The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-12
THE NEWS OF THE week.
Domestic.

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, in
addressing the Republican Conven-
ton of Massachusetts, characterized
the coming elections in New York
and Massachusetts as the Austerlitz
of American politics.
President futile, of the Boston and
Maine Railroad, declares the wreck
at Lansingburgh to have been due to
the engineers inability to control his
locomotive.
Fifteen hundred foreign women,
believing health department physi-
clans were cutting the threats of
their children, mobbed public
school in New York.
William ]. Lee, who twice escaped
from the New Jersey Hospital for the
Insane, has written letter in which
he threatens to kill Judge Vroom.
Isadore Nelson, an aged specula-
tor, died suddenly in New York be-
side the ticket that told him he had
lost.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has
| made still further reduction in pass
enger rates west of Pittsburg.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton has acquired the Hill iron ore
properties in the Northwest.
Three hundred horses were burn
ed in a livery stable fire in West
Third Street, New York.
Governor Pennypacker, of Penn
sylvania, received an Internal ma
chine in his mail
Three tornadoes swept in and
around New Orleans.
John B. Moran, of Boston, was
nominated for governor by acclama-
ton, as was also e. Gerry Brown, of
Brockton, for lieutenant governor of
Massachusetts by the Democratic
State Convention.
In an interview in Cleveland John
| D. Rockefeller argues against federal
regulation of individual industries as
check against our development to
the advantage of foreign competitors.
Burglars battered down the door of
the postoffice at Hackettstown, N. j.,
blew the safe to pieces and got away
with $40 in money and a hundred
dollars worth of stamps.
The new Pennsylvania Capitol at
Harrisburg was dedicated in the
presence of great throng. Ad-
dresses were made by President
Roosevelt and Governor Pennypacker.
A dangerous fire in the leather dis
trict in New York caused a panic
among the patients Of DR.. Gregory's
Hospital.
President Roosevelt served notice
on the Governors of Arizona and
New Mexico that there must be a
fair count of the votes on the state
hood question.
The Supreme Court of Illinois is
sued orders disbarring George S.
Baker and Herbert B. Wickersham,
formerly prominent Chicago law
yers.
Paul Paris, nine years old, of
Warner, Pa, shot and seriously in
| jured his sister, Alta, while playing
with shotgun.
Nine persons were injured, two
probably fatally, when two Monon
passenger trains collided headon at
Broad Ripple, Ind.
The Operative Plasterer's Inter-
national Association, in session in
Toronto, adjourned to meet in New
Orleans next year.
The Central New York Methodist
charge against Prof. Hinkley D. Nit
chell.
George Clarke, one of the original
members of Augustin Days COM
pany, died in South Norwalk, ct.
Fletcher D. Proctor was inaugu-
rated as governor of Vermont.
| The Democratic State Convention of
Rhode Island has made bossism the
issue for the coming gubernatorial
campaign and chosen Mayor Higgins,
of Pawtucket, as its candidate.
Richardson Harle and Mason, ac-
cused of numbering men for insur-
ance money, have been condemned
by the Supreme Court of Mexico to
be shot.
Two robbers entered Japanese
Bank in San Francisco, killed Act
ing Paying Teller S. Urakato and
made off with $4,000 in gold.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,. appeared
in court at Boston and pleaded not
guilty to the assault on policeman
on Boston Common.
| Frederick Pabst, of Milwaukee,
gave his children a million dollars
each before he died to see what they
would do with it.