The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-09-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly and
Tersely Told.

Tersely Told.
Mr.. Richard Croker has started for
New York from Southampton, England.
The Automobile club of Paris is or
ganizing a race of motor cars from
Paris to st. Petersburg.
The Spanish government Is consider
Ing the question ofobanishing anarchists
either to an American republic or a
Spanish possession.
John Roach, one of the oldest citizens
of Yonkers, N. Y, was instantly killed
by falling 20 feet through a trapdoor
in the porch in the rear of his home.
The steamer Potomac of the Weems
line ran into and sank the schooner
Three Brothers near Baltimore Captain
Hart of the schooner was drowned, and
four of the crew were rescued by the
steamboat.
George B. Moore, a New York real es-
tate man. was shot at by woman nam
ed Julia McGraw. The woman sought
to dissuade Moore from a marriage he
was about to contract. She was held
for examination as to her sanity.
While playing with matches in an old
outbuilding in Fort Wingate N. NJ,
used as a storehouse, little Alice Win
stone and Harry Arnold, aged and
years, set fire to can of oil. causing an
explosion Alice was burned beyond
recognition. Harry was badly burned
about the head and will die.
Tuesday. Aug. 81.
The czar of Russia will visit Paris at
the end of autumn.
The Texas fever, which was raging in
southwestern Iowa. is reported to be
spreading.
Cracksmen blew the vault of the EX-
change at Elmdale. Kan, to pieces and
obtained $1.S0O in money and $500 worth
of drafts
The Catholic board of school COM
missoners of Montreal have refused to
comply with the order of the provincial
board of health to refuse entrance to
children without vaccination certificates.
A mob attacked the jail at Green
Vile, Ala, in an attempt to lynch John
A. Gafford. who killed Francis Barlow
Lloyd. the writer, but the attack was
repulsed by the sheriff. During the
fight four prisoners escaped.
Frank Savage, a well known racing
wheelman, took a training spurt and
then went to Moodna creek, near Sails
bury Mills, N. Y, to bathe. The stream
was swollen, and the bather got over his
depth and was drowned before assist
ance reached him.
Monday, Aug. 80.
BY the collapsing of a building on
Prince street, Boston, three Italians
were killed and several severely in
jured.
The Chicago pacing stallion Star
Pointer went a mile in the extraordina-
ry time Of 1894. He was accompanied
by a runner
The Presbyterian general assembly
committees on synodical home missions
will meet at Indianapolis during the
first week of November.
There are 10 cases of smallpox now
under treatment in Montreal, and s
deaths have been reported. Two thou
sand vaccine points day are being
used.
A severe windstorm swept over the
western suburbs of Chicago, doing con-
siderable damage to buildings. At Nor
wood park one woman was killed and
three other persons injured.
Mrs. William q. Hutchinson of Flint,
Mich. while in demented condition
chloroformed her 5-year-old daughter
and shot Iva May, her 15-year-old
daughter. The younger girl died four
hours later, but the elder will probably
recover.
Saturday, Aug. 2S.
Colonel Pando of Bolivia, with force
of 600 men, has invaded the Peruvian
coast off Sandia.
Hon. Charles II. Burdict, state senator
from Newport, r. l., died at his home
| after a short illness.
The Portuguese bark Rosetta Faro has
been attacked off the coast of Marocco
by pirates and the captain and four Of
the crew carried off.
A million and half pounds of mess
beef is being prepared in Kansas City by
the Armour Packing company for the
use of the japanese army and navy.
The deaths from yellow fever in Ha-
vana increased during last week. OF the
81 deaths from this cause. Is occurred
among the Spanish soldiers and sailors.
The record for heavy lifting was
broken by st. Louis man, Patrick Nc