The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-17
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic.

The new million-dollar passenger
and freight steamer City of Cleve-
land, which was being completed at
the Detroit Shipbuilding Company,
was burned to the waters edge.
December options in wheat on the
Chicago Board of Trade scared to
$1.03.
Handlers OF the New York grain
elevators have joined the striking
stevedores.
John H. Winder, president of the
Sunday Creek Coal Company, has re-
signed to engage in developing 3OO,-
600 acres of coal lands in Southwest
Virginia.
The hearing in the suit to enioin
the proposed merger of the United
States Leather and Central Leather
Companies was continued in Newark,
N. j.
Herbert H. Hayden, once a Metho-
dist minister, and who was accused
of the murder of Mary Stannard, died
in New Haven, Ct.
John Richard, a Harvard law stu
dent, and Miss Rhineock, daughter of
Congressman Rhineock, of Kentucky,
eloped.
An indictment of grand larceny on
three separate counts was reported
by the New York grand jury against
William @. Douglass, the assistant
loan clerk of the Trust Company OF
America, who was recently arrested.
George Osborn, faith curist, is
under arrest in Philadelphia, charg-
ed with criminal neglect in not call
ing physician to attend child,
who died without medical attend
ance.
Mrs Yerkes-Mizner, widow of
Charles T. Yerkes, has dropped her
suit for divorce, it is believed, be-
cause Judge Bowling showed dis
position to not seal the papers in
the case.
Frank Emett, formerly a superin-
tendent in Pittsburg steel mill, tes-
titled that patched up and falsely
certified tubes were placed in the
boilers of American war vessels.
James Henry Smith, who disposed
|of $25,000,00O in his will, gave
away $27,000,000 before his death.
The business section of Barnes
boro, Pa, was destroyed by fire.
Mexican consul in Kansas City has
brought suit for $4,000 damages
against the Rock Island Railroad for
the death of 15 Mexican laborers
that were killed in wreck on the
road.
One passenger was killed and
about 20 injured in the wreck of a
suburban train of the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy Railroad about
six miles out of Chicago.
The United States District Court
in Indiana has perpetually enjoined
the Drug Trust from continuing
operations.
A disagreement between the stone
cutters and bricklayers' unions has
caused a building tie up in Little
Rock.
The grain elevator of the Callahan
& Sons flour mills, at Louisville, KY,
was burned. Loss, $4,000.
The will of James Henry Smith
gives 100000 of $25, 100000 to
his widow, makes two nephews the
principal benefciaries, f. and gives
sums ranging from $4,000 to $780,
900 to sisters, nephews, n1eces and
cousins.
Engineer James Claw, or the
Northern Pacific's North Coast Limit
ed, was shot and killed while at
tempting to put full speed on his
train while covered with the revol-
vers of highwaymen.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific, the Ontario and Western, the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul and
the Western Transit Company were
indicted in New York, charged with
rebating.
The New York Association of Life
Insurance Presidents intimate that
insurance companies will withdraw
from Texas owing to recent legisla-
ton requiring investments in Texas
securities.
Harold S. Jones, of Philadelphia,
aged 16 years, who attempted to
hold up two street car conductors
and was being pursued by the police,
shot and killed himself.
The Portsmouth IN. H.) navy yard
dry dock has been sold as junk and
will be towed to Boston.
Mrs. William Thaw has mortgaged
Lyndhurst, her Pittsburg home, for
100000.