The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-01-03
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.

domestic.
Joseph d. Srlsona was arranged
before the United States commits
sioner in New York and held in
$4,000 bail as a confederate of
Boehm and Ochera, who were ar
rested last week on charge OF MAX
ing and attempting to make counter
Columbia.
Mrs. Jeanne Trautman, wife of
DR.. Alexander Trautman, a promi-
nent physician, who was arrested on
complaint OF Peter ]. Hogan, who
declared she was a street walker,
who had stolen $13 from him, was
honOrably discharged in a New York
police court.
A call for a second conference of
the growers and manufacturers of
sent out by James r. MacColl, the
president of the National Association
of Cotton Manufacturers
Former President Grover Cleve-
land and other Princeton residents
have made application to the ma
tional government to stock Carnegie
Lake at Princeton with game fish.
A grand jury of New York has
against lNO lOI-
mer officials of the New York Life
Insurance Company, charging forg-
cry.
An Indian massacre, in which
Yaqui Indians attacked a party of
Americans and MeXicans and killed
eight, has occurred in Mexico.
w. ]. Atkinson, president of the
defunct Lincoln Bank of Morton
Park, was sent to jail in Chicago
in default of $4,000 bail.
DR.. Marker C. Dadarian, of New
York, has been threatened with as
sassination by the BLACK Hand"
unless he gives up $4,000.
The Lackawanna Steel Company
has purchased the Ellsworth Coal
COmpany's properties in the Pitts
burg district.
In Dayton. o., Roy Fowler was
sentenced to die in electric chair for
the murder of his sweetheart.
An effort is being made In ST.
Petersburg to compel the authorities
TO investigate the naval scandals of
the Grand Ducal regime, which are
said to be largely responsible for the
defeat of the Russians at the battle
of the Sea of japan.
Judge Duncan, of Ohio, in a decis-
ion rendered in the Standard Oil cases,
decided that the probate court has no
jurisdiction to try criminal prosecu-
tions under the Valentine Antitrust
Law. The $5, 900 fine imposed upon
the Standard Oil Company is there-
fore invalid, as well as all the pro-
ceedings in the Probate Court. The
case will be carried to the Circuit
and Supreme Courts.
A mass meeting of citizens of San
F~TnciscO denounced the position of
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Metcalf On the California school ques-
tion, declaring that states rights is
now the paramount issue.
J. G. Phelps Stokes, the million
aire, has refused to make his annual
donation 30 the Y. M. c. A, because
of the creation Of n class in real es-
cate and stock investment.
ID. J. Beresford, a brother Of Ad-
miral Lord Beresford, of the English
Navy. was killed in train wreck in
North Dakota.
Nicolai de Raglan, the Russian
woman who masqueraded as a man,
was of noble birth and a mother.
Ten persons died or were over
come by the cold in New York.
The Washington and Florida ex-
press on the Southern Railway, which
ran into the private car of Samuel
Spencer, Thanksgiving Day. was
wrecked in the South, owing to a
misunderstanding over signals. The
fireman was. killed and the engineer
badly scalded.
Five hundred horses and mules
were burned in a Harper Brothers
livery stable, Atlanta, Ga. The loss
is about 100000. The fire was
started by safe-blowers, who eXplod-
ed the safe in the office, the shock
overturning a lamp.
T. E. Brady, a Great Falls lawyer,
has been indicted by the federal
grand jury in Helena, Mont, on a
charge of unlawfully fencing a 49,
167-acre tract of public land in Val
ley County.
J. Pierpont Morgan, DR.. Lyman
Abbott and other prominent citizens
of New York, have addressed a letter
to Secretary Root, calling attention
to conditions in the Congo Free State.
Frederick J. Schaffhauer, consider
ed the most important witness in the
suit of the city of Philadelphia to re-
cover $5,00O,0OO from Jas. p. Nc
NichOl on the filtration contract, is
dead.