The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
THE news.
Domestic

BY the terms of the will of DR..
Levi j. Shoemaker, of Wilkes-Barre,
Pa, Yale University is given more
3 than 100000 for the medical de-
partment of the institution.
The British schooner Carib II, ar
rived in New York from Ceiba, Trux-
lilo and Porto Cortez with the cap
tain and crew of the British schooner
w. s. Fielding.
Judge Grosscup, in the Appellate
Court in Chicago, denied the gov
ernment's petition to have the $780,
900 bond of John r. Walsh cancelled.
Joseph F. Turner, general agent
of the Nashville, Chattanooga and
st. Louis Railroad, died at his home
in Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. Father Mark Cooney, dean
of the Northern Iowa Diocese and
candidate for coadjutor bishop, died
at Waterloo, la.
Il Four negroes are reported to have
@'been lynched in KemDer County,
Miss, for the murder of peddler
named Kahn.
Robert S. Lovett was elected pfesi-
dent of the Southern Pacific Com
pany, to succeed E. H. Hartman.
Beyond the shadow Of doubt, in
the opinion of the survivors anc
Grand Manan people, Captain New.
man and "a members of his crew
of the Donaldson Line steamer Hes
tia, who put of in their boat after
the steamer left the ledge at Grand
Manan, are lost.
Letters of Wesley M. Oler, pres
&R he To-
one of which claimed that the COM
pany controlled 80 per cent. of the
Maine output, were read at the trial
of the corporation in New York,
Bishop Olmstead, in addressing
Protestant Episcopal Clergy interest
ed in missions, declared the church
gets barely enough to keep on its
feet, while millions are being spent
for chewing gum.
Judge Holt, of the United States
Circuit Court of New York, criticises
the government for granting immu-
nifty to and retaining in its services
customs inspectors who have confess
ed to frauds
Herman Feinberg, senior member
Of H. Feinberg & Son, international
furriers, of New York, was found
guilty of concealing S150,000 in as
sets following a petition in bank.
ruptcy.
After attempting to- murder his
wife by shooting her three times,
Peter Koneski committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head at his
home, in Linfield, Pa.
DR.. e. H. Osborne, of Kansas
City, left will directing that no
clergyman officiate at his. funeral,
and that his ashes be cast into the
Mississippi.
George w. Benjamin, of Chicago,
committed suicide in order that his
poverty-stricken family might col
lect $4,000 insurance he carried.
= The Erwin cotton mills, represent
ing the largest number of spindles
In the South, has agreed to shut
down one day each week.
The income of the Foreign Mis-
sionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church during the past
year was 100000.
A monument to DIR. J. Edward
Turner, who taught that inebriety
was disease, was unveiled at Will
ton, Conn.
The State of Texas has imposed
additional fines of $4,000 against
oil corporations for violation of anti
trust laws.
Forty-one lawyers appeared in a
suit to distribute $2,O0O,0O0 left by
Daniel G. Kingsland, of New York
James Lucas, who was leader of
the posse that pursued John Wilkes
Booth, died in Washington, D. C.
The first spadeful of earth was
turned for monorail line near New
York City.
The New York Central Railroad
viii spend $S5,000,000 for better
Ments.
Foreign