The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-10
THE NEWS or THE WEEK
Domestic

William Ellis Corey, head of the
Steel Trust, who is to wed Mabelle
Gilman, the former actress, has pre-
sented his. mother with bonds of the
United States Steel Corporation to
the value of $250,000.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Charles S. Fairchild, indicted for for
gerry in connection with the life in
surance cases, entered plea of not
guilty and gave bond of $4,000
pending his trial.
The League of American Sports
men, the first of the many national
bodies to meet at the jamestown Ex-
position, convened in the Auditorium,
on the Exposition grounds.
Major General Henry Ronald
Douglass MacIvar, who was a soldier
of fortune for SO years, having serv-
ed under Is flags, died in New York.
Another complication in the dis
tribution of the fortune left by the
late James Henry Smith, the ''Silent"
millionaire, who died while in Japan
on his honeymoon, is promised
through the discovery that Smith
had an older brother in Chilli.
More than $43,000,000 in improve
ments and work on every building
in Philadelphia is at a standstill as
a result of fruitless conferences of
employers with bricklayers' and
stonemasons' unions over division
of work.
]. E. Sullivan, agent of the Ala
bama Southern, at Birmingham, Ala,
;oI, - ,,I5c ~, ~
ed each other during quarrel over
freight
Cyrus D. Foss, son of Bishop Foss,
has been removed from the secre-
taryship of the Philadelphia Civil
Service Commission by Mayor Rey-
burn.
Count Otto Won Waldstein, noble
man of Austria, was shot and killed
by mistake for desperate by a
posse in California.
District Attorney Jerome is to look
into all insurance companies referred
to in the Investigations in New York.
William S. Alley, a former mem
Der of the New York Stock Exchange,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy.
Fireighters in autos travelled %
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Iowa.
Secretary Shaw predicts war over
the control of the Pacific Ocean.
Charles T. Thornton, note-tellers
and William w. Baker, bookkeeper,
of the Hamilton National Bank, of
Chicago, were sent to the Peniten-
tiary for embezzlement
Arrested on the charge of vagrancy
in Philadelphia, John Dempsey at
tempted suicide in cell at the police
station by gashing his throat with a
razor.
Capt. Edgar Macklin, of the Twen-
ty-fifth Infantry, was fully and hon
orably acquitted by court-martial in
San Antonio, Tex.
Constantin Brun, the Danish min
lister to Washington, sailed for Eu-
rope from New York.
Alex. A. Chisolm was tried in
Birmingham, Ala, on the charge of
embezzling 100000.
c. G. Sickle, of Pittsburg, leaped
from Suicide Pier, in Cleveland, and
was drowned
Albert Koenig shot Nettie Woods
in st. Louis and then shot himself.
Fourteen steamers brought 20,729
immigrants to New York in "a hours.
Wilson Miner, the young hus-
band of the widow of Charles T.
Yerkes, was named as the defendant
in divorce suit brought in the SUI
preme Court of New York by Mrs.
Yerkes-M Miner.
William F. Corey, president of the
United States Steel Corporation, and
Mabelle Gilman, the actress, an
nounce that they will be married
May 10.
Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania,
vetoed the bill placing osteopaths
on the same plane with other medi-
cal practitioners.
A committee of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
has made a report favoring early
marriages.
Judge Embry, of Oklahoma, who
sentenced John w. January, the re-
captured convict, favors the mans
pardon.
The cornerstone of the Masonic
Temple at Hammond, Ind, was laid
by Vice President Fairbanks.
Carroll B. Short, Texas attorney,
was shot and killed by DR.; Buck
Paul.
Foreign.
The British steamer Westgate ar