The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-08-23
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at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York,
| to form a general federation of or
CARNATIONS of employers. The move
ment is the outgrowth of resolu-
ton adopted by the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers at its annu-
al meeting In May.
The famous Groton School, of Bos-
| ton, whose pupils were registered for
admission at birth, has adopted in
part competitive examinations for
candidates for admission.
The International Association OF
Sunday Rest Associations has sent a
letter to President Roosevelt oppos-
ing the opening Of the jamestown
Exposition on Sunday.
The old Keller tavern, at Ridge
field, Ct, in which Jerome Bonaparte
and Elizabeth Patterson are said to
have spent their honeymoon, has
changed hands.
Ruth A. Patterson, New York
child, died without having had medi-
cal attention, her parents believing
in the efficacy of prayer.
Jarvis and John Wood, brothers,
who were separated for 40 years
following a quarrel over woman,
we're reunited.
DR.. James w. Sweet, known as the
natural bone setter" and who reset
35, 900 limbs. is dead.
officials of the telegraph companies
claim that the general strike order
did not affect them. The men claim
that 5000 telegraphers walked out.
The Western Union and Postal OIL
Gals say they are handling Is per
cent. of their normal business.
]. Warner Hastings, aged SIS, since
1854 an official of the United States
subtreasury in Boston, was arrested
on a charge of abstracting three
$1,000 bills from a package contain
ing $1O5,000.
Criminal and civil prosecutions are
to be brought against Is men &C.
cused of graft in the Harrisburg cap.
ital scandal by the final report Oh
the investigating commission.
| Five persons were killed and 10 IN
iured in the collapse of two-story
frame building at Fray ana chase
Streets, Chicago, ILL.,, during ter
rife windstorm. -,
| E. H. Hartman. declares ne Will
reveal the inside facts of the Chi
cago and Alton deal to the inter-
state Commerce Commission.
William Waldorf Aston has inner
tied $3,OO0,000 and Newport villa
through the death of Miss Zela
| Gibbes, an aunt.
| "A bursted water main shot
stream of water so feet high in the
streets of Chicago and caused panic
in the Stockholm Hotel.
! Tax Assessor Henry Alexander, of
Absecom, N. j., has imposed a tax
Of 500 on wealthy bachelors in the
community.
-Four loaded meat cars fell from
the steel arch bridge over the Niagara
River Gorge in the Whirlpool Rapids.
| Experts for the Southern Railway
saw that the two-cent rate law or
North Carolina is confiscatory.
Forest fires near Hyannis, Mass,
have burned over a stretch OF nine
miles.
A work train on the Long Island
Railroad backed into croWoeu
street car at crossing on Coney
Island Avenue, Brooklyn, hurting the
trolley from it's tracks and causing
the death of passengers and the IN
jury of 16 others.
The Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road has secured a federal inJunc-
ton restraining the State of Ala
bama from enforcing the Two-and-
a-half-cent Rate Law.
Winfield Marson, aged 16 years,
formerly a clerk in the Chicopee
National Bank, of Springfield, Mass,
was captured with $4,000 in notes
in a dress-suit case.
While disturbed by a dream, Rose
Moses, aged six years, fell out OF
a third-story window in Philadelphia,
breaking nearly every bone in her
body.
Samuel v. Hulse, a lawyer, of
Newark, N. j., is held under $1,000
bail to answer charge OF embezzl-
ing 500 from the Peddie Institute.
The government will dispatch the
cruiser Buffalo to the Pribyloff Is
lands as the result of the discovery
of plot to raid the seal rookeries.
Over half a hundred hotels and
summer cottages in Old Orchard,
Me-, were destroyed by fire.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will
equip its yard locomotives with fire.
fighting pumps.
Federal Judge Pritchard has en-
joined B. c. Beckwith from bring
ing suit against the North Carolina
Railroad Company to recover penal
ties for failure to put into effect the
IN cent fare law.
Foreign.
United States Ambassador Reid
unveiled the memorial erected in the
Salisbury Cathedral to the American