The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-28
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.

ne leAaS oenate adopted 4 feSO-
luton dismissing the Bailey investl-
CATION committee before the conf
mittee could make a report. The
resolution adopted exonerates Sena-
tor Bailey. The vote was IS yeas
to 1 nays.
Five thousand persons were driven
out into the snow by a fire which
DESTROYED the new irving Music Hall.
In New York City, and spread to ad-
Joining tenements. No one was in
jured.
Mrs. Belle Jones and Mr.. w. G.
Moore, of Lexington, KY. claim an
$SO,OOO,OOO estate in Delaware. in
Guiding the site of the city of Will
mington.
Three employees OF the Pennsylya-
MIA Railroad have been arrested
charged with looting at the wreck
Oh the Pennsylvania special.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany in an official report of the in
vestigation of the accident TO the
chicago special near Johnstown. Pa.
says the only tangible evidence of
the cause found was the broken brake
hanger.
James r. Mcclure, aged 67. chief
clerk and treasurer of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad auxiliary lines. died
OF heart disease In the West Walnut
street Presbyterian Church, Phila-
delphia, during service.
Fire partly destroyed the Russell
House. at Middletown. y. Y. and rho
guests had narrow escapes. Several
hremen had their hands and faces
frozen and two others were hurt bv
falling walls.
Thrilling stories OF Black Hand
plots to murder enemies of that So
ciety were told in court at the ha-
oeas corpus hearings granted to IA
OF the % men arrested in Wilkes
Barre. Pa.
Union Station, at Sumter. s. c..
was destroyed by fire while both FIRE
companies were az the funeral of
Chief Graham, who was killed bv
falling walls at fire on Friday.
Grover Cleveland delivered an ad-
dress in Chicago. attacking extrava-
gance and crimes in high places. and
asking for return to- the frugality
and honesty OF the days OF Washing
ton.
I. Curley. law partner of Eugene
ID. Saunders. who recently was ap-
pointed Judge of the federal district
at New Orleans. died OF pneumonia.
Mrs. Cora Stebbins Courier. aged
"a years, is under arrest at Sheri-
dan, Mich. charged with poisoning
her husband
The University OF Pennsylvania
conferred the degree of doctor of
laws on DR.. Howard ~ Kelly.
The feet of q man and a woman
were found in a box in the ward of
a New York tenement.
Harry Pratt TnGCOn uctiN. ,,rOs-I-
dent Of the University Of Chicago.
was elected president of that insti-
tuition. TO succeed William r. Harper.
deceased.
The general tribal council OF the
Oneida Indians decided TO press
claims aggregating S1,O0C.0OO. which
they say IS due them from the fed
eral government and the State of
New York.
The auxiliary yacht Adalinc. of
New York. Captain Layton. caught
fire from gasoline explosion near
Key West. Fla. Mrs. Layton was
burned. The vast was de-
stroyed.
Mrs. Fannie Rice Bassett. exhaust
ed by the ordeal on the witness stand
six days, in the trial OF her suit for
divorce at Omaha, collapsed and fell
in faint on the stand.
Four trainmen We're killed and two
others injured in collision between
an express train and an ice train on
the Michigan Central Railroad near
Ypsilanti. Mich
The Nebraska legislature has pass
ed the two-cent railroad fare bill,
and similar measures are being
pushed through the Minnesota and
Indiana legislatures.