The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-11-19
The News
Domestic

The trial of Nance O'Neil, the ac-
tress and her manager. Mckee Ran,
kin. for alleged infringement Of
copyright on the play The Fires OF
ST john. will proceed this week at
San Francisco.
Senator Foraker published letters
from Virgil p. Kline and NJ. f. FL
liott showing the nature of his work
for the Standard Oil Company, which
ended seven years ago.
The United Daughters OF the Con-
federacy. at the final session in At
lanta. Ca. elected officers and de-
cided to hold their next convention
In Houston, Tex.
Senator Stephen B. Elkins makes
the positive announcement that no
engagement exists between his
daughter. Miss Katherine Elkins, and
the Duke de Abruzzi.
Harvey T. Wells. embeZzling cashs
Ter OF Kenosha (Wis.) bank, who
was captured In Boston several
months ago. after having fed to Lon
don. where he had married, and who
was later returned to this country,
was sentenced to five years at ma
tior-l prison.
The S45O,OOO turbine steamship
Belfast. whose construction has been
delayed year by the financial diff
fculties of the Consolidated Steam.
ship Lines of Maine, has. been sue
cessfully launched by the Bath Iron
Works
Arguments in the double appeal.
Of both complainant and defendant;
from the final decree OF Judge Kohl
saat In the case OF Capt. Oberlin NJ.
Carter were begun in the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals.
1t was announced that a $1,000,-'
600 order for new Pullman coaches;
for use between San Francisco and
Portland and Los Angeles had been
placed by the officials of the South
ern Pacific Company.
DR.. Azel Ames, formerly of wide.
fame as a surgeon and sanitary en-:
gineer, died at the hospital for the
insane In Danvers, Mass, where he
had been a patient for a number of
years.
Mrs. Mary Wheeler Somerby, of
Newburyport, Mass, an aged widow.
was declared to be the sole heir to
an estate valued at 100000 by an
order filed In the Chancery Court at
Trenton.
The suit Of the government against
the Du Pont powder interests, which
was called before the special master
at Wilmington, was continued until
December 2.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is to be asked by Chicago
merchants to revise the freight rate
schedules between Chicago and Chat
tanooga and points South.
DR.. B. X. Bechtold, aged SO years.
Of KulpsVille, Pa, a patient in a
private hospital in Philadelphia, was
burned to death In his room.
Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich,
U. S. NJ, arrived at New York from
Genoa on the steamer Koenig Al
bert.
Harvey Watterson, a lawyer, son
OF Henry WattersCn, the editor, of
Louisville, KY, fell from n window
in his Office on the nineteenth floor
OF Wall Street building, in New
York, landing on the roof of an ad-
joining building nine stories below
and was instantly killed.
Judge Taylor, of Cleveland, o.,
held the Municipal Traction Com
pany to be insolvent and said re-
ceiver would be named. Judge Tay-
lor decided that the franchise of the
railway company was taken away at
the recent referendum election.
One man was killed and several
persons were injured in a head-on
collision between two trolley cars
between New Brunswick, n. j., and
Bound Brook during a thick fog.
Governor Hughes filled his certifl-:
cate of election expenses with the
Secretary of State. giving his total
expenditures as $369.65.
DR.. David d. Thompson, editor of
IN VIZ RI All A
cate, of Chicago, died in St Louis
as the result of being run down by!
an automobile.