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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.
River And Harbor BiIl.


Representative MorreH (Rep., PAD
introduced in the House resolution
providing for annual river and har-
Dor appropriation bills, which shall
be on the same scale as those of the
Army and Navy and other large APP
preparations, being necessary to en-
able the United States to keep pace
with the other nations of the world"
The River and Harbor Bill proba-
bly, will be reported to the House
this week. Chairman Burton, of the
House Rivers and Harbors Commit
tee, originally planned to lay the bill
before the House on January IA, and
it has not been definitely announced
that the bill will not be reported on
that day, but Mr.. Burton is inclined
to grant few days of grace to the
Illinois members, who are anxious to
have the presentation of the bill de-
layed until Representative Lorimer,
OF Illinois, who is i'll, can return and
participate in the committees dis
cussions of the projects for which ap-
preparations are to be made. Mr..
Burton and his associates hold firmly
to their decision not to have any
hearings before the entire commit
tee because of the shortness of the
session.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
WOMAN SHOT BY HUSBAND.
Savannah Fashionable Leader Dan
gerously Wounded.

gerOuSly wounded.
Savannah, Ga. Especially Mrs. B.
Leslie Roturean, a society woman,
is at a hospital suffering from a
bullet wound in her side which the
doctors think will prove fatal, and
her husband is being held without
bail to await the result of her in
juries. Both husband and wife
claimed at first that the wound was
accidental, but when Mrs. Roturean
was told that her life was in danger
she confessed that she was shot dur
ing a quarrel with her husband and
while both were struggling for pos
session of the pistol.
Mrs. Roturean said she chided her
husband for staying out late. He
retorted bitterly, and then she struck
him several blows with a riding
whip.
Roturean, according to his wife,
snatched the whip and dashed her
severely across her bosom and shoul-
ders. She then got a pistol and tried
to shoot her l~sband, but he seized
her and struggled to take the pistol.
Just as he got the pistol away from
her it was discharged and she fell.
She will not say, however, that her
husband deliberately shot her.
The Rotureans are connected with
Savannah's old families and have
been prominent socially. Mrs. Ro-
turean is one of the handsomest
women in Savannah.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18

Washington Especially President
Roosevelt Monday sent to Congress
special message regarding the
Brownsville incident which gives the
additional evidence collected by AS
sistant Attorney General Purdy and
Major Blocksom, who were sent to
Texas by the President to investigate
the affair The President submitted
with his message various exhibits,
including maps of Brownsville and
Fort Brown, a bandoleer, 33 empty
shells, seven ball cartridges, picked
up in the streets a few hours after
the shooting; three steel jacketed
bullets and some scraps of the cas-
ings of other bullets picked out of
the houses into which they had been
fred
The President declares that the
evidence is positive that the out
RACES of August 10 were committed
by some of the colored troops that
have been dismissed and that some
or all the members of the
three companies of the Twenty-fifth
Infantry had knowledge of the deed
and have shielded the guilty ones.
The negro troops are referred to by
the President in his message as mid
night assassins" and he declared
that very few, If any, of the soldiers
dismissed without honor" could
have been ignorant of what occur
red. That part of the order which
bars the soldiers from all civil en-
ployment under the government, is
revoked by the President This
clause, the President says, was lack
ing in validity. The discharged
troops, however, will be forever
barred from re-enlisting in the Army
or Navy and as to this the President
says that "there is no doubt of my
constitutional and legal power"
Secretary Taft's report, giving the
sworn testimony of witnesses, is
transmitted with the message. The
testimony of IA eyewitnesses is given
and the President declares that the
evidence is conclusive that the wea-
pons used were Springfield rifles now
used by United States troops, includ-
ing the negro troops who were in the
garrison at Brownsville.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
HUNDREDS ARE LOST
IN A TIDAL WAVE
A Terrible Disaster in Dutch East
Indies.
THE ISLANDS SWEPT BY the SEA
Three Hundred People Perish on the
Island of Tana and Forty More Are
Swept to Their Death on Simalu
The Disaster Supposed to Have Fol-
lowed a Volcanic Disturbance.

