The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-08
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic


quin River. He leaped after it, res
cued II and, when hauled aboard, he
displayed $4,000 under lining of the
recovered derby.
A Bristol (Tenn.) husband en-
plOyed a duplicate telephone by
which he heard conversations be-
tween his wife and her admirers.
A suit for divorce is pending.
Lightning set fire to the large
plant of the Armour Fertilizer Com
pany in Jacksonville, Fla. Loss,
100000; covered by insurance.
Nine politicians were indicted al
Binghamton. n. Y, on charges OF
fraud in expenditure of state appro.
priation for public roads.
Swift Tarbell, Edward L. Woode-
son and William Catchings we're ser
iously injured in an automobile acct
dent in New York.
Newporters will be disappointed to
learn that the President will not
come to that resort as it was rumor-
ed he would.
Six snow-white horses have been
engaged by the labor unions of Den
yer, Col, to draw the carriage which
will take William d. Haywood from
Union Station to his hotel. 1t Is said
that $4,000 people will join in
great welcome to the secretary-treas-
urer OF the Western Federation of
Miners.
Fred Magill and his wife, Faye
Graham Magill, were indicted by a
grand jury at Clinton, ILL.,, on six
counts charging them with the MUIR
der of Magilrs first wife.
Actor Harry Woodruff, who was
reported as engaged TO marry Anna
Gould before she welded Count Boni
de Castellane, denies that he will
marry the heiress.
The Northwest is facing a coal
famine, owing to Great Lakes YES
sells being busy hauling iron ore.
The roof of an oil tank ablaze at
Edgewater, n. J., was hurled a mile
by an explosion.
The $4,000 coal miners in tn,
Pittsburg district will not go on q
strike.
The excitement caused in New
York by the recent atrocious crimes
against women and children was
greatly increased by the discovery of
the body of an eight-year-old girl in
the cellar of an East Side tenement.
The child had been assaulted and
then murdered. There were marks
on the throat, indicating that, per-
haps, the little one was strangled.
Congressman Jenkins, chairman
of the House Judiciary Committee,
expresses regret that a compromise
was reached in the North Carolina
railroad rate regulation case. He
says such agitation brings on civil
war.
Robert Stubs, for many years a
4.
President Levi p. Morton, has retir-
ed with a fortune of 100000.
The Carolina and Northwestern
Railroad Company will accept the
Il cent rate in North Carolina.
Former Governor Joseph f. Johns
ton was elected senator from Ala
bama to succeed the late Senator
Pettus.
Policeman Stephen S. Walsh, OF
New York, accused of cowardicef in
failing to arrest Fraak Warner, who
shot and killed Miss Norling, was
stripped of his shield and buttons
by Commissioner Bingham and es-
-corted out of police headquarters.
Special Judge ]. e. Robins, after
denying the allegation Of counsel for
Caleb Powers that he was too preju-
diced to sit in the case, vacated the
bench, necessitating the naming of
another judge to try the man accus-
ed of Governor Goebel's murder.
The Woodworkers' and Carpenters
Unions of Chicago are at odds over
what constitutes a union-made burial
casket
John Debraw, an escaped patient
from the Pontiac IN. " Insane
Asylum, held up a train with a pitch
fork.
The plant of the American Fisher
les Company. Long Island, was burn
ed, entailing a loss Of 100000.
A trunk containing 100000 III
securities was shipped to the wrong
man at WATERFOWL. Wis.