The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-09-20
The Neos
Domestic

Attorney General Todd announc-
ed that he is not yet ready to begin
criminal proceedings against the per-
sons and firms mentioned in the re-
port of the Pennsylvania State CAPT.
toll investigation commission.
Adolph Segal, William F. North
and M. s. Collingwood were indicted
on charges of ENLIGHTENMENT and con-
spiracy growing out of the collapse
of the Real Estate Trust Company of
Philadelphia.
After serving 10 years in San
Quentin Penitentiary, Cal, it has
been found that William Evans is
innocent of charge of burglary, for
which he was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
Peter Burger, II years old, of
Middle Village, in the borough Of
Queens, was killed by his chum, Her
man Wehle, in struggle with
small rife.
The G. M. Schofield Company, gov
eminent contractors, was fined ST.
600 and costs on charges of violating
the Eight Hour Law.
Robert Hartzell was sentenced to
20 years in the penitentiary at Phil
adelphia after pleading guilty to %
charges of arson.
Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
explained his attack on the Sherman
Antitrust Law.
Rev. Ludwig Syczygiel pleaded not
guilty to the charge Of numbering
Andrew and Steven Starzyniski in
Pittsburg.
Mrs. Cassie M. Chadwick suffered
a nervous collapse in the Columbus
CO., Penitentiary which left her
blind.
Judge Terry M Richardson was
found dead in a hotel at Luverne,
Ala, having been overcome by chloro-
form
Randolph Gugenheimer, of the law
firm of Guggenheimer, Untermeyer &
Marshall, died of apoplexy at his
GUNNER home, in West End, Long
Branch, N. ].
Measures to prevent repetition
of the Western car famine of last
winter are being discussed by the
car service committee of the Ameri-
can Railroad Association.
The suit of C. M. Raymond against
the Standard Oil Company for $780,
VUV,VVU was COAtlAuSu luOSl4leOiS
because of the illness of Henry H.
Rogers.
Maryland Day attracted $4,000
persons to the jamestown Exposition,
the record attendance, excepting the
day President Roosevelt was at
jamestown.
The commanders of the Anglo
American Polar Expedition report
that the soundings they made dis
closed no new continent north of
Alaska.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is ex-
pected to adopt the new two-cent
rate pending the final decision OF
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Announcement is made that the
Amalgamated Copper Company will
soon shut down its mines in about
Butte, Mont.
Edward w. Vanderbilt is not cap
able Of managing his affairs, accord
ing to the verdict Of the jury.
The new Cunard Liner Lusitania
has smashed the worlds record by
steaming $40 miles in day.
Four men were injured by an ex-
plosion on the houseboat Mary
Catherine, near Chicago.
william Brown, SIOWdWdy, Who
attempted to escape from the steam
er Annette while at Kingston, ia
maica, was devoured by sharks.
Police reserves were called out to
dispense a crowd that fought to get
into the already filed Aston Theater,
New York.
Comptroller Metz has rejected the
bid of Abraham White for from 49,
100000 to $17,000,000 Of New York
City bonds.
A shortage of 100000 has been
discovered in the Office of the state
tax commissioner at New Orleans,
La
Ex-Judge E. H. Gary says the time
has passed when the great corpora
tions can ignore the public.
Prof. M. H. Seville has discovered
the ruins of city built in South
America 500 years ago.
Lee Lesdy, proprietor of an Okla
homa hotel, who killed his wife,
was slain by posse.
There is talk of a coal shortage
owing to the scarcity of labor.