The Hague (By Cable) A tidal
wave has devastated some of the
Dutch East India Islands south of
Achin. The loss is very great. Ac-
cording to a brief official dispatch
300 persons persisted on the Island
of Tana, while 40 are known to have
been drowned at the Island of Sima-
1u.
The Dutch East Indies, name
given to the Dutch possessions in the
Malay archipelago, has an area OF
100000 square miles and popula-
ton of about 100000 scattered
over, the numerous islands and parts
of islands. Many of the smaller
islands of the group are volcanic In
their nature and tidal waves follow
ing eruptions have frequently caused
large loss of life. A tidal wave swept
about 10000 to death from a group
of the smallest of the islands in 1883.
This disaster, like almost all others
there, followed volcanic disturbances.
1t is probable that the disaster
was due to the same cause. Vol
canic disturbances are reported from
various parts of the world. Mount
Mauna Loa in Hawaii is in eruption,
Vesuvius has recently been active,
and Mount Aetna has been belching
forth smoke. These in a great meas
ure may account for the seismic dis
turbances that were reported from
Europe.
Many of the most fatal tidal waves
of which there is record have been
accompanied by earthquakes, adding
to their horrors, but making it i'm
possible to say whether the earth
quake or the inundation has been
the more fatal and destructive. The
great earthquake at Lisbon in 1855
was accompanied by tidal wave
which, rolling up the Tagus River
from the ocean, submerged all the
lower parts of the city and Destroy
ed thousands of lives which might
possibly have escaped the earthquake
shocks. When the earthquake came
to Caracas in 1912 there was tidal
wave at Laguayra; the entreport of
Caracas, which destroyed many lives.
In 1895 a series of tidal waves,
accompanied by or alternating with
earthquake shocks, visited some of
the most populous islands of Japan.
The tidal waves reached from ID
to 20 miles inland, being of such
height, force and volume 10 miles
from the ocean, particularly when
restricted to narrow valleys, as to be
capable of destroying much life. The
number of human lives lost at that
time has never been stated in any
English newspaper, but that it ran
far into the thousands there is no
room to doubt. Ten thousand is more
apt to be an under than an over es-
innate, such were the ravages of the
combined seismic and cataclysmic
terrors visited upon that part of the
world during nearly week of days
and nights of horror, which, for
tunately, come but seldom in the
experience of the race.
China has been great sufferer
from tidal waves; many thousands
of her population have gone to death
in this way.
The last great tidal wave in this
country was that along the Texas
coast in 1900, when the city of Gal
weston was destroyed and hundreds
of persons persisted.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18

1t is announced at the Department
of Justice that the decision of the
government to try by court-martial
Corporal Knowles, who shot and SER
iously wounded Captain Macklin, of
the Twenty-fifth Infantry, at Ell Re-
no, Okla, was occasioned by the dis
covery of strange omission in the
federal laws. There is no provision
for trial in the federal courts for
assault with a deadly weapon, al
though there is law covering MUIR
der, when the offense is committed
within the federal jurisdiction. There
is law providing that the commits
sion of an offense which is not COW
cred by the federal statutes shall be
punishable under the laws of the
state within which the federal juris-
diction is located. In this case the
jurisdiction was within a territory,
not a state Therefore, in order to
bring Corporal Knowles to justice,
it was found necessary to try him
under military laws.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
Congress And The Departments.

BY a vote sof 8 to Z the House
Committee on the Judiciary defeated
a proposition to consider the Hep
burn-Dolliver bill, which makes
liquors entering a temperance State
through the medium of interstate
traffic subject to the laws of the
State.
The House Committee on Indus
trial Arts and Expeditions favorably
reported joint resolution directing
the President to appoint special
commissioner to invite the British
Government to participate in the
jamestown Exposition.
The State Department received a
dispatch from Shanghai. stating that
the famine relief committee has thus
far received 100000 Mexican dol
lars for the sufferers.
Senator Hopkins addressed the
Senate in defense of the right of
Reed Smooth to retain his seat as
member from Utah.
Champ Clark, of Missouri, is be-
ing urged for leader of the House,
to succeed John Sharp Williams.
The House was the scene of a
threatened personal encounter be-
tween Representative Gaines, of Ten
nessee, and Representative Mahon,
of Pennsylvania, growing out of Mr..
Gaines bill to dock" members for
chronic absenteeism.
The Secretary of War has ordered
the court-martial of Corporal
KAowles, Twenty-fifth Infantry,
charged with having shot Captain
Macklin, commander of Company A.
The bill making appropriations for
the legislative, executive and judicial
expenses of the government was re-
ported to the Senate.
The Committee on Revision of the
Laws reported a joint bill codifying
the criminal law of the United States.
The Senate passed the bill limit
ing the hours of railway employees
to 16 hours of service followed by
10 hours of rest.
Representative Pcarre, of Mary
land, has introduced joint resolu-
ton providing for the election of
United States Senators by direct
vote of the people.
Testimony detrimental to Operator
Dutrow, who was on duty at Silver
Springs on the night of the Terra
Gotta wreck, was given on the stand
at the inquest by Operator Moore,
of Kensington. He declared that
Dutrow was incompetent and in
efficient Dutrow is kept under sur
velliance by Central Officer detec-
tives.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
BLOWN TO DEATH IN NINE.
Two Hundred Men Flee From An
Explosion.

