The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-13
NEWS
Domestic i
BY TEL GRAPH

Domestic
President Samuel Gompers, ia adj
dressing the American ederation Ct
Labor, declared that the decisions Of
the United States Supreme Court are
business and financial interests and
that the court is Ill informed on
labor and economies.
New interests in control of the Ma
tionaI Bank of Commerce of Kansas
City may replace President w. B.
Ridgely, former comptroller of the
treasury.
The common stock of the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company fell off 80
points owing to the recent decision
by United States court that the or
ganization was a trust.
Albert Roubick, who confessed
numbering a Chicago jeweler at La
porte, Ind, in the hope of going to
the gailows, was manifestly disap-
pointed when the jury gave him a
life-sentence.
A thousand delegates from nine
states in the Middle West will meet
In Des Moines Tuesday for con-
ference of the Central District of the
American .Antisaloon League.
There is shortage of labor in
the Connellsville coke region and the
companies have sent out calls for men
to work in the ovens they propose
to open again.
The first civic exhibit will be held
In connection with the joint meeting
Of the National Municipal League
And the American Civic Association
ID Pittsburg.
John E. Godding, president of the
aefunct bank of Rocky Ford, Col,
was sentenced to long term in the
state prison for misapplying the
banks funds.
Federal Judges Grosscup, Seaman
and Baker issued an interlocutory de-
cree restraining the Interstate Com
merce Commission from enforcing an
order to railroads in the Missouri
River territory to reduce their rates
nine cents per 100 pounds on first
class freight from the Atlantic sea-
board and involving differentials all
through the classification.
Robberies at the Brooklyn ter
minal of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad resulted in the
arrest of two drivers and two clerks
OF the company, alleged to have sto-
len 100000 from packages in tran
sit within three months.
Mount McCulloch, peak 800 feet
high, west of Unalaska, has dropped
into the sea following volcanic
eruption, according to information
brought to, San Francisco by the
revenue cutter McCulloch.
John D. Rockefeller's chauffeur
was fined SIS in the West Side Court,
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which Rockefeller was riding.
John Wilson, motorman, was kill
ed; Mrs. Edgar Austin was seriously
injured and dozen trolley pas
sengers cut and bruised when trac-
ton car from South Bend on the
Chicago, South Bend and Northern
the track by a Lake Erie train.
The Rev. DIR. Newell Dwight Hills.
pastor of Plymouth Church, Brook
abouts Of Mrs. G. w. Wallace, of
1903, when she offered contribu
Memorial Fund
Breaking of the steering gear on
an automobile driven by j. j. Radel,
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the death of Albert Altfeld, and
probably the fatal injury of Radel
and William Regan, a chauffeur
Wallace H. Hopkins, former min
Ing broker of Chicago, was taken
to Chicago from Seattle by the fed
eral authorities and arraigned be-
fore United States Judge Berhea on
charge of using the mails to de-
fraud.
The directors of the American
Cotton Oil Company declared an an
nual dividend of three per cent. on
the common stock, and a semi-an-
nual dividend of three per cent. on
the preferred stock
George Weare, president of the
Iowa State National Bank, and one
of the best known bankers in the
West, died at Sioux City, after an
operation for intestinal trouble.
Edward S. Gilmore, for many
years part owner and manager of
the Academy of Music, and before
that manager of Niblo's Garden, died
at his home in New York
The discipline of the fire drill pre-
vented panic among $50 school
children at Chicago when fire at
tackled the branch school at Lunt
Avenue and North Robey Street.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy was filed against Bartels,
Thelen & Co., shoe manufacturers,
Of Chelsea, in the United States Dis
trict Court at Boston.
Cholera conditions in Manila are
reported we'll under control.
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