The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-04-12
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic

ers of the Daily Record at Mahanoy
City, Pa, dropped dead while acting
as pallbearer at funeral.
The agreement between 81 rail-
roads west of Chicago and the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen was signed yesterday.
A passenger train on the Southern
Pacific was wrecked in Nevada, the
engineer was killed and a NUMBER
of passengers were hurt.
Roscoe G.. Brown, a Boston law
student, was arrested, charged with
forging checks to the extent of sever
al thousand dollars.
Emil Hoover, son of Mrs. Cassie
Chadwick, has secretly visited her
six times in the penitentiary, con-
trary to regulations.
DR.. Samuel S. Guy, for four years
coroner of Queensborough, shot and
killed his wife in his home.
Fire that broke out in a second
hand furniture store caused loss
of $175, 900 in Galveston, Tex.
Thomas H. Clay, grandson of
Henry Clay, died at his home, in
Lexington, KY.
Former Mayor Weir, of Lincoln,
Neb., died of heart failure in an au-
tomobile.
Another attempt was made to
wreck a train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
The tuberculosis sanitarium found
ed at San Juan, Porto Rico, by the
Antituberculosis League of Porto
Rico was dedicated by Governor
Winthrop.
The Chicago Terminal Railway
Company has filed a plea in court
opposing the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroads proposition to assume the
bonded Indebtedness and control OF
the terminal company.
Abraham Ruef, on trial in San
Francisco, charged with extort1on,
had a contract to receive $4,000
from the French restaurants.
Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania,
has signed the two-cent mileage law,
which will go into effect September
80.
A federal grand jury at Cheyenne.
Wyo., returned indictments aginst e.
M. Holbrook, president of the wy
oming Coal Mining Company; E. i.
Mccarthy, E. E. Lonabaugh and
Robert McPhipamey, charging con-
spiracy with intent to defraud the
government.
Frank w. Hill, a stenographer,
was arrested In New York, charged
with having sold to a newspaper the
letter of E. H. Hartman to Sidney
Webster, which raised rumpus
The Western railroads centering in
Chicago have granted an increase OF
10 per cent, but refuse the nine
hour day to the men. Both sides
have accepted the compromise.
The scenic commission to consider
the restoration of the American bank
of Niagara gorge to state OF pr1-
mevaI beauty began its work at Nj
agara Falls, N. Y.
News of the death in Hongkong of
Bishop James N. Fitz Gerald, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, was re-
ceived by the Methodist Book Con-
Germ.
Folke Engel Brandt was sentenced
to 80 years in prison for robbery at
the home of his former employer,
Mortimer l.. Schiff, the banker.
The accounts of Ferdinand H.,
Dudenhefer, state tax collector OF
Louisiana, were found to be $4,000
short
Statistics compiled by the Penn
sylvania Railroad shows that the sys-
tenn now comprises 23,1O9 miles OF
track
Charles Calkins shot and killed
himself in font of his sweetheart's
home in Elkhart, Ind.
Emile Grigsby, the ward OF
Charles T. Yerkes, the traction mil
lionaire, has settled the suit against
the Yerkes estate out of court, the
young, woman getting over two mil
lions.
Mrs. Ellen Berry Ryder, wife of a
wealthy New Yorker, and member
of an old Dutch family, ended her
life by hanging herself.
A woman, extensively gowned and
wearing jewels, was captured by the
police in a raid on New York
opium den.
Six hundred tunnel workers in
New York had narrow escapes from
being trapped underground by fire.
Ambassador Charlemangne Tower
declares the Germans have confidence
in the American square deal.
The destruction of San Franchises
electric light plant by fire put out
all the lights in the city.
Governor Hughes issued war
rant for the surrender to Chicago
officers of Hattie Kelly, alias Hattie
Nolan, who was arrested in Albany
on the charge of stealing $1,70O
and jewelry last month from Joseph
Nolan in Chicago.
The will of the late William H.
Proctor, the soap manufacturer, di-
reefs that theh property, amounting
to $1O,000,0O0 be divided equally
among his five children.
j. j. Hill resigned as president of
the Great Northern Railroad and was
made chairman of the board of di-