Clinton, Ind. (SpeciaD = Seven
dead and three injured miners, vic
Tins of an explosion, we're taken
from Mine No. here. The search
for dead is continuing, but it is be-
lieved that all have been taken out
Two hundred miners had descend
ed to the mine for work, and shortly
afterward there was an explosion,
which shook the interior of the mine,
and was followed by binding clouds
of smoke. There was rush for the
bottom of the shaft, and as rapidly
as possible the miners were hoisted
to the surface. A rescuing party to
bring out the dead and injured was
organized and an effort made to as
certain the cause.
1t is believed miner in entry No.
10 set fire to key of powder by a
spark from his lighted lamp and the
explosion ignited gas in the mine.
For several hours 1t was impossible
to enter the mine ON account of the
heat. The trapdoors had been blown
down and air could not circulate in
the entries. Temporary doors were
arranged and the mine was cleared
Of smoke, allowing men to enter.
The bodies of the dead men were
found badly burned and disfigurei.
In several cases Identification was
difficult. Four of the dead men had
families. Over 1000 people gath
cred at the mine and offered assist
ance. The interior of the mine is
wrecked.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
PRESIDENT STANDS BY
HIS DISMISSAL ORDER
His Decision Not Renewable BY
Congress.
SECT. TAFT's THOROUGH REPORT.
The President Says the Evidence
Shows Conclusively That the Colored
Soldiers Had Shot Up the Town
and That Those Not Participating
Had Shielded Those Who Did.
THE PRESIDENTS POSITION

The evidence shows beyond
doubt that the rioting was done
by 10 or Is negro soldiers and
that all, or most of those dismiss
ed shielded the guilty ones.
The suggestion that the shoot
ing was done by citizens OF
Brownsville with the purpose OF
discrediting the negro troops Is
on it's face so ludicrously impossi-
BILE that it is difficult to treat it
as honestly made.
That part of the order barring
the negroes from civil employ
ment under the government is in
valid and has, therefore, been re-
voked.
AS to the rest of the order,
there is no doubt of its constitu-
tienal legality. It is entirely
within the Presidents discretion
and cannot be reviewed or revers-
ed save by another executive Or
der.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
Twenty surned To Death.

Strassburg (By Cable).-Twenty
persons persisted in a fire which de-
stroyed the bookbinery of Hubert
& Co.. an English firm, at Geispol-
sheim, near this city. A vat of boil
ing celluloid exploded and the fam
ing liquid caused such instantaneous
ignition of everything with which it
came in contact that all the exits
were cut off in very short time.
Some of those who escaped from the
burning rooms we're badly scalded.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
Honor For Brander Matthews.

New York Especially 1t was an
nounced at Columbia University that
President Roosevelt had received a
letter from the French ambassador
at Washington stating that the deco
ration of the. Legion of Honor had
been conferred upon Prof. Brander
Matthews. of Columbia University,
in recognition OF his services to lit
erature in connection with the study
of the French drama.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
Foreign.

