The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-12-10
NEWS
BY TELEGRAPH
Domestic


The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad has closed a $780,
600, 900 contract TO electrify it's lines
from Rochelle TO One Hundred and
Twenty-ninth Street, New York;
thence by tunnel under the East
River to Astoria; then on to Long
Island City, with another East River
tunnel and subway TO a hugo pas
Fourth and Lexington Avenues and
Thirty second and Thirty third
Streets, New York.
In a stirring speech to the dele
gates of the Federal Council OF the
Churches of Christ in America the
Rev Charles Stelzle, of New York,
declared that the churches must look
after the religious and moral well
fare of immigrants in order to pre-
vent the onward march OF socialism.
Freed from Spindle Rock, at the
western entrance of Buzzards Bay.
where she had been impaled for 10
weeks, the United States cruiser
Yankee again sank in six fathoms
near what is known as the Sand Spit
while being towed to port for re-
pairs.
Formal notice of a contest before
the Congressional Committee on
Elections of the Sixty-hrst Congress
in the Tenth Massachusetts district
has been served on Congressman
Joseph +. O'Connell, Democrat.
Discouraged. it is said. over finan-
cial troubles former Mayor Adolphus
s ,bohn. of Pomeroy. o.. shot him.
sO-f in the head at hotel in CALI
DOliS and died Instantly
After three days effort at Toledo
a jury is still lacking in the case
of Harvey Hazel. the 17-year-old
matricide, under indictment for muir
der in the first degree.
Capt. John c. Mclean. 81 years
old, who saved a ferryboat laden with
Louis tornado of 1896. died in East
st. Louis.
While the official count of the
vote of Oklahoma was being made
an error of 500 votes was discov-
plurality to ,S4S.
J. ]. Juesserand, ambassador of
France to the United States, unveiled
a bronze memorial tablet at Newark
to the memory of Andre Marie AM
pere.
Henry Bose, a salesman, employed
by an electric company. died in his
room at San Francisco under circum-
stances that indicate he was the VIC
tim of poison.
Roy Van Housen, formerly a book
keeper of the wrecked Peoples Ma
tional Bank of Franklinville, N. Y,
was sentenced by Judge Hazel in the
United States District Court to five
years in the Federal prison at At
lanta, Ga.
John D. Archbold testified that
after the Standard Oil Company was
ordered dissolved by the courts of
Ohio is moved to New Jersey as the
state having the most reasonable
corporation laws.
John Il. Jenkins, Jr., formerly
president of the Jenkins Trust Com
pany, of Brooklyn. N. Y, was found
not guilty of appropriating to his
own use $4,000 of the funds of the
institution.
Robert f. Maddox was elected
mayor of Atlanta, Ga. over James
G. Woodward. after an exciting cam
paign in which the character OF
Woodward was an issue.
A Jewelry store in Pittsburg was
robbed while hundreds of persons
were in the street. The robber was
pursued and captured, and the jewell
ry recovered
The Federal Council OF the
Churches of Christ in America was
opened in Philadelphia with hun
dreds- of delegates from 80 religion
bodies present.
The American Mining Congress
will urge the establishment of a
bureau of mines in connection with
the Department of the Interior.
Burglars blew OPEN the vault in
the First National Bank of Pepperill.
Mass, secured $4,000 and escaped
in an automobile.
Margaret Ellington, who has been
appearing in The Thief" is obliged
to retire from the stage owing to
i'll health.