The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-14
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.

CQ0SI6r Ii. GlIISlIG WAS SSuCSACCe
| to be electrocuted at Auburn Prison
in the week beginning January 2S
He will be taken to Auburn within
the next ten days. A motion for
new trial was denied.
Michael F. Bruso, a Greek sea
man on the tug Walter A. Lucken'
bach, rescued the captain, frozen te
the masthead, and a seaman, frozen
to a hatch adrift, of the sea-goine
barge Buena Jentina.
President Baer, of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad, has declined
to grant the demands of the engi-
neers, firemen and conductors, who
threaten strike.
Rev. John T. McAtee, wealthy
Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia,
was shot by his daughter, who states
the minister was abusing her mother
Mrs. Nancy Boyd, aged SO, of
Allegheny, Pa, was burned to death
by natural gas while searching her
home for burglars.
John Madison Keith, who was a
master mechanic on the Panama Ca
nal, died from the bite of cent?
pede.
The Brotherhood of Trainmen will
confer with General Manager Peck,
of Pennsylvania lines west, about the
% articles refused them by the gen
eral superintendent.
The revenue cutters Mohawk and
Gresham pulled the barkentine Bon
ny Doom off Great Round Shoal, near
Vineyard Haven, and landed the
crew.
The strike of 500 men of the Read
ing Iron Company, which began hve
months ago, has ended by the men
getting an advance of II per cent.
In the Shea trial, Chicago, William
Kelly, former secretary of the Coal
Transfers Union, who entered a
plea of guilty, was a witness.
An explosion of gas in the Kidney
vein of the Buttonwood Colliery at
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, killed two and
seriously injured several others.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, the actress, Sc
cured writ of attachment in New
York against the property of Miss
Norma L. Munroe for $4,000.
John Harsen Rhodes, president OF
the Greenwich Savings Bank and a
prominent financier of New York, is
dead at the age of 81.
Herbert Gregerson, exchange tel
Ter of the Milwaukee Avenue State
Bank in Chicago, pleaded guilty to
embezzlement.
Banker Jacob Schiff calls the high
interest charged in Wall Street on
call loans barbarous and destructive
to finance.
Sir Harry Eugene Robinson, of a
noble English family, has entered the
United States Navy as mess attend
ant.
Lawyer Patrick, convicted of muir
der in New York is said to have ap-
piled for a Communication of sentence.
Former Governor George w. Hen
dee, of Vermont, died at his home,
Morrisville, aged IA years.
Rear Admiral Peter Asserson, U. s..
NJ, retired, died in Brooklyn at the
age of Sc.
The operators in charge of the
block on which the Southern train
wreck occurred Thanksgiving Day
contradict each other in their state
ments as to the cause of the smash
up.
Fearing that Chester E. Gillette,
found guilty of the murder of Grace
lOWAy plans W CtlA llo AAAS, SAAS
gas stove has been taken from his
cell, and an extra guard will accom-
pany him to Auburn prison.
Counsel for Harry X. Thaw has
taken action which abolishes the
proposition to appoint a commission
to go outside of New York State for
evidence in the case.
w. w. Finley, who began his rail-
road career as stenographer, has
been chosen president of the South
ern Railway to succeed Samuel
Spencer.
A man supposed to be George A.
Kimmel, missing cashier of the Ar
kansas Bank, has been found in an
asylum at White Plains, N. Y.
The Cincinnati Chicago Limited
train on the Monon Railroad was
derailed two miles north of Frank
fort, Ind, and Is persons injured.
Andrew Carnegie formally pre-
scented the deeds for a lake three and
one-half miles long to Princeton I'm
iversity.
Eight young wimen were burned
by an explosion of thousands of
matches in a factory at Indianapolis.
Allotments of land will make
every member of the Usage tribe of
Indians worth $4,000.
Two women were arrested in Chi
cago charged with score or more
of fiat burglaries.
Elias Asiei, New York broker,
was beaten insensible by burglars in
his home.
Forty-seven railroads of the West
are considering raises in wages for
employees.
Foreign.