Charges that great quantities OF
lumber produced in British Columbia
has been diverted from the Canadian
markets to San Francisco to be ship
ped to Panama are to be investigated.
A plenary council of the French
bishops to discuss the situation of
the Catholic Church in France has
been summoned to meet January Is
in Paris.
Seven ringleaders of the Strikers
in the Orizaba District, Mex, were
shot to death by soldiers in the pres
ence of thousands of workmen.
Walter Wellman exhibited to a
number of aeronauts in Paris his en-
larged balloon, in which he hopes
to reach the North Pole.
A crisis in the Spanish Ministry
is impending, the issue being the pro-
posed Anticlerical Association Law.
The Crown Prince Of Portugal was
injured IN riding accident in Lis
bon.
Great Britain and Russia are
watching Germany's attitude toward
Persia. Any attempt of Germany
to secure political or commercial as
cendancy would unite England and
Russia in defense.
Russia's financial budget for 1907
contains $250,000,00O for extraordi-
nary expenditures, of which $780,
100000 is for the Ministry of War.
A mysterious explosion of a bomb
occurred at VASTLY Island, section
of st. Petersburg, in which many
English families reside.
A Philippine Japanese Association
has been formed to cultivate COM
mercial relations between Japan and
the Philippine Islands.
A tidal wave devastated several
of the Dutch East India Islands,
south of Achin, and several hundred
lives are reported lost.
General Rennenkampf, command
er of the Third Siberian Corps, has
been appointed commander of the
Third Russian Army Corps.
The Japanese government decided
that, on account of anti-Japanese ag-
| itation on the Pacific Coast, the
training squadron will not go farther
than Honolulu.
The separation of church and
state in France has caused a number
of suits for recovery of money be-
queathed as endowments for masses
| for the dead.
Colonial Director Dernberg issued
statement in defense of Germany
colonial policy.
| Henri Brisson, former premier OF
France. was reelected president OF
the Chamber of Deputies.
Negotiations are in progress for
| consolidating several coal companies
in Nova Scotia.
Colonel Andrieff, chief of police OF
Lodz, Poland, was shot and killed
in that city.
| Earthquake shocks were felt in
portions of Norway, Sweden and
Russia.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
More Pay For TinwOrkers.

Pittsburg, Pa. Especially The tin
workers employed by the American
Sheet and Tin Plate Company, sub
siciary concern of the United States
Steel Corporation. have been given
a 2 per cent. advance in wages, eff
fectiye at once. The increase came
as a result of an examination of the
books OF the company by representa-
tives Of the Amalgamated Associa-
ftion OF Iron, Steel and Tinworkers.
About 5000 men are affected.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
Farmer Boy Wcds Girl OF Wealth.

Syracuse, N. Y. Especially. = The
marriage few days ago of Miss
Edith M. Wilbur, of Oneonta, to a
poor farmer boy, Herbert Cole, who
acted as her chauffeur through Eu-
rope last summer, is the elimination
of a pretty romance. Miss WILDER
in April, 1905, fell heir to an estate
worth several hundred thousands
dollars, including 1000 acres of
farmland near Oneonta. Last sum-
men she bought a big touring car
in Syracuse and engaged young Cole
to take herself and mother through
Europe. Cupid became busy and
upon their return the girl took fire.
quent automobile trips so as to be
near Cole.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
Used Insulting Language.

Information was received by the
Navy Department of the court-mar-
tial in the Philippines of Passed As
sistant Paymaster Jere Maupin, U.
S. A. For using what the specifi-
cations allege to have been insulting
and vile language toward Capt. Hen
ry S. Hathaway, of the Army, in the
presence of ladies, the court found
him guilty of conduct unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman" He
was sentenced to lose 10 numbers in
his grade and to be reprimanded.
Reviewing this sentence, Rear Ad-
miral Brownson, commander of the
fleet, said: 1t is regretted that a
majority of the court, consisting of
officers of standing in the service,
should have taken so light view of
the gravity of the offense."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
Where Mckinley Died.

Buffalo. N. Y. Especially The
former residence of John G. Mill
burn, on Delaware Avenue. to which
the late President Mckinley was
taken after he was shot at the Pan
American Exposition, and where he
died, was badly damaged by fire this
morning.
The fire practically consumed
everything within the four walls.
The loss is estimated at S25. 900. The,
property has been sold recently by
Mr. Millburn to Philip NJ. Shannan-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
THE NEWS OF THE Week
Domestic


