The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-12-17
The news.
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Harry e. Hayes, junior member of
the brokerage and banking firm OF
w. j. Hayes & Son, of Cleveland o.,
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
a term of five years following has
conviction for embezzling $4,000 in
Cincinnati, Bluffton and Chicago
Railroad bonds.
DR.. Eugene Jones and Frederick
Schenck are dead and Gabriel Jacobs
and Mrs. j. A. Jones are dying as
the result of domestic tragedy at
Oakland, Cal.
o. E. Boley, who escaped from
an insane asylum at Masilion, o., and
killed Sheriff Jacob Bell, was cap
tured by posse after being shot.
The United States Pacific fleet
sailed from Manila, the ships sepa-
rating, some going to Chinese and
others to Japanese ports.
What are supposed to be the
foundations of the original Harvard
College building have been unearth-
ed at Cambridge, Mass.
Five hundred thousand bales of
cotton changed hands at record
prices on the governments report of
short crop.
The Rev. DR.. David C. Hughes,
father of Governor Hughes. Of New
York, is ILL.,
Charles Wake, an intimate friend
of DIR. Cook, says he is not in a
sanitarium.
Mr.. Oscar G. Murray was reelected
president of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad by the board of directors,
who met in New York. Other ex-
ecutive officers of the company were
reelected. Capt. George W. Booth
was elected comptroller, to succeed
the late H. D. Buckley. Mr.. Murray
said he would remain president
A movement was reported in Wall
Street for the formation of new
trunk line between Chicago and New
York as the result of closer relations
between the Lehigh Valley and the
Wabash Railroads.
Baron and Baroness Won Wiemow-
ski, the latter formerly Bertha
Krupp, daughter of the German can
nonmaker, had to barricade them
selves in their suite in Chicago to
avoid curious persons. N
DR.. Torp, rector Of the University
OF Copenhagen, stated that the
charges made by Captain Loose and
G. w. Dunlle against DR.. Cook were
pure nctIon.
In the suit of Mrs W. Gould
Brokaw for separation from her hus-
hand, with 100000 year alimony,
kilograms were introduced to show
her millionaire husbands's insane
jealousy.
Yale University was bequeathed
100000 for the Sheffield Scientific
School by the late Charles H. Far
nam, Jr.
The officials of the tin mills at
Bridgeport, o., have made prepare
tions to bring in strikebreakers to.
operate the plants.
Four of the crew of the freighter
Richardson persisted when the vessel
foundered in Lake Erie.
Theodore N. Vail, president OF
the American Telephone and Tele-
Clowry, president of the Western
been summoned to appear before a
lature probing the merger OF the
corporations.
George P. Sheldon, who was de-
posed from the presidency of the
Phoenix Insurance Company and is
Greenwich, Ct, was indicted by the
grand jury of New York on charges
of grand larceny.
President Brown, of the New
York Central, declares any raise in
wages of railroad men will have to
come out of increased railroad rates.
Darwin P. Kingsley, president OF
the New York Life Insurance Com
pany, denies that j. Pierpont Nor
gan has control of the company.
Underweighing sugar and cheating
the government of duties is ten
years old, according to James Con-
lon, former custom-house weigher.
The Surrogate's Court of Kings
County, New York, has upheld an
oral will made by George O'Connor
while he was dying at sea.
The home of seven non-union tin
workers at Struthers. Pa, was
blown up by dynamite and seven
occupants injured.
Mrs. w. Gould Brokaw. wife of
the millionaire yachtsman, has en-
tered suit for separation and $780,
900 a year alimony.
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