The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-08-17
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AAA3' AA~AAy5 LIN WIN VA q pAIy
of Wellesley Hills, Mass, committed sui
eide by poison because of grief following
separation from her child, who had been
taken away from her. She had become
estranged from her husband.
The determination of many passengers
to ride all the way from New York to
Coney Island for one car fare caused
many scraps on the cars, the conpany's
people trying to put off all who re-
fused to pay two fares.
A policeman and burglar had des-
perate encounter on the. coping of the
fifth floor of house on Fifth Avenue,
New York The policeman saved his
life by knocking the burglar senseless.
A New York young man leaped from
a bridge 40 feet high to the street to
reach a boy who was drowning in the
river nearby. He broke both ankles.
A lively campaign is on in Georgia, IN
which the two most conspicuous candi-
dates for the governorship are Hoke
Smith and Clark Howell.
Mark Myers, arrested in Trenton be-
cause he was acting strangely, attempted
suicide as soon as he was placed in Jail.
Col Benjamin F. jenkins, u years
old, a Confederate veteran of the Third
Virginia Cavalry, died in Chicago
At Norristown, Pa, policeman who
failed to recognize Governor Pennypack-
er ordered him to "move on
A York (Pa.) factory has received a
large order for shoes from the Cuban
government.
Two battalions were sent from Fort
Mckinley to punish the Pulajanes.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
the Standard Oil Company and the
Vacuum Oil Company were indicted on
charges of rebating in New England.
Judge Alton B. Parker has informed
Seymour Eaton that his resignation as
secretary of the International Policy
holders Committee came none too soon.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has begun an investigation against IA
railroads entering Toledo, it being alleg-
ed they are party to an ice trust.
Mrs. Wilhemina V. Hill, formerly OF
Richmond, was assaulted and robbed in
her New York home by burglars, who
entered in the daytime
Frank Kowalski, paying teller OF the
failed Milwaukee Avenue State Bank, OF
which Paul Stensland was president,
shot and killed himself
George Hall, one of lynching party
that hanged three negroes in North
Carolina, has been sentenced to IS years
in the penitentiary.
The Standard Oil inquiry Chicago has
been halted, owing TO complaints that
the methods used by the federal authori-
ties are illegal.
Nadage Doree, a Jewish authoress,
has sued Secretary to the President
Loeb for $4,000 for alleged false arrest.
Fifty persons were injured by Fort
Worth and Denver train striking brok-
en- rail in rounding curve in Texas.
Samuel Moruch, who tried to starve
himself to death in his cell, was hanged
in Morristown, N. ].
A number of troopers were arrested
for disorderly conduct in Mount Gretna.
-Four persons committed suicide, ow-
ing to the heat, in Chicago
John Lovett, the orange man of Har-
ward, is critically i'll.
Governor Warfeld, of Maryland, was
the principal speaker at the reunion OF
former Marylanders at Springfield, ..
He was twice greeted as the next Dem
ocratic candidate for vice president.
Governor Harris, of Ohio, also spoke.
Engineer ]. G. LafeeVer, of Pittsburg,
was killed in collision between 10
connective and New York and Chicago
express on the Baltimore and Ohio near
Ladi, o.
The FIVE children of Thomas O'Daniel
were cremated by fire in their home,
on the estate of Dr. Geogre L. Miller,
near South Omaha, Neb.
The Chicago police arrested Cashier
Henry W. Herring, Of the wrecked Mil
waukee Avenue Bank, who blames con-
ditions on the missing president.
Abraham Goldman, wealthy manu-
facturer of Cleveland, was killed while
attempting to board a railroad train after
it had started.
Mrs. Keziah Snyder, of Trenton, N.
J., was drowned in attempting to save
her son from death in the Delaware and
Raritan Canal.
Thomas McKenna threw his child out
of the window of his Cincinnati home
and then jumped out after the young
one.
Five thousand men took part in a
sham battle in the maneuvers at Indiana
polls
Prof Richard Darlington, of Darling
ton Seminary, is dead.
The Federal Grand jury of Chicago
returned an indictment of 10 counts
against the Standard Oil Company,
charging nonpayment of storage charges
to certain railroads, procuring thereby
unfair and illegal advantage over their
competitors in violation of the Elkins
| law
FOREIGN
The Grand Duke Nicholaievitch has
declined the post of COMMUNICATIVE chief
of all the military forces of the Russian
Empire. He advocates the appointment
of General Linevitch.
King MeneEk of Abvssinia has signed