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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
RAIN of BULLETS
GREET THE FIREMEN
Triple Crime By a Crazed Fire
Fighter.
SHOOTS SELF, ENDING NAN HUNT.
Turns in False Alarm Of Fire and
Then Fires Into Ranks of Former
Associates. Killing One-H urries
to His Home and Murders Wife and
Baby While They Sleep.

San Diego, Cal. Especially Bert S.
Durham, former city fireman, in a
spirit of revenge turned in false alarm
Of fire, and when his former fellow-work-
men responded he fred volley Of shots
at them, killing one ana probably fatally
injuring two others. Durham then ran
to his home, and with a piece of steel
wrapped in a handkerchief beat his wife
and baby about their heads as they lay
asleep, killing both.
Fearing the crazed man might make an
assault on his parents, Chief of Police
Wilson placed guard about their house.
A guard also was placed about Durham's
home on d street to prevent the muir
derer from returning and firing on those
attending the bodies of : his wife and
child. Durham escaped. 1t is believed
he will end his own life.
Several months ago Durham was dis
charged from the fire department for in
subordination. He was said to be quar-
relsome. Durham was wagon driver.
His dismissal is said to have preyed
on his mind until he concocted a plan: for
obtaining revenge. I.
After midnight he turned in false
alarm in a distant quarter of the city
and awaited the response of the fire COM
pany. Upon its arrival he opened fire
with a revolver.
At the first shot Driver Don Grant fell
to the ground dead with a bullet through
his head. At the second shot Hoseman
Guy Elliott fell with bullet in his stom-
ach. Peter Sampsell was shot through
the lungs.
Two more shots were fired at the mem
bers of the crew, but they went wild. At
this instant Assistant Fire Chief Snede
Ger drove up Menacing the assistant
chief and the members of the fire depart
ment with his revolver. Durham made his
retreat. As he disappeared in the dark
ness he called back to the men:
"Tell my wife am going to commit
suicide"
Within a few minutes the police were
notified, and score of officers in auto
mobiles were on the scene searching for
Durham. When, they went to his home
the second tragedy was discovered. Dur
ham had locked the doors Of his home
after him.
At st. Joseph's Hospital it was said
Sanpsell would die, but there was some
hope for Elliott.
Mrs. Durham, according to neighbors,
had been afraid Of her husband for some
time. and recently sent a warming to
Chief Wilson, She also is said to have
taken revolvers away from Durham on
two different occasions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
JOHN G. CARLISLE DEAD.
Statesman and Politician Dies Of
Heart Failure.

New York Especially After making a
valiant fight against the occasional at
tacks Of acute indigestion which have
Frustrated him periodically for years,
John Griffin Carlisle, who was Secretary
Of the Treasury under Grover Cleveland
in the latter's second administration as
President, died at 1850 P. NJ, in the
Hotel Wolcott. He was rs years old
There was sharp turn for. the worse
in the condition of Mr.. Carlisle early in
the day, and the physicians then an
nounced that he could not possibly sur
vive another "a hours, although this had
been said of him on previous occasions,
when his extraordinary vitality pulled
him through the crisis.
Mr.. Carlisle had fresh attack of in
digestion at the Wolcott about week
ago Despite all that could be done, the
aged man grew weaker day by day, al
though he had occasional rallies even
when the physicians thought he was
breathing his last. Burial will be in
the family plot at Covington, KY.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
|ONE DEAD, Two HURT
BY SU|TOR'S BULLETS
Tragedy Follows Refusal to Ad-
init Man to See InamOrafa.
Kills Landlady, Wounds Object of Aft
lection - Then Love Mad Swain
Turns Pistol on Self and Tries
Suicide-Will Probably Die.

