The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-02-02
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MISS f1elen OOulQ mas SuDS(ilDCO Plo,-
600 toward new Y, M, C A. building
at Tarrytown, N. Y,
The body of Thomas Mast, former
American consul at Cuayaquil, was
brought to New York on the steamer
Finance from Colon.
Operators in the oil fields of Indian
Territory fear suspension of activity
because the Standard Company will be
prevented from continuing as a buyer
and transporter of petroleum. through the
proceedings instituted in Missouri
Chairman Knapp, OF the Interstate
Commerce Commission, expresses the
belief that the agitation against the rail-
roads will eventually lead to government
ownership.
Poultney Bigelow has sent check
! for 1000 to Colonel Watterson, to be
| forfeited if his statements about the
Panama Canal are found to be untrue.
Elder P. Samuel Williams, of the
Mormon Church in Mexico, denies the
charge made by Professor Wolf that
polygamy is still practiced there.
Mrs. Thomas Stockton, of Mount Yer
non, Braddock, Pa, left her husband
| because his moving habit led him TO
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Miss Tillie Foley got sheriff after
Victor O'Clair, her tickle lover, who
abandoned her for another, after she had
paid his fare from Gallicia.
Washington Christian and his two
daughters were shot in Athens, Ga, by
Walter Hardeman, the husband of Chris
tian's divorced wife.
The lives of 300 patients in Bellevue
Hospital, New York, were endangered
by fire, but no one was inconlmoded.
| Miss Drew, OF Boston, was thrown
| from her hourse and killed as the result
of reckless automobile driving.
| Three more bodies have been recov-
cred from the wreck of the steamer
Valencia
| Captain Van Schaick, master of the
| General Slocum, on which 1000 lives
were lost, has been sentenced to 10 years
in Jail. He has made an appeal from
| the decision.
Nelson Morris & Co. and Armour &
Co. deny the giving of brides to Chicago
newspaper men to influence reports of
the beef packers trial in Chicago.
| Rev. H. S. Little, just returned from
the Orient, says the students of the
| Chinese universities are fomenting rev.
olution and favor a republic.
| Mrs. Susan Day Parker, accused of
participating in the firing of the yacht
Scythian for the insurance, has been
declared not guilty.
Charles L. Tucker, convicted of the
murder of Mabel Page, of near Cam
| bridge, Mass, has been sentenced to be
| electrocuted.
Secretary Loeb announces that the gov
eminent may prosecute the wreckers OF
the Enterprise National Bank of Pitts
burg.
Norman Hapgood, editor of Golfers
Weekly, was acquitted of charge OF
criminal libel preferred by Justice Joseph
M. Deuel..
In the Greene-Gaynor trial kilograms
bearing upon the allegation that an at
tempt was made to bride Government
inspector were admitted.
The miners of the Southwest at In
dianapolis decided to stand by the de-
mand for the admission of the joint
conference.
There are indications that District At
torney Jerome is preparing to prose-
cute certain persons involved in in
surance irregularities.
Fire in the sani:arium of Miss Anna
l.. Aston, in New York, endangered
the lives of a number of patients who
had recently been operated on.
| Constantine Levi and Petro Forac-
ika, alleged secretaries of the Baird
| (Pa.) anarchist band, were arrested
near Monongahela, Pa.
| Fourteen lives were lost in an ex-
| plosion in the Whitteville Mine, Indian
Territory, that was caused by hre-damp.
| The Pennsylvania State Senate or
dered an investigation of the Insurance
Department of that state
The Bank of San Luis Obispo, Cal,
closed its doors by order of the bank
commissioners
Charles Winn killed his wife, her
sister and himself in Providence, R. l..
| United States District Attorney Morri-
son denounced the attorneys for the beef
packers of Chicago as trust lawyers and
that their defense of immunity is clap
| trap.
Mary Mccall, age 10 years, saved
two Northern Central Railway trains
from a wreck near Harrisburg, Pa, by
signaling that a bowlder had rolled on
the tracks.
James Debuys, for 81 years member
of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange
and prominent in the social and business
world of that city, died suddenly.
! The Mississippi compress, at Jackson,
Miss, with $500 bales OF cotton, was
destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000, with
insurance of 100000.
| Seven St. Louis women have been
stabbed by Jack the Gutter"
| FOREIGN
King Alfonso took his future bride,
! auto from Biarritz to San Sebastian to