The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-04-05
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
domestic.

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Preaching his own funeral sermon
on the scaffold, Thomas Harris,
young white man, formerly Baptist
preacher, was hanged for the murder
of Mrs. Hortense Morgan, an aged
white woman, at Gaffey, S. G.
The cotton boil weavel is appear
ing in large numbers in Louisiana.
Leonard Leopold, accused of be-
ing a party to the murder of Actress
Margaret Leslie, made a dash for
liberty while on trial in Chicago.
The Crockes estate, of California,
is party to a suit attacking the con-
troll of the Southern Pacific by the
Union Pacific Railroad.
Fire destroyed 10 houses in the
business and residential section or
Newberry, S. c., causing a loss OF
100000.
Crazed by illness, Mrs. Fillmore
Aquila threw her infant overheard
while at sea on the steamer KONG
Albert.
Two ice dealers of Columbus, O.,
were fined $1,000 each for eonspi-
racy to restrain trade.
twenty-five hundred st. Louis
brewery workers have gone on a
strike for more wages.
The trustees of the Industrial
Peace Fund met and organized. Chief
Justice Fuller was elected president.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has been appealed to to name
the third member of an arbitration
board to consider the dispute over
the question of wages between the
%,-ofY m fh6
Western railroads out of Chicago
and the railroad officials, when
threatens to involve 40 railroads ana
100000 men. The men have re1us-
ed to arbitrate.
Nathan Y. Lands, Philadelphia
furniture dealer, testified in the IN
vestigation of the alleged $4,0O0,VoU
graft on the capitol at Harrisburg
that he made the bootblack stand in
the Senate toilet room for about
$125. The state paid Contractor An
derson $1,619.20 for the stand.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota
decided that the Great Northern Rail
way Company may issue the $6o,-
100000 of stock, the offer OF wnlch
was made to the stockholders De-
cember ~ last without getting au-
thority from the State Railroad Com
mission.
Jennie Burch, the 15-year-old girl
charged with the death of an infant
by giving the child poisoned peach
was declared not guilty but insane,
and was sent to Matteawan.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota
upheld the Great Northern Railroad
Company in its contention that II
had it the right to issue the $780,
100000 of stock.
Horace G. Knowles, American min
lister to Roumania and Servia, sailed
for Europe from New York on the
steamer La Provence.
The bill for recount of the votes
cast at the election for mayor OF New
York in November, 1905, passed the
Assembly 11S to Fl.
John Mitchell, president OF the
United Mineworkers', is confined 10
his apartments in Indianapolis with
a severe cold.
Hamlin F. Lee, a nephew of the
Confederate general who fought the
Union Army, died at Colorado
Springs, Colo.
AT Guilford, Chenango County, N.
Y, fire destroyed the opera house,
postoffice, two stores and several
dwellings.
Stevenson & Co.'s warehouse at
Manila, containing $4,000 bales of
manila hemp, was burned. Loss
$500, 900.
Herbert B. Walker was elected
president and general manager OF the
Old Dominion Steamship Company.
Rev. Ambrose w. Vernon, of Dart
mouth, accepted the call to the chair
of homiletics at Yale.
w. R. Hearst filed five libel suits
against the Chicago Tribune for
100000 each.
Miss Bertha NcNally, of Canton,
O., committed suicide on her we'd
ding day.
Three indictments were returned
against the New York Central Rail
road and it's officers as result OF
the wreck of the Brewster Express
on the night of February 16, In
which "a persons were killed. The
indicted officials are Vice President
Albert H. Smith and General super
intendent Ira A. Mccormick.
The keystone Express on the Penn
sylvania Railroad was wrecked near
Wilmerding, Pa, when the engine
and three cars left the tracks. Train
wreckers had torn the tracks apart.
Foreign.
A column of French troops occu-
pied Oudja, Morocco. The Suitan's
representative has assured the
French minister at Tangier that