The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-05-03
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Onlon and nonunion miners ciashed at
the Paint Creek mines, near Windber.
and had TO be dispersed by a volley from
the deputies. Three men were fatally
injured IN the affray and several serious
~. Seven arrests were made.
James d. Phelan, chairman of the
nnance committee in San Francisco, plans
10 ask the United States government,
through Congress, to indorse a proposed
issue OF bonds to supply funds for the
reconstruction of the city.
William Brown, a negro. captured near
Nieuzl, Miss, confessed TO having killed
Mr. Johnson and was hanged by a
posse OF citizens to a railroad trestle.
The estate of ''Pittsburg Phil" the turf
Plunger. whose real name was George
i. Smith, is being distributed among his
heirs. 1t is valued at $3,25o,ooo.
John II. Thirty, the Grand Old Man
OF Long Island City, N. ", aged 81
Years, is the proud father of baby. His
eldest son is 81 years old.
Henry c. Coll, formerly cashier of the
FIRST National Bank of Milwaukee, was
found guilty on 10 counts out of a.
President Mitchell says there will be
no further communication with the min
,erS until the convention.
Thirteen women have applied for ap-
pointment as members of the police force
of Minneapolis.
The Bay Way Oil Refining Com
pany'S plant, at Elizabeth, n. J., was
burned. Loss 100000.
New York dealers do not fear coal
famine as a result of the strike
William A. Brewer, Jr., formerly presi-
dent OF the Washington Life Insurance
Company, was indicted by the New York
Grand Jury for perjury. The charge grows
out OF a report made to the state
superintendent OF insurance in 1903 re-
garding the condition OF the company.
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest OF Erich Muenter, an instructor
IN German at Harvard University, on a
charge OF numbering his wife in Cam
bridge, Mass, about two weeks ago.
II being alleged that the woman's death
was caused by arsenic
Dr. Charles A. Nicholas, Of Spring
held, ILL.,, accused of using the mails in
an attempt to defraud Mrs. Susan Day
by threatening letters, has been denied
a new trial and will have to pay $I,7oo
fine and costs.
Arthur Jacobs, San Francisco teams
ter, has been arrested on a charge of
iooting. He and several other men arc
said 10 have stolen several tons of Red
cross supplies for the destitute.
Mrs. Nj. /. Standifer. who acknow-
legged she shot and killed her sister
because the latter won the affections Of
her husband, was acquitted by an At
lanta (Ga) jury.
lhe anthracite coal operators have
again rejected the demands of the mine
workers The latter will meet next week
to decide the strike question
II. f. Huntington opened with
giit OF $4,000 fund to alleviate the
ruined fortunes of professional men and
women III the California disaster.
Ihe engineer of a freight locomotive
on the Pennsylvania was killed and two
others injured by the explosion Of the
boiler, near Steelton. Pa.
Members of the crew of the cruiser
Columbia marched in the parade of the
Confederate veterans in New Orleans
Earthquake shocks continue to be felt
daily at Salinas. 40 miles south of San
Francisco.
The steamer Buckman, of the Alaskan
Line, arrived at San Francisco with
volunteer physicians, Red Cross nurses
and cargo of 2,2oo tons of provisions.
OFF Cape Blanco the ship was struck
by a gigantic tidal wave
The Shaw Machine Company, manu-
facturers of textile machinery. with
plant at Lowell, Mass, was placed in
the hands of a receiver, in Boston.
Two men and several dining room
girls were suffocated in a fire that broke
out at midnight in the hotel of Henry
Goe.z, in Frankenmuth, Mich
Brigadier General Edward Wellman
Serrell, u. S. A, retired, died in a
sanitarium in New York He had a
wonderful military career.
There was a reduction in the divi-
dend of the New York Consolidated
Gas Company because of the reduction
in the price of gas