The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-28
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.

Steamboat traffic between st.
Louis and Kansas City has been re-
sumed after lapse of 20 years. .
The sources of supply of ice for
| New York are exhausted and that
city will have to look to Southern
cities for the artificial product.
President Roosevelt has contribu-
ted 800 to the fund being raised
to press a suit at Newport, r. l., to
determine whether man can be
excluded from a public entertainment
because he wears the uniform of the
Army or Navy.
The body of Frank Riceia, a gam
bier, was found in the street in front
of 4003 Laurel Avenue in the Bloom
field district of Pittsburg. There was
a frightful cash in Riceia's abdomen
and he had been dead for several
hours.
J. s. Hewitt, secretary of the Ash
ftabula County co.. Underwriters
Association, who was recently indicted
with other fire insurance agents on
a charge of operating trust, en-
tered a plea of guilty and was fined
$50.
The Comptroller of the Treasury
has announced that in the future he
will fine national banks 500 each
for failing to make a report on its
condition within the prescribed five
days after call for a statement.
President Roosevelt has decided to
appoint Judge Joseph Burlington as
judge of the Third United States Cir
cult, which includes the states OF
Pennsylvania, Delaware and New
Jersey. Judge Burlington is now
United States district judge of the
Western District of Pennsylvania.
He will be succeeded in that place
by Judge Nathaniel Ewing, of Fay.
cite County.
Vice President Charles w. Fair
banks laid the cornerstone of Chi
cago's new county building, which,
when completed, is to be the largest
courthouse in the world and at night
the guest of honor at banquet CIV
en- by the Board of Commissioners
of Cook County at the Auditorium
Hotel.
BY a settlement arrived at in New
York the legatees under the will OF
Russell Sage are to receive from the
executors of the estate double the
amounts of the legacies upon con-
dition that the will be not contested.
The will was admitted to probate
without contest
Legal proceedings have been begun
in Utah looking to the issuance OF
warrant for the arrest of President
Joseph F. Smith, of the Mormon
Church, who is accused of having
five wives. He is the father OF AZ
children.
Proceedings have been begun in
Texas to GUST the Waters-Pierce Oil
Company an the allegation that it is
a trust, being a part of the Stand
ard Oil Company.
Prof. H. E. Reid, of Johns Hop
kins University, was member OF
party which had a narrow escape
while descending Mount Orizaba,
Newport women will wage war
against Objectionable billboard pos
ters.
President Roosevelt approves a
peoples lobby" to be established at
the national capital.
D. Clarence Gibboney, candidate
for the district attorneyship in Phlla-
delphia, has asked Mayor Weaver to
PAONC tAC GhoSOh NAOAA SA1sSS
was nominated by bribery.
Testimony was given before the
Interstate Commerce Commission in
Omaha that the Union Pacific Rail-
road had monopoly on the coal
along it's line.
A starving child was found locked
in the room with the corpse OF Mrs.
Catherine Durham, who dropped
dead in Brooklyn tenement Satur-
day.
The wrecked Milwaukee Avenue
Savings Bank of Chicago will be re-
created into an institution. to be
supervised daily by the directors.
A petition asking Governor Higgins
to reconsider the Patrick-Rice muir
der case has been signed by nearly
$500 physicians.
Prominent estates of San Fran
cisco have combined in a 100000
suit against insurance companies.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that government
bonds are taxable.
Eight masked men held up the
village and robbed bank at White
Cloud, Mich.
The governmental commission on
pure foods and drugs has decided
on regulations regarding the label
ing of all articles affected by the
Pure Food Law.
Harry X. Thaw has had falling
out with his lawyer, Clifford Hart
ridge, over a proposed examination
by alienists and may dismiss him.
Wall Street financiers are of the
opinion that Hartman may acquire
the Baltimore and Ohio to sell it
again.
A Chicago court has declared Vo-
Iva elected the head of Zion City by
an almost unanimous majority.
Preparations are being made in
Paris for long-distance balloon race
for an international cup.
A blanket increase in the price OF
paper has been made in the West.
Foreign.
The mysterious automobile which
has been worrying the St. Petersburg