The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
The News
Domestic


ker, aged &c years, shot and proba-
bly, fatally wounded his wife in their
apartments in the Hotel st. George,
in Brooklyn, and then killed him
self.
Charles ]. Jackson, we'll konwn on
the stage as a juvenile impersonatOr,
and a nephew of Joseph Jefferson,
hanged himself in New York because
be 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 Szechenyi, of
Hungary.
1t was stated officially that there
would be no cessation in the prose-
sutton of land-fraud cases in Colo
RADIO and other Western States.
Four derricks and 10 men were
necessary to move the corpse of Ca
liph, 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 ]. 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 candi-
dates, but says he is still Democrat.
Among the indictments returned
by the federal grand jury of Denver,
Col, is one against Ora Haley,
cattleman, 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
tion of Albion, H., and destroyed the
Edwards County Bank building, the
New National Bank building, the
Telephone Exchange, two clothing
stores, n 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, wounding
him frightfully. She then cut her
own throat and will die.
The New Jersey Railway Commis-
sioners, in their annual report to the
Governor, state that from July %
. to December l last year los persons
were killed and 1913 injured by the
railroads in New Jersey. g.
Harry ]. Lewis, travelling salesman
for a Detroit garment house, and for
merly a prominent cigar manufactur-
er at Minneapolis, was found dead in
the bathroom of his apartments In
Detroit
Judge Kohlsaat rendered n 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-
tion 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
Moskwa 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 not
properly care for his family, Joseph
II. Sheppard killed himself.
w. b. Thomas was elected preSi-
dent of the American Sugar Refining
Company.
Miners persistently declare that
there are 1909 bodies in the Darr
Mine. = -
Edwin Gould forced Augustus T.
Heinze out of the Mercantile National
bank by demanding over a million
Of the banks stock to satisfy notes
due from HeinZe to Gould.
Charles n. Whitney, member of n
New York brokerage firm that han
died Vanderbilt interests, shot and
killed himself, owing to Ill health.
DR.. Henry Beates, Jr., president of
the Medical Council of Pennsylvania,
declares that the average medical col
lege is inefficient.
Three persons were killed and
eighty injured in the wreck of the
Collier special on the Southern Rail-
road near Atlanta, Ga.
Phineas Wheeler, aged Sc, Il vet
eran Of the Civil War, Of Rome, N.
Y, shot himself owing to an attack
of the grip.