Toledo, o. Especially Enraged because
he had been denied admittance to house
where woman lived. and upon whom he
had been forcing his attentions, George
Coyle, SO years old, shot and killed the
.landlady, Mrs. Edward Hoefflinger, 50
years old, and wounded Mrs. Dora Stoner
Wilson, 81 years old Coyle then shot
himself in the head and will die.
A month ago Coyle was arrested for
annoying Mrs. Wilson. He continued to
bother her, her friends say. Mrs. Hoef-
finger, with whom Mrs Wilson roomed,
was ironing in the kitchen, when Coyie
let him pass the kitchen. Without a
word of warning Coyle pulled 4 revolver
and fred once at Mrs. Hoeffiinger. Bleed
ing from a wound in the breast she rush
ed out of doors, falling on her face in the
grass. She died almost instantly.
Mrs. Wilson was in bed in a front
room on the first floor. She screamed
and ran upstairs when she heard the shot.
Coyle followed her up the stairs but she
eluded him by going into another room
and then ran down the steps. She had
nearly reached the bottom step when
Coyle caught sight of her. He shot twice.
One bullet took effect in her right side and
the other bullet shattered the fingers Of
her right hand. Coyle made no attempt
to follow Mrs. Wilson. Instead, he
walked back to room overlooking the
yard where Mrs. Hoefiinger lay dead.
z 1t is believed that Coyle was looking
at the body Of his victim when he fired
the bullet into his own head.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
ADVOCATE GOOD ROADS.
National Good Roads Congress Con-
venes At Niagara.

Niagara Falls, N. Y. Especially -
Cooperation between the federal
and state government in the good
roads movement was advocated by
the speakers at the session of the
third annual convention of the Ma
tional Good Roads Congress. B. F..
Yoakum, of the st. Louis and San
Francisco Railroad, and Congress
man William Sulzer, of New York.
favored the idea of the federal gov
eminent loaning money to the state
for good road building.
In the general discussion which
followed Martin Dodge, of Washing
ton, spoke in favor of the national
government making appropriations
equal to the amount expended by the
states for road construction.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
KILLED BY ELEPHANT.
F. n. Tilden, Soldier OF Fortune.
Meets Death In Africa.

Sacramento, Cal. Especially
Frank N. Tilden, a solder of for
tune, son of the late Judge M. c..
Tilden, of Sacramento and Carson
City, New, was killed by an elephant
he had wounded near Fort Jameson,
Rhodesia, South Africa. May 2S last,
according to a letter received here
by Capt. e. L. Hawk from w. A.
Rowell.- of San Francisco, who ac-
companied Tilden to South Africa
two years ago. Tilden made for
tune in African and Alaskan gold
fields. He owned large rubber
plantation at the time of his death.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
PENNsY. SIGNS WAGE SCALE.
Men Said to Have Received Slightly
Higher Wages.

Pittsburg, Pa. Especially .-"All differ
ences between the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company and its men on lines west of
Pittsburg have been satisfactorily ad-
iusted." This statement was made by
General Manager G. L. Peck, of the lines
west, following the concluding conference
of nearly three weeks negotiation. A new
wage scale was signed which covers
tecRnicalities in working conditions OF
which the men complained. The basis of
adjustment is practically the same as the
New York Central award, with wages
slightly higher, according to G. R. Sinos,
vice president of the Order of Railway
Trainmen.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
FARMING BY sUBIRRIGATIoN.
Moisture Is Supplied BY Melting Ice
In Alaska Interior.

Washington. D. c. Especially
Farming by subirrigation and with
the moisture supplied by melting ice
is novel agricultural method
adopted in the interior Of Alaska,
according to the official report of
Chief Special Agent Mckenzie, who
supervised the taking of the recent
census in the Fourth District of that
territory. The system is proving
surprisingly successful. Many kinds
of vegetables are being grown, thus
rendering living conditions more toll
cradle in the far northern country.
The future is most promising in this
respect. believes Mr.. Mckenzie
Agriculture in this portion of
Alaska is yet in its infancy says
Mr.. Mckenzie. "b4t it has arrived
at such proportions as to be consid-
cred almost wonderful in its results.
If all the returns are taken they will
show a very remarkable condition
when 1t is considered that 1t is a
condition existing within the Arctic
Circle,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
ARRESTED NEAR THE
BANK he HAD ROBBED
.2sziTGl.a Wider Caught in New
York Restaurant.
Cashier of the Russo Chinese Bang,
Who Got Away With 100000, Was
a Pitiful Sight When Captured
Held in the Tombs on $4,000 Bail.