After mourning each other as dead
for more than IA years, Rev. John
A. Gull, formerly assistant pastor of
st. Francis de Sales Church, of Oak
land, Cal, and his wife were re-
united in that city.
Michael O'Neil, a Central New
England Railroad conductor, though
MORALLY injured in a wreck near
Winsted, Ct, dragged himself a mile
and sent message which saved a
passenger train.
Judge English met by chance in
Sheridan, Wyo., the wife from whom
he had been divorced 80 years ago,
made love to her and again won her.
The Clyde Line freight steamer
Onondaga, from Boston for Charles
ton, is ashore upon Orlans Beach,
Massachusetts, coast.
A general corporation hunt has
been instituted by the legislature of
Nebraska, Kansas and South Dakota.
The police of New York have been
asked to look out for Frank s. Nor
ton, a missing Boston violinist.
Pennsylvania Railroad shares fell
off points on the announcement
of the plan to issue $200,000,000 of
new stock and bonds to complete
improvements.
Miss Sarah M. Harding, a wealthy
young woman of Brooklyn, wno did
not believe in medical science, re-
fused to call physician just before
she died.
A New York jury has awarded
$4,000 damages to Marion David
son, a child who lost limb by a
street car passing over it.
William Allen Smith, who sue
ceeds Russell A. Alger in the United
States Senate, once sold popcorn for
a living.
The Vermont and Southern cotton
mills, two large North Carolina
plants, are reported in financial diff
culties.
A coal train of 4S cars ran away
on steep incline near Hazleton, Pa.
Electric light wires caused mil
lion-dollar blaze in Lancaster, Pa.
Charles McGill, manager of the
wrecked Ontario Bank of Toronto,
was arrested on the charge of steal
ing $4,000 from the banks funds.
The counsel for Harry K. Thaw
may ask that the case be held
outside New York City, alleging that
fair trial cannot be had in the
metropolis.
William E. Church was hanged in
Warrenton, Miss, for the murder of
his foster parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. w. Yeater, on August 80, 1908.
The Licorice Paste Trust has been
found guilty of Illegal combination
and monopoly, but the individual
defendants have been acquitted.
Heavy rains will cause a loss of
thousands of dollars to mine owners
in the Ohio Valley, and over 1000
miners are idle as result
The Boston and Maine Railroad
will raise 100000 for improve
ments by issuing to syndicate five
per cent. one-year notes.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany proposes to issue $10O.O00,000
additional capital stock and $780,
900, 900 in bonds.
John S. Harris, former cashier OF
the bank of Boss, Johnston & Co., at
Ashland, Mo-, committed suicide.
Emanuel Lehman, senior member
of the firm of Lehman Bros, cotton
brokers, of New York, died there.
The members of the Plumbers
Trust in Ashtabula, o., were indicted
nv the grand iury
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
A Isliputian Killed.

Atlantic City, N. ]. (Special) -
Richard Donan, a midget well known
in theatrical circles was asphyxiated
by illuminating gas here. He was
found sitting in a chair beside a
heater from which the gas escaped.
DOMAIN was AZ years old and trifie
over three feet tall. He was one of
the original Liliputians and had trav-
eled all over the world
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
A. F. Slater Gets Place.

Arthur F. Slater of Walla Walla,
Wash, at present private secretary
to Secretary of the Treasury Shaw,
will be appointed Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury to succeed
Charles Hallam Keep, when the lat
ter retires on February 1, to be-
come Bank Commissioner of the
State of New York.
Mr.. Cortelyou, who takes the
Treasury portfolio on March 4, is
to fill the Office whenever he desires
to do so, and First Assistant Post
master General Hitchcock will later
on be made Assistant Secretary.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
Turks Destroy Bulgarian Band.

Saloniki (By Cable) At Tchair-
ly, near Monastir, Turkish troops de-
stroyed a Bulgarian band, consisting
of eight men, killing six of them and
capturing two, both of whom were
severely wounded. The Turks lost
two men killed and several wounded.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
Germany's Big Colony Bill.

Berlin (By Cable).-The Colonial
division of the foreign Office has pre-
pared a table showing that the ex-
penditure of Germany on her colo
MES in Africa and the South Seas
total $161, 100000. to which may
be added indirect expenditures, in
Guiding postal service and steam
ship subsidies, amounting to $780,
600.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
Suicide By His Wife's Comm.

Philadelphia Especially .-Alexan-
der johnson committed suicide here
while kneeling beside the coffin in
which his wife's body lay ready for
burial. johnson shot himself in the
head, and his body was found by
his three children.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-18
murder Over A Young Woman.

Lexington, Ky. Especially In
fight over a young woman to which
both had been paying attentions.
Cleveland Justice, is years old, shot
and killed his cousin, George Mullins