The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


den town meeting yesterday Mary E.
Hubbard was elected tax collector.
Washington, March 16.-Mrs Nc
Kinley will receive the ladies of the
diplomatic circle Thursday afternoon
ct o'clock.
Boston, March 16.-The Legislative
committee on printing has voted
against state printing plant, Two
Boston members of the committe dis
sented.
Utica, N. Y, March 15.-Alexander
Seward is dead at his home here in his
SGD year. He was editor and joint pro-
prietor of the Utica Daily Gazette.
Havana, March 15.-The family of
Consul-General Lee will return to the
United States within two weeks. This
is thought to be preparatory to
change in the eonsulship.
Washington, March 16-Vice- Presi-
dent Hobart has appointed Frederick
Evans, jr., of Newark, n j., as his
private secretary, and Harry Bastia-
nelli of New Jersey as messenger.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, March l6.-John
Cramer, a 16-year-old boy living at
Duryea, died last evening from hydro
phohia. His sufferings were so terri
bic to witness that his father was
overcome and dropped dead at his
sons bedside.
Worcester, Mass, March 16.-Rev.
Edward V. Boursaud, S. j., who was at
one time president of Boston college,
and up to Saturday connected with
that institution, has been appointed
chaplain of Holy Cross college, vice
Rev Father Loyzance, deceased.
Washington, March 16.-Postmaster-
General Gary has made an announce
ment of interest to democratic post
:-asters whose terms expire on various
{ ates under the new administration.
ae says he has decided to adhere to
the four-year tenure of Office policy
for postmasters except in cases where
such officials should be removed for
cause.
Allentown, Pa, March 15.-The road
house of the Rittersville Hotel COM
pany, three miles from here, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. The fire
started from stove used to warm
the rooms in which the pet animals
and birds of Central park are kept dur
ing the winter months. All the birds
and animals in the place were burned.
The loss is $256b
Trenton, March 16.-The court of
errors and appeals has confirmed the
convictions of Jacob S. johnson and
Daniel Alderman, both of whom are
under sentence of death. johnson is
colored preacher and was convicted
of numbering a woman in Summer
vile, N. J. Alderman was convicted
of killing his wife. The men will be
rearraigned and dates for their execu-
ton fixed.
London, March 16.-A dispatch to
the Graphic from Canea says that
gun exploded yesterday on the Russian
turret ship Sisoi Velily, killing fifteen
men and wounding an officer and
twenty seamen. The Sisoi Veliky is
one of the largest vessels in the Rus
sian navy. The vessel was practicing
outside of Suda bay, when one of her
turret guns exploded, owing to the
breech not having been properly closed.
Besides the fifteen men killed outright
thirteen others were so badly injured
that they will die.
Philadelphia, March 15-Col Alex
ander E. Drake, a retired army officer,
who is dead at his home here, was
born in Kentucky in 1918, and in June,
Il l, 81.
United States navy by Gen. jackson,
and served with the land forces during
the Seminole war. He served with
distinction during the Mexican war,
and in 1850 was assistant engineer of
the Southern Pacific railroad. During
the civil war he was with Rousseaus
brigade, and was promoted several
times for meritorious and gallant serv-
ices
Vienna, March 16.-A band of Alba
mans from Uskub, some twenty-five
miles south of the Servian frontier,
have pillaged six villages in the vicinity
of Uskub and burned three Others In
their attacks on the villages they shot
twenty-four persons. Later the Alba
mans crossed the Servian frontier with
the evident intention of continuing
their marauding on Servian territory
They were, however, met by a party of
Servian gendarmes, who had received
warning of their approach, and were
repulsed after a struggle in which a
number on both sides were killed or
wounded. The Turkish government
has sent troops to deal with the preda-
tory Albanians