The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-04-26
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic

ground that the documents criticised
parties and public men.
Henry w. Walker, member of the
National Democratic Club, and who
was chairman at the Bryan reception
in New York, favors Bryan and War
field as the next Democratic national
ticket.
The Rhode Island senatorial candi-
date deadlock, after 13 weeks of bal
loting, has been practically broken
by the Republican State Central
Committee indorsing Col. Samuel P.
Colt.
John Yerger, the oldest engineer
on the Erie Railroad, was electro
cuted while standing on the back of
his locomotive, the engineers head
coming in contact with live wire.
The loss of the steamer Larch-
mont, in Long Island Sound, has
been blamed on Pilot Wanson, who
was lost Captain McVey, who
escaped, is exonerated.
Benedict Gimbel, the Philadelphia
millionaire who was arrested in New
York and later admitted to bail on
the double charge of improper con-
duct and attempted bribery of po-
lice officer, tried to kill himself in
a Hoboken hotel.
The Ann Arbor Railroad denies
the right of the State of Ohio to
regulate the equipment of its rolling
stock, maintaining that only the ma
tional government exercises control
over interstate commerce.
The administration ticket of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company has
been officially declared elected by
the inspectors Of election appointed
for the purpose of counting the votes.
Salvatore Gemorese, an Italian
banker of New York, received an in
fernal machine by express from an
unknown man who has been demand
ing $4,000 by mail
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
declared the Muller act, to finance
Chicago municipal ownership of
street car lines, unconstitutional.
The hand windowglass plants of
Pittsburg, employing over $4,000
men, are to close down owing to
being overstocked.
The northern part of the Island of
Luzon was shaken by an earthquake
and considerable property was de-
stroyed
Secret Service agents are investi-
eating plot among Hazleton (Pa.)
anarchists to assassinate President
Roosevelt.
Evelyn Thaw says she longs for
the simpler life on a Western ranch.
Edward A. Nelson, a railway mail
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containing $4,000 from a pouch en-
route from Wilmington, N. G. to New
York.
Secretary Taft and his party sailed
from San Juan for home, accom-
panied by Beekman Winthrop, the
retiring governor, and Mrs. Win
throp.
The fourth trial in Boston of CDR"
John Sinclair on the charge of caus-
ing the death of Annie M. Russell
resulted in his acquittal.
The new battleship Kansas was
put into commission at the League
Island Navy Yard, with Captain Vreel
in command.
The Columbus CO., grand jury
returned a number of indictments
against the members of the Ice Trust
in that city.
Two hundred additional suita were
instituted in San Francisco against
insurance companies on account of
the big fire.
Joseph Bush, wanted for COM
plicity in the robbery of Missouri
Pacific train, was arrested at Myrtle
Point, Ore.
After losing his last hundred dol
dars on the races, j. Richmond, of
Boston, committed suicide in New
York.
Floods during March caused the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad loss
of 100000.
Regis H. Post was inaugurated
governor of Porto Rico.
The answers of all the defendants
in the suit to force the leaders of
Christian Science Churches to &C
count for the property of Mrs. Eddy
as filed not only deny most of the
allegations of the plaintiffs, but de-
clare that the action Is not brought
in good faith
John Gunderson,- discharged en-
ploye of the Northern Express Com
pany, is accused by Clerk thinner
hAoA VI STEALING SNO,VVV lTOIu Inc
company's safe at the Union Depot,
st. Paul, Mimi, by forcing thinner
man at the point of a pistol to open
the safe.
Books and records of the Ameri-
| can Ice Company are missing from
the Office of the Attorney General of
New York.
Chief of Police Shippyr, of Chica-
go, acknowledges he contributed
500 toward the election of Mayor
Busse.
c. L. Scruggs was shot and killed
by a guard while escaping from the
North Carolina Penitentiary.
| Every vote Hearst received in the
New York mayoralty fight cost him
$1.25.
| A committee of the National Pub
licity Law Conference is considering
a resolution asking that the cam
paign contribution books of the last
presidential campaign be opened for
| inspection.