The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-02-28
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Governor Hughes, in an address
"a Chicago, says filming trust officials
"a putting the burden on the public.
He favore fail sentences for corpora
Hon officials.
The corpse of Capt Delos Hayden,
who died In lighthouse off Toledo,
o., was recovered by friends, who
made perilous trip across ice foes.
Announcement that Eastern rail-
roads Will not reduce wages was
made, following conference of rail-
road officials and employees in New
York.
Former Minister to Denmark Carr
delivered an address at Utica, N. Y,
Ii which he compared the admins
trations of Lincoln and Roosevelt.
"a freight train ran into trap set
by trainWreckers for fast passen-
ger train on the Missouri Pacific,
three men being injured.
Jerry M. Vrzal, upon whose EVIL
dence Herman Billik, of Chicago, is
Ghder sentence of death for murder,
has confessed to perjury.
Bishops Potter, Greer and Falkner
are among $50 New York clergymen
who are protesting against increas-
ing the Navy.
William Randolph Hearst, In an
address at Chicago, announced the
principles Of a proposed new national
political party.
After being saved from drowning
]. W. Draper and f. B. Garrett were
killed by train near Pittsburg, Pa.
James W. Turner, who died on an
Ohio farm, wants a monument OF
whisky jugs to his memory.
Joseph Choate declared there is no
cause to apprehend war with Japan.
Justice Brewer declares the nation
II rushing into debt for Injuries.
p. "A. Hartman gained 9 complete
victory in the Illinois Central litiga-
ton. when Judge Ball rendered a
decision dissolving the temporary in
junction granted to Stuyvesant Fish,
BY which 286,231 shares of stock
were enjoined from being voted at
the annual meeting of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company.
Claude Brooks, a negro, who con-
tossed to killing Sidney Herndon, a
Well-to-do bachelor, in his apart
ments in Chicago on January IL,
was found guilty of murder in the
6rst degree and his punishment fixed
Ut death.
Garfield H. Topping, owner of one
Of the first theatres in Chicago, and
pnce owner of the Cotton and Wayne
Minstrel Company, one of the first
Examinations Of it's kind, died at his
home In Darlington, Ill.
Twenty-one policemen and foreign
ers were shot or injured in riot
on Broad Street, Philadelphia, when
the police charged a parade of 1,000
unemployed foreigners carrying red
days.
Joseph Hobbs, alias Joseph Kelley,
Is under arrest in New York as re-
bult of the request made by the police
be Boston. He is charged with rob-
bling three postofices in Massachu-
William Handy, a South Carolina
negro, was hanged in Easton, Pa,
for the murder of Policeman Shu-
man, of South Bethlehem, last sum
mer.
BY the explosion of can of gaso-
line Mrs. Il. L. Dodder and her sister,
Mrs. Hamilton, of Glade, Pa, were
fatally burned in Omaha.
Three business blocks, a hotel and
q livery stable In North Woodstock,
N H., were destroyed by fire.
Robbers smashed a store window
and snatched 112 diamond rings
from jeWefry store in New Orleans.
The Authors Club of New York
plans a memorial to Edgar Allan Poe.
The Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey declared dividend of $15 a
share for the quarter year ending
March 81.
Two brick dwellings in Pittsburg
undermined by the flood collapsed,
the occupants escaping in their night
clothes.
Beech Hargis, who shot and killed
his father, the Kentucky feudist, in
herited $4,000 from his parent.