The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-05
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic.

has SISu0U ILL OkOAuduCO AnhAA0 SAS
municipality a partner with the rapid
transit company in all the street cars
of the Quaker City.
Relatives will contest the legacy
of $4,000 which Capt. Charles H.
Hooker willed to the United States
Government
The wife of Colonel French, of the
Salvation Army, San Francisco, is to
go to the Island of Molokai to nurse
lepers.
Hundreds of Japanese are reported
awaiting an opportunity to steal over
the Mexican border into the United
States.
Four men employed in the steel
mills at Bethlehem, Pa, were crush
ed to death by two runaway cars.
An icehouse at Southwick, Mass,
containing $4,000 tons of ice, was
destroyed by fire.
A squadron of United States
Cavalry stationed in Kansas is to
march $50 miles.
In order to reduce the cost OF
producing steel a few cents, millions
are to be spent in new machinery for
the plants of the United States Steel
Corporation at Pittsburg.
Miss Irene West, $7-a-week
hello" girl, working for the tele-
phone company in Muskogee, I. T.,
owns 100000 acres in the black belt
of Texas worth 100000.
The estranged wife of Rev. Will
To- 30
a, woodman evangelist, came from
Hornell, N. Y, and kidnapped her
own two-year-old son.
The attorneys for the Standard Oil
Company appealed to the United
States Court in Chicago for the with
drawal of the subpoena against John
D. Rockefeller. Judge Lands refus-
ed to withdraw it.
Ossain Guthrie, aged eighty-one
years, and Mrs. Elizabeth F. Flower,
aged seventy-one years, of Chicago,
are to wed. Guthrie has been wild
over four times.
Fire in several frame buildings at
the mouth Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road tunnel, in New York, imperilled
the lives of scores of men at work
under ground.
Employees of the international
Policyholders' Committee of the New
York Life were indicted in New York
on the charge of conspiracy.
Judge Lands, in the United States
District Court in Chicago, decided
that John D. Rockefeller must appear
in court as a witness.
Three Italians were arrested on
the charge of trying to wreck train
on the Lehigh Valley, at Ricketts,,
Pa.
James w. Cornelius, wife-murder-
er, was electrocuted in Columbus, D.
John D. Rockefeller, H. H. Rogers
and other Standard Oil magnates
were summoned by the United
States District Court of Chicago to
appear and give such information as
the government attorneys may de-
sire. A total of $3.50 counts stand
against the corporation, making pos
sible maximum fines Of over SSH
100000.
Attorney General Bonaparte and
Secretary Straus have concurred In
taking broad view of the Alien
Contract Labor Law. One reason
assigned in two cases was that the
immigrants possessed ability scarce
in the United States.
The Rapid Transit Commission OF
New York City has endorsed the
monorail system invented by How
ard H. Tunis, of Baltimore, for the
proposed line between Brooklyn and
Coney Island.
The uniform bill of lading favor
ed by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission has been adopted by the
Illinois Manufacturers Association
and the American Shippers Associa--
ton.
Edward Bryce, Meyers predecesS
sor as president of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners, admitted ct the
Haywood trial that he advised all
organizations of miners to buy rifles.
]. H. Barnes, president of the de-
funct Minnesota Title Insurance ana
Trust Company, has been arrested
charged with embezzling $4,000.
Wheat was quoted at a dollar and
over on the Chicago Board of Trade,
owing to a report that the Kansas
crop is 100000 bushels short.
Peter Morad, of Philadelphia. died
on a Black Diamond express from
bringing cyanide of potassium, which
was offered him as whisky.
Viola Boylan, aged eight years,
was found outraged and strangled
to death in the cellar of her home,
in Little Italy," New York.
Foreign.