The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-10-21
The news.
Domestic

The murder OF j. o. Breeland, his
wife and stepdaughter, Mrs. Joe
Everette, was the crime for which
Avery Blunt paid the penalty of
death on the gallows at Amite, La.
In his eagerness to complete his
education at the Chicago University
High School. Benjamin Louis, 19
years old, stole a revolver and a pair
OF opera glasses.
Mrs. Edmund K. Stallo, mother of
Carl II. Hanna, said that she would
begin the necessary legal proceed
1ngs to annul the marriage of her
son.
The Ohio Home Telephone Com
pany was incorporated at Columbus
for the purpose of leasing the prop
erty of the United States Telephone
Company.
Mrs. Will Harris, of Los Angeles,
admitted that the man who killed
himself Wednesday after robbing a
bank in Highland Park, ILL.,, was her
son.
The death of Mrs. Minnie CRUDE
at Cleveland adds a second victim
to the tragedy in which John Sherry
killed his wife and her sister.
A receiver was appointed for Sol
ONION Brothers, New York, dealers
in oriental goods, with. branches in
Cleveland, Chicago and st. Louis.
A cabman, supposed to be Charles
n. Furbish, was found dead on the
river drive in Fairmount Park, Phil
adelphia.
The launch Sarah L., five days out
of Walker, Mimi, is believed to have
gone done with all on board.
Mrs. Edmund K StallO. declared
that the marriage of her son, Carl
H. Hanna, to Gertrude Jerome
Leavitt, of Short Hills. n. J., was
surprise to his parents.
Charles S. Francis, of Troy, n. j.,
United States ambassador to Austria
Hungary, with Mrs. Francis sailed
on the steamship George Washing
ton for Bremen.
Justice William j. Gaynor, Demo
cratic candidate for mayor of New
York City, filed his resignation as a
member of the appellate division OF
the Supreme Court
The body of John f. Kerrigan,
which was buried in Potter's Field
at New York as an unknown suicide,
will be disinterred and sent to
Charleston, S. G.
Technical resolutions relating to
proper warning methods on railways
were adopted by the National Asso-
citation of Signal Engineers at Louis
vile.
Two convicted murderers, Thomas
Willis, a negro and Stanley Nazarko,
a Slav, were hanged in the Luzerne
County prison at Wilkes-Barre.
On a charge of larceny of a dia.
mond ring frcn a dead woman's
finger. Miss Margaret Landers, %
years old, Of Lynn, was arrested al
Boston.
Edward Singer. a mail handler,
employed by the Chicago Great
Western Railroad, was arrested by
pOstofice inspectors at Chicago.
holland c. Gertner, who is under
indictment at Kingston, o., on the
charge of embezzling S15O.000 tc
$4,000, was placed In Jail.
Fifty manufacturers of caskets
who met at Cincinnati declared that
funerals were too cheap and the price
of cakets too low.
Omis Evans, a 12-year-old youth.
heir to a fortune, who. was supposed
to have been kidnapped at Muskogee
was found
The Great Northern Railroad has
closed a contract with the Pressed
Steel Car Company of Pittsburg for
1000 all-steel cars.
The delegates to the twenty.
fourth annual convention of the
Brotherhood of st. Andrew met in
Grace Church, Providence.
An unnamed donor has pledged
$15O.000 to the proposed S60O.00O
endowment fund for Wooster Uni.
versity.
Receiver Schofield took charge oi
the First National Bank at Min.
eral Point. Wis.
Ten trains. III cars. left San An.
tonic for FL Paso bearing United
States troops.