The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-08-26
The News.
Domestic


temperatures ranging from 95 to
1lV degrees was broken by the most
severe electrical storm ever expert
enced In Central Louisiana.
Henry LaFranc and hfs wife were
kllieo and their three-year-old daugh-
Cer was seriously injured when their
automobile was struck by a car.
MRS. Anton II. Strause, mother of
SIX children, residing near East Great
FORKS, Minn., killed her one-year-olJ
daughter and three-year-old son.
MISS Virginia Paul, Of Lansdowne,
IA, and w. Brooke Lessig, a Law Yer
OF Philadelphia, were drowned in the
surf at Wildwood, N ].
The corpse OF William Leach. aged
70 years. the throat cut from ear to
ear, was found on railroad tracks
near Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Judge John M. Dean, a pioneer OF
west Texas and former district at
torney OF Ell Paso, died at the Con-
gress Hotel, Chicago.
The steamer City of Green Bav.
owned by Capt. c. n. Moiles, of Sag
NAV, Mich, was destroyed by fire
Thursday on Saginaw Bay.
The entire force of the Westing-
house Electric and MANUFACTURING
company at East Pittsburg has been
placed on full time.
Whitelaw Reid, American ambas-
sador to Great Britain, arrived on
the steamer Mauretania, from Liver
pool and Queenstown.
Former Governor Warfield had n
conference with President McCrea. of
the pennsylvania Railroad, in Phila-
oelphla, on the Union Station project
Tor Baltimore.
The International Pressmen's I'm
Ion has purchased land In Hawkins
county, Tenn, where a home for dis
aoled pressmen and stereotypers will
be established.
BY direction of President Taft
seven cadets involved in the hazing
or Cadet Rolando Sutton have been
dismissed from the Military Acad-
emy.
A letter containing a check for
SI'VOO was found among rubbish un-
der the flooring OF a substation OF
the Chicago postoffice.
trains have been blocked in noun
talns and tracks washed away in
Colorado by the Arkansas River oy-
erfowing its banks.
The seagoing barge Shawmont
foundered off Shinnecock, r. l.. and
all hands Give mem were drowned.
A new geyser. playing from $50
TO zoo feet In the air, has made its
appearance in Yellowstone Park.
Edward Lateril, of San Francisco.
nearly bled to death when a stifI
collar cut his throat
Rev. Carl S. Jones. of Detroit
Mich, has mysteriously disappeared
Mrs. Belle Bemis Barber got. per-
mission from Supreme Court Justice
CON to serve a summons and COM
plant, by publication. upon her hus-
Dand, DR.. George Holcomb Barber,
L. >. N, in a suit for separation. the
wife alleging that her husband de-
serted her in New York nine years
ago.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of
gambling apparatus, seized at French
Lick Springs. were burned by the
State authorities of Indiana.
Cornelius p. Cuyler, the New York
banker, killed while motoring in
France, left 100000 to Princeton
University.
Madden Pierson, missing seaman
from the wrecked schooner Airing
ton, was picked up adrift on a hatch
way.
The fortieth anniversary of the
founding of the Prohibition party
will be observed in Chicago Septem-
ber 81
Elmer Burritt Bryan, of Franklin
College, Indiana, has been elected
president of Colgate University.
Samuel j. Seligman. the New York
banker, dropped dead at his sum-
mer home, at Deal, N. ].
Harry X. Thaw was returned to
Matteawan Asylum.