The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-02-23
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UOmESI1C
The Honest Elections Committee of
cincinnati has issued statement that
Judge Lettleheld, who dismissed all the
election and registration fraud indict-
ments, is the worst obstacle the COM
mittee has encountered in purifying the
ballot
Richard A. McCurdy (former presi-
dent of the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany), his son and his son-in-law have
been sued by the company to account Tor
alleged excessive expenditures of insur-
ance company funds.
Mrs. Wilson Miner, the widow OF
William Yerkes, denies that she and her
husband have separated, stating that
Miner has gone West on business.
John Crawford, employed in Michigan
as cook, is with his sister, heir to $780,
600.
The Indian seal hunters of Vancouver
Island are on strike for higher wages.
Rev. w. H. S. Demarest has been
chosen president of Rutgers College.
The battleship Rhode Island has been
placed in commission.
All the Reading Company's cellieries
are being worked to their full capacity
and the company expects to have enough
coal stocked by April Ist to last until
September in the event of strike.
Pat Grove, charged with the robbery
Of Edward A. Cudahy, the Omaha pack
er, Of $4,000 in connection with the
kidnapping of Cudahy's SON FIVE years
ago, was acquitted.
William Murphy, New York horse
sheer, ~ years old, fred two bullets from
a revolver at his forehead, but the bone
detected and fattened the bullets.
T. J. Revell, aged 4o, a merchant, was
killed and three other men injured by the
collapse of Revell's house at Asheville,
N. c.
A fire in the Leonard Building, the
largest Office structure ir Augusta, Ca,
caused loss of $4,000; insurance about
$4,000.
John Mueller and Robert Newcornb,
the latter colored, who had each muir
dered three people, were hanged in Chi
cago.
At conference of the representatives
of the United Mine Workers and the
coal operators President Mitchell, OF
the former, stated the miners PROPOSE
ton, and committees representing both
rides were appointed to consider the
question at issue.
The Illinois Supreme Court sustained
the validity of the constitutional amend
ment under which the state legislature
enacted a law creating municipal courts
in Chicago.
The magazine of the Hercules Torpe-
do Company, near Geneva, Ind, was
destroyed by an explosion, and two men
and four horses were killed.
The station of the Erie Railroad at
Scranton, Pa, was totally destroyed by
fire. together with considerable baggage
and express matter.
F. R. Avery, treasurer of the Avery
Manufacturing Company, Peoria, ILL.,,
committed suicide by drowning at East
St. Louis.
Chief William T. Cheswell, of the
Boston Fire Department, died from heart
trouble while responding to an alarm.
Jacob Hauser and Stephen Fellows
were executed at Ebensburg, Pa. Both
had been convicted of wife murder.
The japanese Steamship Company
has made offer to buy four steamers OF
the Pacific Mail Company.
An express train on the Pennsylvania
side-swiped a freight near Conestoga,
Pa.
Mrs Clara Wilson, a well-known
evargelist, died at her home, in Towan-
da, Pa.
Major Generals Brooke and Weston
sailed for the Philippines.
FOREIGN
The retirement of the Russian Cen
erals Linevitch, Kuropatkin and Bo-
tianof, commanders of the Manchurian
armies, is regarded in St. Petersburg
as dismissal in disgrace.
By order of the Emperor, the Hun
garian Parliament was dissolved by
fierce. The members of the coalition
party declared the dissolution was I'M
constitutional
Bishop Blenk, of Porto Rico, has been
AioiAACd ~ ttAS 4 OPC Az oAANSooOl W tAAN
late Archbishop Chapelle, of New Or
leans.
Lord Ashburton was married in Paris
to Frances Donnelly, an American show
girl, member of the original Florodora
sextet
Korothi, the man who attempted the
murder of Governor KhoNostoff al
Chemjoff, Russia, was hanged
The Moroccan warships bombardee
the factories belonging to the French
filibusters of Manchuria.
King Edward opened in state the new
British Parliament His speech con-
tanned no surprises.
Mary Wilkes, widow of Rear Admir-
al Wilkes, U. S. NJ, died in Florence
Italy.
Valuable property owned by Jews al
Vietka, Russia, was burned.
The Countess de Castellane, in her
bill Of complaint against the Count, asks
for a decree for complete material sepa-
raft0r militant a dieSNl,,t,o,, r,f tha h.1,, H.