The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-04-20
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Seattle will build city hall from pro-
ceeds of sales of land handed over to
the city years ago by bondsmen OF de-
faufting public official The defalcatlop
was 100000. The land is now valued
at over $I,oooooo
A statement issued by President Paul
Morton, of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, shows that the small holders
we're the principal losers by lapses as the
result of the recent agitation
The Sultan refused to allow several
distinguished persons who had been pre-
Sented by their ambassadors to witness
the Selanik ceremony. Later he sent
his regrets to the ambassadors.
John Andrews, negro, proprietor. OF
livery stable at Bessemer, Ala, shot
and killed Taylor Johnson, a white man,
and seriously wounded Will Millstead,
another white man.
Michael de Lauro, who killed Frank
Rozzo last summer through Jealousy,
is said to have made his escape to Italy,
being conveyed on board steamer in
beer barrel.
The Easter parade at Atlantic City
was we'll attended, notwithstanding
downpour of rain in the morning. The
sun came out about noon for couple
of hours.
Both the anthracite miners and the
operators are now generally confident
that there will be a strike, and each side
is busy preparing for long seige.
Miss Maude Adams, the actress, IS
having private car constructed. Among
its furnishings will be a complete theater
for rehearSir1p DurOOSeS.
Mrs. Alice F. Cooper is on trial at
Augusta, Me-, charged with the murder
of Charles D. Northy, Jr., with whom
she was rnadly infatuated.
A Cynthiana (Ky.) woman threatens
talk gand jury to death it that body
insists upon investigating progressive eu-
chre parties.
Mrs. Alice Wilbur, widow of nearly
70 years. and Benz amin Hitchcock, aged
10 years, were married in East Merlden,
Ct.
In Oshawa township, Mimi, Mrs. Au-
gust Swenson was choked to death by
gumdrop.
It was testified during the legislative
investigation of the Northwestern Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company that Mrs
Henry L. Palmer, wife of the president
of the company, got eight per cent. IN
terest on loans from the company.
New York hnanciers are discussing
the formation of an institution similar
to the Bank of England, with fifty mil
lions capital, to control the money mar
ket.
Contractors Greene and Gaynor were
fined $575,64o and given four years each,
charged with conspiracy to defraud the
government in Savannah harbor work
While the epidemic Of typhoid in
Pittsburg is decreasing, towns along the
Ohio River below Pittsburg, report
alarming number of cases.
Governor Higgins has signed the Arm
strong Insurance Bills affecting rebatin9
and the acquisition of real estate.
A six-inch gun crew on the cruiser
Pennsylvania broke the worlds record
BY making y hits in 90 seconds.
Mrs. w. c. lutte, widow of a Pitts
gurg coal millionaire, testified in court
that Frank NJ Hoffstot and James. W..
Friend got nearly 100000 OF her hus-
bands money for loan of 100000
Governor Pennypacloer announced that
the State of Pennsylvania had recovered
all the money it had on deposit in the
Enterprise National Bank of Allegheny
Doubt has been cast on the presence
of Andrew c. Fields in Dobbs Ferry, as
Mutual Life officials and Others declare
they cannot find him,
Corporal Tanner, commander-in-chiet
of the G. A. R. and Adjutant John
Truesdale visited the Georgia battle
fields.
Farmers in the mountains near Tama-
qua, Pa, are being held up and robbed
| by Dick Turpin, who defes posses.
The George Washington University OF
| Washington won the annual debate with
the University of Cincinnati.
President Connell, of the Cancellation
Board, believes a strike in the anthracite
mines will be averted.
Miss Mary Callahan, aged 70 years,
a Maryland woman, committed suicide
on the street in Philadelphia
Nathan Isaacson, who attempted sui
eide by jumping from Williamsburg
Bridge, New York, and who was de-
scending on a ferryboat. was saved
from instant death by the captain OF
the vessel backing his craft so that
Isaacson hit the river 10 feet from the
ferryboat.