The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-06
The news.
Domestic

case. upset the prisoner by express
Ing the belief that Thaw may be
suffering from an exaggerated ego
or an insane delusion as to his own
ability and Importance.
Captain John Pugh Green. vice
president of the Pennsylvania for
~ years and in the service Of the
company for over forty years. will
retire. having reached the age limit
Of seventy years.
Henry M. Putney, chairman OF the
New Hampshire State Board of Rail-
road Commissioners and for many
years power in Republican party
politics, died at his home in Man
chester.
Sergeant Fuller and Privates
Schmidt and Goodman, of Fort Oma-
ha. who drank typhoid fever germs
and then took typhoid serum. are
declared immune from the disease.
The body of Ensign Hugh Kerr
Aiken, of Louisiana. who was killed
by coal gas explosion on the ar
mored cruiser North Carolina at Ma
PIES arrived in New York.
Noah r. Marker. assistant cashier
of the First National Bank Of Tip
ton, Ind, who has been missing. re-
turned to his home and was arrest
ed.
Tammany Hall has offered the
nomination for mayor of New York
to Herman Ridder, proprietor Of the
New York Staatz Zeitung.
One man was killed and ten per-
sons seriously injured when Frisco
switch engine era ed into street
car in Memphis. Tenn.
Forty miners were overcome by
gas in the Central Coal and Coke
Company's mine No. 81. at Pitts
burg, Kan.
The annual field day of the Actors
and Theatrical Managers of America
was held at the New York Polo
Grounds and the receipts will be
turned ov. to the New York Home
for Destitute and Crippled Children.
Francis Jefferies, a painter. who
eloped with Mrs. Alice Berman, the
wife of stock broker. declares he
tried to poison the husband before
running away with the wife.
The front of the store of James
Antinozzi, an Italian merchant of
Hazleton, Pa, who refused a Black
Hand demand for money. was blown
out by dynamite.
Mrs Margaret l.. C. McComas,
owner of the Mountain House and
Chapman Manor at Blue Ridge Sum-
NIT, Pa, is dead
A big electrical storm struck Chi
cago, causing much damage and kill
ing two persons.
William j. Bryan denies that he
will move out cfyNebraska.
Giovanni Zarcone, the Italian muir
dered nea2 Danbury, Conn, was the
fourth man connected with the mys-
FERROUS barrel murder in New York
in 1908 to meet a violent death.
The engineer of the rassenger and
freight steamer Delaware, who was
asleep abo-rd ship, was rescued from
drowning as the vessel sank at her
pier in Philadelphia.
Rumors are in circulation that
Charles S. Mellen, of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
will succeed President Tuttle, of the
Boston and Maine.
Mrs. GorGon Hoyt and her daugh-
ter, Miss Clara Hoyt, were drowned
at Snug Harbor. N. Y. while the
mother was attempting to rescue her
daughter.
Sigmund Klobber.~ Of Chicago, was
held up by pretty young woman
with revolver and robbed of
diamond stud.
The torpedo-1oat destroyer Ferret
cut through the ENHANCEMENT of
timbers and wire guarding the har-
Dor of Portsmouth.
Mrs Mary S. Dickerson, aunt of
the wife of Vice President James S.
Sherman, left an estate. of 100000.
but no will.
Mayor Reyburn, of Philadelphia.
delivered an address against the pro-
posed federal income tax.
Owen Rowley. while laughing at
joke. fell Is feet, broke his spine
and may die.