The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-03-07
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic.

DOmeSIlC-
Jacob Bowman, a farmer of near
Uniontown, Pa, who has been miss
ing from home, was found frozen
to death in the snow.
L. F.. Loree deprecates the agita-
tion against corporate interests as
detrimental to the development of
the Southwest.
Troops will attend the trial of
Judge James Hargis. of Kentucky,
charged with the assassination of DR..
B. d. Cox.
John d. Rockefeller says he has
something in mind which he believes
will be of great benefit to the public.
Miss Ada L. Howard, a former
president of Wellesley College, died
in Brooklyn, N. Y, OF pneumonia.
An explosion OF 1900 pounds OF
gunpowder near Kansas City broke
windows seven miles away.
bill in equity to secure an &C
counting of the financial affairs of
Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, head
of the Christian Science Church,
was filed in the New Hampshire
courts by Mrs. Eddy's son, George w.
Glover, of DeadwoOd, S. D.. and his
daughter, Mrs. Mary Baker Glover,
a.
Mrs. Eddy.
The Western section of the Alli-
ance of Reformed Churches holding
| the Presbyterian system has sent
| letter to the Reformed Churches in
France expressing satisfaction over
the new religious conditions.
Wilhelm Raff, editor of the ILL
nois Staats-Zeitung, the oldest Ger
man editor in the United States, is
dead.
The Y. M. G. A. building at Utica.
n. Y, was destroyed by fire, causing
a loss of $15O,OO0 to $175,OO0.
Thomas Baldwin, of Colfax, ILL.,,
shot and instantly killed Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Kennedy, Mr.. and Mrs. Else
man and Miss Eiseman. Baldwin
had been indicted for an alleged as
sault upon Miss Eiseman.
Rev. J. B. Title, his father, his
wife and baby were killed and two
children fatally injured by an ex-
plosiOn of dynamite that destroyed
his house, at Carnie. Ill.
Filipinos are alarmed over Japan
csc war talk, and q recent exchange
of salutes between warships so fright
ened many natives that they fled to
tho mountains.
1 Il
recovered Judgment in the New York
court against the Maryland Casualty
Company for $5S. .046.
Paul Morton and all of the other
retiring officers of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society were reelected.
The lower house of the California
legislature passed a sweeping anti
japanese and anti-Chinese measure.
The Salvation Army will establish
antisuicide bureaus in all the large
cities of the United States.
The Porto Rico Legislative Assem-
bly, adopted a bill providing for the
abolition of the death penalty.
Hundreds of waterspoutS were seen
on Nantucket Shoals by officers of
the steamer Maine.
Comptroller of the Rock Island
Railroad testified in Hartman IN
vestigation that that road was mort
gagged up to the limit and that its
treasury was empty What the Rock
Island got in deal with the Hartman
interests was brought out.
1t has been discovered that the
$17S,000 missing from the Chicago
Subtreasury was stolen by a promi-
nent business man, who used an
ordinary ruler to draw the cash from
behind the teller's screen.
Stuyvesant Fish replies to accusa-
tions made by E. H. Hartman and
declares all transactions In which be
engaged will bear the closest scru-
tiny.
Fall of s cents a dozen in the price
of eggs is reported from Chicago.
Supply is said to be inexhaustible
and the egg famine at an end.
Two firemen were killed and II
others rendered unconscious by am
monia fumes during a fire in New
York market.