The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
THE News OF THE Week.
Domestic.

al Civil Service REFORM Association
was begun in New Haven. Addresses
were made by President Daniel G..
Gilman and Secretary Bonaparte.
It is declared that Mrs. Hannah
Graham will appear in court against
Signor Caruso, the tenor, who IS
charged with annoying her, tomor-
row.
Nine. Anastasie Louise de Masay
fired three shots at Gustave Simon,
New York merchant, in the latter's
office.
The schooner Luis G. Rabel foun-
dered in four fathoms of water near
Charleston, S. C. The crew escaped.
Rev. DR.. Algernon Crapsey, charg-
ed with heresy, has been suspended
by the Protestant Episcopal Church.
The condition of Bishop John j.
Tigert, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, is slightly worse.
The annual Horse Show began in
Madison Square Garden with an I'M
usually fine list of entries.
Over 40 lives were lost in a col
lision of the steamers Dix and jeanne
on the Pacific Coast.
The Alabama State Agricultural
School at Athens was blown down by
Sundays storm.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to
a million dollars to promote inter-
national peace.
Alienists have declared that Harry
K. Thaw was insane when he shot
Stanford White.
Patrolman Luke Fitzpatrick, of
Chicago, was killed in duel with
burglar.
The New York Central Railroad,
accused of having granted rebates
amounting to $4,000 to the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company, was
found guilty. The trial in the case
of the American Sugar Refining Com
pany for accepting rebates will begin
today.
The New York Central Railroad
was found guilty also on the second
indictment charging the road with
giving rebates to the Sugar Trust on
sugar shipped from New York city
to Cleveland.
Green Womack, wealthy Missis-
sippi farmer, was indicted by the red
eral grand jury on charge of poem
age. He is charged with having held
several negroes as slaves for eight
years.
Executive officials of Western roads
contemplate asking the Interstate
Commerce Commission to serve as
board of arbitration to settle dis
putes between the companies and Of
ficials.
In an address before the Interna-
tional Congress on tuberculosis IN
New York, DR.. T. D. Crothers de-
clared that consumption and alco-
holism are twin sisters.
A proposed deep waterway scheme
to connect the Great Lakes with the
Gulf of Mexico was launched at a
representative meeting in st. Louis.
JOAQUIN Nabuco, the Brazilian am
bassador, refused to answer questions
of the immigrant inspector, which ne
considered below his dignity.
A $1O,000,O00 combine is in for
nation, with Walter Baker, and
Walter NJ. Lowney and the Huyler
companies as parent concerns.
The Arctic steamer Roosevelt, with
Commander Peary aboard, has ar
rived at Chateau Bay, Labrador, hav-
ing been delayed by storms.
The wages of employees OF the
American Express Company WHO are
paid less than 5000 a month were
Increased 10 per cent.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, whlch
is to abandon wooden coaches, mas
asked bids for 100 all-steel, nonln-
f1amable passenger coaches.
After shooting two OF the posse
which had surrounded him near
Fletcher, N. c., Will Harris, the negro
desperate, was killed.
Lord Curzon, of Kedleston, ana
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Letter, ar
rived at New York on the steamer
Baltic from Liverpool.
Mayor Schmitz and Abe Ruef, OF
San Francisco, have been indicted on
charges of extortion in issuing IL
censes to restaurants.
In an interview in Chicago j.
Pierpont Morgan says he never
wronged anybody, and what he wants
is fair play.
All the large concerns of Boston
and Gloucester have formed a nsn
combine, capitalized at $5,0OO,OOO.
Rev. James Mason Hoppin, D. D..
LII. D., emeritus professor OF the
History of Art at Yale, died In New
Haven.
Lord Curzon, who married Mary
Letter, arrived in New York to set
tie the estate left by his wife.
The Standard Oil Company declar-
ed a quarterly dividend of $40
share.
Two hundred and fifty weavers
struck at Adams, Mass.
John D. Rockefeller and the direc-
tors of the Standard Oil were in
idcted by an Ohio grand jury for al
legged violation of the Valentine Anti
trust Law.
Foreign.
Cardinal Lecot has informed the
Pope that the French minister of ed
ucation made a "monstrous error"
in declaring that the Diocesan as
sociations formed under the Cardi-
nails auspices we're legal, the Cardi-
nal explaining that they were not
meant to comply with the separation
law.