The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-22
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.

journed after the most important ses-
sion since the American occupation
of the island, during which 50 bills
of the 257 introduced were passed.
A movement has been started in
Massachusetts to secure national leg
islation to make compulsory the man
ming of licensed passenger steamers
with trained crews.
Four prominent cattlemen of Ne
braska were fined and sentenced to
jail on the charge of defrauding the
United States out of land.
A bronze tablet concentrating
the birth of Grover Cleveland was
unveiled in the room in which he
was born at Caldwell, N. ].
Luigi DeBoise, who spoke English,
French and German, committed sui
eide because he could not find work
in New York.
The Louisville Exposition was
opened by President Roosevelt press
ing an electric button in the White
House.
William Jennings Bryan declares
trade unions have done more good
than any other force in the country.
Gen. Joseph Stockton, marshal of
every ItSpuDlASdA POI ouO III OiASNSo
since the Civil War, is dead.
Grover Cleveland spent his seven
tieth birthday fishing in South Caro-
lima.
Pittsburg fears an epidemic of ty-
phoid as an aftermath of the flood.
The traffic managers Of Western
lines met in Chicago and considered
the safety question of frightening
the time of express trains, so as to
decrease the number of accidents.
After three days of argument, the
government won its fight over the
routing of oil in it's suit against the
Standard Oil on charges of rebat1ng
in the State of Ohio.
The Oliver Iron and Steel Works
and 25 business houses and dwellings
were destroyed by fire in Pittsburg.
No clue has been found to the
$4,000 missing from the Chicago
Subtreasury.
Floods have caused considerable
| damage in Western Pennsylvania,
| West Virginia and Eastern Ohio.
| The lower portions of Pittsburg and
Wheeling are flooded. Twenty or
more fatalities have resulted. Sixty
dwellings in Majorsville, w. Va,
were swept away.
The jury which heard the charges
of rebating between the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad
and the Sugar Trust were unable to
agree and were discharged.
Edward Johnson, lifesaver, was
drowned in rescuing part of the crew
of the British tramp steamer Gowan-
burn, ashore off Long Island.
John Alexander Dowie, in white
robe, was conveyed to his grave in
white hearse drawn by white
horses.
James March, aged 100 years, the
Oldest citizen of Lebanon, Pa, IS
dead.
Rachel Fisher, 2S years of age, was
seriously injured in the crowd of
people who thronged around the bier
of John Alexander Dowie, at Zion
City, in the hope of being cured of
their ailments by touching the hem
of Dowie's shroud.
State Highway Engineer w. W..
| Crosby, of Maryland, addressed the
American Roadmakers' Convention in
session in Pittsburg on the subject,
Blazing the Way in Maryland"
H. G. Mcdowell, president of the
Farmers Bank, of Canton, O., shot
himself in the head at his home, dy-
ing instantly. He left no note or ex-
PLANTATION of his suicide.
William j. Bryan says the railroads
prefer regulation by Congress to con-
troll by the state, as Congress is far
Their from the people than the legis-
latures.
Miss Gertrude Harnisl, aged 20,
stenographer, committed suicide by
| jumping from the thirteenth story
of an office building in Cincinnati.
Speaker Cannon, in an address to
the Porto Ricans at San Juan, de-
clared it was the universal desire of
the people of the United States that
the Porto Ricans might demonstrate
their capacity for self-government.
Mrs. Eddy's second cousin and her
adopted son Joined in the proceedings
to have her declared incompetent to
manage her affairs.
Shots were fired into the store of
Hargis Brothers, in which Jim Jet,
brother of Curtis >Jett, the fuedist
was sleeping.
Frank Rockefeller, brother of John
D. Rockefeller, has sued to recover
$265,000 invested in a lead mine.
An investigation was begun into
the charges of graft in the building
of the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa.
Admiral Beresford says the peo-
pie, and not potentates or parliament,
declare war nowadays.
Vice President Fairbanks states the
country will restrain dishonest COM
binations of capital.
Twenty-Five Greeks were drowned
by the capsizing of a boat in the
| Sacramento River.
A move is on foot in New York
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