The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-01-11
The LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC

o'dhlddIu Ou company, told the Missouri
Investigators in New York that ne could
not say what companies or officials oc-
cupled Standard Oil headquarters or any
thing regarding the corporation in the
West, and that the desires of the Su-
preme Court of the State of Missouri
were immateriaL
Samuel R. Shipley, retiring president
OF the Provident Life and Trust Com
pany of Philadelphia, states that the
company paid to Marlin (. Olmstead. A
leader of the Harrisburg bar and con
gresham, $500 for killing two bills
IN committee at Harrisburg, Pa, which
were considered antagonistic to insurance
interests.
Miss Louise Coges, well-to-do and
pretty I7-year-old girl, became enraged
at her prospective husband. tore I'D her
wedding gown in the presence of guests
and refused to marry the man. at West
Brighton, Staten Island.
I. {. Meir, of San Francisco. en- route
from London to San Francisco to answer
charge OF embezzling $4,000 shot him
self in cabin of the steamer Carmania
as the veSSesl was entering New York
harbor
In the IL months just closed the rail-
ways of the country have-ordered 3AI.aIs
freight cars, 6,265 locomotives and 1880
passenger cars. In 1904 the figures were
Locomotives, 2.53o; passenger cars, 2,2I3:
freight cars, I36,S6I.
A commission representing the State
of Missouri began taking testimony
from Standard Oil officials in New Yorl,
in the states suit to have the corporation
declared a monopoly in the Western
commonwealth.
An IS-ton flywheel at the Morgan En-
gineering Works, Alliance, o., burst.
wrecked part of the building, and a
large piece falling on the railroad tracks
blocked trains.
Attorneys for Johann Hoch, who is
under sentence of death at Chicago for
wife-murder, filed in the State Supreme
Court OF Illinois a motion for a rehear-
ing.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Lyman J. Gage agrees with Banker Ia
cob II. Schiff that there will be panic
II the currency is not made more elastic.
DR.. Harrison S. Hathaway, a Civil
War Veteran and a prominent physician
OF Toledo. o., was struck by train and
killed.
DR.. Charles Eliot Morton, formerly
OF Harvard, is leading a crusade to chic
roform the hopelessly insane and dis
eaSed persons.
The express companies have Joined
with the railroads in refusing TO issue
passes for the carrying of business free.
Banker Jacob II. Schiff made an ad-
dress before the New York Chamber OF
Commerce, stating that if the present
strlngency in the money market is not
relieved there will be a panic, besides
which other crashes will be insignif-
cant
Governor Higgins, of New York, de-
MED an application for reprieve for
Albert T. Patrick, who is under SEN
tenoe of death for the murder of William
Nj. Rice, the millionaire
The Massachusetts Savings Bank Com
missioners have asked for the appoint
ment of a receiver for the Provident
Securities and Banking Company of Bos-
ton
{. S. Guthrie, president of the board
of the Republic Iron and Steel Company,
died at Salisbury, N. c., after an opera
tion for appendicitis.
Eight miners were burned, two of them
fatally, in an accident at the Hazleton
shaft OF the Lehigh Valley Coal Com
pany.
The Louisiana state division of the
Southern Cotton Association approved
the plan OF holding cotton for Is cents
A number of collisions between ferry
boats and other vessels occurred during
the dense fog over New York harbor
A total OF I3I,545,I48 United States
CONS was struck off at the United States
Mint during the past year.
Sate-blowerS got 1900 in cash and
government bonds from Albaugh's gen
eral store, in Shoals, Ind.
DIR. ID. K. Pearson has given $4,000
to Guilford College, of Guilford, N. c.
Curtis Guild, Jr., was inauguarated as
governor of Massachusetts,
FOREIGN
There is much dissatisfaction among
the Russian troops at Harbin, who be-
lieve that the Emperor is distributing
lands among the peasants, and who think
that the soldiers are not getting their
share, because they are kept in Man
churia.
An Italian statesman says the real an
tagonism is between Germany and Great
Britain in the International situation to
be discussed at the Morocco conference
The first member of the new Russian
National Assembly has been elected at
TalSen, Courtland, without following
the method prescribed by the election
law.
Germanr's White Book on Morocco is
declared b French newspapers to be a
harmless libretto coming too late to
affect the deliberations at Algerciras."
Lord Rothschild presided at a meeting
in London which adopted a resolution
expressing indignation and horror at the
maSSacreS of the TeyS in Russia