The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic.

Judge Prltchard, in the united
States Court in Asheville, N. c., dis.
charged Ticket Agents Wood and
Wilson, of the Southern Railway, on
habeas corpus proceedings and de-
clared the penalty clause of the state
rate bill unconstitutional.
DR.. Edward J. Gallagher and Miss
Helen Madigan, who were engaged
to be married, were killed by their
auto colliding with railroad train
at Jamaica, L. 1.
Paymaster Eugene Coffin, of the
United States Army, had his left arm
amputated, the limb having been
poisoned by handling infected money
The Board of Foreign Missions OF
the Presbyterian Church has news
from medical missionary that re-
bellion in China only awaits leader
Three Italians accused of kidnap-
ping and strangling the Lamana
child, of New Orleans, were given
life sentences in the penitentiary.
James P. McNichol, a contractor
on the Philadelphia filtration plant
must return $51,305 to the munich
pality.
District Passenger Agent Wood
and Ticket Agent Wilson, in Ashe-
vile, N. c., of the Southern Rail-
road, were sentenced to 80 days in
the chain gang for selling tickets
in disregard of the new rate law.
Otto H. Droege, formerly of Mary
land, has been named a police mag
istrate of the city of New York, at
a salary of $1,000 year for IL
years.
President Finley, of the Southern
Railway, delivered an address before
the Louisville Commerce Club on
railroad conditions in the South.
The State Board of Pardons OF
Pennsylvania refused to recommend
a pardon for James B. Gentry, the
actor, who killed Madge Yorke.
Hugo Lobe, recently from Ham
burg, locked himself in the bathroom
of his boarding place in Harlem
N. Y, and turned on the gas.
P. o. milford, former cashier OF
the defunct American Bank at
Manila. was sentenced to eight
years Imprisonment.
Governor Carter. of Hawaii, said
in Seattle, WASH, there was no Anti
Japanese feeling in Hawaii.
George Sandberg, a somnambulist
plunged from third story window
in New York and was killed.
The remains of Lieut.. Cooper
Goodrich were buried at Stone
Church, N. ].
Officers elected serve for the en-
suing year by the Grand Lodge OF
Elks were: John X. Tener, of Char
leroi, grand exalted ruler; Edward
w. Leach, of New York, grand treas
urer; Fred G. Robinson, of Dubuque,
Ia, grand. secretary; Bayard Gray, OF
frankfort, Ind, grand lecturing
knight; Thomas F. McNulty, of Bal
timore; Mayor Charles Schmitz, OF
Wheeling, w. Va, and Thomas b.
Mills, of Superior, Wis, grand trus-
tees.
Judge Saunders, of New Orleans,
has decided that the lighthouse ten
der Maple, on which President
Roosevelt was making trip, was
responsible for the collision with the
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leans in the fall of 1905.
Michael Sullivan, at one time priv
ate secretary to Speaker of the
House Samuel j. Randall, committed
suicide by jumping into the Della
ware River.
Fourteen persons were injured in
a trolley-car collision at Butler; Pa.
Fritz Ulrica, travelling salesman,
was killed in wreck on the Chica-
go Great Western in Kansas.
Kentucky Day was celebrated at
the jamestown Exposition with a
barbecue and oratory.
A quarter of million barrels of
oil in a tank at Lima, o.. were ig-
nited by lightning.
The United Mineworkers have lost
$1,000 members, owing to nonpay-
ment of dues.
Vice President Fairbanks dined
with a railroad section foreman at
Chile, Ore.
Governor Davidson, of Wisconsin,
has signed a two-cent rate law.