The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-12-11

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The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad has closed a $50, !.
100000 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 huge pas
senger station, to be constructed at
Fourth and Lexington Avenues and
Thirty second and Thirty third
Streets, New York.
In 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 wei
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 s
pairs.
MRS. Elizabeth Johnson Marianl,
daughter of Mayor Tom L. Johnson,
obtained a divorce from FREDERICK
Mariani, of New York, a playwright
81 The report of special grand jury
declares there has not been an honest
election in Chicago in years.
Capt. Robert A. Hanna, United
States Army, dropped dead in New
H. ncrr1f IN o. a nhVG1Hi4n
President Roosevelt apparently
both favors and opposes woman sur
frage.
Formal notice of contest before
the Congressional Committee on
Elections of the Sixty-first Congress
in the Tenth Massachusetts, district
has been served on Congressman
Joseph F. O'Connell, Democrat.
Discouraged, it is said, over finan-
cial troubles former Mayor Adolphus
Seebohn, of Pomeroy, o., shot HIM
self In the head at hotel in CALI
polls, and died instantly.
After three days effort at Toledo
q jury Is still lacking in the case
of Harvey Hazel, the 17-year-old
matricide, under Indictment for MUIR
dersin the first degree.
Capt. John C. Mclean, 81 years
old. who saved a ferryboat laden with
scores of passengers during the st.
Louis tornado of 1895, died in East
st. Louis.
While the official count of TIE
vote Of Oklahoma was being made
an error of $500 votes was discov-
cred, the revision reducing. Bryan
plurality to 11,S48.
J. J. Juesserand, ambassador of
France to. the United States, unveiled
bronze memorial tablet at Newark
to the memory of Andre Marie AMI
pere.
Henry Bose, 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 book
keeper of the wrecked Peoples Ma
tional Bank of Franklinville, N. ",
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 "lnost reasonable
corporation laws.
John T. 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, Ca, over James
G. Woodward, after an exciting CAM
paign In which the character of
Woodward was an issue.