolley car at Ma
hanoy City, Pa, killing two persons and
fatally inJuriag-one.
Walter B. Hill, chancellor of the Uni
versity of Georgia, died in Athens, Ca,
of pneumonia.
The American Board of Commission
ers for Foreign Missions submitted its
annual report.
The Merchants Trust Company, the
American Savings Bank and Trust Com
pany and the Mechanics Savings Bank
of Memphis, Tenn, have closed their
doors to be liquidated.
Over twenty leading coal merchants of
Cincinnati have been indicated by a
grand jury for alleged restrain of trade
by controlling prices for fuel.
The interests controlling the merger of
New York railways will build more sub
ways, new traction lines and extend pres
ent systems.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the Chris
tan Scientist, declares the habit of giving
Christmas gifts is sin and nonsense.
Iron and steel interests of Pittsburg
and the South are forming combination
with $4,000, 900 capital stock.
James Thompson, of Lancaster Coun-
ty, Pa, choked to death on piece of
beefsteak.
Chancellor Walter B. Hill, of the Uni
versity of Georgia, is critically i'll with
pneumonia, at his home at Athens, Ca,
and the attending physicians state that
he is now passing through the crisis of
the disease with the chances against re-
covery.