The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-24

wages or the employees OF the Chi
ma, Pembroke and Webster Cotton mills
at Suncook, N. H., will be cut 10 per
cent Jan. 1.
Chicago's Federation of Labor has re-
quested it's members who are in the
militia to resign and that no members
hereafter enlist.
Monday. Dec. 20.
Washington Hesing. the well known
Chicago politician, is dead.
Mrs. Darlington Booth, previously re-
ported ill., is much improved
Count and Countess Castellane have
purchased magnificent Italian palace.
DR.. Elijah ]. Bond is under arrest at
New Haven charged with performing
a criminal operation.
Mrs. Mary e. Lease announces that
she hopes to run for congress on the
Populist ticket in Kansas.
A Russian squadron is occupying Port
Arthur, on the Chinese coast. with the
consent of the Monaghan government.
Samuel Gompers has been reelected
president of the American Federation
of Labor and Kansas City chosen as the
next meeting place.
The trial of the arrested members
and former members of the French
chamber of deputies in connection with
the Panama scandal has begun.
Lieutenant Governor Woodruff Of
New York state suggests Senator Frank
Higgins of Chautauqua county to sue
coed the late Senator Mullin as CHAIR
man of the finance committee.
Saturday, Dec. Is.
- TweQty-three priests were ordained
Holy Cross cathedral in Bost hn
A large papef-Nfsctory has been incdf !
porated to operate n New Jersey.
The Spanish cabinet has discussed
plan to increase the strength of tho
navy.
A. G. Spalding and Captain Arson of
baseball fame returned from Europe
yesterday.
William Chase the artist has caps
tured Chicagos art exhibit with his
eastern display.
The appellate court of Chicago has
decided that a certified draft must be
held sacred by bank
The steamer Quadra has gone to
search in Barclay sound for the missing
boats OF the lost steamer Cleveland.
treaty providing for an allotment
OF lands has been concluded between
the United States and the Seminoles.
The insurgent leader Betancourt. In
the province of Matanzas, has hanged
Manuel Argudin, well known inhabi-
tant of Havana.
The railroad commissioners, in their
report assign no definite cause for the
recent wreck at Garrisons, but recon-
mend more trackwalkers for the New
York Central and Hudson River rail-
road
Friday, Dec. II.
The peace treaty has been ratified by
Greece.
Three were killed and four injured in
collision near Clinton, Ind.
Prince Henry of Prussia left Kiel on
the German cruiser Gefion, bound for
China
The cry of an awakened baby in st.
Louis saved eight persons from deattA
by fire.
Eugene Ruffy has been elected presi-
dent of Switzerland by the federal as
sembly.
Immense preparations have been
made to send food to the K1ondike from
San Francisco.
Missouri's attorney general has OPEN
ed war on trust companies which do q
banking business.
Purser Witbeck of the wrecked steam
er Cleveland has arrived at Victoria. b.
C. There is little doubt that the %
missing men have been drowned.
Theodore Durrant, the San Francisco
murderer, said in an interview that he
believed help would still come to him
md hot 11a
Thursday, Dec. 10.
Prospectors at Victoria report a rich
find of gold at Tom Creek
In the football match in London, OK
ford scored 2 tries and Cambridge moth
ing
Professor Stockmeyer has predicted
big blizzard in the northern states on
Dec. 81.
Byron Gilbert, aged Z, of Topeka has
been granted a conditional license to
practice law when he arrives at Il.
Bishop John M. Walden of the Meth
odist Episcopal church has been as
signed to the European conferences.
The Canadian cruiser Osprey has
seized the Gloucester schooner Phillips
for alleged violations OF customs laws.
wrecked on Cushing island three miles
from Portland. Me-. and six lives we're
lost.
An agent of the United States has ar
rived at Trondhjem, Norway, to buy
reindeer for the Klondike relief expedi-
ton.
Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Alexander Mcdonald, ex-minister to
Persia. died at Lynchburg, Va.
Seattle has had the heaviest rainfall
In It's history. Floods are feared.
The second trial of Adolph Luetgert
Is now well under way at Chicago.
The Chicago aldermen raised their
salaries from So per week to $500 per
| year.
The steamer AL XII from Dyea reports
tnat 40 tons of Nlondike supplies have
crossed Chilkat pass
Inc Indiana nen who lynched the FIVE
thieves at Versailles have been betray-
ed to Governor Mount.
SIX Months For Mail Robbing.
BOSTON, Dec. Frank c. c. Red
head, the Lowell postoffice clerk who
stole letters, in the United States dis
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