The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-06-13
The NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic


Federation of Miners sent a telegram
to Haywood. on trial in Boise, Ida
no, which reads: Fifteenth an
nual convention sends greetings.
Confident of your innocence, and we
are with you until your honor is
Vlndicated and your freedom as
sured."
Judge Chamberlain, of Concord, II.
H., announced that he would ap-
point master to inquire into the
competency OF Mrs. Mary Baker c.
Eddy. The appointment will not be
made for several days.
The Princess Anne Hotel, at Vir-
ginia Beach. Va, was destroyed by
fire at A. M. Three persons are
missing. Over 100 guests and en-
ployes escaped in their night clothes.
survey has been ordered for a
5O-foot canal between Cape May, N.
j., and Bay Head. n. j.
The United States Steel Corpora
tion has let contracts for 5000 steel
cars.
A receiver is to take charge of the
Waters-Plerce Oil Company, in
Texas.
Crops in New England are back
ward owing to weather conditions
Lieutenant Colonel Ayres, whose
wife and daughter have been exclud-
ed from the reservation at West
Point, says the officers who criti-
else his wife are telling falsehoods
and that army court martials are
farces.
Witnesses have been called to tes-
tify that while Henry Orchard was
numbering officials for pay he was
also detective for the Mineowncrs'
Association and a citizens protective
committee of Cripple Creek.
Miss Bertha Bielstein, of Allie
gheny, Pa, who was tried for the
murder of her mother. and whose
brother and uncle committed suicide,
died in Los Angeles while planning
for her wedding.
Dorchester, Mass, where the first
town meeting" in the United States
was held, celebrated its two hundred
and seventy-seventh anniversary.
John Coyne, who carried the news
of Dewey's victory at Manila to
Hongkong. sought lodgings in a Chi
cago police station.
An automobile containing Mrs.
Elizabeth Henderson and Mrs. Frank
Blaekson, of Philadelphia, collided
with railroad train in Camden, n.
J. Both women may die of their
injuries.
Miss Gertrude Beeks, secretary of
the welfare department of the Ma
tional Civic Federation, sailed for
Panama to inquire into living condi-
tions among the laborers.
The wife of Governor Peabody. of
Colorado; Judge Gabbert and Mine
Manager Bradley confirm the stories
of Henry Orchards attempts on their
lives.
A gold and gem-studded vanity
box, worth $4,000 and belonging
TO Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, lost
last fall was received from a waiter
at Sherry's.
The Standard Oil Company's bill
of exception to suit by the federal
government in Minnesota was over
ruled, and the case will proceed.
Michael McBent, head stockman
on the estate of Howard Gould, was
gOred to death by a bull.
The Iron, Steel and Tin and Bar
Iron Associations have failed to
agree on a wage scale.
The State Railroad Commission of
Georgia has made reductions in rail-
road fares.
The case OF Mrs Howard Gould,
who has instituted suit for a sepa-
ration from her husband, Howard
Gould. was given its first public air
ing in court. The occasion was the
hearing of arguments on motion of
counsel for Mr.. Gould to strike out
certain allegations in Mrs. Gould's
complaint.
Governor Hughes, of New York,
signed the public utilities bill. which
puts nearly all the corporations in
the state under the control of two
commissioners.
The Republican State Convention
of Pennsylvania Endorsed Senator
Knox as Pennsylvania candidate
for the Republican nomination for
president.
| Harry Smith, bookkeeper of the
Hooking Valley Bank, of Lancaster,
!Ohio. was sent to the penitentiary
fbr seven years for embezzlement.
| i, Helen, NJ Cougar, the temperance
lecturer, dropped dead in Lafayette.
Ind:xTets
: Judge Chamberlain denied the
molten of the three trustees recently
appointed to take charge of Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy's property for
ileave; to be substituted as plaintiffs
in place of the next friends" who
began the litigation to secure an ac-
counting of Mrs. Eddy's property.
|. An earthquake shock lasting about
|, 10 seconds was felt in San Francisco.
The oscillations were from north to
souths- No Sdamage; has been, re-
| ported.
Two indictments were returned
against Policeman Hess, who kid
mapped little Elizabeth. Grady from
New York. i~
Ryder Henry formerly of Cam
bridge, Md, was married in New
York .stas Ndfss rsFte1ifghuysen Jack
son. =
foreign.
WheH .EshperorA Francis Joseph
! arriSed at Budapest for the celebra-
tions Of ,tFef jEhtfee of his coronation
as King of Hungary the Socialists
greefed- him with Sas noisy -demonstra-
tion: for universal suffrage.