The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-03-13

Domestic

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The first international convention
under the direction of the Young
Peoples missionary movement Of the
I United States and Canada opened In
Rittsburg.
The attack made by Attorney Cen
! eral Lyon, of South Carolina, upon
Judge Pritchard for appointing re-
ceivers for the dispensary fund has
started warm fight there.
The convention of Indiana miners
at Terre Haute demands that the
coming national convention OF the
order shall ask for a wage increase.
Fire which broke out in the store
room of the Superior Paper Company,
in Kalamazoo, Mich, did damage es-
timated at. between $4,000 and
500, goo.
Frederick van Eeden, the Dutch
sociologist and founder of commune
istic colony in Holland, spoke before
the Civic Forum in New York.
Samuel L. Hampton, American
railroad conductor, under sentence
of death In Mexico City for the muir
der Of a negro, is dying at the hos-
pital.
Mrs. Margaret Deland discussed
the Change in the Feminine IDEAL
before the League for Political Edu-
cation in New York
In a fight in courtroom in De-
catur, Ala, w. F. Holland and his
son Walter were killed and j. H.
Turner fatally injured.
A bill was introduced In Congress
to increase the rate of pay for carry
ing the mails on the short" railroad
lines.
Dan Hogan, of Pittsburg, shot and
killed himself on a Chicago and
Northwestern train near GAINESVILLE,
Wis.
Frederick Warren Freer, painter
of international reputation, died in
Chicago of heart disease.
Three young women were drowned
while boating on the Appalachie mill
pond, near Greer, S.. G..
Gas in one of the chambers Of the
Pingerico mines at Guanajuato, Mex
leo, killed five miners.
Protests are being received from
Irish sources against the proposed
Root-Bryce Treaty.
Charles p. Alyandros, lawyer, o.
Paterson, N. j., was shot by his
mother-in-law.
The Minnesota Democratic State
Convention declared for Governor
Johnson after hot fight by Bryan
supporters.
Chancellor Day, Of the Syracuse
University, is charged by Rev. George
A. Cooke of violating the laws of the
Methodist Church by his attacks on
Roosevelt
The brother of Walter f. Baker,
of Boston, who died under strange
circumstances in New York, has pre-
vailed upon the New Jersey authors
ties to make a searching investiga-
ton.
Ellwood T. House, first vice-presi.
dent of the Union Trust Company, OF
Detroit, and native OF Wilmington,
DEL, shot himself dead because OF
financial worry and i'll health.
Bishop Worthington's will, fled
for probate at Pittsheld, Mass, con-
tains public requests to the amount
of $4,000.
Thomas J. Callan, who carried Gus
ter's last message and led relief
party, died at Yonkers, N. Y.
A Philadelphia boy confessed start
ing u fires to sae the engines run.
Rev. Joseph E. Roy, who for 1S
years was secretary of the American
Home Mission Society, and later was
field secretary of the American Mis-
sionary Association, died at his home,
in Oak Park, III.
Luigi Ferrucchi, an italian. was
hanged in Philadelphia for the MUIR
der of Carmen Sandimarco, fellow
countryman, whom he shot 16
months ago. The men were friends.
Governor Hughes announced his de-
cision not to entertain the charges
preferred against Mayor Mann, of
Troy, on the ground of lack of juris-
diction.
Gen. Frank A. Pargond, who gain
ed his title in the Confederate serv-
ice, is dead at his summer home, IN
Stony Creek, CT, aged 70 years.
Emery Pulver, a weil-known so
ciety man of Dillon, Mont, was fatal
ly shot, 1t is believed, by holdup
men.
Lieutenant Governor Lawrence \.
Sherman, of Illinois, was married to
Miss Mary Estelle Splitter.
John Grant, a former prize-hghter
of New York, who had failed In six
attempts to kill himself, in one OF
which he jumped from Brooklyn
Bridge, after gashing both wrists and
swallowing carbolic acid. committed
suicide by gas asphyxiation.