The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-15
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic:

Speaker Cannon, in an address to
the Porto Ricans at San Juan, de-
clared it was the universal desire OF
the people of the United States that
4he Porto Ricans might demonstrate
their capacity for government
Mrs. Eddy's second cousin and her
adopted son joined in the proceedings
to have her declared incompetent to
manage her affairs.
Shots were fred into the store of
Hargis Brothers, in which Jim Jet.
brother of Curtis Jet. the fuedist
was sleeping.
Frank Rockefeller, brother of John
D. Rockefeller, has sued to recover
$265,O00 invested in a lead mine.
An investigation was begun into
the charges Of graft in the building
of the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa.
Admiral Beresford says the peo-
pie, and not potentates or parliament
declare war nowadays.
Vice President Fairbanks states the
country will restrain dishonest COM
binations of capital.
twenty-five Greeks were drowned
by the capsizing OF boat in the
Sacramento River
A move is on foot in New York
to abolish the death penalty.
Maurice G. Mengis, who sued Gen.
Louis Fitzgerald for million dol
lars for information regarding the
Western Maryland Railroad, and
who twice got verdict in his favor,
has compromised the case for $780,
900 in cash.
Repulsed by Mrs. Florence Pat
terson, with whom he was infatuated,
Henry de Burt, shot and fatally
wounded himself on the woman's
doorstep in Cleveland.
Governor Higgins, of Connecticut,
has denounced the presence of Gen.
Charles R. Boynton, legislative
agent, at the sta cehouse as a scandal
and pest.
A hundred and fifty guests in the
Standard Hotel, San Francisco, were
forced to flee in their nightclothes
from flames that destroyed the hotel.
The trial of Edward A. Smith and
Sumner Sargent, Charlotte, n. c.,
millmen, charged with violation of
the immigration laws, was abruptly
ended by Judge Boyd instructing the
jury to find in favor of the defend
ants. The action was taken on mo-
ton of counsel for the government.
George w. Perkins, former first
vice president of the New York Life
Insurance Company, has sent to the
New York Life his personal check for
$54,o19.19 to reimburse it for the
Republican campaign contribution
made in 1904.
Thomas Wrigley was locked up in
Jail in Kingston, N. Y, charged with
the murder of his wife, whose dead
body was found in her home at MARI
borough.
The United States Circuit Court,
sitting in St. Louis, decided that
Standard Oil officials outside of that
jurisdiction can be brought there for
trial.
The consolidation of the Bromp-
ton Pulp and Paper Company and
the Royal Paper Company has been
effected, the deal involving $4,000
600.
About 400 members of iron ship
builders local union went on strike
at the yards of the American Ship
building Company.
The Minnesota Senate passed bill
appropriating $4,000 to purchase a
silver service for the battleship Mimi
esota
The two-cent railroad rate law
went into effect in Nebraska and
the companies put an end to all re-
duced rates.
The safe in the Farmers Savings
Bank, at Masonville, Ia, was blown
open and robbers took $4,000.
A tremendous demand for Reading
on the New York Stock Exchange
sent the stock jumping. There was
a rumor that Hartman was after the
road, which Hartman denied. 9th
erwise the stock market was demon
allied.
The attorneys for the Standard Oil
Company, now on trial in the federal
court at Chicago for alleged VIOLA
lions of the Elkins act, are making
strong fight against the indictments
proper.
Mrs. William K. Thaw took the
stand and told of her sons love for
Evelyn Nesbit. Justice Fitzgerald
ruled that the question of lunacy
commission cannot come before the
court.
The Western Pacific Railroad, the
western end of Gould's Wabash sys-
tenn, is spending a million month
in improvements.
Foreign.
The Woman's Enfranchisement Bill
was practically killed in the British