The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-06-10
The news.
Domestic

John s. Jones has lost his long
legal contest to recover $460.0O0
from George j. Gould and others N
connection with the purchase of the
Little Kanawha Railroad and West
Virginia coal lands.
United States deputy marshals
made a fruitless effort TO serve sub
penas on the directors OF the Uni
ted Copper Company in an effort 10
get record F. Augustus HeinZe re-
fuses TO produce.
William Darragh. the chauffeur
who ran down and killed 13-year-old
Ingyaard Trimble in New York. was
sentenced to from Z to 20 years in
Sing Sing
The Appellate Division of the Su-
preme Court OF Brooklyn ruled that
Harry X. Thaw must remain in the
Mattewan Asylum for the Insane.
Albert T. Patrick's appeal for
liberty or death was denied by the
Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court OF Brooklyn.
Angered at a jury that failed to
convict. Judge McEwen. OF Chicago.
discharged the men without pay.
John ID. Rockefeller declares that
golf is of more interest than finance.
Efforts 10 establish closed shop
conditions among the delivery driv
ers employed by the State Street
Department firms of Chicago led TO
the discharge Of 35 drivers.
The United States cruiser New
York steamed out to sea from New
York with the Naval Board of In
spection. OF which Rear Admiral
Mclean is the head. on board.
Mrs. w a. Peasc. daughter of
Rear Admiral Frederick Rogers. L.
S. N. retired. and a cousin of August
Belmont. was injured at Hampstead,
N Y
The Wright home reception COM
mittee has closed IA contract for a
big pyrotechnic display on the river
on the night of June II.
Jewellers of Oregon will go on
record as opposed TO the slaughter
ing of the harmless horned toad"
John w. Speas, a prominent busi-
ness and club man. committed suicide
in Kansas City.
Sheriff Frank CazaIas. Mobile.
was ordered removed from Office by
the State Supreme Court.
Lady Aberdeen. wife Of the Earl
OF Aberdeen. viceroy of Ireland. is
on her way to America.
Public health officials of Nebraska
will make vigorous campaign
against flies.
The Panama libel case against the
owners the indianapolis News was
continued until October IL to give
the government opportunity to pro-
duce as witnesses Frank Hitchcock
and Norman E. Mack. certain men,
bers of the Office force Of ]. Z.
Morgan & Co. and government off,
cials In Washington
Five members of what is known
as the millionaire Fire Company"
were seriously injured while fighting
fire which destroyed a large barn
owned by DR.. S. w. Powell. at Bryn
Mawr. fashionable suburb OF
Philadelphia.
ID. w. Woods. Fred Torgenson and
c. Gordon. charged with being i'm
plicated in the holdup of the Over
land Limited. on the Union Pacific
Railroad. on May %. were identified
by % witnesses
A shortage in the funds OF the
Lewiston (Idaho) National Bank is
said to be due TO the manipulation
of an adding machine.
Charles Harvey was sentenced to
six months in jail for smoking in
a closed car on the Brooklyn On. Y
elevated road.
Corpses to the number of $500
have been removed from the site for
the Catskill aQueduct and Ashokan
reservoir.
Frank GoOdalI crossed the Hudson
River In a dirigibIe airship. haIting
over the cruiser New York.