The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-12-18

Doraestic


Cormicl for stabbing her husband
last Monday, mystery that for two
years past has shrouded the disap-
pearance of Miss Ada Long, daughter
of James W. Long, wealthy manufac-
tured of San Francisco, was cleared
up, as the woman under arrest was
Miss Long before her marriage to
Mccormick.
Mrs. William H. Taft, wife of the
President-elect of the United States,
presented at the annual meeting of
the National Civic Federation in the
Hotel Aston, N. Y, the report of the
Committee on welfare work for the
government employees, Of which she
is chairman.
The scout cruiser Birmingham was
given her Standardization trial on the
Rockland course, In preparation for
the competitive tests with the scout
cruisers Salem and Chester. The
average of the top speed runs was
24.326 knots an hour.
A Chicago Judge has appointed
Friday as "alimony day. in his
court.
The trial of T. Jenkins Hams is
not expected to last longer than 10
days.
Shouting that he was John tho
Baptist, come to save the world, :
an aged insane man held Edgewater,
N. j., in terror for nearly an hour.
He rushed down the main street
waving revolver and shouting, held
UP half dozen citizens, robbed the
tills of three business ablishments,
stole team of horses and exchanged
many shots with a hastily formed
posse.
Robert w. Fullerton, 81 years old,
son of a millionaire and q Cornell
student. who was indicted in April
last, charged with the abduction OF
Gladys Hobart, of Hewley Terrace,
Yonkers, school teacher, surren-
dered himself to District Attorney
Jerome, and was later held in $4,000
bail for trial on a plea OF not guilty.
Commander Armistead Rust. Uni
ted States Navy, recently in COM
mand of the submarine tender Hist.
was placed on trial before court
martial at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard, charged with negligence in al
lowing the Hist to run aground in
the Delaware.
AS the result of stagnation in the
market for rubber shoes because of
the absence of seasonable conditions,
the announcement is made by the
Woonsocket Rubber Company that
its Millville, r. l.. plant will be
closed.
Y DR.. G. q. Barnes, aged 45, veter-
mary surgeon, was burned to death,
and James Crane, an aged man, mar
rowly escaped a similar fate when
their houses at Woodyille, east OF
Toledo, were destroyed by FIRE.
Five hundred employees In the Erie
shops at Scranton were reduced from
full time to two-thirds time by an
order issued from the headquarters
of the mechanical department in New
York City.
3. Diaz Gupro, charged with vio-
lating the neutrality laws as leader
of the revolutionists against the
Mexican government, was taken to
San Antonio, Tex, for trial.
Laboring under the. deiusion that
he had been marked as victim of
the Black Hand, Thomas Fitzpatrick,
aged So, shot and killed himself at
Flint, Mich.
One man was killed and three
others seriously injured when a
Pennsylvania Railroad freight train
at Chicago crashed into fiat car.
Glen Pollock, aged II, was SEN
fenced to serve one year in the New
York State Reformatory for break
ing into the postoffice at Martin. O..
Foreign
The Petit Parisien declares that
the object Of President Castro in
visiting Berlin is to obtain the in
tervention of Germany with Holland