The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-02-16
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tIltlOH urging Illii u use hAS AAAuSAAS Az
behalf of legislation to preserve Niagara
Falls.
Milo R. Malbie of the Public Owner
ship Commission of the National Civic
Federation, sailed from New York for
Aondon to make arrangements for the
commissions investigation in England.
John Witt, Jr., lumber merchant OF
Detroit, killed his little girl and his
father-in%law, wounded his mother-in-law
and then committed suicide.
Count Pedro de Mareno was arrested
in New York on the charge of getting
$425 from his friend, Jean Emile
Lapierre, by false pretenses.
DR.. H. Seward, of Chicago, was con-
victed Of robbery in taking fees from a
well patient whom he induced to believe
that he was ILL.,
John Mccormick, after being haunted
by the ghost of church bell that he had
stolen, gave himself up to justice in
Omaha.
issMrs. Hannah A. Washburn, widow of
former Governor Washburn, of Massa-
chusetts, died at Greenfield, Mass, at
the age of 81.
j. Mrs. Minnie Shilo found on a rail-
road train en- route to San Francisco her
two children, whom her husband had
kidnapped.
!, Valet Jones, wanted by Lawyer Pat
rick to vindicate him of the charge of
numbering millionaire Rice, has disap-
peared
Several fremen were injured and
property valued at $4,000, at 800
S38 Broadway, New York city, was de-
stroyed by fire.
A group of New Workers raised a
fund to help troupe of Russian actors
who were driven out of their own
Country
William Klein, a wealthy real estate
owner of Lockport, N Y, driven insane
by religious fervor, committed suicide.
is Sailors on the French bark Admiral
lCourtset, lying at Port Townsend,
Wash, mutined and eft the ship
"Sherbie" Becker, Milkaukee's boy al
.derman, is making campaign for the
mayoralty on novel lines.
Rev. George c. Ware was convicted
at Omaha, Neb., of cheating the govern
fiient by land frauds.
The plant and equipment of four troll
icy lines were destroyed by fire in Pough-
keepsie, N. Y.
President Wilcox, of the Delaware
and Hudson Company in a letter to
President Mitchell, of the United Mine
workers, suggests that the questions be-
tween the operators and the miners be
referred to strike commission, or con-
ciliation board, and declares that the IN
crease in wages demanded will increase
the prices of coal to the consumers.
Sales of stock of the San Francisco
Lumber Company to the Bellingham Bay
Lumber Company for $4,000 marks the
death of giant combination which for
10 years has absolutely dominated the
lumber business of the western coast OF
America.
Several officials, clerks and contractors
of Brooklyn, N. Y, have been indicted,
charged with conspiracy in sewer swim
dies by which the city is said to have
been defrauded out of several hundred
thousand dollars.
Patrick Dolan, president of the Pitts
burg District, United Mineworkers, Sc
cured temporary injunction retaining
delegates to the convention from inter
fering with his powers as president
Application was made to the Plttsburg
courts for a receiver for the Pittsburg
and Morgantown Packet Company.
The building of Harrington & Whitney,
New York City, was burned. Loss
$I35,ooo.
The Illinois coal operators decided to
refuse the demands of the United Nine
workers.
Vice President Lewis has failed to re-
move from their offices President Dolan
n..l Ma D~ae;ja,,+ Pa11ir0l1oy41 of %he
Pittsburg district of the United Mine
Workers, although National President
Mitchell wired that the convention had
authority to remove its officers. The an
thracite miners scale committee met at
Wilkesbarre.
Rufus johnson, the negro who muir
dered Miss Allinson at Moorestown, N
J., January Is, and was captured in Bal
timore, was found guilty of murder ir
the first degree by jury at Mount Hol-
ly, N. J., and sentenced to be hanged
February 70.
Rev. Justin G. Wade, of the First Con
gregational Church of Waulxegan, ILL.,, &C
cused Of sending obscene literature
through the mails, tried to commit sui
eide.
Reported that there was nearly mu-
tiny on the United States cruiser Mar
blehead on account of alleged tyranny o.
Commander Mulligan.
The independent window glass man
ufacturers organization committee met al
Cleveland, and decided to form selling
company.
FOREIGN
Germany is reported to have demand
ed that the police of Morocco must b.
either regulated by the zone system I'M
der the various powers or entirely in
trusted TO neutral nations-a condition
to which France will not agree.
The Prussian commission which stud
led the American railroad system repor
that per million passengers carried tn
American roads killed g. times an,
wounded 20 times as many of them a
the Prussian roads.