The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-08-12
The news.
Domestic

The last words In the closing of
the hearing on Harry X. Thaw's writ
Of habeas corpus for release from
Matteawan, heard, were those Of Mrs.
Mary Copley Thaw, which were in
denunciation of a certain person
who had dragged Harry Thaw down"
to the siums of New York's Ten
derloin.
State Superintendent OF Insurance
Hotchkiss, of New York, has denied
the application of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company TO erect
tuberculosis hospital for policyhold-
ers.- deciding that IT is illegal.
The Pittsburg-Buffalo Company.
the largest Independent operators in
Pittsburg has challenged the big
Pittsburg Coal Company and will In
wade the markets of the Northwest.
Paragould, Ark, has passed a law
that nG persons shall be on the
streets of the city between midnight
and A. NJ.
Six persons were injured by the
collision of a B. & o. freight train
and a yard engine during a fog at
Chicago Junction.
The Chicago police arrested three
women at the Congress Hotel on the
allegation that they passed worth
less checks.
More than a half million dollars
worth of gold bricks have been mail
ed from Fairbanks. Alaska. to
Seattle, Wash.
Charles b. Clarke. Thomas Tag
gert's candidate for mayor of In
dianapolis, was defeated in the pri-
maries.
The Rev Alfred II. Burroughs. Of
Bristol Tenn, has OffiCiated at the
marriage of three thousand couples.
Maanah ]. c. T. Young, one of the
four widows of Brigham Young,
died at Salt Lake City.
Abram G. Eby. mayor of Burke
Vile, Ia. was lured to Philadelphia
and captured by postoffice inspectors
on charges that he had written let
ters to President McCrea, Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, demanding
S45, 900 or he would blow up PSnn-
sylvania trains and steamships with
dynamite.
Capt. Rowland w Webster. who
was appointed by the Royal Geo
graphical Society to lead an expedi-
tion to the South Pole, left Los An
geles for New York.
An uprising occurred in the town
of San Carlos, State of Chihuhua,
in which 400 Mexicans seized the
town, resisted the troops and set up
republic.
Friends OF Cashier Calhoun Har-
ris, of the Orr Cotton Mills Com
pany, Anderson, S. c., are inclined
TO believe now that Harris is men
tally unbalanced.
The state rested in the Thaw case
and it devolves IN Harry X. Thaw
and his attorney, Charles Morschaus-
er, to offset the testimony of the
states alienists, who have sworn.
without exception, that Thaw Is still
insane and would be a menace TO the
community if released from the asy-
lum at Matteawan.
Mrs. Merville Castle, who shot
at Lawyer William ,. Craig in the
: Waldorf-Astoria. collapsed in court
when it was announced that she
must occupy a cell until the case
comes up again.
Mayor Skain, of Lexington, Ky, is
! removed from office by a decision
/ by Judge Watts Parker that the cleo
tion was null and void owing to fraud
and corrupt practices.
The menagerie tent OF Barnum &
| Bailey's circus was blown down al
Battle Creek, Mich, and two women
were seriously injured. None of the
animals escaped.
James Russell and Joseph Boren
deputy sheriffs of Oklahoma City
shot each other while searching in
the dark for burglars.
The Jones & NJ, .aughlin Stee
Company has acquired control of s.
500 acres of coal lands of the Pitts
burg-Buffalo Company.
Quan Yick Nam, in crpreter in the
Elsie Sigel case, has been threaten,
ed with death unless ne withdraws
from the case.
The twenty-siXth nnual meeting
of the Anglers Association of the
st. Lawrence River was held at Alex
andria Bay.