The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-04-06
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signed as toastmistress.
1t was stated that Joseph A Turner,
the embezzling note teller of the Nation
al Bank of North America in New York,
was friend of Ruth Rogers, who COM
mitted suicide several weeks ago. He
denies it.
For an April fool joke someone in
serted in a New York newspaper an
advertisement announcing the death of
Emil Niglutsch and caused much TIN
easiness among the members of his fam
lily.
A bulletin of the Department of Com
merce and Labor shows that the trade
of the United States with Mexico dur
ing the year of 1905, aggregated $o2,ooo,-
600.
Governor Beekman Winthrop arrived
at New York on his way to Washington
to present the grievances of the Porto
Ricans to the House committee.
A squad of police had to use their
clubs to put down town and gown"
fight of Yale students and men and boys
of New Haven.
Steve Green, aged 22, was shot dead
by John Waters, Jr., about the same age,
in quarrel over game OF crap IN
Lancaster, Pa.
Harry Beard, a planter, living in
Natchez, Miss, was shot by negro
employee, who, in turn, was killed by
Boards brother.
Fear that her home was burning
caused Mrs. Frances Mcguire, of Alton,
a deaf-mute, to speak for the first time
in her life.
AS a sequel to a quarrel over five cents,
John Waters, colored, shot and killed
Stephen Green in Lancaster, Pa
Miss Hattie Crawford, student at the
Friends University, in Wichita, Kan,
felled burglar and then tainted.
]. G. Sapp was killed by his hall
brother, John Miles, well-known tur-
pentine operator, of Georgia.
A petition declaring that "intolerable
wrongs are being perpetrated in the Con-
go region" and signed by Governor
Guild and members of the Massachusetts
| legislature, was forwarded to President
Roosevelt, with the request that some
form of protest be taken.
President Roosevelt will order troop
of cavalry, two companies of infantry,
marines and the Marine Band to take
part in the celebration of the Mecklen-
ucAR wv. ~ OCSididliou "a 1AAoSPNH
dence.
Captain Joseph A. Turney, of the
Twenty New York Regiment, and
80 years with the National Bank OF
North America of New York, has con-
fessed to stealing $4,000 of the banks
| funds
Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by her
children, arrived at Fernandina, Fla, and
sailed on the Mayfower for cruise in
West Indian waters.
District Attorney Jerome declares de-
clares the contributions of insurance
fund to political praties is illegal and i'm
moral, and includes criminal intent.
Georgia Welles, leading woman with
the "Clansman" company, died at New
York hospital following an operation for
appendicitis.
Earl Grey, governor general of Cana
da; Lady Grey and Lady Evelyn Grey
are visiting New York.
Within an hour after he had at
tempted to criminally assault Miss Blair,
a young white woman, Cotton" col
ored man, was lyilched in West Carroll,
Florida.
| District Attorney Jerome asked JUS
! tice Bowling, of the New York Supreme
| Court to call special grand jury to in
yestigate the life insurance scandals.
Mrs. Blanche Turner Davis, died in
New York from blood-poisoning, due, ac-
cording to her antemortem statement, to
drugs self-administered.
| After voting down motion made by
President Mitchell to adopt the 1908
scale the miners convention at India
napolis adjourned sine die.
James w. Alexander, former presi-
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, was taken to private sanitar-
ium at Deer6eld, Mass.
Two crowded cars collided on the
Williamsburg Bridge, over East River,
and lady was seriously injured.
| The Bank of Victor, Col, in the Grip
pie Creek Dictrict, was robbed of $Io,-
600.
George w. Perkins, former vice presi-
| dent of the New York Life Insurance
| Company and member of the firm of ].
| P. Morgan & Co., was arrested, charged
with grand larceny in the first degree,
in connection with the contribution of
$48,7o2.5o, to political campaign funds.
! Patrolman Daniel Strauss, of New
York, who fought in three wars and was
decorated by Marshal MacMahon for
bravery att Magenta and Solferion, COM
mitted suicide
The bodies of six Greeks or Syrians,
stabbed and hacked to death, were found
in laborers' lodging house in Mime
apolis.
According to plans arranged, George
H. Perkins will be arraigned before
Justice Moss in New York on the charge
of larceny, growing out of the contri-
button of the New York Life Insurance
Company to political campaign funds.
| FOREIGN
NJ Bolkovadze, prominent Georgian
writer, charges that Russian soldiers
are ruthlessly violating the Georgian
women and children.
Thirty thousand striking French min
ers are engaging in riotous demonstra-
| tons and a thousand more troops have
been ordered to Lens.
! Throughout the Moroccan conference,
| Germany has been forced to recognize