The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-17

Domestic

Gle Joe, Cannon was born, sustain
ing q loss of 100000 by fire. One
Of the largest and most valuable
libraries in the South was destroyed
Gen. Stephen D. Lee, commander
in-chief of the United Confederate
Veterans, is opposed to the proposed
reunion of the Blue and Gray II
Washington as imprudent and endan'
gering good feeling.
The American clipper ship Arthur
gewall has been at sea nine months
ON voyage from Philadelphia to
Seattle. and is believed to have gone
down with Captain Carney and q
crew of 27.
The Pennsylvania State Game Com
mission recommends that bounty be
offered for the scalps of ordinary
house cats.
Mrs. Catherine Martin, who was
shot by her husband at the apart
nents In Brooklyn IN. Y.) hotel,
died Of her wounds.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland has been
named state commissioner on cpl
iepsy by the Governor of New Jersey.
The explosion of q locomotive on
the GTIG AaAlEOdu ChuoVA eAAS ~ASe~s-A
Of Fireman O. Wagner.
Arthur Martin, young stock bro
ker, aged rs years, shot and proDa-
bly, fatally wounded his wife in their
apartments in the Hotel st. George,
ii Brooklyn, and then killed him
self
Charles j. jackson, well konWn on
the stage as a juvenile impersonator,
and d nephew of Joseph Jefferson,
hanged himself in New York because
he could not memorize his lines.
Al marriage license was issued in
New York to Miss Gladys Moore,
Vanderbilt and Count Laszlo Jeno
Maria Henrik Simon Szecnenyi, OF
Hungary.
IT vas stated officially that there
would be no cessation in the prose-
sutton of land-fraud cases ID Colo
RADIO and other Western States
Four derricks and 10 men We're
necessary to move the corpse OF Ca
liph, the dead hippopotamus, at the
New York Zoo.
Dr. John r. Ames, Of Baltimore,
was the only candidate to pass the
examination for dental surgery IN
the Army.
Policeman Robert ;. Fitzgerald
lost his life in preventing man
from committing suicide from the
Brooklyn Bridge.
David BENEFIT Hill refuses to give
his views on the presidential candl-
dates, but says he is still Democrat:
Among the indictments returned
BY the federal grand jury OF Denver,
Col, is one against Ora Haley, a
cattleman, who is charged with II
legally fencing 10000 acres Of range
land near the Colorado Wyoming
boundary.
Major General Mckee, in co.1mand
OF the ten companies of the Indiana
National Guard remaining at Muncie
on account of the strike of the street
railway employees. ordered two more
companies to leave for their homes.
Fire broke out in the business sec
tion OF Albion, ILL.,, and DESTROYED the
Edwards County Bank building, the
New National Bank building, the
Telephone Exchange, two clothing
stores, a shoe store and drug store.
Mrs. James Valentine, wife OF an
ironmolder, became suddenly insane
and attacked her six-year-old SON
with b hammer and razor, wounding
him frightfully. She then cut her
own ttbFaat and will dies-,>..
The New Jersey Railway Commits
sioners, in their annual report to the
Governor. state that from July 70
to December i last year los persons
were killed ana 1913 injured by the
railroads In New Jersey.
Harry J.. Lewis, travelling salesman
for Detroit garment house. and for
merly a PROMINENT cigar manufactur-
er at Minneapolis, was found dead IN
the bathroom of his apartments IN
Detroit.
Judge Kohlsaat rendered decision
III favor of the government in the
Euft. against Captain Carter, charged
with having embezzled 100000 OF
government funds through conspiracy
with Greene and Gaynor.
Secretary Taft, in reply to ques-
zion of Llewellyn Lewis, secretary or
the Ohio Federation Of Labor, gives
his views for the correction of abuses
In the injunction against strikes.
Joseph. Miller. of Chicago, who
claims he was shanghaied on steam
er at Norfolk and taken to Europe,
arrived in New York on the steamer
Moskwa from Rotterdam.
Detectives from important cities
of the country declared that Cleve-
land is the center of the so-called
Black Hand operations.
Dependent because he could not
properly care for his family, Joseph
II. Sheppard Killed himself
w. B. Thomas was elected presi-
dent of the American Sugar Refining
Company.
Foreign
Tho Transvaal's opposition to East
Indians has brought the British gov