The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-01-12
THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC

H. H. Rogers, vice president OF the
Standard Oil Company, told the Missouri
Investigators in New York that he could
not say what companies or officials oc-
cupied Standard Oil headquarters or any
thing regarding the corporation in the
West, and that the desires of the SUI
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 E. 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 Goges, a well-to-do and
pretty I7-year-old girl, became enraged
at her prospective husband, tore up her
wedding gown in the presence of guests
and refused to marry the man, at West
Brighton, Staten Island.
c. C. Meir, of San Francisco, en- route
from London to San Francisco to answer
charge of esnbezzling $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 34I,3I5
freight cars, 6,265 locomotives and 3,2S9
passenger cars In 1904 the figures were ;
Locomotives, $3.50; passenger cars, 2,2I3;
freight cars, 136,56I.
A commission representing the State
of Missouri began taking, testimony
from Standard Oil officials in New York
in the states suit to have the corporation
declared a monopoly in the Western
commonwealth.
An I8-ton hywheel at the Morgan En-
gineering Works, Alliance, O., burst,
wrecked a 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 motion for rehear-
ing.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Lyman ]. Gage agrees with Banker ia
cob H. Schiff that there will be panic
if the currency is not made more elastic.
DR.. Harrison S. Hathaway, Civil
War Veteran and prominent physician
of Toledo, O., was struck by train and
killed.
DR.. Charles Eliot Morton, formerly
Of Harvard, is leading crusade to chic
reform 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 H. Schiff made an adj
dress before the New York Chamber of
Commerce, stating that if the present
stringency in the money market is not
relieved there will be panic, besides
which other crashes will be insignih-
cant.
Governor Higgins, of New York, de-
MED an application for reprieve for
Albert T. Patrick, who is under SEN
tence of death for the murder of William
M. Rice, the millionaire.
The Massachusetts Savings Bank Com
missioners have asked for the appoint
ment of receiver for the Provident
Securities and Banking Company of Bos-
ton
C. S. Guthrie, president of the board
of the Republic Iron and Steel Company,
died at Salisbury, N. c., after an opera
ton 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
coins was struck off at the United States
Mint during the past year.
Safe-blowers got Sill, 900 in cash and
government bonds from Albaugh's gen
eral store, in Shoals, Ind.
DR.. D. K. Pearson has given $4,000
to Guilford College, of Guilford, N. c..
Curtis Guild, Jr., was inauguarated as
governor of Massachusetts.
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