The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-09-27
The Neus
Domestic

According to the Chicago Tribune,
members of the Chicago branch OF
the independence League will go to
New York, where they hope to nom
mate William Randolph Hearst as
the Democratic candidate for presl-
dent
Capt. Cassius Marshall Sanford,
referred to in the affidavit of Mrs.
Lulu Williams Clark as having been
present at the murder of Governor
Goebel, of Kentucky, denies all OF
Mrs. Clark's statements.
Mrs. Annie Cassidy, of Camden, N.
J., committed suicide by jumping
overheard from the steamer Western
land as it was coming up the Della
ware River.
In the hearing of the govern
ment's case against the Standard Oil
Company in New York, Treasurer
Tilford testified that John D. Rookie
Teller owned more than one-fourth
of the stock of the company.
Mysterious cases of poisoning nave
caused scare among residents OF
section of Allegheny City, Pa. Four
members of one family were made
violently ILL.,
Three young daughters of Samuel
Cook were drowned by cloudburst
which filled a gulch in which they
had taken refuge near Durango, Col.
A crowded trolley car on the Lake
Shore Line was wrecked near Toledo,
O. Two persons were killed and
number seriously injured.
Edward Richards, an aeronaut, was
killed while making descent in
parachute at the fair grounds at
Troy, o.
Louis Cote shot Mrs. Nellie Clark
in Franklin, N. H., because she or
dered him to leave her boarding
house.
The body of the late President Nc
Kinley was transferred from the
cemetery to the mausoleum in Can
ton, o.
The annual report of the Phila-
delphia Rapid Transit Company,
which controls all the street car lines
of that city, shows deficit, although
the gross earnings were the largest
in the company's history.
At the Standard Oil hearing it was
brought out that control Of the Wat
ers-Pierce Oil Company was held
three years by son-in-law of John
D. Archbold for the Standard.
The chief address at the sessions
of the National Prison Congress was
the address of Attorney General
Bonaparte on Punishment and Par
DON"
Richard Spriggs, who is wanted in
Detroit, Mich, to answer to a charge
of forgery, was brought to New York
a prisoner on the steamer Oceanic.
At the annual meeting of the AS
ISOLATED Press the course of the Of
ficers in dealing with the telegraphers'
strike was unanimously approved.
Mrs. Alfred Adler, of New York,
had the unusual experience of being
a nurse, bride and widow all within
q few hours.
Prominent Methodists held con-
ference at Knoxville, Tenn, for the
purpose of promoting mission work.
The structural ironworkers decided
to continue their contest with the
National Erectors' Association.
True bills have been reported
against every railroad in Mississippi
for issuing passes contrary to law.
The enrolment of schoolchlldren
in New York City is 1887, an in
crease of 10000 over last year.
There is likelihood of the renewal
of the strike of the machinists on
the Grand Trunk Railway.
Marine D. Tackett, former depart
ment commander of the Indiana G. A.
R., is dead.
Thirty-one cases of bubonic plague
and 10 deaths is the record in San
Francisco to date.
Miss Jane Adams says charity
patients are neglected in American
hospitals.
Martin Seturnis killed his wife in
Chicago and then committed suicide.
The steamer City of Glasgow
sprang a leak and sank at Superior,
Wis.