The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-12-03
The news,
Domestic

A new series of alleged customs
frauds was brought to light In New
York with the arrest Of Thomas G.
Giddings, a customs weigher. on an
indictment charging him with con.
spiracy to defraud the government
in connection with importations OF
figs in 1906.
The property of the Rock Island
Holding Company is to be divided,
II negotiations now under way sue
coed. and the St. Louis. and San
Francisco, with its dependent lines,
and the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific are to be operated inpendent.
ly.
The American Piano Company's
suits brought in New Jersey against
the Ernest and William Knabe Com
pany and all questions in dispute
between them have been amicably
adjusted.
A letter was received by Score.
tary Bridgman, of the Peary Arctic
Club, from Col. Theodore Roosevelt
who said he was glad Peary discov-
cred the North Pole.
Wind blew down the chimney on
the home of Charles Herrick at
Lynn, Mass, closing the damper OF
the stove and asphyxiating two per-
sons.
The report of DR.. Frederick A
Cook, showing that he reached the
North Pole, was taken abroad by
his private secretary who sailed on
the steamship United States for Co
penhagen.
Col. J. A. Wylie, fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society of Eng
land. said in New York that the
stories of cruel slave trade in Por-
tuguese East Africa are not true.
Vincent and Joseph Altman, &C
cused of throwing bomb which
wrecked the plant of the Standard
Sash and Door Company. Chicago,
were found not guilty.
William F. Mccormick, of Chica-
go, Bible student. jumped from
third story window to his death, aft
err shouting good-by to his room
mate.
Monroe Pritz, of st. Louis. after
a silence of two months, had his
speech restored by an operation and
he told of an assault upon him.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her
daughter, Miss Ethel, arrived from
abroad on the steamer Koenig Al
bert, docking at New York.
The prisoners in the st. Louis
workhouse turned down turkey and
asked for frankfurters and sauer-
graut for their Thanksgiving dinner
Governor Patterson, Of Tennessee.
granted 18 Thanksgiving pardons to
10 white men and s negroes.
Col. John Jacob Aston is still at
San Juan. Porto Rico, on his yacht
Nourmahal
The beaGest Of John Stuart Ken
nedy, the New York millionaire, to
the Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions amounts to $5,OOO,0OO, IN
stead of $1,0O0,000, as Originally
announced.
Herbert Parsons makes the an
nouncement that Theodore Roosevelt
declined the Republican nomination
for mayor of Greater New York just
before the recent campaign.
Mrs. Grace Hubbard, of Chicago
a poverty-stricken author of stage
comedies, ended her life when she
found manager had stolen one OF
her plays and produced 1t.
New York City is to build a $780,
100000 water supply aqueduct 500
feet below the surface of the city
to carry the water supply from the
Catskills.
Over one hundred and fifty dead
were found choking stairway and
piled on top of ridge of ground
in the st. Paul mine at Cherry. ILL.,
Alice Mohen, of New York: was
run down and killed by a chauffeur,
who shook her corpse from the
wheels of the machine and fled.
Leonard Ettler, aged Is years. OF
Pittsburg, died of blood poisoning
caused by injuries received in game
of football.
The congregation of the Christian
Church at Beaver, Okla, has gone to
farming to pay off church debts.
DR.. L. T. Holt, dentist of Phil
lips, Mo-, mistaken for deer. was
shot and killed by his nephew.
Miss Florence Bishop, formerly "a
well known actress, was burned to
death at Rochester. N. Y.
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