The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-09-13
The Neus
Domestic

grabbed burglar who pointed re-
volver at her, and after he drew
blood with a blow with a jimmy,
chased the man until she was out Of
breath
John Barrett says the Middle West
by means of a canal from the Lakes
to the Gulf, will control the trade
of the west coast of South America.
Patrolman Theodore D. Hess, who
eloped with 16-year-old Elizabeth D.
Grady, from New York for Baltimore,
pleaded guilty of abduction.
A fly wheel burst through the floor
of the dining-room of the Lakota
Hotel, Chicago, causing panic
among SO diners.
The Ohio State University an
neunces that new diphtheria anti
toxin is effective in three minutes.
Burglars used matches to burn
and torture $3.50 out of an aged
couple of Logan County, Ill.
Rev: DIR. Charles J. Jones, chaplain
emeritus of Sailors Snug Harbor, is
dead.
Delaware is to tax manufacturers
of tombstones.
Mrs. Auree Batonyi, who was form
erly Mrs. Burke-Roche, will quit her
husband and will return to the home
of her father, Frank Worth, in New
York, in order that her children by
her first marriage may inherit their
grandfather's wealth.
The investigation of the affairs of
the marlborough Metropolitan rail-
way merger of New York promises
some highly interesting develop
ments. The company formerly paid
z per cent. annual dividends. Now it
pays 8. .,-..,
Senator Depew, who has returned
from Europe, says that the slump in
the American stock market has pre-
vented the contamination of many
important deals in America in which
foreign capital was interested.
Mrs. T. Nutting, of New York, wife
of retired army officer, was killed,
and her daughter, Mrs. Phillip Moore,
and the latter's child were badly in
jured in a runaway accident at
Bridgewater, N. S.
1t is estimated that of the $10,-
100000 annual damage to property
in New York from fires 100000
damage results from careless hand
ling of matches and cigarettes.
Three bandits executed a daring
holdup on the Rocky Mountain Limi-
ted, of the Rock Island Railroad, go
ing through the chair car and pas
senger coaches, taking all the pas
sengers' valuables at the points of
revolvers.
DIR. Edward Giasgo, prominent
young physician, of Brazil, Ind, is
dead, and his wife though slightly
wounded in the breast, was placed
under arrest following a mysterious
shooting on lonely road.
The federal grand jury at James
town, N. T., has returned additional
indictments against the Pennsylva-
ma and New York Central Railroads
and the Standard Oil Company.
District Attorney Jerome has asked
for special grand jury, presumably
to consider the destruction of books
previous to the merger of New York's
street railways.
Burton Plummer, aged 10 years,
confesses that he set fire to the Nor
mandie Hotel, at Columbus, O., be-
cause he was jealous of the atten-
lions of a clerk to waitress.
William Sumner Lapworth, son of
a wealthy Massachusetts manufac-
turer, has married loom girl, the
daughter of farm laborer, employ
ed in his fathers plant.
The Chicago Office of the Postal
Telegraph Company has sued the
Photographers Union for alleged nom
payment for messages filed by strik-
ers asr
The date for the beginning of the
trial of United States Senator
Borah at Boise, Idaho, has been fix
ed for September %. He is accused
of conspiring to defraud the govern
ment by securing illegal entry of
timber. lands.
At Scott Haven and Suterville, on
the Pittsburg Division of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad. an attempt
was made to wreck the New York
express by drawing spikes from the
tracks. A fast freight train was de-
rallied.
The cruiser Fylgia, with Prince
William on board, sailed at dawn
from Boston for Sweden. The Prince
and Lieutenant Commander de
Klercker arrived just after midnight
from Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
Foreign.
The British consul general at An
twerp has formally protested against
the inadequate protection given Brit
ish ships during the strike.
The big Cunarder, Lusitania, out