The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-08-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly and
TerseIy Told.

Tersely Told.
Philip Hines, the Oldest man In Ohio,
died at Springfield in the Delaware in
frmary at the age of 107. His wife. 81
years old, survives him.
Thomas, B. Raymond, a first cousin
of Abraham Lincoln, died at Bay City,
Mich, aged 81 years. His mother and
Lincolns mother were sisters.
Luton, the parachutist, has made
descent at London of 5000 feet on a BIZ
cycle parachute, which was opened by
an apparatus worked by means of ped
ais.
After a shut down of six weeks the
Delaware Iron works at Newcastle
have resumed operations, giving en-
ployment to between 400 and 500 per-
sons.
Frank C. Conroy, the Ogdensburg, N.
Y, wife murderer, was successfully
electrocuted at Clinton prison. for the
murder of his wife in Ogdensb1rg May
20, 1896.
The appointment of Baron Won Thiel-
mann, the retiring German ambassador
to the United States, as secretary of
the imperial treasury in succession to
Count Won Posadowsky Wehner, has
been gazetted at Berlin.
Tuesday. Aug. 10.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has ar
rived at Constantinople on a visit to
the sultan.
Sylvester Turner, aged 80 years, a
retired farmer at Serbia, N. Y, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself at
his home.
Gold in paying quantities, assaying
as high as $625 to the ton of quartz, has
been found in the Tussey mountain. 25
miles south of Altoona, Pa.
The steamer City of Para, from Pan
anna, was Immediately sent into quar-
antine on her arrival at San Francisco,
q passenger having died on board from
yellow fever.
An Italian about 10 years old was
killed by an explosion at Savin Rock
Conn. He was at work on a set piece
of fireworks when it exploded. One
other man was injured.
Charles Steinberg, a 12-year-old boy,
fell from the roof of a tenement house,
in New York. His fall was broken by
q clothesline 90 feet from the ground,
and he landed on his feet on a pile of
refuse. He escaped with broken leg.
Monday, Aug. o.
The Japanese government has ordered
from the Vulcan works at Berlin bat
tleship Of $500 tons which is to cost 49,
100000 marks.
The West Jersey and seashore rail-
road station at Sea Isle Junction, N. j.,
caught fire from an unknown cause and
was destroyed
Charles Barber, 81 years old, of Bal
timore was struck by train in New
ark, N. ]. Both legs were cut off, and
his skull was fractured.
The British bark Assyria, Captain
Dernier, from Greenock for Rio ia
metro, has put into Lamlash, isle of
Arran, with mutinous crew.
Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon Zimmerman,
about 10 years old, were killed by an
express train, which struck their wagon
while they were crossing the West Shore
tracks at St. townsville, N. Y.
A waterspout struck the town of Hot
Springs, S. D. 1t raised the water in a
creek in the place between 10 and IL
feet. One life was lost, and four bridges
of the Elkhcrn railway, which cross the
creek, were carried away.
Saturday, Aug. 7.
A carrier pigeon bearing instructions
regarding the arctic explorer, Andree,
has been captured at Gradisca, near
Goritz, Austria.
John Jacob Astor of New York has
contributed the sum of $4,000 to pur-
chase James Russell Lowell's Cam
bridge (Mass) home, Elmwood, for
memorial park.
Mamie Malutz. the 5-year-old son of
a Bridgeport Comm clothier, was In
stantly killed by falling under road
roller.
The Canadian yacht Glencairn II has
been selected to defend the Seawan-
haka cup.
The rubber works at Davenport,
Mass, have been utterly destroyed by
fire. The loss is about $4,000.
H. A. Daley, a well to do Jenison
fMich.) man. shot his wife, then took
poison and died while in charge Of the
officers.
Friday, Aug. Q.
Three men and one woman perished
from suffocation in a house at Elm AMI
Charles street, Cincinnati, which had
caught fire