The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly and
Tersely Told.


Tersely Told.
Lady Millais, widow of Sir John Mil
lais. the late president of the Royal
academy, Is seriously ill.
Sir Henry Arthur Blake, captain gen.
eral and governor in chief of Jamaica
since 1882 has been appointed governor
of Hongkong.
George Douglas, a negro, was hanged
IN the county Jail yard at Pittsburg fol
the murder of Albert Grayer, also a
negro, at Snowden, on May %.
The court of appeals at Albany has
ordered a reargument of the case of
John S. Baxter, priest of the Brook
lyn diocese, against Bishop McDon-
nell.
Five shipwrecked sailors who were
rescued in midocean exhausted and
starving from the dismantled schooner
Elite were brought to New York on
board the Bristol line steamer Exeter
City.
United States Senator George L. We'll
hngton has filed a presentment against
General Felix Agnus editor of the Bal
timore American, charging criminal Ii
bel, and it is understood that civil suits
will follow.
A sensation has been created in Flori-
da Pythian circles by Red Cross lodge,
knights of Pythias of Tampa, which
has defied the authority of the grand
chancellor and refused to obey his or
ders or relinquish its charter.
Tuesday, Nov. 80.
EX-Congressman Ephraim NJ. Woo
mer of Lebanon, Pa, died of Bright's
disease, aged SO years.
Sidney James Low, the retiring editor
of the st. James Gazette, will start for
America in January on a tour of the
world.
President Mckinley peremptorily re-
moved from office Louis w. Pratt, COL
lector of internal revenue for the AL
bany district.
The Rev. Father Fitzmaurice, who
has been appointed coadjutor of the
bishop of Erie, Pa, is rector of the
church of st. Charles Borromeo, Over
brook, Pa.
William c. Woodward, alias big
Hawley," who was last week convicted
of attempted blackmail on Samuel w.
Brigham, in New York, was sentenced
to five years Imprisonment.
Chief Justice Bingham sentenced
Robert H. Martin, ex-treasurer of the
Columbian university at Washington,
to imprisonment for five years in the
penitentiary for embezzlement of about
$4,000 from the funds of the univer-
sity.
Monday. Nov. go.
The pope has made Archbishop Cha
pelle of Santa Fe archbishop of New
Orleans.
The Welsh steamer Labarrouere was
sunk in a collision off Trevose head. A
boat with the captain and several of
the crew Is missing.
Mrs. Adrian Iselin, who had been Sc
riously i'll since September, but had
recently improved, died at New Ro-
chelle. a suburb of New York.
Latham, the English racquet player,
defeated Standing of New York in
hotly contested match at the Racquet
and Tennis club, in New York, for $780,
900 and the worlds championship.
Health Inspector Brunner of Havana
reports 600 deaths in the city during
the week, or at an annual ratio of 1853
per 1000 He says there are 300 cases
of yellow fever in the city and its sub
urb of Regla.
Saturday, Nov. 81.
The Nineteenth Illinois regimental
monument erected on Missionary ridge
was formally dedicated.
The disorder in the lower house of
the Austrian reichsrath was so serious
yesterday that a strong detachment of
police had to be called in.
The British steamer Baron Ardrossan
ran into the Austrian steamer Jokai off
Dungeness, England The Jokai sank.
Four of her crew were drowned.
Dispatches from points in Minnesota,
Iowa, Montana and the two Dakotas
state that a heavy snowstorm, accom-
panied by wind and low temperature,
prevails
Hiram Maxims new quick firing gun
was tried at Portsmouth, N. H., yester-
day with remarkable results. With %
pounds of cordite it showed an ef-
fective range of 10000 yards.
Friday, Nov. 26.
The New South Wales legislature has
passed a bill restricting immigration by
an educational test.
There were two severe earthquake
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