The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-17

Domestic


Gle joe Cannon was born, sustain
ing loss of 100000 by fire. On
of the largest and most valuabi,
libraries in the South was destroyed
Gen. Stephen D. Lee, commander
in-chief OF the United Confederate
Veterans, is opposed to the proposed
reunion of the Blue and Gray II
Washington as imprudent and endan
gering good feeling.
The American clipper ship Arthur
Sewall has been at sea nine months
on a voyage from Philadelphia K
Seattle, and is believed to have gone
down with Captain Carney and
crew of ~.
The Pennsylvania State Game Com
mission recommends that bounty DC
offered for the scalps OF ordinary
house cats.
Mrs. Catherine Martin, who was
shot by her husband at the apart
ments In Brooklyn IN. I'd hotel
died Of her wounds.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland has been
named a state commissioner on cpl
lepsy by the Governor of New Jersey
The explosion of a locomotive on
the Erie Railroad caused the death
OF Fireman O. Wagner.
Arthur Martin, a young stock bro
ker, aged 26 years, shot and propa-
bly, fatally wounded his wife in their
apartments in the Hotel st. George,
In Brooklyn, and then killed him
self.
Charles j. Jackson, well konwn on
the stage as Juvenile inpersonator,
and a. nephew OF Joseph Jefferson,
hanged himself in New York because
he could not memorize his lines.
A marriage license was issued in
New York to Miss Gladys Moore,
Vanderbilt and Count Laszlo Jeno
Maria Henrik Simon Szechenyl, OF
Hungary.
It was stated officially that there
would be no cessation in the prose-
sutton of land-fraud cases ia Colo
RADIO and other Western States.
Four derricks and 10 men were
necessary to move the corpse of Ca
Iiph, the dead hippopotamus, at the
New York Zoo.
DR.. John r. Ames, of Baltimore,
was the only candidate to pass the
examination for dental surgery In
the Army.
Policeman Robert j. Fitzgerald
lost his life in preventing a man
from committing suicide from the
Brooklyn Bridge.
David BENEFIT Hill refuses to give
his views on the presidential candl-
dates, but says he is still Democrat:
Among the indictments returned
by the federal grand jury of Denver,
COL. is one against Ora Haley,
cattIeman, who is charged with IL
legally fencing 10000 acres of range
land near the Colorado Wyoming
boundary.
Major General Mckee, in command
Of the ten companies of the Indiana
National Guard remaining at Muncie
on account Of the strike of the street
railway employees, ordered two more
companies to leave for their homes.
Fire broke out in the business sec
lion Of Albion, ILL.,, and destroyed the
Edwards County Bank building, the
New National Bank building, the
Telephone Exchange, two clothing
stores. q shoe store and drug store.
Mrs. James Valentine, wife OF an
ironmolder, became suddenly insane
and attacked her six-year-old son
with hammer and razor, woundlng
him frightfully. She then cut ner
own threat and will dle.-~~~.--
The New Jersey Railway Commis-
sioners, in their annual report to the
Governor, state that from July ~
to December | last year 10S persons
were killed and 1913 injured by the
railroads in New Jersey.
Harry y. Lewis, travelling salesman
for a Detroit garment house. and for
merly prominent cigar manufactur-
err at Minneapolis, was found dead IN
the bathroom of his apartments in
Detroit
Judge Kohlsaat rendered a decision
in favor of the government in the
suit against Captain Carter, charged
with having embezzled 100000 OF
government funds through conspiracy
with Greene and Gaynor.
Secretary Taft, in reply to ques-
ton of Llewellyn Lewis, secretary OF
the Ohio Federation of Labor, gives
his views for the correction of abuses
In the injunction against strikes.
Joseph. Miller, of Chicago, who
CLAIMS he was shanghaied on steam
er at Norfolk and taken to Europe,
arrived in New York on the steamer
M0skwa from Rotterdam.
Detectives from important cities
Of the country declared that Cleve-
land is the center of the so-called
Black Hand" operations.
Despondent because he could moi
properly care for his family, Joseph
RI ShnDnard Killed himself
dent of the American Sugar Refining
Company.
Foreign
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