The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-05-04
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injured in the ARRAY and several serious
ly. Seven arrests were made.
James D. Phelan, chairman of the
finance committee in San Francisco, plans
to ask the United States government,
through Congress, to indorse a proposed
issue of bonds to supply funds for the
reconstruction of the city.
William Brown, a negro, captured near
Rienzi, Miss, confessed to having killed
a Mr.. Johnson and was hanged by a
posse of citizens to railroad trestle.
The estate of "Pittsburg Phil" the turf
plunger, whose real name was George
E. Smith, is being distributed among his
heirs. 1t is valued at $3,25o,ooo
John H. Thirty, the Grand Old Man
of Long Island City, N. Y, aged 81
years, is the proud father of baby. His
eldest son is 81 years old.
Henry G. Coll, formerly cashier of the
First National Bank of Milwaukee, was
found guilty on 10 counts out of "a.
President Mitchell says there will be
ers until the convention.
Thirteen women have applied for ap-
pointment as members of the police force
of Minneapolis.
The Bay Way Oil Refining Com
pany's plant, at Elizabeth, N. j., was
burned. Loss 100000
New York dealers do not fear a coal
famine as a result of the strike.
William A Brewer, Jr,, formerly presl-
dent of the Washington Life Insurance
Company, was indicted by the New York
Grand Jury for perjury The charge grows
out of a report made to the state
superintendent of insurance in 1903 re-
garding the condition of the company.
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Erich Muenter, an instructor
in German at Harvard University, on
charge of numbering his wife in Cam
bridge, Mass, about two weeks ago,
it being alleged that the woman's death
was caused by arsenic
DR. Charles a. Nicholas, of Spring
field, Ill, accused of using the mails in
an attempt to defraud Mrs. Susan Day
by threatening letters, has been denied
new trial and will have to pay $I,7oo
fine and costs.
Arthur Jacobs, a San Francisco teams
ter, has been arrested ON charge of
looting He and several other men are
said to have stolen several tons of Red
Cross supplies for the destitute.
Mrs. M. l., Standifer, who acknow-
lodged she shot and killed her sister
because the latter won the affections of
her husband, was acquitted by an At
ianta (Ga.) jury.
The anthracite coal operators have
again rejected the demands of the mine
workers. The latter will meet next week
to decide the strike question.
H. f. Huntington opened with a
gift Of $4,000 a. fund tQ alleviate the
ruined fortunes Of professional men and
women in the California disaster.
The engineer of freight locomotive
on the Pennsylvania was killed and two
others injured by the explosion of the
boiler, near Steelton. Pa,
Members Of the creW of the cruiser
Columbia marched in the parade of the
Confederate veterans in New Orleans
Earthquake shocks continue to be felt
daily at Salinas 40 miles south of San
Francisco.
The steamer Buchanan, of the Alaskan
Line, arrived at San Francisco with
volunteer physicians, Red Cross nurses
and a cargo of 1900 tons of provisions.
Off Cape Blanco the ship was struck
by a gigantic tidal wave.
The Shaw Machine Company, manu-
facturers of textile machinery, with a
plant at Lowell, Mass, was placed in
the hands of a receiver, in Boston.
Two men and several dining room
girls were suffocated in fire that broke
out at midnight in the hotel of Henry
Goetz, in Frankenmuth, Mich.
Brigadier General Edward Wellman
Serrell, U. S. A., retired, died in a
sanitarftm in New York. He had a.
wonderful military career,
There was a. reduction in the divi-
dend of the New York Consolidated
Gas Company because of the reduction
in the price of gas:
FOREIGN
Mile. Spiridonova, the girl who muir
dered Luzhenoffeki, chief of gendarmerie,
at Tamboff, Russia, in her statement be-
fore the court-martial that condemned
her to be hanged, told thrilling story
of the brutality practiced by Luzenhoff-
ski and others of his type in the Russian
provinces.
A St. Petersburg newspaper prints a
story tending to confirm reports that
Father Gapon was assassinated by rev
olutionist, presumably on the ground that
he was a traitor.
The Car will not attend the opening
of the Russian Parliament in person, but
will receive the members and the Council
of the Empire at the Winter Palace.
A Russian terrorist attempted to as
sassinate Colonel Min, commander of the
Seminovsky Guards, at St. Petersburg.
The Paris police searched the house
of number of imperialists, monarchists,
anarchists and agitators, in the hope OF
securing evidence against the reported
secret society formed, with the object OF
overthrowing the government.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
arrived on the royal yacht at Naples
and started in an automobile for trip
to Vesuvius.
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