The midland journal., 1908-07-10
NEWS
by TELEGRAPH
Domestic

embezzling more than $4,000 from
the United Home Protectors Fra
ternity. was sentenced to not less
than two and half years in the
Michigan State Reformatory.
Mrs. August Lieb, under arrest in
New York, has been masquerading
as a man for nine years.
Guests had to flee for their lives
from FIRE in the Northern Beach
Hotel, at Traverse City, Mich.
An attempt to rob diamond trays
in the store of Cooper & Foreman.
New York, was frustrated by Cashier
William Stenson drawing a revolver
on two strangers.
city Real Estate Appraiser Thomas
F. Byrnes, of New York. has been
removed from office, owing to real
estate deal In which he is said to be
involved.
Lieutenant Berry, of the New York
police, arrived at New Orleans from
Puerto Cortez, Spanish Honduras,
with his prisoners, Albert w. Bailey,
Charles H. Myers and Captain Albert
Oxley. Francis G.. Bailey, brother
Bailey. escaped from the steamer be-
fore she sailed. The Baileys are
charged with conspiracy to use the
United States mails to defraud.
August Beltzner, of Joliet, ILL.,,
was murdered by an unknown man,
who was avenging the Mollie Ma
guires for an offense committed 80
year before.
The battleship South Carolina, a
sister ship to the recently launched
Michigan, will be launched Saturday
at the Cramps shipyard, in Phila-
delphia.
OF the nine balloons which started
from Chicago, eight have landed
safely, while the ninth, the Illinois. Is
supposed to be still in the air.
The Socialist Labor party, in con-
ference in New York, nominated can
didates for president and vice presi-
dent and vice president and adopted
a platform.
A hundred thousand persons turn
ed out to welcome Representative
James S. Sherman, the Republican
candidate for the vice presidency. to
his home, in Utica, N. Y.
Charles s. Sears died under
strange circumstances at Oppenheim-
er Institute, New York, and coroner
will make an investigation.
Three officials of the Boiler and
Iron Works of Boston have been held
to grand jury ON charge of attempt
to defraud the city.
Justice Bischoff decides that the
receiving of bet is not violation OF
the law and Melville Collins was dis
charged.
Judge Speer, of the United States
Court, has appointed receiver for
sawmill companies at Thomasville,
Ga.
Mrs. s. Nelson Bourne, niece of
Governor Lippitt, of Rhode Island,
is to become a professional nurse.
Sixteen abttleships have gathered
in San Francisco harbor ready to
start long voyage to Hampton Roads.
Oficials of the Norfolk and South
ern Railway have been ousted from
their places by the receivers.
Vice Chancellor Howell, at New
ark, declared correspondent in di-
vorce action should be prosecuted.
Walter ]. Bartnett, formerly vice
president and general counsel of the
Western Pacific Railway Company,
has been sentenced to the San Quen-
tin Penitentiary for 10 years.
The fishing tug r. T. Roy, captured
by the Canadian government, ran
ashore and afterwards made Its es-
cape while the captors were after
help.
Mae c. Wood has been indicted
by the New York grand jury on a
charge of perjury and forgery in con-
nection with the Senator Platt case.
George H. Daniels formerly gen
eral passenger agent of the New York
Central, died at Lake Placid, N. Y,
at the age of Sc years.
All the Republic Iron and Steel
Company mills have ceased operation,
as the union agreement and wage
scale have expired.