New York tSpecialy "A frail, little
man with gray cheeks and hollow eeys,
in whose manner and presence there was
nothing to suggest that singlehanded he
had coolly lifted 100000 in bonds and
stocks from the strong box of bank,
was arrested here in downtown restau,
rant, not five minutes walk from the bank
he had robbed. He was Erwin Wider.
the missing cashier Of the Russo Chinese
Bank. In the Court Of General Sessions
his lawyer, Leon Ginsberg, said that he
would plead guilty, and he was committed
to the Tombs in default of $25, 900 bail
Ginsberg pleaded vainly with Judge War.
rem Foster for lower amount, saying
none of this money is in my clients
possession. It was all swallowed up in
Wall Street speculation"
Almost as Wider was arrested the
grand jury handed up an indictment
against him, charging specifically that he
stole three certificates, one of so shares
and two others of Is shares each of Bal
timore and Ohio stock, and that he dis.
posed of them through the brokerage
house of Dick Brothers on May % last
These particulars indicate that the pro-
cess of theft had been going on for weeks
and possibly for months before it was
discovered.
How such a State Of affairs could have
existed is difficult to understand, for at
least three other officers of the bank had
access to the safety deposit box in which
the banks securities We're kept, and the
box itself was brought daily to the offices
of the bank, where it was kept during
business hours in the banks safe. Brok
ers with whom Wider traded have said
them orders over the telephone.
Ginsberg's statement that all the sum
stolen had been eaten up in speculation
would seem to indicate that the bank will
never recover dollar. 1t has been said
heretofore that suits would be filed
against the brokers with whom Wider
dealt, but no such suits have yet been in
stituted.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
Some Of us who used to chew CUR

Some OF us who used to chew gum.
says the New York Mail. wax" we
called It then--in our school days
recall the favorite depository Of the
morsel when it was not working. We
attached It to the under side Of our
desks. where it was screened from
observation and more CT less pro-
tected from dust. In some of the
kindergarten schools of this city a
gentler dispensation prevails. Gum
is not connscated. but the tiny tots 2
as the journalistic euphemism has It,
are instructed to deposit same Just
back Of the ear. In that lodgment II
Is invisible and portable. and nobody
else can plagiarize 1t for surrep-
tktious chew.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

William X. Herr, of the District of
Columbia, one of the younger assistant
attorney generals, is now acting head of
The Department of Justice. Assistant
Attorney General Fowler left for his
home in Tennessee.
Millers have been directed to stop
bleaching, fonr. Prosecution is threat
ened if shipments are made in interstate
commerce.
The State Department. aided by the
Army and Navy, will receive Chili's
President upon his arrival at New York.
The government is about to bring an
antitrust suit against the American
Sugar Refining Company.
Prince Tsai Hsun. of China, accom-
panied by Admiral Sab, is coming here to
study naval affairs.
Lieutenant Commander Henry T.
Baker was reduced so numbers for ut
tering falsehood.
Mail matter sent from this country via
the steamship La Lorraine was destroyed
by fire as it arrived in France.
The government reccipts from liquor
licenses in l5l cities foot up annually
nearly S42,000.000.
Major General Wood viii rall upon the
President for conference on army mat
tiers.
Secretary Wilson. of the Agricultural
Department, is surveying the forests with
the view of improving the service, Gif-
ford Pinchot criticizes the water-power
policy of the Interior Department.
According to the Census Bureau New
York's debt amounts in the aggregate to
40 per cent. of the net Indebtedness of all
cities in the country having a population
of more than 10000.
A number of concerns who have been
shipping edible animal oil that has not
been inspected and passed will be prose-
cuted.
Gertrude Monsen, pellsgro patient at
Georgetown University Hospital, is re-
covering.
A new national forest has been created
in California and christened the EIdorado
Rear Admiral Schroeder recommends
government control of all wireless plants.
Pope Plus X. win confer honors on sew
eral distinguished Catholics in America.
The fraud order against Mrs. Alice
Peterson, of JohnStown, Pa, who
asked marrying men for money for
transportation. has been revoked.
Charges that the United States
Coast and Geodotic Survey has been
using a coast steamer for pleasure
purposes have been filed by Col A.
J. Gordon Kane.
The Census Bureau report shows
that the rate of interest paid by
cities for money borrowed is gradu-
ally Increasing. :
Mr.. and Mrs, Theodore Roosevelt,
IT. have ended their honeymoon.
The State Department has beer.
notified by Commander Hines that
American lives and property In
Northeastern Nicaragua are in no
danger.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
Woman Aviator Hurt

Lordon Especial Mime. Franck, a
French woman, who recently planned TO
fly across the English Channel, but who
was stopped by the weather, was severely
hurt while flying at Sunderland, in a
Farman biplane The machine collided
with a hagpole and dropped 20 feet,
landed on a sightseeing motor car, crush
ing and killing boy. A number of per-
sons were injured. Nine. Franck's leg
was broken and her throat was badly
cut by coming in contact with the wire
braces Of the biplane
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
RAvAGED BY CHOLERA.
A Stratling Number OF Cases And
Deaths In Russia.

