The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-24
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK


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vision of the tariff, to what extent,
and in what manner, is expected to
be announced by the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers, which con-
vened at the WadorfAstoria; New
York.
George R. Scrugham. manager of
the International Policyholders' Com
mittee will have to stand trial for
alleged conspiracy in connection with
the recent election of the New York
Life Insurance Company.
The negroes of Seattle, Wash, met
and passed resolutions asking the col
ored delegates to the Christian En-
deayor Convention to remain away
from the city, owing to hotels refus-
ing Accommodations.
J. N. Castleberry, of Tennessee,
finding that a woman he had ex-
pected to marry had wed another,
shot himself in the doorway of the
brides home.
Abe Hummel, convicted of con-
spiracy in the Dodge Morse divorce
case, began years sentence in
Blackwells Island Penitentiary.
Justice Bowling, in the Supreme
Court of New York, granted an inter-
locutory decree of divorce to Mary
Adelaide Miner from Wilson Miner.
The report of the referee is sealed
and the decree simply states that it
is granted by reason of the defend
ants adultery. BY the terms of the
decree Mrs. Miner is permitted to
resume her former name of Mary
Adelaide Yerkes.
Mrs. May De Rosa, accused by the
police of being confederate OF
Dutch" Oscar Miller in the robbery
of the home of Harry Siegel of $780,
900 worth of goods, was arrested
while visiting the Tombs in New
York
Benjamin Vincent, private de-
tective of New York, who shot and
killed bystander while being pur-
sued by angry longshoremen,, was
saved from the mob by+a policeman.
P. S. Grosscup, of counsel for the
Northern Pacific. says Roosevelt is
considering the advocacy of con-
gressional commission to value the
railroads.
Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco,
issued statement saying that he
had not resigned and had no inten-
ton of doing So.
The skeleton of man and box
containing $117,310 were found in
the ruins of an ODD inn in Cleve-
land.
Anisia Louise de Massey, popularity
known as the Baroness de Massey, re-
Gently convicted of having shot and
killed Gustav Simon, a Broadway
shirt manufacturer, was sentenced TO
seven years and five months in the
State Prison for Women, at Auburn.
She will take an appeal.
President Finley, of the Southern
Railway, and President Whitman, of
the National Wool Manufacturers
Association, made addresses at the
closing session of the American Cot
ton Manufacturers Association. S.
B. Tanner, of Henrietta, N. c., was
elected president.
John l.. Boodley was crushed to
death and four persons, including
two ladies, were injured by Dig
touring car turning completely over
while going at terrific speed.
Frank A Bretherton, of Des
Moines, committed suicide in the
Pennsylvania Railroad Station in
Philadelphia.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railroad pleaded guilty to
granting rebates and paid a fine or
$4,000.
The submarine boat Octopus used
but one forty-fifth of it's air supply
in a 24-hour stay under water.
Rev. John L. Clark, who married
the Coreys, is reported to have sent
in his resignation,
Governor Stokes signed the bill
creating a state railroad commission
in New Jersey.
H. Clay Pierce, president of the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company, must re-
turn to Texas to answer to. the
charge of perjury. Federal Judge
Elmer B. Adams, of St. Louis, refus-
| ed writ of habeas corpus and Or
dered the prisoner remanded to the
custody of the police. He will be
turned over to Sheriff Mathews at
once and taken back to Texas.
C. B. Richardson, a broker, and
A. B. McGraw, business associate,
of Pittsburg, have been arrested on
| charge of conspiracy to bride in
connection with the Tube Railroad
scandal.
The scarcity of cotton mill labor
was emphasized h. two speakers
who addressed tho annual meeting
| of the Cotton Manufacturers Asso-
citation in Philadelphia.
The inability to roll cigarette
| led to the discovery that Miss Mile
| Block was travelling through Missouri