The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-02-27
NEWS
BY TELEGRAPH
Domestic


in Chicago, says finiDg trust officials
is putting the burden on the public.
He favors jail sentences for corpora
ton officials.
The corpse of Capt. Delos Hayden,
who died in. a lighthouse or Toledo.
o., was recovered by friends, who
made perilous trip across ice foes.
Announcement that Eastern rail-
roads will not reduce wages was
made, following a conference of rail-
road officials aud employees in New
York.
Former Minister to Denmark Carr
delivered an address at Utica, n. Y,
in which he compared the admins
trations of Lincoln and Roosevelt.
A freight train ran into trap set
by trainwreckers for q fast passen-
ger train on the Missouri Pacific,
three men being injured.
Jerry Nj. Vrzal, upon whose evil
dence Herman Billik, of Chicago. is
under sentence of death for murder,
has confessed to perjury.
Bishops Potter, Greer and Falkner
are among ESQ New York clergymen
who are protesting against increas-
ing the Navy.
address at Chicago, announced the
political party.
After being saved from drowning
j. w. Draper and f. B. Garrett were
killed by a train near Pittsburg, Pa.
James w. Turner, who died on an
Ohio farm, wants a monument of
whisky jugs to his memory.
Joseph Choate declared there is no
cause to apprehend war with Japan.
Justice Brewer declares the nation
is rushing into debt for luxuries.
E. II. Hartman gained a complete
victory in the Illinois Central litiga-
tion, when Judge Ball rendered a
decision dissolving the temporary in
junction granted to Stuyvesant Fish,
by which 2S6.231 shares of stock
were enioined from being voted at
the annual meeting. of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company.
Claude Brooks, a negro, who con-
fessed 70 killing Sidney Herndon, n
well-to-do bachelor, in his apart
ments in Chicago on January IL.
was found guilty of murder in the
first degree and his punishment fixed
at death
Garfield H. Topping, owner Of one
OF the first theatres in Chicago, and
once owner of the Cotton and Wayne
Minstrel Company, one of the first
organizations OF its kind, died at his
home in Darlington, Ill.
Twenty-one policemen and foreign
ers were Shot or injured in a riot
on Broad Street. Philadelphia, when
the police charged a parade of 1000
unemployed foreigners carrying red
flags.
Joseph Hobbs, alias Joseph Kelley,
is under arrest in New York as a re-
suit of the request made by the police
of Boston. He is charged with rob
bing three postoffices in Massachu-
setts.
William Handy, a South Carolina
negro, was hanged in Easton, Pa,
for the murder of Policeman Shu-
man, of South Bethlehem, last sum-
mer.
BY the explosion of a can of gaso-
line Mrs. e. L. Dodder and her sister,
Mrs. Hamilton. of Glade. Pa, were
fatally burned in Omaha.
Three business blocks. a hotel and
a livery stable in North Woodstock,
n. H., were destroyed by fire.
Robbers smashed a store window
and snatched 112 diamond rings
from a jewelry store in New Orleans.
The Authors Club of New York
plans memorial to Edgar Allan Poe.
The Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey declared a dividend of SIS
share for the quarter year ending
March 81.
Two brick dwellings in Pittsburg
undermined by the flood collapsed,
the occupants escaping in their night
clothes.
Beech Hargis, who shot and killed
his father, the Kentucky feudist, in
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
paper illustrator in the United States,
died in Paris.
Citizens of East Orange, n. j., pro-
test that Andrew Carnegie libraries
are too costly.
The police of Pennsylvania have
captured 270 men in 80 Black Hand
raids.
The Kansas and Colorado Pacific
Railroad has been mortgaged fol
$50,OOO,OO0.
Baron Takahira, the new Japanese
ambassador, arrived at New York
and declared that war between the
United States and Japan would bs
the most inhuman event in the his
tory of the world.
Foreign
Japan's reply to the American