The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
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The News
sDornestic.

The United States government has
brought six suits against the Ameriz
can Sugar Refining Company to re-
cover forfeitures and customs duties
amounting to $3,624,121 on sugar
delivered at the Havemeyer and Elder
refineries in Brooklyn during the past
six years. The government alleges
fraud in weighing the shipments.
Mrs. E. A. Caulfeld, wife of st.
Louis doctor, was instantly killed by
fall from the twelfth floor of the
Bank of Commerce Building, Kansas
City, through the elevator shaft.
With her husband, Mrs. Caulfield was
inspecting the building.
After several months idleness, the
wire and wire nail mill of the Amer
lean Steel and Wire Company. at
Sharon, Pa. resumed operations.
when 500 men returned to work.
Peter Van Vlissingen, philan-
thropic and prosperous citizen of Chi
cago, confessed that he had forged
deed and notes for 100000 and
asked that he be sent to the peni-
Tertiary.
The trial of Nance O'Neil, the &C
tress and her manager, Mckee Ran
/ kin. for alleged infringement Of
copyright on the play 1.-THE Fires of
st. john, will proceed this week at
San Francisco.
Senator Foraker published letters
from Virgil p. Kline and M. F. Ell
lott 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, Ga, 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 cash
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
tional prison.
The $45O,00O turbine steamship
Belfast, whose construction has been
away W q yO0A NY IAO AAoASA1A 49,
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 M.
Carter were begun in the United
Cfofoc Ciro,,if Count Nf Arnoo1o
It 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 patient for 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. K. 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. N, arrived at New York from
Genoa on the steamer Koenig AL
bert.