The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-22
THE NEWS OF THE Week
Domestic

OmctalS OF the telegraph companies
claim that the general strike order
did not AFFECT them. The men claim
that 5000 telegraphers walked out.
The Western Union and Postal off,
Gals say they are handling 10 per
cent. of their normal business.
j. Warner Hastings, aged So, since
1864 an official of the United States
subtreasury in Boston, was arrested
on a charge of abstracting three
81 900 bills from a package contain
ing $105,00O.
Criminal and civil prosecutions are
to be brought against IS men &C
cused of graft in the Harrisburg cap
ital scSndal by the final report OF
the Investigating commission.
Five persons were killed and 10 in
jured in the collapse of a two-story
frame building at Fray and Chase
Streets, Chicago, ILL.,, during ter
rife windstorm.
e. H. Hartman declares he will
reveal the inside facts OF the Chi
cago and Alton deal to the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
William Waldorf Astor has inher-
tied 100000 and a Newport villa
through the death of Miss Zela
Gibbes, an aunt.
A bursted water main shot a
stream of water so feet high In the
streets of Chicago and caused panic
in the Stockholm Hotel.
Tax Assessor Henry Alexander, Or
Absecom, N j., has imposed tax
of 500 on wealthy bachelors In the
community.
Four loaded meat cars fell from
the steel arch bridge over the Niagara
River Gorge in the Whirlpool Rapids.
Experts for the Southern Railway
say that the twO-cent rate law OF
North Carolina is confiscatory.
Forest fires near Hyannis, Mass,
have burned over n stretch OF nine
miles.
A work train on the Long Island
Railroad backed into a crowded
street car at a crossing on Coney
Island Avenue, Brooklyn, hurting the
trolley from its tracks and causing
the death of 8 passengers and the In
jury of Is others.
The Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road has secured a federal injunc'
ton restraining the State of Ala
bama from enforcing the Two-and'
a-half-cent Rate Law.
Winfield Marson, aged 16 years
formerly a clerk in the Chicopee
National Bank. of Springfield, Mass,
was captured with $4,700 in notes
in a dress-suit case.
While disturbed by g dream, Rose
Moses. aged six years, fell out OF
a third-story window in Philadelphia,
breaking nearly every bone in her
body.
Samuel V. Hulse, a lawyer, Of
Newark, N. j, is held under $1,000
bail to answer a charge of embezzl-
ing S. 500 from the Peddie Institute.
The government will dispatch the
cruiser Buffalo to the PribyloR Is
lands as the result of the discovery
of Il plot to raid the seal rookeries.
Over half a hundred hotels and
summer cottages in Old Orchard,
Me-, were destroyed by fire.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will
equip its yard locomotives with fire.
fighting pumps.
Federal Judge Pritchard has en-
Joined B. G. Beckwith from bring
inG suit against the North Carolina
RsNlrcOi1 YcSRQany to recover penal
ties 70, Iii 70 put into effect the
2 u cen ~ law.
The POPE Manufacturing Com
pany, manufacturers of bicycles and
automobiles, has been placed in the
hands of a receiver.
The Public Service Commissions
investigation of the marlborough
Metropolitan Traction Company was
resumed in New York.
General Coxey is planning an
other pilgrimage.
The submarine Viper has complet-
ed her torpedo trials at Narragan-
sett Bay.
Fire and a series of explosions
threatened the destruction of the
Eastman Kodak Company's plant at
Rochester.
The State of New Jerseys gift of
a silver service was presented to the
battleship New Jersey in New York.
An eight-year-old boy was arrested
in New York charged with the COM
mission OF series of burglaries.
The governments vigorous action
against alleged rebate offenders came
to sudden stop in Chicago.
The steamer Adirondack was dam
aged by fire while bound from New
York to Albany.
Gen. S. B. Dodsey, of the COnfed-
crate Army, died at Cincinnati.