The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-07-05
THE EAST.

The Lehigh Valley railroad Company is
figuring on a through line to New York
via Newark, n. j.
A PARTY of seven pleasure seekers were
run down by a ugboat at Albany, n Y,
the other evening Only one of the party
escaped, the rest being drowned.
The river channel above the railroad
bridge at Johnstown, Pa, was opened on
the Goth for the first time since the terrible
food of May 81.
JOHN T.. ROBBINS and Henry f. Hall,
iron and steel manufacturers of Philadel-
phia, have failed with $4,000 liabilities
and $40, 900 assets.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY has conferred the
following honorary degrees: LII. D.,
Francis Parkman, Edward J. Phelps, JO-
siah Parsons Cooke, Samuel Chapman
Armstrong and David A. Wells; D. D.,
honoris causa, Thomas L. Elliott; A. NJ. D.,
honoris causa, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
George w. Ravens, iona han Baxter and
Hiram Harrison, from Illinois
GENERAL SIMON CAMERON, the well
known statesman, whose life extended
over ninety years, died at Lancaster, Pa,
on the Goth.
A TERRIBLE collision occurred on the
Pennsylvania road near Latrobe on the
-
on a bridge spanning a creek. A load of
lime took fire, intenslfying the disaster.
It was thought that forty lives were lost
many of the unfOrtunates being tramps
who were stealing a rine.
MRS. LIZZIE BRENNAN, aged fifty, is
under arrest at Holyoke, Mass, charged
with poisoning her husband and two sons
for So, 900 insurance money.
The committee at Johns town has issued
an appeal to persons holding relief funds
for the forwarding of the money. Dona-
tions have been held back for various
reasons and the work at Johnstown has
been seriously hampered thereby.
THERE was a sensational finish to the
Cornell and Columbia boat race at New
London, Conn, on the 27,h. On getting
out of their boat, six of the Columbia crew
fell in a dead faint from exhaustion.
Three were in serious condition, physi-
clans being hastily summoned.
APPLICATION has been made at New
York for an order directing the executors
of the will of Louis c. Hammersly to pay
to the Duchess of Marlborough $4,000
from the accumulated income of her late
husbands estate, she being in need of the
cash.
GEORGE LoRING BROWN, once a noted
painter or this country, uleu AT Mdlueuj
Mass, recently. aged seventy five.
A HANDSOME monument to Captain Johr
Mason, who ended the PeQuot war in Con
necticut in 1857, was unvailed at Mystic,
Conn.,, recently.
THE weavers at the Narragansett mills
Fall River, Mass, struck the other day
because of the discharge of a sub
seer.
FLOODS in Northern New York havt
washed out the ra lroads and caused tn
wrecking of nine cars at Redwood. n. Y
GEORGE w. WHITE, well known bust
ness man of Philadelphia, who is promi
nentlv connect ell with several benitcia
associations, is said to be short in his &C
counts as treasurer of the Order of Tont
and it is understood that warrants for hi
arrest have been issued arging him wit
being a defaulter to the amount of $40, O0C
Four men and two women were recentl'
found dead in a isreputable resort q
Paterson, n. j., all having been asphyxi
ated by the fumes from a Gas stove.
YALE won the fourteenth annual eight
Dared race at New London, Conn, defeat
ing Harvard. The course was four mile:
time for Yale, 2I:31; for Harvard. 81 %
The record now stands: Yale, victorie
6defeatS; Harvard, 6 victories, defeat
MARIA MhIGhELls tue n0tSA ASH
of Lynn. Mass, is dead. She was born
Nantucket Mass, August l, ISIS.
An English syndicate IS negotiating Il
the purchase of shoe factories at Lyn
Mass, to be run on the same plan as Il
breweries recently purchased.
OVER LOCO miners about Altoona, P,
have struck against reductions in wag
and many more are expsc'ed 10 10 low.
THE strike If CarneS.e'- Worl.uen
Pittsburgh, Pa, commenced on the l:
affecting .. 400 hands.