The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-06-06
THE NEWS OF THE Week
Domestic

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eral Court In the Green and GayEor
case. involving over half a million
dollars fraud In government con-
tract work in the Savannah harbor,
was affirmed In an opinion handed
down by the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals at New Orleans.
Green and GaynOr are under SEN
tence to four years. Imprisonment
each and to pay a fine aggregating
$576,O00. They may appeal to the
Supreme Court at Washington.
Infatuated with the wife of an
other man, Patrick Reardon, of
Pfttsburg, shot two men who could
not tell him where she could be
found, and then committed suicide,
leaving a note that he would haunt
the woman as long as she lives.
Louis Albert. who is said to have
married six women in Maryland
and Pennsylvania, was held In $1,000
bail by New York magistrate to
answer a charge of bigamy.
Gen. Thomas H. Ruger, who COM
manded division at Gettysburg, and
who was at one time superintendent
at West Point. died at Stamford, CT.
Twenty-Five firemen were over
come In a blaze aboard the White
was lying at her pier in New York.
Lucius N. Perkins, former presi-
dent of the Kansas Bar Association,
who fell or jumped from the roof of
a house, was insured for 100000.
Two hundred thousand New Eng
land cotton mill operatives have re-
ceived an average increase in wages
of 5 per cent.
The appellate division of the Su-
preme Court Of New York has order
ed a new trial for George Burnham,
Jr., former general counsel of the
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Com
pany. ruling that the evidence did
not Justify conviction and that errors
were committed in admitting evil
dence
Marie Berkefeld, who travelled
from Austria to New York to wed
she had not seen, was re-
pulse> because she was not as good
looking as her photograph.
A gang of Bogus messenger boys
has been making money in New York
by delivering fictitious death mes
sages.
Seven persons were killed and
eight injured in the trolley collision
at Elyria, o.
Andrew Grady, father of Eliza
beth Grady, the school girl who ac-
companied Policeman Hess from
New York to Baltimore, attacked
the bluecoat and tried to strangle
him during hearing in a New York
police court
Seven priests were injured in the
crash of platform that carried down
go persons at the cornerstone laying
Of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Because they were refused the use
OF camp stools while on duty the en-
ployees of the Shamokin and Mount
Carmel Electric Railway went on
strike.
Citizens of Canton, O., are consid-
ering a plan for preserving the Nc
Kinley home intact and converting
1t into a memorial, like Mount Yer
non.
]. H. Won Hegerman Lindencrone
the Danish minister to Germany
sailed for Europe from New York on
the steamer Deutschland.
Carrie Lederbrand, seven years
old, and her sister Cora, II years
old, were found in Sugar Creek, near
Springfield, ILL.,
Thomas D. Jordan, former comp
troller of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Company. charged with forgery
and perjury, pleaded not guilty and
was released on $4,000 bail.
A number OF machinists on the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
have struck for recognition of the
union and a uniform wage scale.
The Merchants and Miners Line
and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
have won the strike of Philadelphia
stevedors.
The United States Navy scoutship
Birmingham, to make "a knots an
hour, was launched at Quincy, Mass
President w. w. Finley, of the
Southern Railway, favors govern
ment regulation of the railroads.
Ten stockholders have asked that
receiver be appointed for the New
York-Chicago Air Line.
A business mems committee OF
rs is organizing to carry out law
and order in San Francisco.
President Hubbard, of the New
York Cotton Exchange, issues a de-
nial to the charges of over-cIassifica-
ton made against the exchange by
Theodore Price and the Southern
Cotton Association.
Foreign.