The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-01
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic

domestic.
The Texas Senate adopted a reso-
luton dismissing the Bailey investi-
CATION committee before the COM
mittee could make. a report. The
resolution adopted exonerates Sena-
tor Bailey. The vote was 10 yeas
to II nays.
Five thousand persons were driven
out into the snow by fire which
destroyed the new Irving Music Hall,
in New York City, and spread to adj
joining tenements. No one was in
jured.
Mrs. Belle Jones and Mr.. w. c.
Moore, of Lexington, KY, claim an
$50, 900, 900 estate in Delaware, in
Guiding the site of the city of Will
mington.
Three employees of the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad have been arrested,
charged with looting at the wreck
of 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 81, 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. N. Y, and the
guests had narrow escapes. Several
firemen had their hands and faces
frozen and two others were hurt by
falling walls.
Thrilling stories of Black Hand
plots to murder enemies of that So
ciety were told in court at the ha-
beas corpus hearings granted to IA
of the 25 men arrested in Wilkes
Barre, Pa.
Union Station, at Sumter, S. c.,
was destroyed by fire while both fire
companies were at the funeral of
Chief Graham, who was killed by
falling walls at fire on Friday.
Grover Cleveland delivered an adj
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.
T. Curley, law partner of Eugene
d. Saunders, who recently was APP
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 A. Kelly.
The feet of man and woman
were found in box in the yard OF
a New York tenement.
Harry Pratt Judson, acting presi-
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 $1,000,00O. which
they say is due them from the fed
eral government and the State of
New York.
The auxiliary yacht Alkaline, of
New York. Captain Layton, caught
fire from gasoline explosion near
Key West, Fla. Mrs. Layton was
slightly 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 were 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.