The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-10-25
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.

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Governor Hanley of Indiana reported
that insurance rates were too high
and led to extravaganza and other
abuses.
Lewis Emery, Jr., Fusion candidate
for governor of Pennsylvania, gave
bail to answer the charge of criminal
libel brought by State Senator NJ.
Nichol.
The will of Daniel O'Day, the
Standard OIL capitalist, was filed in
New York. His property was be-
queathed to his widow and II chill
dren.
Five robbers blew open the safe of
the Bank of Vergennes, rll., secured
800 in cash and mortally wounded
Abraham Kimmel, a merchant.
Clarendon Henri was arrested in
New York while trying to sell pic
ture that had been stolen from a
Cincinnati art gallery.
Mrs. Alice Winemiller was killed
by man who shot through the win
dow of her home, near Warsaw, Mo.
John Doran was arrested at Will
kinsburg, Pa, on the charge of try
ing to cremate his wife.
NJ. J. Carpenter, a get-rich-quick
promoter, died in a cell in a Chicago
police station.
A serious epidemic of diphtheria
has broken out in Worcester, Mass.
Fines aggregating $4,000 were
imposed on the New York Central
and Hudson River Railroad and
Traffic Manager Pomeroy, who gave
rebates to the American Sugar Re
fining Company
Rev. DR.. Charles II. Parkhurst has
been subpoenaed to appear in a New
York police court to testify regarding
vice and crime in the metropolis.
Rev. DR.. c. B. Bridewell, of Allan
ia, has been suspended from the
Presbyterian ministry, an old sweet
heart having won him from his wife
The American Bankers Associa-
tion has formulated plan for a COM
mission TO regulate the issuance Of
credit and clearance currency.
Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin, a daugh-
ter of Bishop Potter, committed sui
| eide by hanging herself in a New
York sanitarium.
The Standard Oil Company has
been found guilty of a conspiracy In
| restraint of trade in Ohio.
The grand stand and nine build
ings OF the exposition at Toronto
| were destroyed by fire
The most startling development in
the present political campaign in
New York came when Charles f.
Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall,
publicly charged that money had been
demanded by representatives of the
independence League in considera-
ton of the withdrawal of their can
didates in certain districts, and was
subsequently served with a subpoena
to appear before the grand jury.
Former United States Senator j.
d. Walker, in Fayetteville, Ark, fell
down a stairway leading TO his office
and was skilled, his skill being frac-
tured. He was 76 years of age
The body of Mrs. William Cover,
OF Bethlehem, Pa, who disappeared
a week ago, was found in the canal.
She is. believed to have committed
suicide.
The voting in the election for Of
ficers of the Mutual and the New
York Life Insurance Companies has
begun and will continue until De-
cember IS.
tablet commemorating the first
| permanent settlement of the old
Northwest Territory was unveiled on
the college campus at Marietta, o.
Charles Sullivan was shot and
killed Dy JOnn Klein, son OF Mrs.
Laura Klein, who resented Sullivan's
unwelcome attentions
The advisory board of Mayor Wea-
yer, of Philadelphia, has resigned,
following friction over the district
attorneyship contest.
William II. Ellis, q contractor on
federal work in Boston, was con-
victed of the charge of violati the
| eight-hour law
Miss Sarah G. Miller, a cousin o.
the late President Mckinley, died in
| Cleveland, o.
fire in the business section of
birmingham, Ala, caused losses
amounting to 100000.
The Chicago and Northwestern
Railway has increased its capital to
0,0O0,000.
The captain and several passen-
gers of the steamer Zulia, at New
York from Venezuelan ports, say
that Manuel Silveira. the missing
Cuban banker, and his family, on
board the steamer Carmelina, arriv-
ed at Curacao October z, and left
the following day for Porto Cabello