The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-31

Dorraestic
By GRAPH

D4A4AeSAD eAeS
James Stillman, president of the
National City Eank, has resigned from
the Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cific Companies directorate, and also
from the executive committee of both
companies. He has been succeeded
in these positions by Frank a. Van
dersIice, vice president of the Ma
tonal City Bank.
Al might riders outrage took
place at Dawson, KY, when SO mask
ed men shot up the Arcadia Hotel,
took out John Heath, an Independent
tobacco buyer, ad forced him, under
threats Of a ducking in river. to.
promise not to sell any more to-
bacco.
Through treaty of peace and
working alliance signed in New York
the Hartman and Gould railroad in
terests are reported in San Francisco
to have terminated all conflicts, and
hereafter the two big railroad sys-
TENS will act in harmony in the West.
Engineer M. v. Nelson was killed
and several others injured by the
derailment of a passenger train on
the Stout's Mountain branch of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad at
Chelsea, Alabama.
Because of the falling OF in traf-
fic there are 100000 freight cars
and 5000 locomotives idle In the
United States, and as a result, 3d.
900 men less are needed by the COM
panies.
While attempting to start a fire
with kerosene oil Mrs. Sarah Hor-.
vitz was fatally burned and the mem
bers of six families in Pittsburg had
to be carried to safety by firemen.
Lawson e. Emerson, former clerk
of the Ohio Supreme Court, and L.
L. HI. Austin, former state senator,
completed their terms in jail.
Nils Nelson, light tender at the
lighthouse on the New Haven Break
water, committed suicide by cutting
his throat.
Saverio Curcio, an Italian, was
hanged in the county jail at Scran-
ton for the murder of Nicholas Fer
rias.
An attempt was made to fire and
dynamite the Loose Tobacco Factory
of the Hayes-Sorey Tobacco Company,
at GAINESVILLE, Tenn, in which two
negroes were killed by Waterman.
to have been wounded.
Judge Phillips, of Cleveland, O., In
deciding the case against the ANAL
gamated Glassworkers' Union held
that the organization was In restraint
of trade and ordered its dissolution
on the ground of public policy.
Anthony Comstock testified in the
Thaw trial that the prisoner gave him
$500 with which to attempt to get
evidence against Stanford White.
RESOLUTIONS favoring government
control of public cattle grazing lands
were adopted by the American Ma
tional Livestock Association.
Medical Inspector Heneberger,
United States Navy, is effecting two
cures of spinal-meningitis with the
Flexner serum.
1t Is reported that two Japanese
were seen lettering about Fort Ste
vens, Ore.
one hundred carpenters asked
Mayor Reyburn, of Philadelphia, FOR
work.
The Traders and Mechanics Bank
of Pittsburg has closed it's doors.
Edward Neidling, the living skele-
ton. is dead at Ansonia, CT.
Otto Kelsey, New York state SUI
perintendent of insurance, declares
that under the new laws business OF
the New York companies has fallen
of millions.
Thirty-five thousand stolen tickets
of the Washington Cd. CO. Electric
Railway and Electric Company have
been recovered In New York.
The New York Board of Aldermen
has passed an ordinance prohibiting
women smoking in public places.
The Black Hand exploded three
bombs in different sections of New
York's Little italy.
A. J. Turpin, who supplied the
English Army and Navy with tobac-
CO, died in Kentucky.