The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly ant
TerseIy Told.

Charles Pollock successfully crossed
the channel in a balloon from East.
bourne, England.
The French authorities have. arrested
German at the camp of Chalons al
legged to be a spy
Three men were killed in a battle be.
tween shepherds and settlers in Wash.
ington county, Ida.
Heavy floods visited the Schuylkih
valley, the water standing eight feet
deep in Reading streets.
Queen Victoria declined to accept 8
violin offered to her by John E. High
barger of West Virginia.
The postal receipts for September
show a gain of Z 1-1O per cent over
the same month last year.
The report that Canada would like t.
sell her seal fishery rights to the United
States is denied at Ottawa.
The sultan has proposed to the pow.
ers the disarmament of both Chris.
tians and Mussulmans in Crete.
Commodore r. r. Wallace has beer
ordered to retire on account of age
and several navy promotions will re-
suit.
The Swiss national council has made
insurance against sickness compulsory
with all persons having Independent,
means.
Conrad Hazelbetz killed Thomas Nc
Sorley after a political argument a.,
Patchogue, N. Y, and attempted te
commit suicide.
A motion in the United States su.
preme court to advance the hearing OF
w. H. T. Durrant, sentenced to deatt
in California, was taken under advise.
ment.
Miners who arrived at Seattle from
the Klondike reported large production
of gold and general activity in ex
changes of property. Henry Bratnober
mining expert, said the finds were les'
sensational than reported.
Tuesday, Oct. 12.
The great drought throughout the
west has been broken.
New England cotton mills are expert
menting in silk manufacture.
Senator Tillman is ill in Columbia,
c., suffering from catarrhal jaundice.
Mrs. Mary Murphy, a paralytic, was
fatally burned in New York last night
The steamship Hesperides is ashor
off Cape Hatteras and will be a tota
loss.
An Irish convention at Dublin de.
nounced the English Liberals for aban'
doning home rule.
1t is said that Mrs. Mack has Offered
to confess all she knows of the Staying
of William Guldensuppe.
Ali Ferouck Bey has been appointed
Turkish minister to the United State.
to succeed Mustapha Bey.
All property in Duluth on which as.
sessments are unpaid is to be seized by
the city and rented, leased or sold.
Monday, Oct. IL.
Turks and Greeks are fighting at Dis
kata.
The tribesmen at Jamrud, India, have
reopened hostilities
Ex-Congressman Captain James
White died at Fort Wayne.
Reports are current that Russia and
Japan are at loggerheads over Korea.
Ex-senator Mcpherson. who died il
Jersey City, was buried in Washington
today.
M Pierre Botkine, Russian delegate
to the sealing conference, is in Wash
ington.
Great interest is being taken in Lon
don over Greater New York's mayoral.
ty contest.
Yesterday at Lille, not $50 miles from
Paris. France bull fight was held and
six bulls killed.
man on Skookum creek, in the
Klondike country, shoveled out $2l,ON
of gold dust in IL hours.
A New York widow Is going to take
a party of women to the Klondike
They will wear boomers.
Saturday, Oct. 0.
An earthquake was felt at New Mad
rid, Mo.
President Mckinley will go home to
Canton to vote.
FL Conselheiro leader Of the religious
fanatics in Brazil, is dead.
There have been $500 deaths from
dysentery in Japan this summer.
Harry Munhall, reputed son OF a
Pittsburg millionaire, went insane In
Chicago.
President Mckinley appointed George