Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-06-27
SHORT ORDER NEWS
Epitome of Current Happenings of
Interest Briefly Told.

John joseph kean, who kidnapped
~8-year-old Freddie Muth in Philadel-
phla, was sentenced to 20 years in
the penltentiaIy less than a hours
after his arrest.
The League Of Republican Clubs
adjourned its Philadelphia convention
after adopting resolutions and elect
ing officers.
A secret room full of plate and
other %valuables was found in the
Bronx mansion of old Mrs. Louise
Malcolm Stenton, whose daughter,
Mrs. Alice c. d. KEENAN,, was found
mysterlously murdered June 8.
A MAJ who pleaded guilty to grand
larceny, being accused of making
away with 100000 worth of goods,
was allowed, to go free while an ex-
convict, who stole p cents, as sen
fenced to six years in the p~enitentia-
ry.
Mrs. John N. Hood, at Asheville,
identified a photograph Of "Lord
Douglass" also known as j. C. Caven-
dish, as that Of the man who married
her daughter.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Compa-
ny is said to be prepared to aban-
don the fight for the $40 deposit on
mileage books.
Two persons died in Brooklyn, N.
Y, after drinking cocktails supposed
to have contained wood alcohol.
With a Democratic majority in the
Senate it is thought improbable that
the new Republican Governor of Ohio
will GUST many Of his predecessors
nominees.
1t is reported that great improve
ments will be made in their terminal
facilities by railroads entering Rich
mond.
The Republicans Of the First Con-
eressional district nominated Will
liam p. Hubbard to succeed Capt. R.
B. Dovener.
DR.. Arthur Grattan Cabell, of
Richmond, is dead.
The thirteenth annual convention
Of the West Virginia Bankers As
ISOLATION began at Elkins.
Labor leaders are demanding five
days notice before injunctions are
granted, a provision Of the Railroad
Rate bill regarding rates fixed by the
commission.
DR.. Elmer E. Brown, of California,
has been appointed United States
Commissioner of Education to sue
coed DR.. W. 7. Harris.
Huntington Wilson, of Illinois, be-
comes Third Assistant Secretary of
State, succeeding Herbert H. D.
Pierce, just made Minister to Nor
way.
The House passed the compromise
meat inspection measure, which now
goes to conference.
The House passed a substitute I'M
munity bill, the Revenue Cutter Ser
vice Efficiency bill and the Naval
Militia bill.
Senator Knox spoke in the Senate
in favor of the lock type canal.
The opposition Of Representative
Champ Clark and others defeated the
bill to coin abraded silver dollars in
to subsidiary coin.
The massacre at Bialstok resulted
in the killing Of about 300 persons,
nearly all Of whom were Jews.
The lower house of til eRussian
Parliament concluded debate on the
~agrarian question, and sent it to a
commission.
In the British House of Commons
it was said that fully the canned
meat fed to the British army in South
Africa came from America.
The American delegates to the cor
o%natiou of King Haakon arrived at
Christiania, Norway.
A cloudburst caused much damage
III lilC paw VI bOllClulH,
The Senate passed the Lake Erie
and Ohio Canal bill after making sew
eral amendments.
The conferees on the Railroad Rate
bill have not reached an agreement
on the points in dispute.
Secretary Of the Navy Bonaparte
has modified the sentence Of the
eourt-martial in the case of Capt.
Perry Garst, of the battleship Rhode
Island, which grounded on York Spit,
Virginia a few weeks ago.
The House adjourned Immediately
after announcement was made of the
death Of Representative Lester, of
Georgia. Committees were appointed
in both branches Of Congress to at
tend the funeral services at Savan-
rah on Wednesday.
Mr.. John D. Rockefeller has given
P25O,0O0 to the naval branch Of the
Young Mems Christian Association at
Norfolk.
A large crowd attended Battle Day
exercises at Lynchburg, Va.