The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-05-13

of Col Thomas H. Swopes might have
resulted from the mingling Of for
maldehyde. injected in embalming
fluid, and the natural amomnia in
the body. testified DR.. Walter Nj.
Gross in the Hyde trial.
On representations that the Uni.
ted States Life Endowment Company
is totally insolvent, the concern was
placed In the hands Of the Central
Trust Company. OF Illinois. as re.
ceiver.
Seven passengers were injured
when a street car of the Wilkes.
Barre and Wyoming Valley Traction
Company plunged into a mine cave
in at Wilkes Barre, Pa.
The American Bible Society Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
has received gift of 100000 from
Mrs. Russell Sage.
The New York City Federation Of
Women's Clubs demands the appoint
ment of woman as an assistant
district attorney.
Frank T. Minor, wealthy grain
broker of St. Louis, was sentenced
to the penitentiary for sconducting a
bucket shop.
Three firemen we're killed and
three injured in a wreck of a new
automobile fire engine at Macon, Ga
A piece of tattooed flesh was ex
hibited In a murder trial at Monte
sano, Wash
AS a test of the constitutionality
of the Ohio primary law, suit was
filed in Cleveland to restrain the
board Of election from placing the
name of United States Senator
Charles Dick upon the Republican
ballot.
Operations of a clever forger, who
secured almost $4,000 in cash, have
just been revealed to the Boston
police authorities by the officials OF
the National Shawmut Bank, which
lost that sum through bogus checks.
William Randolph Hearst filed adj
ditional suits for damages owing to
the Hearst-Gaynor controversy,
against Adolph Ochs, Henry Water
son, Melville e. Stone, Herman Rid
der and seven Boston daily news
papers.
\ Blueprint charts showing how
Heinze made good his famous bet
that United Copper would pass Anal
gamated, we're introduced in the trial
in New York by the prosecution as
its trump card.
H. F. Lafamme told the Mems
National Missionary Congress in
Chicago that knowledge Of dentistry
added to the success of mission
airy in heather lands.
Mrs. Margaret Potter Black. bet
ter known as Margaret Horton Pot
ter the authoress, was declared in
sane by a court in Chicago.
Progress is being made in the ar
rangements for the celebration of
the dftieth anniversary of the. bat
tie of Gettysburg in July, 1913.
Will Johnson and Charlie Walker,
negroes, were positively identified
by Conductor w. H. Bryson as the
highwaymen who shot him and
murdered Motorman 5. T. Brown in
the holdup of an Atlanta street car
a week ago.
Il Former United States Senator Will
liam E. Mason, in an interview Civ
en- out in Chicago, declared that so
per cent. of the seas in the United
States Senate have been practically
purchased 4a
Owing to the great variety OF
shades which have hitherto been
used on flags and sweaters as the
Harvard University color. the cor
poration has decided on a single OIL
cial crimson.
Mrs. Mary A. Hartman, widow Of
the late q. H. Hartman, will neither
deny nor confirm the report that her
daughter Mary is engaged to Charles
Cary Rumsey, of New York.
Mary s. Moore. Boston dress
maker, pleaded guilty to iefrauding
the government of customs in the
.sleeper'' trunk cases. and was fined
The freight steamer Santurce and
the oil tank Ligonier were in collis-
ion during fog or Cape Cod.
George A frost, of Cumberland,
Md. was awarded metal by the
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.
The Wesleyan College, acting up-
on its own initiative, adopted reso-
luton abolishing hazing.
Suffragists plan to tour the State
States Steel Corporation amounts to
$4,000, 900.
guffragists plan to tour the Stast
of Illinois in automobiles.