The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
THE news,
pornestic

Counsel for the Wardlaw sisters
are moving to get the women &C
cused OF the murder of Mrs. O. W.
M. Snead released on the ground that
morphine found in the woman's stom-
ach indicates suicide.
The engineer Of the freight train
that ran into the rear end Of the
Montreal express on the New York
Central has been held responsible for
the death OF Spencer Trask.
A vehicle containing Mrs. S. r..
Break and infant plunged from a
precipice into Blanco Canyon. Texas.
causing instant death, after which
the cor2ses were burned.
Frederick Mars, who discovered
the process of making paper from
wood pulp, and who had factory
in Baltimore, died near Utica, n. T..
Ella Gingles. the Irish lacemaker
who was found bound and gagged
in Chicago hotel has been married
in Ireland.
Prof. George w Yates, a widely
known educator died in his ninety
senond year at New Haven. CT.
Rafaele Pisano, leader of the
Blnsk Hand, was sentenced to Jail
III 90 cAtS ~ Suu6C @"ccSe' ~
New York. So
The present probe into the Beef.
Trust, 10 was said, in Chicago, was
brought about by four members Of
the federal grand jury OF 1908. who
started an investigation at that
time.
Lieut.. H. w. Torney, U. S. A..
arrested with Miss. Inez Milholland
at meeting of the shirtwaist strik-
ers in New York, was discharged by
Magistrate Hermann.
Alfred Wnek was hanged at Phila-
delphia for the murder of Emma
Kurner, aged IL years. whom he shot
because she refused to marry him.
Vernon Barr. aged 16, and Lima
at Des Moines, Iowa. because their
parents opposed their marriage.
A case of scralet fever has caused
M. Huston, at Harrisburg. in the
State Capitol scandal
Mrs. Edwina r. Hathaway, wife
of Capt. Henry 5. Hathaway. U. S.
Signal Corps. obtained divorce In
New York.
Rear Admiral Nehemiah Mayo
died suddenly in Boston of cancer
OF the bowels
Prof. J. E. Fould. OF the Univer-
comet is showing signs of splitting IN
two.
George L. Marion. the New York
numbering his wife at Wilkes Barre.
Pa.
An advance in the salaries of pub
lie school teachers In Chicago was
voted by the Board of Education
Four men were killed and three
injured when a freight engine jump
ed the track near Titusville, Pa.
The proposed copper merger Gre
ated lively interest In Wall Street.
and many rumors were denied.
Oliver Perrin fled a petition In
New York declaring that his brother.
Lawrence Perrin. is insane.
The federal governments prosecu.
ton of Uhe publishers of the New
York World was stopped by the Fed
eral Court Of New York. Judge
Hough quashing the Indictment
against the Press Publishing Com
pany. publishers Of the World, for
alleged libel in connection with pub
locations concerning the Panama
Canal purchase. on the grounds that
the court was without jurisdiction.
Police are guarding the school
house at Asptnwall. Pa. owing to a
dispute between the school and
health authorities over an epidemic
of measles.
The principal copper producers Of
the United States are forming a sim
gle corporation with capitalization
OF $500. 100000
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
declares that poor farming, and not
the tariff. is to blame for the high
prices of food
Lawrence Per.E Is said TO have
spent $4,000 in his recent trip to
Spain, Morocco and Gibralter.
Prof. Edward Y. Reynolds. of the
law school at Yale University. died
from pneumonia