The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-18
THE News


I Association have each agreed to pay
one cent on all goods packed, the
money to be used to advertise in
newspapers the guaranteed purity Of
all its food products.
Al verdict of $4,000 was awarded
Mrs. Charles c. Hendrick against
| Laura Biggar. the former actress, for
alternating the directions of Mrs Hen,
bricks divorced husbands
Miss Eleanor Butler Alexander
whose engagement to Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., has just been announc-
ed, gave some interesting facts in ar
interview.
Mayor Gaynor has practically TAX
er charge of the New York Police De.
partment and members OF the force
and their friends anticipate q big
shakeup.
Senator Ben Conger testified that
| Senator Aids, OF New York, demand
ed $1,000 for the Assembly Rules
! Committee killing bridge legislation
in 1901.
that jeering audiences a generation
ago really acclaimed her the great
est actress of her time, died in Gin
cinnati.
T. f. Mcclure and j. A. Eberhardt,
| Cincinnati contractors. were indicted
on charges of conspiracy in connec-
| ton with paving contracts
George Ebeling, who confessed he
| took part in the train robbery near
| Eureka. Mo-, pleaded guilty to
charge of robbing the mails. A
| Lewis G. Tewksbury, known as the
| skyrocket financier. died friendl- ss
and penniless In New York.
The hearing of the minority stock
| holders OF the Ohio and Indiana in->
| dependent telephone companies in
| New York adjourned for week aft
! er it was brought out that the Bell
/ interests have acquired control.
DR.. B. G. Hyde was arrested In
Kansas City and charged with the
murder of Col Thomas H. Swope
| the philanthropist millionaire. He
was released on $50, 900 bail
The announcement was made in
/ New York of the engagement OF
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr son of the
former President, to Miss Eleanor
Butler Alexander, of that city.
Oliver Splitter, former refinery
superintendent Of the Sugar Trust,
| was sentenced to, two years in the
| federal prison at Atlanta, Ca, by
Judge Martin, in New York.
L. A. Sears, of Ohio, was elected
/ president, and Frank e. Correll, Of
Maryland secretary of the Gamers
! Association, in session at Atlantic
/ City.
Fire, caused by an explosion in a
! hardware store, DESTROYED several
buildings at Lancaster Pa, the loss
amounting to 100000
Fire following an explosion de-
strOyed the four-story building occu-
| pied by the G.. w. Miller Wall Paper
| Company. in st. Louis.
Six men were killed by the ex-
! plosion of a boiler in saWmill at
-Crump, Mich
= Robbers looted the Bank of Mem
phis, Neb., and escaped with S2,7O0
in currency.
Bennett Silver, in Harlem prison,
New York, pulled out his mustache
hair for hair in an effort to avoid
| being identified
! Mrs. Russell Sage, who was In San
| Antonio, Tex, en- route to California,
/ divided $1,000 among local charities.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton gave $4,000 to the Y M. C.
4 A., of Pittsburg.
Protesting minority stockholders
Of the six Independent telephone com
panies Of Ohio and Indiana recently
| purchased by j. p. Morgan & Co.
began hearing in New York. with
the view of checking the consumma-
ton of the deal.
The National Sugar Refining Com
pany formally turned over to the
| United States Treasury the sum of
| $6O4,S04 due the government for
shortage in importations of sugar be- 4
tween 1907 and 1908.
The Tristate Gamers Association
! in session at Atlantic City, resented
a letter sent by Secretary of Agri-
! culture Wilson, requesting the asso-
citation to refrain from condemning
benzoate of Soda
Clarke Howell editor of the Con-
stitution, Democratic national COM
mitteman and director OF the AS
ISOLATED Press, was operated on for
appendicitis at his home, in Atlanta.
Miss Bessis Ryan, of Hinsdale, was
| killed and between Is and 80 other
| persons were injured in an electric
car accident at Hinsdale, Mass.
The application of Harry K. Thaw
for his discharge from Matteawan
was denied by Justice Tompkins, at
Nyack, N. Y
The shareholders of the United
Gas Improvement Company of PhiIa-
delphia voted to cut a $4,000. 900
melon.
| Amelia Glover, the dancer, famous
20 years ago on the stage. died in
New York.
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