The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-02-15
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
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Under the auspices of the laymen's
missionary movement, a commission
of prominent American business men
the foreign missionary fields and de-
fray their own expenses.
The break in the Colorado River
has finally been shut off. 1t is now
expected that the Salton Sea will dis
appear by evaporation in about 10
years.
Robert Reeder and Henry Harkins,
attendants at the Ohio State Hospital,
were arrested on the charge of muir
dering an inmate.
The will of Elmer S. Dundy leaves
the greater part of his estate to his
mother. His wife gets $4,000.
Gage E. Tarbell, second vice
president of the Equitable Life AS
surance Society, has resigned.
The Standard Oil Company has an
nounced general advance in the
price of Oil.
kilograms of congratulation pour
ed in upon the secretary of the Cen
eral Education Board expressing the
qualification of educators in all parts
of the country at Mr.. Rockefeller
gift of $32,00O.000.
George Williams, a negro, who
shot and killed Patrolman Edward
Pettycord, of the Indianapolis police
force, was executed in the state
prison.
An immense dry dock, to cost ST.
24O, 900, is to be constructed at Hun
ter's Point, Cal, by the San Francis
co Drydock Company.
Negotiations for the sale OF the
Ward Line steamers to Charles w.
Morse are under way.
Lee Randel has been acquitted at
Fort Worth, Tex, of the murder OF
J. T. Stacey.
Proficiency of pupils in fire drill
averted panic in schoolhouse IN
Mobile, Ala.
During the Atchison grain elevator
investigation at Kansas City, Mo-, e.
E. Clark, interstate commerce COM
missioner, told George H. Crosby,
General freight traffic manager of
the Burlington, that he wished there
was law to put all railways out
of the elevator business.
The court has decided that the
Equitable Life Assurance Society
must answer the bill of complaint
filed against it by ]. Wilcox Brown,
that the society's surplus had not
been equitably distributed among the
policyholders.
Judge Anderson, in the United
States Court, Chicago, dismissed the
plea in abatement made in behalf OF
John R. Walsh, former president OF
the Chicago National Bank.
Thomas Lowry, of Minneapolis,
has given $4,000 to the Lombard
Universalist College at Galesburg,
Ill.
Seven persons were seriously In
jured in a fire in a factory building
in New York City.
William Howe, assistant secretary
of the Standard Oil Company, de-
clares that mo such imposition upon
the newspapers as the report OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission IN
fers was practiced by the company.
John B. Mcdonald, builder OF the
New York subway, was elected presi-
dent of the Panama CONSTRUCTION
Company, which was organized In
New York to dig the Panama Canal.
In wreck of freight trains on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad near
Colby Station, KY, one of the loco
motives exploded, killing Engineer
Edward Harp and two trainmen.
The steamer Parker, belonging to
the Dale Sand Company, was blown
up on the Tennessee River near Chat
tanooga, and James Thompson, the
captain, dangerously injured.
G. Oscar Diesheimer, a prominent
member of the Wyoming County
(Pa.) bar, died suddenly in court in
Montrose, Pa.
Four persons were burned to death
in fire at Pelham. N. Y.
Foreign.