St. Petersburg Especially The ex-
tent of the cholera epidemic is re-
vealed in figures just made public
by the government sanitary COM
mission. The stricken region now
includes AZ provinces and territories
of European Russia since the out
break of the disease last May there
have been a total of 1862 cases.
with 1861 deaths.
Recently there has been a start
ling, increase in the number of VIC
tins. During the week ending July
23 no less than 1894 cases were
reported and of these 1913 termi-
mated fatally.
Sometime ago the scourge made
its appearance in this city and for
the past fortnight there has been a
daily average of 40 cases and 12
deaths in the capital Yesterday
there were "a cases and IA deaths
reported here. In the local hos
pitfalls there are 514 cholera suspects,
including 3S children.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
led THE DETECTIVES
A LIVELY CHASE
Joseph Vending Chased 1900
s All s Into San Francisco.
NE WAS BETRAYED BY A WOMAN
Anonymous Tip Over the Telephone
Leads Sleuths to Hiding Place in
Lodging House of Man Wanted for
the Murder of Eight Year Old Alma
KelIner.

San Francisco Especially - Dragged
from beneath sink in the Mushroom of
l Third street lodging house, where hsi
had been hiding for "a hours, Joseph A.
Vending, accused of the murder of lit
tie Alma Kellner in Louisville, KY, the
man who has baffied the police for four
months, was arrested by Detectives
Burke and Ryan, of the local police de-
partment. Vending admitted his ident-
lty, but protested his innocence Of the
crime.
"A few hours after the arrest Captain
of Detectives J. p Carney, of Louisville,
arrived to learn that his ll,000-milel
search for Vending had been crowned
with success. 1t was the telegraphed tip
from the Kentucky detective which led
to the arrest.
In his pursuit of the supposed muir
derer, Carney nearly lost the trail; but
the secret of the whereabouts of his
quarry always lay with Mrs. Cora Muena,
milliner, of Hume, Mo- 1t was from
her home that Carney flashed the infor-
nation that led to the arrest. 1t seemed
the irony of fate that the only re-
spectacle woman found by Carney to have
been connected with Vending during his
wanderings should have been the uncon-
scious means of betraying him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05

The Widows mite Is liable to grow
mighty when she keeps diary, as is
shown by a recent happening in Chi
cage. contends the Boston Transcript.
Step-daughters claimed an estate and
seemed in a fair way to get it, when
the diary appeared. Immediately the
case was taken out of Court for set
tlemcnt. the only condition offered by
the step-daughters being that the
/ lak be destroyed. In this instance
the diary developed cash value Of
100000. One can conceive of cir
cumstances IN which an intimate and
truthful record might cost more than
that to the one who kept 1t; yet,
speaking of such literary efforts as
carried on by normal persons who
live decentiy, one might safely affirm
that q diary IS almost always worth
the labor 1t necessitates. Genius does
not necessarily pertain to its produc-
ton. The chief requisites for success
10 this field are disposition to be
horcst and determination to be
good-netured, and. granting these vir-
tuec. one may ''journalize" at almost
any length. without present fear Or
risk Of subsequent ssproach.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
1000 Miles For A Home.

Chicago Especially Fargo Matthews,
ls-year-old orphan, left Chicago for an
s,Ooo-mile journey to the Philippines,
where he will be adopted by w. Ernest
Grove, schoolteacher at San Pablo,
Laguna. Matthews was the choice Of
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young. superintendent OF
schools. to whom Grove wrote last Jan.
nary, saying that he was lonesome and
wished to adopt boy. Matthews was
selected from 100 applicants. The
younester will spend about three years in
the Philippines.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
RECORD FOR EXPECTATION.
U. S. Manufacturers End Year With
Total of $768, 100000.

