The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-09-30
THE news.



death OF Maybelle Millman. whose
5ismembered body was found In
Ecorse Creek, near Detroit. and the
Detroit River in cemen; sacks, was
postponed until October s.
The taking OF testimony OF wit
uesses In the case OF the govern
ment against the waters-Pieree OIL
Company OF ST. Louis. Mo-. for box
ing timber on government land was
begun at Mobile.
The stockholders OF the United
States Leather Company and the
Central Leather Company. at a meet
Ing in Jersey City. voted IN favor OF
the merging of the two companies.
The general court-martial recently
held at Fort Mcpherson has returned
a verdict of acquittal In the case of
Lieut.. l.. w. Hazlehurst and Private
Grover Elan.
The honorary commercial commits
sion of Japan. consisting of 80 or
that country's representative men. on
tour OF the United States, arrived
In Chicago.
witnesses were called before the
grand jury by States Attorney Way
man to give the first testimony In
connection with the jury tampering
scandal in Chicago.
Elsie Sigel. the young missionary
to the Chinese of New York, was
strangled to death by Leon Ling. &C
cording to the verdict of the coro-
ner's jury.
Government meteorological tests
TO be made at indianapolis and at
Omaha simultaneously have been de-
layed by the explosion of two OF Is
balloons.
Whitelaw Reid. American ambas-
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donation of $1,000 to the fund for
a chapter house for the d. K. e col
lege fraternity of Miami University
at Oxford, o.
The cruiser Pennsylvania, OF the
United States Pacific fleet, took first
honors in the speed contest OF the
warships off Honolulu. making an
average speed of 21.50 knots an
hour.
William Hooveral. a fireman at
the Smith ice plant, at Tifin. o.,
was scalded to death when a steam
pipe burst while he was in the boiler
pit cleaning the lues.
Emil Goetz, a wire tester In the
Edison laboratory, New York City, is
dying from the terrible effects OF TO-
600 volts passing through his body.
Secretary of War Dickinson dis
cussed the political situation through
out the South at the Tennessee Fair
at Nashville.
Three sudden deaths within few
months have nearly wiped out the
family of Cornelius Pierce IN Wall
Township, n. ].
Country schools in three districts
OF Wisconsin were closed on account
of an epidemic of infantile paralysis.
Police Inspector Edward Mccain.
of the Chicago police force. charged
with grating was found guilty.
The plant of the Tama-Havana
Lumber Company, at Tampa. Fla,
A Pacific mail liner sailed from
Manila for San Francisco with 2 .O00.-
600 cigars.
Charles w. Hart, a noted trap
shooter, died in Cleveland. o.
According 10 James NJ. Hamill, a
wealthy miner, who has just return
ed from Fairbanks, Alaska, the gold
output Of the Tanana Valley this
year will be more than $12. 900.
An expedition into the haunts OF
Filipino head hunters, including
those of the Moros who killed DR..
William F. Jones, will be undertaken
by F. c. Coale. of Chicago.
Former Congressman Thomas
t1dulnOnu. lOunQSE, VIII MS DIOlu-
er, G.. II. Hammond. deceased. OF
the Hammond Packing Company. OF
Hammond, Ind, died.
+. Augustus Heinze pleaded not
guilty in the criminal branch OF the
United States Circuit Court at New
York to the solitary count left in
the indictment.
The cornerstone of the monument
to be raised by the Italians OF New
York to John DeveraZanno was laid
in Battery Park, New York.
The New York Telephone Com
pany certified to the secretary OF
state that it had increased II capital
stock from $50. 100000 to 100000.
600.
Rev Ray Kunkleman, a Lutheran
pastor, of Greenville, Pa, was mis-
taken for a burglar by his bodyguarC
and shot through the face.
Stephen Daimont, Of Lexington
KY, after an arrest on a charge o
; theft, engaged in a duel with the
/ officer and the mortally shot.
The charred body OF Mrs. Emmt
! Oberg. eighty-one years old, wa
| found in the ashes of her home a
/ lola. Kans
The Thomas Iron Company, o
Easton. Pa, announces a ten pc
cent. increase in the wages Of it
/ 1000 employees.