The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic

George w. Perkins and Charles ).
Fairchild were indicted by the grand
Jury in New York on a charge OF
forgery in the third degree in issu-
ing of the New York Life Insurance
Company.
Mr.. Russell Sage has in view OF.
the thousands of begging letters she
has received issued statement that
she does not intend to distribute her
money everywhere and to everybody.
Alexander Mcdonald, of Cincinnati,
principal owner of the Mobile, jack
son and Kansas City Railroad, says
| the receivership scheme is the re-
suit of conspiracy.
Otto D. Stallard, cashier of the
| Peoples National Bank of Sedan,
Kan, admitted shortage of $22,-
533.
Mrs. Carrie Kuh died in Chicago
| from injuries received in the Iro-
quois Theater fire.
Three negro TRUSTEES" escaped
from the penitentiary at Jefferson
City, Mo.
Rev. D. L. Holder, a Presbyterian
minister, was assassinated at Troy,
Tenn.
Joseph D. Sulsona was arranged
before the United States commits
sioner in New York and held IN
$1,000 bail as confederate OF
Boehm and Ochera, who were ar
rested last week on charge of max
ing and attempting to make counter
| felt peso notes of the Republic OF
Columbia.
l. Mrs. Jeanne Trautman, wife OF
| DR.. Alexander Trautman, proml-
nent physician, who was arrested on
complaint of Peter ]. Hogan, who
declared she was a street walker,
who had stolen $13 from him, was
honorably discharged in New York
police court.
A call for a second conference OF
| the growers and manufacturers OF
cotton in October, 1907, has been
sent out by James R. MacColl, the
president of the National Association
| of Cotton Manufacturers.
Former President Grover Cleve-
land and other Princeton residents
have made application to the ma
| tional government to stock Carnegie
Lake at Princeton with game fish.
A grand jury of New York has
| found indictments against two for
mer officials of the New York Life
Insurance Company, charging forg-
cry.
| An Indian massacre, in which
Yaqui Indians attacked party OF
Americans and Mexicans and killed
eight, has occurred in Mexico.
w. j. Atkinson, president of the
defunct Lincoln Bank of Morton
Park, was sent to jail in Chicago
~ dnfoY11f 0f cox 000 hail
/ DR.. Marker G.. Dadarian, of New
York, has been threatened with as
sassination by the BLACK Hand
unless he gives up $4,000.
The Lackawanna Steel Company
has purchased the Ellsworth Coal
Company's properties in the Pitts
burg district.
In Dayton, O., Roy Fowler was
sentenced to die in electric chair for
the murder of his sweetheart.
An effort is being made in St.
Petersburg to compel the authorities
investigate the naval scandals of
Grand Ducal regime, which are
"a to be largely responsible for the
\ defeat of the Russians at the battle
| of the Sea of Japan.
Judge Duncan, of Ohio, in a decis-
| ion rendered in the Standard Oil cases,
decided that the probate court has no
| jurisdiction to try criminal prosecu-
| lions under the Valentine Antitrust
Law The $4,000 fine imposed upon
| the Standard Oil Company is there
fore invalid, as well as all the pro-
| ceedings in the Probate Court. The
case will be carried to the Circuit
and Supreme Courts.
A mass meeting of citizens OF San
F--"ncisco denounced the position of
| President Roosevelt and Secretary
Metcalf on the California school ques-
ton, declaring that states rights is
now the paramount issue.
J. G. Phelps Stokes, the million
aire, has refused to make his annual
donation to the Y. M. G. A., because
of the creation of class in real es-
cate and stock investment
D. ]. Beresford, brother of Ad-
miral Lord Beresford, of the English
Navy, was killed il = train, wreck in
North Dakota.
Nicolai de Raglan, the Russian
woman who masqueraded as man,
was of noble birth and mother.
Ten persons died or were over
| oor,- NV tho noId ~, Nauy VOrL