The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-02-01
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.


| Conferences were held at Chicago
between the managers of railroads
west, southwest and northwest of
Chicago and representatives of the
organizations of conductors and
trainmen regarding the demands of
the latter for an eight-hour day and
an increase of wages.
Lieutenant Drury and Private
Dowd, U. S. A., are on trial in Pitts
burg for murder, having shot young
William Crowley outside military
reservation for alleged larceny with
in an army post.
A jury is being impaneled to try
DR.. James w. Simpson, of Long Is
land, charged with shooting and kill
ing his wealthy father-ln-law, Bailey
Horner.
A man and woman, after kissing
and embracing, stood on a bridge
and awaited death under an electric
train near Camden, N. j.
Casper Kubiczal, of Jersey City,
committed suicide by placing his
head ON a railroad track in front of
an approaching train.
United States Senator Alger was
buried with military honors, the
Grand Army ritual being used at the
tomb.
Arguments on the demurrers filed
To- Ruef and Schmitz, indicted for
extortion, were begun in San Fran
cisco.
The Allis-C Chalmers Company was
fined $4,000 for importing four IRON
molders from Manchester, England.
Three firemen were buried under
falling walls and 16 injured in
blaze in Buffalo, N. Y.
Three men were killed by the ex-
plosion of ammonia in Armour &
Co.'S plant, Chicago.
James H. Beatty, United States
district judge of Idaho, has resigned.
Judge Holt in the United States
Circuit Court at New York. heard
arguments on the demurrer inter-
posed by the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railway Company to the
indictment returned against it al
leging violations of the Elkins act,
in the granting of rebates to the
American Sugar Company.
The smaller metal dealers of the
New England and Middle States have
organized and have called on Secre-
tary Bonaparte to bring suit to pre-
vent the formation of a combination
of the copper mining companies.
The next annual convention of the
National Educational Association
will be held in Los Angeles, Cal, the
first week in July.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, sis
ter of Henry Ward Beecher Stowe,
died at Hartford. ct.
1t is believed Mrs. Harry X. Thaw
will testify that Stanford White dis
played one of her photographs in
public to anger her husband. Three
additional jurors were selected.
A test vote taken in the South
Carolina Senate shows a majority
of that body against the State Dis
pensary Law.
The National Shoe Wholesale AS
ISOLATION held it's annual meeting in
Boston.
Harry Kendall Thaw was placed
on. trial Wednesday before Justice
Fitzgerald in the Criminal Branch
of the Supreme Court of New York
for the murder of Stanford White,
the architect, on the Madison Square
Garden roof on the night of June
rs last. Two jurors were selected
and II talesmen rejected.
BY order of the County Court of
St. Paul, Minnesota, the Great North
ern Railway was enjoined temper
arily, pending the courts decision,
from issuing its proposed 100000
900 worth of additional stock with
out first obtaining approval of the
state railway commission.
Fifteen minutes after he had reg
istered at the Grand Union Hotel,
New York, Lathrop Smith, of Kansas
City, Mo-, student at the Columbia
Law Schol, committed suicide by
shooting himself.
City Judge Everest, of Plattsburg,
n. Y, ruled that refusal to admit
soldier in uniform to a place of pub
lie amusement does not constitute
violation of the Civil Rights Act of
New York.
Governor Winthrop, OF Porto Rico,
had narrow escape in a railroad ac-
cident on the island,
John Gardner, a cod fisherman,
was drowned by the upsetting of
boat off Atlantic City.
Foreign.
King Alfonso called the Conserva-
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