The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-06-25
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly and
Tersely Told.


Tersely Told.
The Suburban handicap at Sleeps
head Bay was won by Ben Brush, The
Winner second and Havoc third. Time,
2:07 1-5.
The jury in the case of j. S. Barley,
the ex-treasurer at Omaha charged
with embezzlement, has returned a YER
dict of guilty.
The expectation of a new tariff law
In early operation has resulted in the
rushing of cargoes of oriental goods
to San Francisco.
Giuseppe Constantine was electrocut-
ed at Auburn IN. " prison for the
murder of Pietro Galliotti. Five shocks
were necessary to produce death.
Judge Bradley at Washington order
ed the jury to return verdict of ac-
quittal in the case of John Mccartney,
the last of the recalcitrant witnesses
In the senate sugar investigation.
The steamboat Albartina, which plies
between Red Bank, N. j., and New
York, struck rock while passing Rocky
point and began to leak badly and final
ly sank in four feet of water after
reaching her dock at Highlands, N. J.
No one was injured.
Tuesday, June a2.
The directors of Wells Fargo Express
company, New York, have declared a
semiannual dividend Of . per cent, pay
able July Is.
The house of Owen O'Rourke, at
Portsmouth, Va, was burned, and the
3-year-old son of O'Rourke perished in
the flames O'Rourke and his wife and
two other children escaped.
There was incorporated with the Sec
retary of state at Albany the Albany
Hotel corporation, with a capital stock
of 100000. The company proposes to
erect new hotel in that city.
The river Kur has overfiowed its
banks near the railroad depot of Nav
thig, in Tifiis district Russia. Nine
teen men belonging to the Mini Nov
gorod lagoons were swept into the wa
ter and drowned.
A. s. Austin, the California lawyer
who asserted that he could furnish evil
dence that would save Theodore Dur
rant from the gallows, has been ad-
judged insane and will be taken to the
asylum at Portland, Or.
Christian X. Ross, the father of Char
ley Ross, whose abduction on July 1,
1874, from his parents home became a
matter of worldwide interest and still
remains largely an unsolved mystery,
died at his residence in Germantown,
aged "a years.
Monday, June FL.
The Seventh regiment, N. G., S. NY,
began its weeks stay at the state camp,
near Peekskill.
The tug Edna B. King was nearly
struck by a shell fired from David's
island, N. Y.
The senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Stewart i. Woodford to be
United States minister to Spain.
There is no truth in the report from
Rome that Giuseppe Verdi, the cele~
brated composer, who is now in his 83d
year, is seriously Ill.
William Bell, the millionaire piano
and organ manufacturer of Guelph,
Ont, was stricken with paralysis Sat
urday. He cannot recover.
Walter Norris, aged 16 was killed by
lightning at Bogart, Ga. He was stand
ing on his front porch and had a baby
in his arms at the time. The baby was
not injured.
The funeral of Barney Barnato, the
South Africa diamond king. who COM
mitted suicide while en- route from Cape
Town for Southampton, took place at
London. The interment was in the
Jewish cemetery at Willesden.
Saturday, June 10.
A tornado in Kentucky spread havoc,
and two persons were killed near Ir-
vington.
Corporation Counsel Scott Of New
York holds that the present board Of
aldermen cannot grant street railroad
franchises.
In the senate bills were passed for
public buildings at Cleveland to cost
50. 500, 900 and at McKeesport, Pa, to
cost 100000.
Shriver and Edwards, the newspaper
correspondents charged with contempt
Of the senate in the sugar inquiry, were
ordered acquitted by Judge Bradley.
The latest advices received at Cal
cutta show that almost the entire prov
ince of Assam has been devastated by
the recent earthquake. The scene OF
ruin is described as appalling.
Rev. Lorenzo d. McCabe. d. D., LII
D., for so years a professor in the Ohio
Wesleyan university, and a distin-