The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-08-16
THE NEWS OF THE Week
Domestic


his brother, John D. Rockefeller,
head of the Standard Oil Company.
He said their father is alive and is
kept in hiding.
In an address at the New York
Chautaugua Prof. Smaller Mathews,
dean of the University of Chicago
Divinity School, claimed that capital
is in control of the church and Is
being used against labor.
William Ashton, young business
man, and Miss Lena Buss, pianist at
a moving picture show in Easton,
Pa, are simultaneously missing.
In New York the claim is made
that Mr.. August Belmont is building
the terminal under East River I'M
der an expired franchise.
Ambassador Bryce will deliver the
principal address at the meeting OF
the American Bar Association.
Mrs. Isabella ]. Martin, of New
York, says the wife of the violin1st
Rigo, now at Atlantic City, whom
Mrs. Martin has sued for $250,OOO
for SANDER, is the Princess de
Chimay.
Maurice C. Mengis has recovered
$4,000 in a suit over lands, the ac~
ton being an outgrowth OF the
famous Western Maryland litigation,
| in which Mengis won 100000.
Prof. Charles Zueblin, of the Uni
versity of Chicago. delivered an ad-
dress charging John D. Rockefeller
with breeding socialism.
Masked men bound and gagged
the agent and robbed the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad station at New
castle, Pa.
John Sharp Williams defeated
Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi,
for the United States Senate by GAS
votes.
Ludwig Sezegeil, said to be an
unattached Polish priest, shot and
killed a hotel proprietor of Pitts
burg.
Thomas Morrison, who said he
peddled wood with U. S. Grant, died
in ST. Louis, Mo.
Policeman Stevenson, of Phiiadel-
phia, shot and killed a burglar who
refused to halt.
The population of Chicago, &C
cording to the city's newest direc-
tory, is 100000.
Fifty-six manufacturers of spices
have formed a trade organization.
Clarence S. barrow, leading coun-
sci for William D. Haywood in the
trial at Boise, has been dismissed
from the services of the Western
Federation of Miners. He will not
appear in behalf of Pettibone, whose
trial is set for October /, nor will
he act for Meyer, in the event the
latter is brought to trial. e. F..
Richardson will succeed barrow.
Cursing his guards, the coroner,
his Maker and everyone who tried
to question him and denying the
existence of God, Frank H. War;
ner, who shot and killed Miss Esther
Norling and John c. Wilson in New
York, was arraigned before Coroner
Acritelli. He was remanded to the
Tombs without bail, awaiting action
by the grand jury.
Mike Mcdonald, the aged liking"
of Chicago gamblers, millionaire and
former Democratic boss, is dying.
McDonalds condition is due to a
broken heart, his young and beaut1-
full wife being held on charge Of
shooting to death Webster Guer-
rim, young artist.
Seven prominent Japanese railway
engineers and managers are in San
Francisco to study railway methods
and improvements in the United
States. They have come under the
auspices of the Japanese government.
August Won Fahrig, leader of
gang of automobile burglars, who
terrorized, robbed and drugged
wealthy residents of Long Island for
several months, was sentenced to
Sing Sing prison for 40 years.
Former Alderman Joseph Kusch-
bert was killed and three others
probably fatally injured when an
automobile containing the four was
ditched at Brookfield Corners, Mil
waukee. Wis.
The Georgia House Of Representa-
tives passed the Hall bill prohibit
ing state, county and city officials
from riding on railroad passes. Can
didates for Office are similarly barred.
Robert Murdoch, formerly po-
liceman of Charlotte, N. c., shot and
killed Mrs Laura Ray and then COM
mitted suicide. Murdoch had been
drinking heavily.
George w. Delamater, who wreck
governor of Pennsylvania in 1890,
committed suicide in Pittsburg.
The Golden Cycle Mill at Colorado
Springs, the largest cyanide plant in
the world, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $3.50, 900.
Mrs. Robert E. Peary, wife of the
Arctic explorer, is to live on bleak
island four miles at sea for year.
DIR. Leonard S. Taylor, one of the
most successful surgeons of the
West, died from blood poisoning due
to the prick of a needle during an
operation he was performing.
William P. Taggart, promoter of
a coal block manufacturing company.
was arrested in Philadelphia and
charged with obtaining $1,000
through misrepresentation.
The cannon ball train on the
Texas and Pacific Railroad was
ditched near Dallas, Tex, all the
coaches but the dining car leaving