The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-06-22
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/ Robert Winthrop Chanler, grandson
of John Jacob Aston, and millionaire
is a candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation for sheriff of Duchess county,
New York. Two years ago be was
elected a member of the assembly.
Rev. Albert Erdman, for 81 years
pastor of South Street Presbyterian
Church at Morristown, N. j., has tend
cred his resignation because he thought
younger man was needed to carry on
the work of the church.
A trolley car jumped the tracks near
Fairfield, Ct, and overturned. Charles
Weidlich, of Bridgeport, was crushed
to death. His wife and child and three
others were seriously but not fatally, in
jured.
Miss Lucy Cody, 537 West One Hun
dred and Eleventh Street, New York,
rescued six horses from fire which de-
stroyed her fathers stables.
Late in the week the Senate may take
up the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill
of the conference report on the Agricul-
tural Appropriation Bill.
The Twentieth Century flyer on the
Lake Shore Railroad was wrecked near
Buffalo, but no one was killed or SER
iously injured.
Wabash Railroad interests have COM
pleted negotiations for loan of $780,
600 in Pittsburg.
Gen. Howard L. Porter, prominently
identified with the Y. NJ. c. A. move
nent, is dead.
Judge Lacombe has decided that Off
GERS of auxiliaries of the Tobacco Trust
are not in contempt for failure to pro-
duce documents and letters asked for by
the government.
Miss Anne Strunsky, born in Russia,
and William English Walling, New
York millioaire, who have studied social
questions together, were married in
Paris.
1t is believed that the man who kid
mapped Frederick Muth, of Philadelphia,
is the same person who threatened to
steal the child of Banker Samuel P.
Kuhn.
Rather than make . voyage to China,
John and Louis Lonsburg jumped over
board from the ship Arrow in New York
Bay, one of them being drowned.
DR. Jacob F. Force, former president
of the Northwestern National Life In
surance Company, has been sent to pris-
on on a charge of grand larceny.
Prof. Thomas R. Lounsbury, after 81
years service at Yale, is about to re-
sign.
A pretty, dark Hindustan girl. orna-
mented with gold and silver jewelry, and
barefooted, was taken from Ellis Is
land, New York, by woman who
called herself the Countess. de Lesdain.
The New York police believe that
Mrs Alice Kinnan was murdered on her
porch in repelling man suspected OF
seeking to gain the property of her
mother through marriage.
The Black Diamond express on the
Lehigh Valley Railroad ran into a
freight train west of Wilkes-Barre, the
locomotive of the flyer being demolished.
A committee of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives recommends
the expulsion of Frank G. Gethro, of
Boston, on charges of attempted bribery.
One hundred detectives are unable to
find missing Frederick Muth, of Phila-
delphia, or his abductor.
John Alexander Dowie described in
a Chicago court how he once saw his
| own corpse.
District Attorney Jerome declares that
the laws are ample to convict the rich
criminal, but that the difficulty of prose-
cution lies in getting evidence.
A committee of the National Manu-
facturers' Association visited the Chicago
stockyards and report that the attacks on
the beef packers are gross exaggerations.
Thirty-two insurance companies are
| standing out against the proposition OF
90 others to pay only Is per cent of their
San Francisco fire losses.
First Lieutenant Edward c. Bolton,
U. S. A., governor of the Province of
Davao, Island of Mindanao, was muir
dered by Fiilpinos
The body of Selbert Dam, an aged
basketmaker of New Canaan, CT, was
found in WE'LL His house had been
robbed
Sarah Bernhard sailed for France, af-
ter having earned 100000 francs during
| 227 performances in the United States.
Robert B. Roosevelt, uncle of President
Roosevelt and a lifelong Democrat, died
at his home on Long Island.
Theodore P. Shonts delivered the prin-
cipal address at the silver anniversary
services of Drake University.
The new battleship Georgia broke the
speed record of her class.
Baron Speck Won Sternberg, in ad-
dressing the University of Illinois stu
dents, declared that many of the maxims
of President Roosevelt were used years
ago by Chinese emperor.
Feudist Curtis Jett, of Kentucky, has
confessed to the alleged details of the
assassinations of James Cockrill, James
B. Marcum and DR.. B. D. Cox.
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