The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-02
NEWS
Domestic


Major j. H. II. Peshire, United
States Army, who was a passenger
on the steamer Adriatic, which ar
rived in New York from Europe, was
taken i'll during the voyage.
Mrs. j. w. A. Brammer admins
tered carbolic acid to her infant
child and swallowed a dose herself at
her home, in Rhome, Tex. Both died
almost instantly.
Orlando G.. Smith, president of the
Western Shoe Jobbers' Association
and vice president of the National
Shoe Jobbers' Association, died in
Chicago.
The Prohibition executive commit
tee of New York State met and Sc
lected Syracuse as the place for the
1908 state convention on September
1 and 2.
The mobilization OF the largest
fleet of torpedoboats, torpedoboat de-
stroyers and submarines in the his
tory OF the American Navy will take
place in Narragansett Bay next
spring.
Wealthy New Englanders plan to
have the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States rule on President Roose-
velt's action in discharging negro
troops after the Brownsville raid.
Ernest Gordon Stedman, an author
ity. on international law and a
wealthy man, was killed by a New
York subway train, under which he
dived or fell.
The body OF an unknown but re-
fined woman, who had been strangled
and stripped OF her clothing, was
found in the Hackensack Meadows,
n. J.
Francis ]. Heney, prosecutor of
municipal grafters in San Francisco,
gives suggestions for ridding large
American cities of municipal graft.
Charles Schroff, Jr., "a, shot and
instantly killed his father, Charles
Schroff. Sr., "A, proprietor of the
International Hotel in Buffalo.
Eighty per cent. of the cotton man
ufacturers of New England have
agreed to a % per cent. reduction
in output.
Three persons were injured and
several others burned in a fire in a
six-story tenement building in New
York.
While Miss Elizabeth Hatfield, of
Washington, Pa, lVnelt at her bed
side in prayer, upon arising her night
dress ignited at gas stove and she
sustained burns from which she died.
The Supreme Court of the United
States denied Benjamin D. Greene
and John F. Gaynor a review Of the
judgment of the lower court. This
ends the noted case.
The November statement shows
that III. .476 aliens come to this
country during that month, an in
crease of "a per cent. over the same
month last year
Formal announcement of the time
and place for the Democratic National
Convntion was made by Chairman
Taggart, of the national committee.
The Law and Order League issued
general orders to the police, COM
manding them to enforce the state
law against the Sunday saloon in Chi
cago.
Application was made at the State
Department for the extradition from
Mexico, of w. F. Walker, cashier of
the New Britain (Ct.) Savings Bank.
Rev. DR.. H. c. Jennings, in dis
cussion in Cincinnati, declared the
greatest tyranny on earth is that of
an unsanctified labor union.
A passenger train on the South
ern Pacific Railroad was wrecked at
Rye Patch, the locomotive and 10
cars leaving the track.
A portion of a trolley roadbed
in Pittsburg slid down an embank-
ment, leaving a car and track sus-
pended in midair
James Mccormick, 43 years old,
chauffeur for r. l.. Ireland, was
killed in Cleveland, o., by a Lake
Shore train which struck the auto
mobile he was driving at a crossing.
An Arkansas mob spent Christ
mas hunting Jim Hall, accused of
numbering Mrs. Emma Hearness and
son because water was thrown on
his dog.
Jackson Stilley, of West Elizabeth,
Pa, while acting as Santa Claus for
his family, fell down stairs and broke
his neck.
George Robbins, colored, arrested
in Detroit. Mich, is wanted in
Knoxville, Tenn, for the murder of
a white man.
Twenty-four firms were made
homeless in Chicago by a Christmas
fire which broke out in the Burton
Block.
Two persons were burned to death
and a third fatally injured in a fire
in North Dover, o.