The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-11-29
NEWS
by TELEGRAPH
domestic

frank OWEN, lot years SGu0Ad i
tr,sfac manager of the steamboat lines
operating between Ogdensburg, N. Y,
and Chicago, died at the age of 60
years,
Stuyyesant Fish has withdrawn his
injunction to restrain the voting of
Illinois Central stock held by the
Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Henry I. McCrea, paymaster in
the United States Navy and SON of
Captain Henry McCrea, has resigned
to go on the stage.
Lalilie Rodriguez set hotel afire
and stabbed five persons at Alamoso,
Cal, before he was shot and killed.
John Bigelow, the statesman, diplo-
mat and journalist, passed his nine
tieth birthday at work.
The Presbyterian Board of For
eign Missions will expend half mil
lion dollars in Korea.
District Attorney Jerome will urge
that the Thaw trial be called in JAN
uary.
New York City has granted per-
mits for 81 skyscrapers so far this
year
Sixty-three deaths have occurred
from bubonic plague in. San Fran
cisco.
w. r.. Chambers. aged 105 years,
died at Cecil. Washington County.
Pa.
Thirteen Italians persisted in fire
in a New York tenement house.
The decree of divorce granted
Thomas j. Hoops from Actress Jesse
w. Hoops has been set aside and a
private detective who was at work
on the case has been charged with
perjury.
While Albert Lemon, of Burling-
ton, N. j., was engaged in the search
for men who murdered and robbed
q prominent citizen he killed Police
man Gusrang and then shot himself
Charles w. French, vice principal
of the Chicago Normal College, de-
clares that college fraternity houses
in that city are dens of iniquity.
o. r. Nattinger, president of an
automobile company, was killed and
six persons hurt by an auto striking
a cart at Des Moines, Ia.
A resolution was adopted at a
joint session of the National NUM-
cipal League and the American Civic
Association recommending the ap-
pointment of experts in charge of
health departments of the various
states and cities.
Joseph S. LAUDER of Waterbury,
Ct, has decided to give up the prac-
tice of law because he claims he can
no longer bear the sufferings of
clients.
Serious freight congestion threat
ems all foreign shippers in New York
because of the unprecedented home
ward rush of foreigners.
One man was killed, two are in
q serious condition and score OF
others had narrow escapes during
a hotel fire in Buffalo.
Foster Crowell was appointed
STRENGTHENING commissioner of New
{ York City, to succeed DR.. Walter
Bensel. who resigned.
A riot occurred in Joliet, ILL.,, as
the result of strike following an
attempted wage reduction among
Quarrymen.
Capt James H. Holmes, one of
the last -of the John Brown band of
abolitionists, died at Red Bank, N. j..
Senator Foraker was formally in
dorsed for reelection to the Senate
and for the Republican nomination
for presidency by the executive COM
mittee of the Ohio League OF Rc-
publican Clubs.
The wife of Sheriff Williams. of the
Genesee IN. Y.) county jail, pre-
vented jail delivery by phoning
for tho police while convict was
attacking the custodian of the keys.
Mrs. Lottie Hitchcock Killed her
husband, Robert l.. Hitchcock, a
former Baltimorean, and then shot
herself at their homo in New York.
Admiral Pendleton champions the
right of seamen to play baseball and
football in the Philadelphia Navy
Yard Sunday.
Congressman returning from the
Panama Canal favor million less in
next years appropriation for the
work
Daniel Sinclair, who helped to de-
feat James G. Blaine for the presi-
Dental nomination, died in Mime
sofa.
Miss Theodore Shonts, daughter of
Theodore Shonts, is engaged to wed
the DUO de Chaulnes.