The midland journal., 1906-11-16
'THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.

| Domestic.
| The president of the New York
Mutual Life Insurance Company
secured an injunction from the court
at Frankfort, KY, restraining the
State Commissioner from revoking
the company's license to do business
in the Kentucky field.
Frederick Schaffhauser, civil en-
gineer, was shot and fatally wounded
in the City Hall of Philadelphia by
Frederick Homberger, pumping
station employe, who accused the en-
gineer of wrecking his home.
Miss Nellie O'Reilly, an opera sing
er, was awarded $4,000 damages
in a breech of promise suit against
Dennis Sweeney, wealthy resident
of Long Island.
An inspection of work on the
Panama Canal by the combined mer-
camille organizations of the United
States is proposed.
Five incendiary night fires in the
heart of New York caused panic
among thousands and death of a
woman from shock.
John Price Wetherill, of Philadel-
| phia, who amassed fortune in zinc,
died in Philadelphia.
New York detectives found child
who had been chained to corncrib
for year and half.
The Standard Oil Company has
raised the pay of all employees from
to 10 per cent.
The special federal grand jury
convened in Minneapolis, Mimi, to
examine into the alleged rebating
system in use by railroads, and re-
turned lat indictments. The mini
mum penalty in each case is $1,000
and the maximum $4,000.
In a shooting affair at Money,
Miss, L. J. Henderson, prominent
| merchant and planter, was instantly
killed by A. j. Money, brother OF
| United States Senator Money Money
was also shot, but is not seriously
wounded
A powder magazine owned by the
E. I. Du Pont Company and situated
at Tinley Park, near Chicago, ex-
ploded with such force that window
panes were broken in the home of
| the Midlothian Club, three miles dis
tant.
A receiver was appointed in AL
bany for the North German Fire In
surance Company of New York,
which was crippled by the San Fran
cisco fire.
Proceedings were instituted in
Scranton, Pa, against three railroad
companies for failing to have the re-
quired safety appliances on trains.
Tulic Larrinaga, Unionist candi-
date for commissioner, of Porto Rica
to the United States Congress, was
elected by majority of $4,000.
The switchmen accepted the offer
of the managers of the Western roads
| for an increase of three cents an
hour in wages.
Eighty girls, hemmed in by fire
and smoke in a New York factory,
were led to safety by the GOODNESS
of policeman.
Watson Raine, an engineer at
Proctor's Theater, New York, refuses
to quit work though he has legacy
of $4,000.
Miss Lucille Mcleod, accused in
Chicago of killing William T. New
mann, was married to Fred H. Men
hard.
Herbert G. Squires. the new United
States minister to Panama, was re-
ceived in audience by President ANA
dor.
One thousand coopers went on
strike in Chicago, asking for wage
increase of three cents per barrel.
A statue of Gen. Peter Gansevoort,
the defender of Fort Stanwix, was
unveiled in Rome, N Y.
A dynamite explosion occurred in
| Carrick, near Pittsburg, Pa. Two
men were killed and seven hurt.
The Unionist party carried all
seven election districts in Porto Rico,
leaving the Republicans without rep
resentatives in the next House of
Delegates. The election was very
orderly.
Foreign.
M. BRAND, French minister of
| public worship, announced in the
Chamber of Deputies that the gov
ernment would give the clericals
another year for reflection, and that
| the churches would not be closed