The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-12-10
The news.
Domestic

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women, striking shirtwaist operators
now demanding higher wages ana
better working conditions in New
York, marched through the East
Side to the City Hail.. where they
presented a petition to Mayor Nc
Clellan.
Two little girls. Agnes Smith and
Annie tLuedke, both 13 years old,
who Escaped from the Industrial
School at Milwaukee on the night OF
November 20 made 40-mile trip
to Jefferson Junction. clinging to the
rods underneath a passenger train.
BY the decision of Judge w. L.
Newman, of the United States Dis
trict Court of Atlanta, Costa George
Najour, Syrian, Is declared white
man and eligible to the privileges
of citizenship in the United States.
Walter G. Smith, a prominent at
torney of Philadelphia, resigned as
a member Of the board of trustees
of the University of Pennsylvania be-
cause he differed with professor
on question of the divorce evil.
Former Queen Liliuokalani. Of
the Hawaiian Islands, has executed
a deed of trust whereby great part
of her 100000 estate after her
death will go to the endowment OF
orphan asylums in the islands.
Lucien j. Irwin. president of the
Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis
Railroad, indicted jointly with his
road ON the charge Of rebating, gave
bonds of $4,000 in the United States
court at Louisville.
Special Agent Parr, of the Treas
ury Department, testified in the SUI
gar frauds hearing that he was ask
ed to name his price to keep quiet
about his discovery of a secret spring
in sugar scales.
Closer social and business rela-
tionship between Boston and Chicago
was the keynote of banquet ten
deyed the members of the Boston
Chamber of Commerce by the Chi
cago Association of Commerce.
Capt. w. A. Johnson, mining ex-
pert. after being evicted from hotel
in. Salt Lake City because he couldn't
pay his bill, committed suicide by
taking cyanide of potassium.
Professor Giddings, of Columbia
University, in an address in New
York, said he sees danger lurking
in the big corporations, and that
they are defying the law.
k1AOOAt L L 0tA AOA dpPOCt Cu IA COutt
in New York in an effort to gain his
freedom, but the judge refused ha-
beas corpus and sent him back to
Sing Sing.
Mrs. Dora E. Doxey, Of Columbus.
Neb., was arrested and charged with
numbering her husband of three
months by placing arsenic in his
food
! Fred Rosena, an italian, was hang.
ed at Newcastle, Pa, for the muir.
der of his cousin, John Coccho, on
July IL. 1908.
John Ellsworth was sentenced to
five years in the state prison al
Mount Holly, N. j., for robbing
Schuyler Rainier.
Marines at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard had an hours battle putting
out fire in the chemical laboratory
building.
The steamer vaderland rescued
the crew of the waterlogged schooner
Eugene Borda of the Massachusetts
coast.
Three persons were injured in
riot in Chicago when strikers at
Tackled occupants of nonunion tailor
shop.
The grand jury at Louisville, in.
dicted two railroads and the Ameri.
can Tobacco Company for rebating.
Dr. William A. Packard, professor
emeritus of Latin in Princeton Uni
Tersity, died at Princeton, N. ].
Governor Stubs was snubbed by
the Topeka Club, of Kansas, in with
drawing dinner invitation because
he fought the club in an effort to
abolish the liquor locker system.
Mrs. Harriet G.. Mott, sister of the
famous Bidwell brothers, who swim
died the Bank of England. and who
spent fortune In obtaining their
Mberty. died at Muskegon, Mich.
DIR. J, T. Zimmerman, in an ad-
dress in Chicago, stated that there |
are 100000 white slaves in the Uni
ted States, and that they represent |
an investment of $54O,OO0,O0O.
Frank M. Coudon, Of Cincinnati,
was the man who informed the Of
flcials Of the Big Four Railroad OF
the defalcations Of Charles L. War
riner.
Eshmayer Surkin, who was pen |
stoned for bravery on the battlefield
by Nicholas 1, of Russia, died in |
Philadelphia, aged one hundred
years.
Governor Hughes was asked to re-
move Bird s. Coler from the presi- |
dency of the Borough of Brooklyn
on charge of incompetency.
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