The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-09-03

date over the district. 1t was under
stood in Paris that Frances reply
would be an absolute refusal.
CREECE has changed dictators
NJ again. In a bloodless coup
d'etat General Pangalos was over
thrown by the Liberals and the power
taken over, at least temporarily, by
their leader, Gen. George Condylis.
He promises general elections late In
October or early in November. Pan
galos and various members of his gov
eminent were arrested and will be
tried on charges of maladministra-
ton. For the time being Admiral Con-
douriotis is again acting as president
of Greece, with General ,Condylis as
premier. ~ s.-.-
u NGLAND'S miners and mine own
IL ers not yet having come to an
agreement, the government issued
proclamation extending the state of
emergency for another month. Mean
while good many of the miners have
returned to work under separate ar
rangements with operators.
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~ UR death list contains the names
~ of four noteworthy personages.
DR., Charles w. Eliot, president emeri-
tus of Harvard university and for two
generations a leader in education,
passed away at the age of ninety-two
at his summer home in Northeast
Harbor, Maine. He became president
of Harvard when but thirty-five years
old and under him it developed into
great university. In his later years
he wrote and spoke on public ques-
tons, with great effect.
Another man of letters, Stuart Pratt
Sherman. literary editor Of the New,
York Herald-Tribune, died OF heart
failure after strenuous swim, at
Manistee, Mich. He formerly was
head professor of English at the Uni
versity of Illinois and was considered
one Of the country's best literary
critics.
Bert NJ. Fernald, United States SEN
ator from Maine since 1915, sue
cumbed to heart disease and diabetes
at his home in West Poland, Maine.
In the senate he was member OF
four important committees. He was
a strong advocate Of prohibition. and
opposed child labor measures and
American membership in the League
/. of Nations and the world court. 1t is
easy to predict that his successor VIII
be another Republican.
Attracting vastly more public atten-
ton than any Of these deaths was the
demise Of Rudolph Valentino, the
screen actor, in New York following
operations for appendicitis and gas
trio ulcers. 1t seemed as II the en-
tire country mourned his passing, for
aside from his histrionic ability ne
was personally popular. In the
metropolis morbid mobs of scores OF
thousands fought the police for
chance to look on "Rudy's" remains.
n NE of the most important of re-
~ cent developments in radio came
with the successful testing of a new
device for radiocasting weather maps
and information to ships at sea. The
tests were conducted by the inventor,
C. Francis Jenkins, In the presence OF
Charles F.. Marvin, chief of the wealth
er bureau, Commander William Glass
ford, acting chief Of naval communi-
cations, and Capt. S. c. Hooper, of the
engineering division of the navy. The
naval officers were enthusiastic over
the device, declaring Its discovery to
be of inestimable value to navigators,
and predicting that as soon as they
can be produced in quantity, the COM
paratively simple contriyances will be
quickly adopted by all radio equipped
vessels.
DITTSBURGH had an experience
often pictured In sensational crime
fiction but seldom seen in real life.
A man, afterward found to be crazy,
walked into the Farmers Deposit
bank and demanded $1,000 from
teller A special officer and several
bank officials gathered. when the
maniac exploded a bomb he had In
hand bag. He and the officer were
killed, 120 were badly injured and the
interior of the building was, wrecked.
r KRISHAMURTI. the young Hin
~ doc hailed by the Theosophists as
the new voice of the world teacher"
was permitted to land in New York
despite some silly objections. and Mrs.
Annie Besant escorted him thence to
Chicago for the Theosophists' con-
gress.