The midland journal., 1907-11-01
NEWS
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The situation in Wall Street brigh-
tened, an encouraging feature being
the buying of American securities
abroad and the engagement in Lon
don and elsewhere by American
bankers of large amounts of gold.
The Interstate Commerce Comm1s-
sion is investigating a charge that
the Adams and the United States Ex-
press Companies buy and sell fruit in
opposition to fruit jobbers.
Following the suicide of Fred A.
Boron, SO years old, cashier and
treasurer of the Dollar Savings Bank,
of Akron, O., it was announced that
a shortage existed in his accounts.
DR.. Walter R. Gillette, former vice
president of the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, convicted of perjury,
was sentenced to six months in the
penitentiary.
Oliver G. Perry, train robber, in
jail in New York, has not willingly
partaken of solid food for four years,
wishing to starve himself to death.
Mrs. Barbara Rumstock, of Ch1ca-
go, was rendered unconscious by
jumping from a window to avoid
burglar in her home.
Rear Admiral G. M. Chester, u. 8.
N, says the airship is the antidote
for the submarine boat.
Michael B. Haggerty, a Montana
miner, has entered the law school OF
Yale University.
A number of striking telegraphers
in Western cities have returned to
work.
Grand Commander Noyes, of the
knights Templar. of Texas, is dead.
The report of the committee on
resolutions of the National Civic Fed
Grafton urges Congress to provide
commission which shall consider the
subject of business and industrial
combinations.
William J. Bryan declares that his
decision as to his candidacy for the
Democratic nomination for President
will not depend upon the choice OF
the Republicans.
A contract for 5000 tons of steel
rails is said to have been closed be-
tween the United States Steel Cor
poration and the Imperial Railway or
Japan.
The New Jersey Board of Pardons
commuted to life imprisonment the
death sentence of John e. Schuyler,
who was to have been hanged next
week.
Charged with having aided his wife
to commit suicide last June, James
Wardell was convicted of manslaugh-
ter in the first degree in New York.
Governor Stokes received the res1g-
nation of George A. Squire, of Eliza
beth, president of the New Jersey
Reformatory Commission.
M tonic for dis.
cussion at the Mohonk Conference.
A proposition for the development
of water power at a cost of 10000
600 at Milleroches, on the st. Law
renee, was laid before the Interna-
tional Waterways Commission for its
approval by the St. Lawrence Power
Company, of Canada, and the Long
Sault Development Company.
William Lepper, of Lorraine, Wyo.,
who had lost his property as the re-
suit of stock deal, shot Judge
Charles w. Brammell, his counsel,
and killed himself.
Four men were killed by the blow
ing up of a mixing mill of the At
lantic Dynamite Company's factory,
near Ashland, Wis.
Secretary Taft inspected the naval
station at Olongapo and the fortiti-
cations. He will not leave Manila
until November 10.
Various speakers before the Civic
Federations in Chicago declared that
federal control was the only remedy
for the trust evil.
The Mergenthal-Horton Basket
Machine Company, with a $75O,0O0
plant at Paducah, KY, is in financial
difficulties.
The Universalist General Conven-
tion opened in Philadelphia with
1000 Universalists present
Bids for the construction of the
proposed administration building of
the Carnegie Institution Of Washing
ton, to cost about 100000, we're re-
jected at meeting of the executive
committee of that institution. and
new bids will be sought from the
contractors. No reason was given
for rejecting the bids.