Washington, D. C. Especially A new
high record for the expectation of manu-
features was made by the United States
in the fiscal year 1910, with grand
total of $788 100000 in value as against
$3.50 100000 in 1908, the former high
record.
The growth of the manufacturing in
dustry in the United States is illustrated
in the figures for the year just issued by
the Bureau of Statistics showing the total
exports as follows: 1910, $76S, O00, 600;
1900, $4S5 100000; 1890, $4,000, 900 !;
1880, 1922, 900. 000
The greatest percentage Of increase in
exports by the United States during the
year was with Canada, to which country
Uncle Sam sent goods valued at $685.
100000, an increase of $52,500,00O or 80
per cent. The increase of exports to
Brazil was 80 per cent; to Argentine, 81
per cent; Cuba, 20 per cent; Central
America, 20 per cent, and Mexico, II per
cent.
Trade with Europe as whole declined
about 100000 in exports as compared
with the previous year. The only in
creases being in the exports to Germany
and France.
Exports to Asia showed general de-
cline. To Japan the exports were $22,-
100000, compared with about $26, 666, 900
the previous year. To China they fell off
three million. There was an increase of
So, 666, 900 in the trade with Australia.
A general increase is shown in impor-
tation of merchandise, Europe having
sent $500, $50 900, as against s6A6, 333, 900
the preceding year.N Canada ae0t to the
United States $95, 100000, as against
$40, S33, 600 in 1900.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
Carlisle very iii.

New York Especially John G. Carlisle,
secretary of the Treasury under the seq
ond Cleveland administration, is in a
dangerous condition at the Hotel VOL
colt here following severe attack of
heart trouble. The aged statesman was
stricken last Monday, and Drs. Morris
Carpenter and Theodore Janeway have
been in almost constant attendance. Mr..
Carlisle is rs years old, and has been
falling rapidly for the past year. The
physicians are doubtful Of his recovery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05

"A man should learn to detect and
watch that CLEAN Of light which
flashes across his mind from within.
more than the lustre Of the armament
of bards and sages. Yet. said Elmer
son, he dismisses without notice his
thought, because it is his. In every
work Of genius we recognize our own
rejected thoughts; they come back
to us with q certain alienated
majesty.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
DRYING House Explodes.

New York Especially "A heavy
electric storm hit Pompton and neigh
boring towns in Passaic County, N. ].
before daybreak. The drying house
of the Dupont de Nemours Powder
Works at Haskell was struck by
lightning and exploded with a loud
noise that awakened everybody with.
in a radius of five miles. The house
was five stories high and was used
for drying gun-cotton after the fiber
had been impregnated with nitro
glycerin. No one was injured.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05

The automobile, asserts the Boston
Globe, which some consider the prin-
cipal destructive agent of bad roads,
has rapidly spread the demand for
good ones. It's wide extension of pub
lie and private traffic and conveyance,
~ well as the injuries which 1t works
to highways Of inferior construction,
necessitates superior road building,
from which everybody benefits.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
Lightning Causes Explosion.

ossining, NY. Especially Two men
were killed, one was seriously injured and
another made permanently deaf by the
explosion of 10 pounds of dynamite 800
feet below the surface of the earth in the
tunnel for the new Croton aqueduct at
Kitchawan. The charge was exploded,
presumably by lightning, which struck
the car rails at the opening of the tunnel
quarter of mile away during a severe
thunderstorm, and followed the rails into
the interior of the tunnel.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
walked s21 Miles To See Frienc

Chicago (SpeciaD = After walk
ing S21 miles in rs days to visit an
old friend of his father, ]. H. Wayne,
junior at the College Of Veterinary
Surgeons of the University of Penn
sylvania, found at the end of his long
walk that the friend, Detective Ser
geant Peter O'Connol, had died ear
" in June. Wayne, who is 23 years
old, made the walk more for pleas
ure than anything else. but will take
train back to his abode in Hol.
landtown, Pa.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
The Fair Sex in Office.

Austin, Tex. Especially Interesting
developments of the Texas Democratic
primaries are coming to light as complete
returns reach the capitol. Although wom-
ans suffrage has not invaded Texas, it
develops that the Democrats will have
two officeholders from the fair sex, Miss
Annie Wiseman having been named dis
trict clerk in Wilson county, while Bee
county elected Miss Ida Dougherty as
county SUPERINTENDENT of schools.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-08-05
Rawn Was No Millionaire.

Chicago Especially Instead of
being a millionaire Ira G. Rawn,
president of the Monon Railroad
Company, who was found shot to
death in his summer home, died
possessed OF an estate valued at only
100000. So at least petition
filed by his widow declared. Mr..
Rawnss win was promptly admitted
to probate. Mrs. Rawn was ap-
pointed executrix According to the
petition there was no real estate, all
OF the holdings being listed as nor
scnal property.