The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-29
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic

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Herbert HI PIERCE, American
minister to Norway, discussed the
| charges of receiving pay during the
arbitration of the sealing question at
The Hague.
The flood conditions in California
are improved, but the breaking OF a
levee south of Sacramento placed
many residents of the flooded region
in danger.
Judgment for $1,034,74S.60 has
been recorded in the Supreme Court of
New Jersey against the Pennsylvania
Railroad, alleged to be due for taxes.
The United States dispatch boat
Dolphin, with Secretary of the Navy
Metcalf on board, left st. Thomas,
Danish West Indies, for Porto Rico.
Edward Bradbury Haskell, one of
the proprietors and formerly editor
in-chief of the Bogton Herald, died
of angina pectoriD.
The explosion OF a water heater
caused a panic among so men at din
ner in the Cleveland CO., Railroad
Y. M. c. A.
Nine. Emma Games, the operate
prima donna, is suing her husband,
Julian Story, the portrait painter, for
a divorce.
Mrs. frankie Taylor, who claimed
to be promoting a big mining deal
in West Virginia, was arrested in
New York on the charge of beating
the Hotel Lincoln out of board bill.
After waiting at the church door
in Nyack, N. Y, for the bride-elect,
Otto Froelich, the expectant bride
groom, received message that the
young lady had changed her mind.
Ex-Judge Gary, of the United
States Steel Corporation, said in New
York that if managers of corpora
lions were honest there would be
no public hostility to them.
A special train filled with students
on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fee Railroad was wrecked at Clare
mont, Col, and persons killed and
II injured.
Count Constantine Podporski, a
Pole of royal birth, was shot and
killed by ]. c. Hines, a miner from
Nome, Alaska, Hines claiming the
Count had robbed him of his wife.
Train wreckers ditched the Chicago
and New York Limited on the Penn
sylvania Railroad near Pittsburg.
rOTuuGT OullGO OldIOo oSAnIOA Luz
ton has completed his six months
sentence in an Ohio Jail.
Ten thousand dollars have been
bequeathed to Princeton to establish
two scholarships.
Miss Rose L. Fritz broke the type
writing record by writing 2,445 words
in 80 minutes.
Nine girls were injured by train
cutting a trolley car in two in De-
troit, Mich.
Fifty-four vessels went down off
the New England Coast during the
winter.
Fire in the Pensacola lFla.) Navy
Yard caused loss of $175,0OO.
The gold-and-siiver model of the
early Philadelphia, Washington and
Baltimore Railroad locomotive Daniel
Webster, which disappeared mys-
teriously, has been returned to the
Office of President Tilton, of the
Chicago and Alton Road.
Stuyvesant Fish, in an address to
the students of the Wharton School
of Finance of the University of Penn
sylvania, declared that President
Roosevelt was in no way responsible
for the furry in Wall Street.
Albert c. Williams, formerly a pro-
lessor in Illinois educational institu-
tions, went to a poor-house after
loosing $4,000 in slot machines.
Burglars cut valuable pictures
from the frames in the summer home
of Henry Siegel, the New York mer-
chant.
The Erie Railroad has stopped con-
struction work owing to threats OF
hostile legislation.
Plans of the battleship Nebraska
were stolen from Pacific Coast ship
yard.
Mrs. James Tolbert, wife of former
Mayor Tolbert, of Fairmont, Ga,
was assaulted and her two-months-
old child was murdered by negro.
1t was testified that firm of con-
tractors made profit of $124,645
for woodwork in IA rooms in the
Pennsylvania State Capitol.
Twelve hundred men employed by
the Republic Iron and Steel Com
pany of Indiana have struck for