The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-25
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic


Justice Newburger has ruled that
William A. Brown, Jr., president or
the Washington Life Insurance Com
pany, charged with perjury and for
gerry, must stand trial.
Margharetta Carnevole, who pur-
sued for four months a man she &C
cuses of killing her sweetheart,
came across him accidently in New
York and had him arrested.
The jury in the conspiracy trial
of Cornelius p Shea, president of
the International Brotherhood of
Transfers, reported disagreement.
The jury was discharged.
President Charles w. Eliot, of
Harvard, delivered an address at
lacking belief in the fogs of religion,
declaring the scientific man is to
rule.
William G. Ashwell, who was as
ISOLATED with Cecil Rhodes In the
Kimberly diamond mines, was kill
ed in New York by a trolley car.
The New York Central Railroad
is to curtail it's construction work,
fearing a stringency in the money
market.
The death of former Governor Hig-
gins, of New York, is expected at any
hour.
John R. Walsh, former president
of the Chicago National Bank, was
indicted by the federal grand jury
for alleged mismanagement of the
funds of the bank. The Indictment
contains 1872 counts.
G. w. Powers, cashier of bank at
Midwife, Ca, fought off three burg
lars after he had been shot 18 times.
Andrew Carnegie is quoted as say
ing he would give 100000 to
be assured of 10 years of life.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has ac-
CURED control of the Philadelphia
and Erie
A hitherto unknown cave, filled
with bones, has been found in
Tennessee.
The MacAndrews & Forbes Com
pany, of New York, was fined $10,-
900 and the J. S. Young Company,
of Baltimore, $4,000, in the United
States Circuit Court in New York
for combining to monopolize the
trade in licorice paste.
Miss Mary Glass, a teacher, was
found with her throat cut in the
schoolhouse at Eldorado, Kan. Rob-
ert Hall, who was found with cash
in his throat, admitted that he had
had a quarrel with her.
The plant of the South Atlantic Car
and Manufacturing Company, in Sa-
vannah, Ca, together with 20 cars
of material and many partly COM
pleted box cars, was destroyed by
fire.
John Kraeis, his infant son and
his farther-in-law, named Shuman,
were found dead from asphyxiation
and Mrs. Kraeis in a dying condition
at their home, in Fostoria, o.
Governor Winthrop, of Porto Rico,
IA his annual message, congratulates
the islanders on their commercial
an agricultural prosperity.
Elmer Dempster was executed in
Washington, Pa, for killing Mrs.
Samuel Pearce and her three chill
dren.
DR.. James Woodrow, who was
prominent in church and state, died
in Columbia, S. G.
Governor Albert r. Cummins, OF
Iowa, was inaugurated to serve his
third term.
AIIOl nSy GCuCI al II dAhllA L. SnA
son, Of Pennsylvania, after an inves-
tigation, denies that there was fraud
in the construction of the $4,000
600 state capitol.
Eight New York aldermen, sus-
pected of accepting brides to vote for
ex-Judge Cowing for recorder, were
examined by grand jury.
Judge Hough, of New York, has
ruled that the Antitrust Law does
not apply to steamship freight rates
made in London.
The remains of John C. burden, of
Harrisburg, Pa, were partly ere
mated in a wreck near Raleigh, N. G.
A. R. Mallory, inventor of the NAL
Tory pillow, committed suicide in a
grocery in Atlanta Ga.
Seven men were killed by the ex-
plosion of locomotive near Norris
town, Pa.
Snow is three feet deep in Mon
tana.