The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-01-26
the LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC

Remarks by Colonel Meldrin, OF cour-
sci for Greene and Gaynor, now on trial
in Savannah, were construed as re-
Fiction on the court by Judge Speer,
who ordered the attorney to his seat,
and delivered scathing address from the
bench.
The suit of Morris c. Mcngis against
Gen Louis Fitzgerald for a fee of a
million dollars in connection with the
sale of the Western Maryland Railroad
will come for retrial in Brooklyn in
February.
The wage scale committee of the Unit
ed Mineworkers Convention has report
ed in favor of I2H per cent. increase
in wages, an eight-hour workday and a
working contract for a year.
Mrs. Anna Howard, of Brooklyn, N.
Y, known as the baby carriage thief,
was sentenced to FIVE years at hard labor.
At conference of representatives OF
the insurance departments of dozen
states and the Armstrong investigating
committee in New York movement was
begun for uniform insurance laws in all
the states.
F. c. HOLSTER and A. w. Gentry,
whose wives have recently been murder
ed in Chicago, appeared together before
the grand jury to give evidence which
led to the indictment of the two alleged
murderers.
Former Gov James H. Peabody, wife
and daughter, at Canyon City, Col, were
poisoned by food eaten at breakfast.
The Governor recently received several
threatening Letters.
Capitalists of Duluth, Mimi, have Sc
cured control of 100000 acres of timber
land in the Bahama Islands and lumber
ing operations will begin at once.
A Philadelphia coroner's jury gave
a verdict that Mrs. Anita McMurrow,
who claimed to be the Countess de Bet
tancourt, died of heart disease.
Henry Lear, former president of the
Doylestown (Pa.) National Bank, which
failed, was sentenced to FIVE years in the
penitentiary.
A great library instead of chapel
may be established in Chicago as me-
mortal to President Harper.
A score of people were injured, some
seriously, by the fall of part of bal
cony during minstrel performance at
Fields Opera House, Washington, Ga.
The trial of a number of weighmasters
at the Chicago Stockyards, accused of
defrauding shippers, was begun. One
of the men confessed
The wage scale committee OF the Mine
workers Convention is in receipt of
large numbers of resolutions demanding
an increase in wages.
A crash of freight trains at Newton
Eo11 h. nf tx1yn mo-
and the fatal injury of a third.
Heavy snow caused railroad wreck
near Denver, Col
Coroner Mix, of New Haven, Conn.,,
has rendered final decision, concurred
in by the states attorney, that Charles
E. Edwards committed suicide with
laudanum and bullet, owing to in
somnia.
At the request of Senator David B.
Hill, the Bar Association of New York
is investigating the payment of $1,000
fee to the Senator by the Equitable Life
Assurance Society.
The government wireless telegraph sta
ton at Cape Elizabeth, Me-, has received
message from the Dewey drydock tow
that travelled 5000 miles, breaking all
records for distance.
An official of the city of Chicago tied
up two traction lines for two hours,
claiming that open gates on the cars
imperiled the lives of passengers.
L. w. Burlen, secretary-treasurer of
the Provident Securities and Banking
Company, of Boston, has gone to Can
ada.
The city of Chicago has sued two trac-
ton lines for overcrowding street cars.
Four workmen in a tunnel under East
River, New York, were drowned or suf-
focatedbya bursted air pipe failing to keep
up the required air pressure and permit
ting water to enter and food shaft.
President Mitchell, of the United
Mineworkers, in addressing the annual
convention in Indianapolis, urged a de-
mand for higher wages. The opera
tors have agreed to meet Mitchell in con-
ference.
w. M. Wolfe, professor OF theology
in Brigham Young College, has renounc-
ed Mormonisn, having found that the
elders are still marrying plural wives in
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