The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events Of the Week Briefly and
Tersely Told.

Notable Events of the Week Briefly and
Tersely Told.
Forest fires in Wyoming have de-
stroyed at least 100000 feet of timber.
]. Oscar Michaels, a prominent Re-
publican of Camden, N. j., committed
suicide.
The Guatemalan insurgents are con-
centrating at Quezaltenango and will
soon be besieged.
The Chickasaw legislature has passed
an act placing a royalty on all gold
mined in the Nation.
The Dawes commission has conclud-
ed treaty with the Creek Indians pro-
viding for an allotment of lands.
Postmaster General Gary is expected
to recommend plan for the establish
ment of postal savings banks to con-
gress.
Chandler Hale, son of Senator Hale,
was married to Miss Rachael B. Cam
eron, daughter of ex-senator Cameron,
at Harrisburg.
Proceedings to recover title for the
state to some 100000 acres in the Sara
nae region of the Adirondacks were be-
gun at Albany.
The brig Percy Edwards, which left
San Francisco last February with 100
South sea colonists, is now said to be
engaged in the slave trade.
It is announced at Teheran, Persia,
that Turkish Kurds were the aggressors
in the fighting on the frontier last Au-
gust and that 300 persons were massa-
cred.
Tuesday, Sept. 2S.
Forest fires have destroyed 54 square
miles Of timber in South Dakota.
Major Louis Ginter, the cigarette
manufacturer, is said to be dying at his
estate near Richmond.
The tugboat John A. Woods was
burned on the Hudson below Pough-
keepsie. No lives were lost.
Arrangements have been completed
for the cession by Italy of Kassala.
Abyssinia, to Great Britain.
Michael Simonds of Baltimore shot
Miss Jennie Long and committed sui
eide when he heard the police coming
for him.
1t is said in Washington that the plan
of John r. Mclean to abandon free sill
yer will cause a split in the Democratic
party in Ohio.
President Barrios of Guatemala has
put a price of 100000 on the heads Of
the insurgent leaders, Prospero Morales
and Manuel Fuentes.
Mr. Gladstone has issued a reply to
the accusation of inconsistency made
against him for condemning the so
called concert of the powers.
The members of the San Francisco
expedition to the Peruvian goldfields
report they were unable to find the
places where the treasure is said to ex-
list.
Monday, Sept. FL.
Bancroft, the magician, has died at
Charleston of typhoid fever.
Catholic and Protestant converts
have come to blows at Taichow, China.
Joseph Holt, the Mechanic Falls (Me.)
murderer has been sentenced to ten
years for manslaughter.
r. w. Petty. New York salesman,
is missing from Chicago, and it is be-
lieyed he has been murdered.
Manager Kesner of a Chicago depart
ment store has been indicted for at
tempting to bribe an alderman.
James Kelly, OH d COIoheI NeluiClS
will be held for the murder of his
father-in-law at Lewisboro, N. Y.
James Connick of Hyde Park, Mass,
charged with killing Michael Leonard
of Providence, has been released for
lack of evidence against him.
Saturday, Sept. 25.
All incoming European steamers had
a taste of the Carolina storm.
A Saranac Lake IN. " man has dis
, covered gold near his home.
An alarming outbreak of typhoid
fever is reported in Kent. England.
Great loss of life is reported in rail-
road accident near Maddur. in India.
The sinking of the schooner Minnie
A Bonsall was reported at Charleston.
Typhoid fever is causing ravages
among the Turkish troops in Thessaly.
Forty persons were killed and many
injured by an earthslip at Girgenti, in
Italy.
Liliuokalani will resume her fight
against annexation of Hawaii as soon
as congress convenes.
An attempt to hold up Santa Fe
train near Edmond, o. T., was pre-
! vented by deputy marshals.
Dictator Barrios of Guatemala is said