The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-31
THE NEWS OF THE Week
Domestic

COumlSSlOuSE kAuHhOAy1 0PPOAAeOu
by the Missouri Supreme Court to
take testimony in the custer suit OF
the state against the Standard Oil
Oil Company, made Q report to the
court that the evidence introduced
before him is sufficient to Gust the
Standard Oil Company and tributary
companies from Missouri.
The town of Hornell, N. Y, was
terrorized by a gang of yeggmen.
Night Waterman John Henry was
fatally shot and Night Waterman
Thomas Kelley was badly beaten
and others were injured. Three
yeggmen arrested after two of the
gang had been shot.
Attorney General Jackson, of New
York, applied to the Supreme Court
for an order to cite the Consolidated
Gas Company to show cause why the
charter and franchises of the COM
pany should not be annulled as an
alleged monopoly.
The South Omaha Live Stock Ex-
change decided not to sell heifers
and cows to the packing houses on
account of the heavy condemnation
of this class of cattle.
liz 4NOW vi L OOAAPeNhJ,
which is constructing the tunnel
from the Battery to Brooklyn, was
adjudged an involuntary bankrupt
in the United States District Court.
The jury in the case OF Judge
James Hargis, Lexington, KY, charg-
ed with the murder of Thomas Cock
rill, returned a verdict of not guilty.
The auditors report will show that
large sums were advanced TO the con-
tractors who buflt the state capitol
at Harrisburg, Pa.
John Bell, who shot and killed DR..
Charles WilTnot Townsend at New
Brighton, S. T., was sentenced to be
electrocuted.
Two persons were suffocated IN
the burning Metropolitan Hotel, in
Utica, N. ", and several persons
were injured.
The charge is made that inferior
rails made by the Steel Trust are re-
sponsible for many serious railroad
disasters.
Mrs Ella 'Farmam Pratt, author of
books for young people, died at her
home In Concord, n. H.
The Philadelphia and Reading an
nounced increases on it's suburban
rates from Philadelphia.
The body of Mrs. Louis b. Hall
was recovered from the Eden Park
Reservoir, in Cincinnati.
Theodore Tilton, the American
editor and author, is dying in Paris
of pneumonia.
The Switchmen's Union of America
adopted resolutions denouncing Pres
fdent Roosevelt for his utterances
OH Haywood, Meyer and Pettibone,
sympatbizing with the miners on
trial and demanding that their 'kid-
mapping" from Colorado into Idaho
be declared Illegal.
Pinkerton detectives are looking
for J. Edward Boeck, prominent
New York diamond broker, who is
said 70 have Tilted the daughter of
a Pittsburg steel king ind disap-
peared with $250,000 worth of
Jewels and cash.
Frederick A. Burnham, indicted
for larceny and forgery, has resigned
as president of the Mutual Reserve
Life Insurance Society. Archibald
E. Hayes, formerly general agent OF
the Equitable, has succeeded him.
The Jermyn No. breaker of the
Jermyn Coal Company at Old Forge,
Pa, was destroyed by fire, entailing
loss of over $125, 900.
HARLOW N HigginbothGzn, of Chi
cago, who recently was elected
trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, sent in his resignation. to
Secretary Dix Mr.. Higginbotham
sharply criticises the indifference
or delay" by the State of New York
in enacting laws for the proper reg
ulatiUn of corporations.
The passenger steamer Naomi,
plying between Chicago and Mil
waukee, burned in midlake at 1 A.
NJ Four milwaukee cOalpassers
were burned TO death and several pas
esengers injured, among them ]. M.
Rhodes, of Detroit. The boat carried
so passengers, who were taken OFF
by other vessels.
District Attorney Jerome and Po-
lice Commissioner Bingham, of New
York, had a conference concerning
the charges of conspiracy against
Mrs. Howard Gould in which police
officers were alleged to be fn~olved.
A director of the American Pro-
tective Tariff League says 1t WIN not
support either Taft or Root for pres,
ident because they are unstable on
the tariff Speaker Cannon and Les
lie M. Shaw are the leagues favor
ties.