The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-03-21
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic

| Domestic
The legislature of Porto Rico ad-
journed after the most important ses-
| sion since the American occupation
| or the island, during which 95 bills
of the 257 introduced were passed.
A movement has been started in
| Massach usetts 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.
bronze tablet commemorating
the birth of Grover Cleveland was
unveiled in the room in which he
was born at Caldwell, n. J.
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 Republican parade in Chicago
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 food.
The traffic managers OF Western
| lines met in Chicago and considered
| the safety question of lengthening
| nf fro fr- RI
decrease the number of accidents.
After three days of argument, the
| government won its fight over the
routing Of oil in its suit against the
Standard Oil on charges of rebating
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
S173,00 missing from the Chicago
Subtreasury.
Floods have caused considerable
damage I'm 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 of Long Island.
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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"
II. 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-
planation of his suicide
William ]. Bryan says the railroads
prefer regulation by Congress to con-
troll by the state, as Congress is far
ther from the people than the legis-
latures.
Miss Gertrude Harnish, aged 20, a
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 Jett,
brother of Curtis Jett, the fuedist
was sleeping
Frank Rockefeller, brother of John
D. Rockefeller, has sued to recover
$265, 900 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 q boat in the
Sacramento River.
A move is on foot in New York
to abolish the death penalty.
foreign.