The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly and
Tersely Told.


Tersely Told.
At a fire in Jersey City two babies
were suffocated. One man became
crazed.
The big engineers strike and lockout
has begun in London, and 100000 men
may go idle.
E. P. Wilbur resigned from the pres
idency of the Lehigh Valley road, and
the Morgan interests have full con-
troll.
Cecil Rhoades was censured in the
report of the British parliamentary
committee for his part in the Trans
vaal raid.
Official dispatches from Manila, Phil
ippine islands, report the capture of
Masugbu (NasugbW. A large number
of influential chiefs. including Aqui-
naldo, have submitted.
remarkable discovery is reported
from Alaska Some gold prospectors
several months ago ran across what
seemed to be a lake of oil. 1t is said
there is enough oil and coal in the re-
gion to supply the world. 1t is close
to the ocean.
Tuesday, July IS.
Forty persons We're killed and 60 in
jured in a railway collision in Den
mark.
Oct. 13 has been fixed upon as New
York city day at the Tennessee centen-
nial, Oct. II as Brooklyn day and Oct.
IL as New York state day.
The queen at Windsor castle received
Senator Wolcott, ex-Vice President
Stevenson and General Paine, the mem
bers of the United States bimetallic
commission.
Louis w. Hall, attorney for the Penn
sylvania road and a member of the
board of visitors to the United States
Military academy at West Point. died
suddenly at Harrisburg of heart dis
ease.
Reports from Sancti Spiritus, Cuba.
confirm the rumor that General Quin-
tin Bandera, who commanded the in
surgents in the engagement on the 9TH
at Papaya heights, was killed during
the fight.
Edwin J. Belts and wife. who reside
on farm five miles from Delhi, N. Y,
were killed by lightning. They had
been to a neighbor's and were on their
way home, when a shower forced
them to take refuge under a tree.
Monday, July I2.
Ex-Queen Lilioukalan and suit have
arrived at the Albermarle hotel, New
York.
The western railroads have refused to
give a reduced merchants rate to New
York during the fall buying season.
James Grimes. aged Is years, was shot
dead in New York by Dock Watchman
John Buck. Buck fled, but was arrest
ed. He said the boy called him names.
The Lake Erie Iron company will
bring a test case in Cleveland against
the Lake Shore railway at once to de-
termine whether it has the right to con-
fiscate coal.
The Gould Coupler company at De-
pew, N. Y, has posted a notice at its
works notifying the molders and core
makers of cut in wages ranging from
81 to so cents a day. The reduction is
but temporary the officials say.
Saturday, July 10.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Spree which sailed from New York on
June 26 and which should have arrived
at Bremen July 4, reached Queenstown
in tow of the British steamer Maine.
The schooner Annie L. Russell of Will
mington, Del, and the barge Schuylkill
in tow of the tug Tamaqua, were in col
lsion off Fort Delaware. A seaman
named Joseph Crampfield was drowned.
The main storehouse of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad company. located at
Packerton, Pa, was destroyed by fire
The loss will be about 100000; nearly
covered by insurance. All the supplies
stored in the building were practically
destroyed
During the severe storm the residence
of S. E. North, four miles east of Lari-
more, S. D., was struck by lightning.
and Mr.. North, his wife and 3-year-old
child were killed. The only member of
the family who escaped was 10
month-old child.
Edmund Davis, a well known lawyer
doing business in Boston, committed
suicide by shooting himself. He was
under arrest on a charge of embezzle-
ment and was in custody of Depu
Sheriff Samuel Capen at his home 4,
Hyde Park, Mass.
Friday, July o.
Three strong earthquake shocks were
felt at Voltri, Italy.
The United States senate passed the