The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-06-29
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Mrs. Stenton, mother of Mrs. Alice
Kinnan. murdered in Upper New York,
denied at the coroner's inquest that she
struck her daughter with hammer.
After three and half years pumping
at the rate of 5000 gallons minute, the
Hallstead Colliery, near WlikesDarre,
Pa, has been cleared of water.
Governor Hayward, of North Caro-
lima, has pardoned Hoyt Hays, who was
twice convicted of wife murder, on the
statement of handwriting expert.
Miss Josephine Hood, who married the
alleged bigamist, Lord Douglas, IS
said to be in Santa Anna, Cal, IN
condition of pitiable poverty
Miss Cora Cooper, housekeeper of the
Kesler House, in Northumberland, Pa,
committed suicide by shooting herself
DR.. J. Cumbine, secretary OF the Kan
sas State Board of Health, reports that
dogs will not eat preserved meat.
Governor Beckharn, of Kentucky, has
announced his candidacy for the United
States Senate.
Mrs. Wilson Miner, former widow OF
Charles T. Yerkes, is dangerously i'll IN
Chicago.
An insane negro with razor ran
amucl in the jail at Freehold, N. J.
Fifty houses were wrecked by wind
storm in Oklahoma.
The schooner Emma Hendrix was
blown over by the gale near Port Mon
mouth, N. J., and the captain and
e drowned
The International Harvester Company
was fined $4,000 in Little Rock, Ark,
for requiring its agents not to sell COM
peting goods.
One man was killed and seven were
injured while experimenting with a
specially constructed trolley car at
Orange, N. ].
Governor Magoon's report shows the
establishment of free schools in tn va
rious municipalities in the canal zone.
In a collision between large touring
car and carriage. several persons were
injured at Egg Harbor, N. ].
Mrs. Elizabeth Brandup was found
strangled to death in her home, in Ba-
den, California village.
Daniel L. Resi-, York County (Pa.)
farmer, committed suicide by hanging
from bedpost.
The United States District Court OF
Kansas imposed fines aggregating $751;
600 on the Burlington Railroad and
Packers Swift, Cudahy, Armour and
Morris and gave jail sentences to two
freight brokers for violating the anti
rebating clause of the Elkins law.
President Stickney, of the Chicago,
Great Western Railway, announced that
his railroad would at once discontinue
the practice of allowing grain elevator
rebates.
Richard Ivens was hanged for the
murder of Mrs. Bessie HOLSTER, in
Chicago. He made no confession and
was in a state of collapse on the scat
fold.
An analysis of 40 samples of sausage
and hamburg steak in indianapolis
proved that 80 of them contained cheml-
Gals prohibited by law.
Three small children of Charles Wues-
thorn, of Harrison, O., were burned to
death by the explosion OF gasoline
stove.
Prof. George B. Stevens, Dwight pro
lessor of systematic theology in the Yale
Divinity School, is dead.
An Italian woman testified at the coro.
ner's investigation into the murder OF
Mrs. Alice Kinnan, in New York, that
Mrs. Kinnan said she had been clubbed
by an attorney, with whom she had
quarreled over money matters
The executive council of the Fedora
ton of Labor named a committee to
call on Secretary Bonaparte in reference
to shipjoiners' and carpenters wages.
]. E. Holloren, of Springfield, Mass,
was elected president of the National
Association of Train Dispatches, in
convention in Buffalo.
The cotton manufacturers OF Fall
River, Mass, granted the operatives
ID per cent. increase in wages. About
$4,000 hands are benefited.
President Jacob Gould Schurman, OF
Cornell University, declares the nation
needs a new baptism of business honesty
Mae c. Woods suit in Omaha. Neb,
against Senator Thomas G. Platt was
dismissed
John T. Winn, who was tired Of i'll
luck, threw himself from New York
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