The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-02-21
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The Standard OIL Company Of New
Jersey declared dividend of $15 a
share for the quarter year ending
March 81.
Two brick dwellings in Pittsburg
undermined by the food collapsed,
the OCCUPANTS escaping In their night
clothes.
Beech Hargis, who shot and killed
his father, the Kentucky feudist, iIl-
herited $4,000 from his parent.
Ng Poon Chew, editor of the Chin
ese World, says China is raising an
army of 100000 men.
Iolerian Gribayedoff, the first news
died In Paris,
Citizens of East Orange. N. j., pro-
| test that Andrew Carnegie libraries
are too costly.
The police of Pennsylvania have
captured 27O men in SO Black Hand
raids.
The Kansas and Colorado Pacific
Railroad has been mortgaged for
$50, O0O, 900.
Baron Takahira, the new Japanese
ambassador, arrived at New York,
and declared that war between the
United States and Japan would be
| the most inhuman event in the his
tory of the world.
Francis T. f. Lovejoy, of Pitts
burg, is said to have admitted that
Mrs. Mary e. Cochrane, the Woman
In Black" obtained from him a
$1,000 mortgage on his $750,000
home for ST..
Miss Josie Gembino, in New York,
shot five times at Charles Tinge, who
had Tilted her few days before the
date set for their marriage.
Murray Carleton, millionaire club
man of st. Louis, has adopted a
Chinese girl, who is now studying in
China.
An expendition of American teach
ers on a tour of inspection abroad is
being planned by the Civic Fedora
ton.
The Civic Federation plans send
ing delegation of American school
teachers on tour of inspection in
Europe.
Hetty Green is reported to have
said that during the financial crisis
she loaned million to Harry Payne
Whitney and to the New York Gem
trail, but refused loans to members of
the Vanderbilt family.
States Attorney General Jackson
announced that he would ask for the
appointment of receiver for the
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Conn
pany of New York.
Deputy Chief Charles w. Kruger,
known as the Grand Old Man of the
New York Fire Department, was
drowned while leading his men at a
fire on Canal Street.
Carl Pohlig, leader of the Phila-
deIphia Orchestra, and other mem
bers of the orchestra were injured in
a wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio,
near Chester, Pa.
Secretary Taft presented diplomas
to 108 members of the graduating
class of the United States Military
Academy.
Nathan Q. Taylor. city official of
Creston, Ia, was shot and killed in
the rear of his confectionery store.
L. G. Brewer. salesman, sent a
bullet into his brain in the wholesale
shoe store of A. ]. Bates & CO., in
Duane Street, New York, after
threatening to kill G. A. Burnell,
manager of the store, and firing
bullet into the floor to emphasize his
threat. According to members of the
firm, Brewer had been employed by
Bates & Co., as salesman, but was
discharged a few weeks ago.
The report of the fire insurance
business of 1907 on the Pacific coast
shows the total amount of the poll
cies written to be $1,233, 329,61S,
on which premiums to the amount
Of $25 ,969,447 were paid
Foster M. Voorhees,, ex-governor
of New Jersey, and president of the
Bankers Life Insurance Company,
was indicted for perjury by special
grand jury sitting in New York.
Mrs. Martha Anderson was found
dead at her home, in GAINESVILLE, Wis,
with her throat cut from ear to ear.
The district attorney is investigating
her death.
Brigadier General Henry Carroll,
U. s. A., retired, veteran of the
Civil War and of the Spanish War;
died at his home in Colorado Springs.
Five persons were killed in the
explosion which wrecked the starch
manufacturing plant of G. s. Tanner
in Providence
John Hays Hammond, mining en-
gineer, has given up his $250,000 po-
sition with the Guggenheim Explora-
ton Company.