The midland journal., 1907-08-02
THE NEWS OF THE Week
Domestic.


of Kentucky, filed a motion to have
Judge Robbins sworn off the bench,
alleging prejudice.
At Asheville Judge Guion informed
the grand jury that If the railroads
broke faith with Governor Glenn he
would summon them into session
again.
Eighteen persons were burned to
death and Is injured as a result of
the fire in the Italian tenement
house in Christie Street, New York.
The Long Island Hotel, N. Y,
measuring 900 by 200 feet, was de-
stroyed by fire at A. M, LOO
guests fleeing in their nightclothes.
Charles E. Pape, of San Antonio,
Tex, shot and killed his sister be-
cause he opposed her prospective
marriage, and then killed himself.
The striking ore handlers at Du-
1uth have proposed that the differ
ences with the railroad officials be
submitted to arbitration.
The New York policemen who
failed to capture Frank H. Warner,
who shot Esther Melting, have been
charged with cowardice.
Miss Laura Matthews, young
actress, of New York and Kansas
City, committed suicide owing to a
disappointment in love.
Attorney Clarence Darrow closed
an eloquent plea for the life of
Harry T. Haywood, on trial in Boise,
Idaho, in connection with the assassi-
nation of Governor Steunenberg.
E. S. Simon, prominent manu-
facturer, of Lyons, France, shot him
self in his room at the Hotel I'M
perial, New York. He was taken to
a hospital in a dying condition.
Baron Won Humbracht, German
minister to Cuba, sailed from New
York for Europe on board the steam
ship Deutschland, of the Hamburg
American Line.
| Harry Reed, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
was cut to pieces by Monon flyer
as he was hurrying to shelter at
Lafayette, Ind, during severe cleo
| trical storm.
All the objections made by the
Christian Science attorneys for the
purpose of limiting the scope of the
inquiry into the competency of Mrs.
Mary Baker G.. Eddy were overruled
by Judge Chamberlin.
Three lives were lost by the ex-
plosion of. car of naptha in a Big
Four train near Euclaire, Mich.
The car left the track on curve
and Immediately burst into flames.
The causes of the failure of public
ownership in America is discussed
in reports to the Civic Federation
made by Professor Goodenow and
Walter L. Fisher.
Charles Johnson was hanged at
the Bradford County, Pa, jail for
the murder of his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Bigler Johnson, and her niece.
A thousand Jewish women mob
bed butcher shops and turned on
the police owing to high prices for
meatsIin Philadelphia.
Citizens of Ely, Mimi, drove AL
fred Lunstrom, an organizer of the
| Western Federation of Miners, out
of town.
Miss Elsie Moore, daughter of the
president of the American Protective
Tariff League, and the Duke Don
Marino Torlonia are engaged.
The miners of the Pittsburg dis
trict have won their fight for the
use of steam dump labor-saving de-
| hANO III tA1C l4lACO.
A vein of coal 80 feet thick, 1900
feet wide and 6 mile long has been
opened near Hazleton, Pa.
William E. McLachlan, recluse,
found stabbed to death at Amster-
dam, N. Y, was worth 1000.
Louisiana is to test the federal
immigration law by paying the pas
sage of Cubans into the State.
Charles Weiss, once a famous
opera singer, died in the poorhouse
at Allentown. Pa
James B. Duke, president of the
American Tobacco Company, was
married to Mrs Nanaline Holt In
man in Brooklyn in the presence of
few friends. The ceremony was
performed by DR.. Daniel ]. Burrell.
Governor Folk granted a respite
of 80 days to Lord" Frederick
Seymour Darlington, under sentence
to be hanged at Clayton, Mo-, for
the murder of James P. McCann.
Private Hammond, of the United
States Artillery, was killed by the
explosion of a bag of powder dur
ing army maneuvers at New London,
Ct.
Charles Warner, New York busi-
ness man, supposed to be craZed by
financial reverses. shot and killed
Miss Esther Norling in Forty-second
Street.
The State of New York will collect
$2,000,000 as transfer taxes from
the estate of the late (Silent) James
Henry Smith.
Miss Elizabeth Cadenhead was
shot by Private Gillette near Fort
Brady while Gillette was firing at a
deserter.
Foreign.