The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Record of Notable Events of the WeeI
Tersely Told.

Record of Notable Events of the Week
Tersely Told.
French steamer Henri with 20 souls
is reported lost.
Austria's emperor was met by the
czar at st. Petersburg.
An ambulance with nine surgeons is
starting for the seat of war from
Bern, Switzerland.
Mrs. George Stolzenburg and daugh-
ter were overcome and the woman's
infant son was killed by Illuminating
gas in New York city.
The building containing the filler and
paint department of the Bridgeport
Wood Finishing company at New Mil
ford, Conn.,, was destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at about $4,000; fully
insured.
An attempt was made to wreck the
Canadian Pacific train at Barrie Ont,
by placing ties on the track. The OBJ
struction was discovered and removed
a few minutes before the express train
rushed past. Three tramps have been
arrested, charged with the crime.
Tuesday, April 27.
Colonel John S. Mosby is said to be
dying at Richmond.
Trolley car in Brooklyn smashed two
wagons and frightened woman into a
faint.
Three men were burned in a Will
liamsburg IN. Y.) fire. Francis Moon
saved two lives at the same fire.
Cruiser Brooklyn left Philadelphia to
test her guns and come to Brooklyn to
receive a silver service.
Four German seamen were brought
to New York in irons, two of whom are
charged with scuttling a ship and muir
der.
The case against Lieutenant Eloff, the
grandson of President Kruger of the
Transvaal republic, who was charged
with slandering the queen of England,
has been dismissed.
The United States grand jury at New
Orleans has indicted a number of Off
GERS of the Southern Pacific railroad for
violation of the interstate commerce
act in giving rebates to certain firms.
Twenty-Five thousand insurgents who
have not submitted to the Spaniards
have taken up position in the noun
tains at Manila, capital of the Philip
pine islands, and are offering a stout
resistance to the troops
Monday. April 26.
Mrs. Catherine c. Havens, the old
est inhabitant of Stamford, Conn.,, died
there, aged So.
Omer a small village about 20 miles
north of Bay City, Mich, was swept by
a tornado. Two persons were killed and
many injured.
Mrs Agnes Weed was burned to
death in her home, Il West Ninetieth
street, New York, Notwithstanding eff
forts to save her.
Father Sherman. son of the late Cen
eral William T. Sherman, has been
obliged to give up his church work on
account of i'll health.
The plot to assassinate King Hum
bert existed since April IS. a friend
of Acciarito, the would be assassin, has
been arrested at Rome.
Jose s. Guitteriz has been legally
shot at Guadalajara. Mexico, for the
murder of his brother-in-law, Jose Bo-
badilla, millionaire merchant Of that
city.
Robert C. Winthrop of Boston pre-
sented Yale college with valuable col
lection of autograph letters of men
prominent in the early history of this
country.
Saturday, April "a.
A Kansas tornado tore up things near
Newton.
Great Britain's naval demonstration
in Delagoa bay is aimed at Germany
Samuel Seoville, Jr., grandson of
Henry Ward Beecher, was shot at New
Haven by burglar
Plans for a S750,OOO University Club
house at Fifth avenue and Fifty-fourth