The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-19
THE NEWS OF THE Week


New Orleans, tried to commit suicide
in Jail.
President Wenchel, of the Rock
Island Raiload, states that the cor
poration will cease to employ Hobbies
at Washington or state capitals.
Wade Hooker, son of Rev. r. b.
Hooker, of Buffalo, S. c., was drown
ed in a pond where his brother lost
his life seven years ago.
Judge Louis E. McComas and Mrs.
Hebe Harrison Muir were married
at Atlantic City Saturday in the pres
ence of two witnesses.
Frank Smith, because he would
not give up the keys to. his employers
home in Buffalo, N. Y, had his ton
que slit by burglars.
Kamtchatka Indians report that
darkness lasting two days followed
a volcanic eruption.
The Bridge Trust men, Hammond
& Cleveland, were sentenced by Judge
Morris, in the Circuit Court of Toledo,
o., to six months imprisonment.
Members of the Lumber Trust, IA
in number, were given the same SEN
tence. Members of the Toledo Brick
Supply Company, who pleaded guilty
to pooling under the Valentine law,
were fined $1,000 and costs each.
Attacked by two thieves they had
caught in the act of breaking into
the Bessemer and Lake Erie Station,
at East Pittsburg, Pa, Policeman
Thomas Sullivan was shot dead and
Policeman John O'Brien was struck
by two bullets.
Stockholders of the United Elec-
trio Company of New Jersey voted
in favor of the resolution adopted
by the directors to lease the COM
pany to the Public Service Corpora
ton for 900 years.
Philip Kempien, formerly paying
teller at the Capitol National Bank,
st. Paul, Mimi, was sentenced to four
years in states prison for the mis-
appropriation of $4,000.
The trial of DR.. and Mrs. D. s.
Rowland, charged with the murder
of the former husband of Mrs. Row
land, has been postponed until Sep
TENDER.
Nine miners, suffocated by white
damp, have been taken from a mine
at Honeybrook, Pa.
VlSCOuuJ AOhl, JdpdACSO oAipesS
sador to the United States, again de-
clares that "all the talk of trouble
between the two nations is a phan-
tom creation of irresponsible trou-
blemakers," and Admiral Yamamoto,
in a speech before the Japan Club of
New York, said the United States
and Japan were close neighbors and
no. trifiing incident could sever their
cordial relations.
Judge Alton B. Parker, in an ad-
dress before the North Carolina Bar
Association, declared Roosevelt, back
ed by the corporations, were inter-
preting the constitution to suit their
purposes.
The plant Of the Gloucester Cold
Storage Company was destroyed and
many sailing craft were damaged by
fire, which threatened to sweep the
whole harbor front of Gloucester,
Mass.
President Manuel Amador, of Pan
anna, sailed form New York for Eu-
rope on the steamer Gaiserin Auguste
Victoria.
Louis E. Alters, head professor Of
German languages and literature IN
Colorado College. died at Colorado
Springs.
Frank Harvey killed Mrs. Gertrude
Hall, of whom he was jealous, in Ia
coma, Wash.
The federal grand jury of Chica-
go returned indictments against the
Santa Fe Railroad, alleging that 1t
granted the United States Sugar and
Land Company $4,000 in rebates
The indictments contain IS counts.
The proposed consolidation of the
United States Leather Company has
been enjoined by Vice Chancellor
Emery, of Newark, N. j.
Miss Florence Schenck, of Norfolk,
who went abroad with Charles H.
Wilson, manager of Vanderbilt's
stables, is considering offers to go
on the stage.
Twelve hundred children of the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum, New York,
proficient in fire drills, marched out
of the institution when it caught
fire.
President Small, of the Telegraph
ers' Union, threatens to call strike
in Chicago and Eastern cities, fol-
lowing a failure to treat with the
OpSTdIOTS III Dali rIdASi5SO'
The Creole, the first large turbine
ship under the Stars and Stripes, and
built for the Hartman lines, was
placed in commission at New York.
Gov. B. B. Conner, of Alabama, in
his message to the legislature, pro-
tests against the tying up of state
railroad laws in the federal courts.
Prof James McGranahan, author
of Some Day We Will Understand"
and other we'll known hymns, is
dead.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin S. Smith, of
Chicago, have completed 5000 mile
tour in an automobile.
A Kentucky grand jury has in
dicted County Judge w. P. Yancey
for malfeasance in office.
Foreign.
Delegates from several Latin-Amer-
lean countries opposed the American
DrOpositiOn at the Peace Conference