The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-20
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with Americans as the victims.
Samuel Meanley and his son and
daughter were struck by train on the
Manhattan Beach Line, in East New
York. and all three were killed. =,
Charles Engel, wealthy merchant OF
Constantine, Mich, married MISS seq
ridge Johnson, the parlor maid at the
Hotel Manhattan, New York.
The family of Frank Pasarella, OF
Lakewood. N. J., was poisoned by eat
ing toadstools for mushrooms, and two
of his sons died.
The announcement was made OF the
clandestine marriage of Miss Vera ,.
Schermerhorn, the heiress, to Robert
John Randolph.
Chester Gillette, charged with the muir
murder of Miss Grace Brown on Moose
Lake, is in Jail and is complete state OF
collapse.
Three foreigners were burned to death
while trying to save their valuaD!es
during fire in their home in Allentown,
Pa.
Prof. Willis Marshall, of Sioux City,
predicts that swarms of II and 10 year
locusts will soon be devastating the
farms.
M. Bernstein, of New York, died from
excitement and heat while playing in
skat tournament in Buffalo.
Mrs. Edmund E. w. Pettus, wife OF
United States Senator Pettus, died at
her home in Selma, Ala.
Mrs. A. o. Sumption, of Salina. Kan,
put on burial gown of black and COM
mitted suicide.
The operators and miners of the Cen
trail Pennsylvania bituminous field have
reached an agreement with but slight
change in scale The agreement pro-
vides for open shop, arbitration and
check weighman's fund and an advance
of SIS per cent on scale paid in 1905:
President Oler, of the American Ice
Company, denies accusations made
against the company, and says he has
invited District Attorney Jerome to make
an investigation of the company's meth
DDS.
Joseph Washington, a locomotive ire
man on the Atlantic Coast Line, was
killed by Sidney Khouri, mechanic, IN
the railroad yards at St. Petersburg, Fla.
Friends of William Randolph Hearst
say he will run as an independent Dem
ocratic candidate for governor of New
York
J. C. Stokes Phelps, the New York
millionaire, who has become socialist,
praises Bryan "as an honest radical"
George Mitchell, who killed the lead
er of the "Holy Rollers" in Washington
Territory, in defense of his sister, has
been shot and killed by his own sister.
Former Judge Hargis, charged with
the murder of Attorney James B. Mar
cum in Kentucky created stir in court
by rejecting on the states attorney.
Conductor N. NJ. Riggs, who was ar
rested in Elroy, Wis, in connection
with the murder of Mile Ellison at
Minneapolis, shot himself.
Otto Amerus and NJ. D. Kent, broth
ers-in-law, fought pistol duel near
Noble, Ok Amerus was killed and
Kent was mortally wounded.
In the United States Court in New
York the libel suit of the Monotype
against the Linotype Company was dis
missed.
SiS children lost their lives in an eff
fort to rescue drowning girl in
river near Cedar Rapids, Mich.
An unknown man ended his life on
the grave of an unknown suicide in
Evergreen Cemetery, New York
J. G. Phelps Stokes, the young New
York millionaire, announces himself as
socialist
Karl S. Ferguson, Troy broker, who
lost heavily in speculation, shot and kill
ed himhelf
The town of Lynnville, Ind, was
wiped out by fire. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
Mrs Carrie Nation was arrested IN
Dallas, Tex, for improper use of the
mails.
Pennsylvania Railroad officials will
testify before the United States District
Court at Jamestown, N. Y, that the low
rate on oil between Olean and Rochester
was made to prevent the building of
pipe line by the Standard Oil Company
The Interstate Commerce Commission
| is to question Pennsylvania Railroad Of
| hcials regarding an allegation that the
railroad paid less than half charged 9TH
ers for oil supplied by subsidiary COM
pany of Standard Oil
Curtis Jett, the Kentucky feudist, con-
| fessed, at the trial of ex-Judge Hargis
and ex-Sheriff Callahan for the murder
of Lawyer Marcunl, that he had assassi-
mated the attorney.
The New York district attorneys Of
fee has heard story that Harry Kendall
Thaw threatened to shoot both Mrs.
| Thaw and Stanford White.
The locomotive of the Colonial Elk
press, between Boston and Washington,
jumped the track near a drawbridge in
Rhode Island.
| FOREIGN
The report that Russia contemplates
! r,e,,r loar, abroad is senioficiallY denied