The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-02-14
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Capt. John c. Fremont, until re-
Gently naval attache to the United
States Embassy in Paris, returned on
board the steamship st. Paul to as
sumo command Of the battleship
Mississippi.
State Zoologist Surface, of Pennsyl-
vania, believes that the payment OF
bounties on scalps of hawks mis-
take. He believes the birds aid the
farmers by destroing field mice.
Governor Hughes may call an ex-
ira session of the New York legisla-
ture If that body does not promptly
pass his bill to repeal the law al
lowing gambling at the racetracks.
The New Jersey Legislature has
under consideration an appropriation
to begin a system of inland water
ways along the coast of that state.
An attempt was made to blow up
with dynamite the grocery store and
tenement occupied by Antonio Flo at
Pittsf1eld. Mass.
In a pistol duel in Meridian, Miss,
Oscar Hatcher, farmer, was killed
and Robert Taylor, a contractor, seri-
ously wounded.
Night riders fired barn belonging
to Neil Lawrence, near Sudlersvllie,
KY. Lawrence was wounded and MS
tobacco dynamited. Wash Fletcher's
farm was also visited. One barn
filled with tobacco and owned by a
tenant was destroyed. Monroe Lowe,
another tenant, was taken out and
beaten severely.
Charged with sending threatening
letters to Pittsburg millionaires de-
manding large sums of money, Six
alleged members of the Black Hand
Society were arrested when the po-
lice raided lone shanty near Sewick-
ley, a fashionable suburb.
Stanford B. Lewis, assistant to
Architect Huston, of the Pennsyl-
vania State Capitol, declares that
former Governor Pennypacker sug-
gested the writing of letter intend
ed to whitewash reports OF the capltol
scandal.
Ray Hall, aged 10 years, of Jones
boro, Tenn, accused of murder, was
sentenced to 20 years in the peniten-
'tiary.
Twenty-four persons we're hurt in
a wreck ON the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, near Franklinville, Pa.
Jacob Karetzlsy, of Denver. COL,
practiced at target before killing
his wife and himself.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has
placed an order for $4,000 tons OF
steel rails.
An all pipe line from Oklahoma to
Texas, $50 miles, has been opened.
The Indiana Democratic Editorial
Association has Endorsed Bryan.
Thirty-four per cent. of labor in
New York is unemployed.
The police Of New York are look
ing for an insane merchant who used
redhot irons to brand the word ice
and the numerals and on the
back of four-year-old Irene Kegel.
After an enforced idleness OF more
than a month, 1000 men formerly
employed by the Pennsylvania Steel
Company at Steelton, Pa, have been
called back to work.
Mrs. Claudine Abry, of Nyack, N.
Y, died from shock when three boys
broke through the ice and We're
drowned.
The Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road has reduced salaries of all en-
ployes making more than $3.50 a
month.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works
has been forced to reduce its output
from so to 20 locomotives a week.
A bed for injured automobiles
has been established in Philadel-
hospital.
1t is planned to have $4,000 troops
engaged in army maneuvers in Texas.
Max Sackman, painter, out of
work, his wife Celia and their IA
month-old daughter Rosie were found
dead in their rooms, New York.
They had been killed by Illuminating
gas, supposed to have been turned on
by the father.
William Jennings Bryan, in an adj
dress in New York, said the COM
mandment should be amended to
read: "Thou shalt not steal on a
small scale.