The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-08-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly and
Tersely Told.

Notable Events of the Week Briefly and
Tersely Told.
The glucose plant of the American
9reservers' company at Davenport, Ia.
has been sold to the Glucose trust for
$780, 900.
A riot, caused by a private dispute,
created disturbance in Tetuan near
Madrid. Guns were used, and several
persons were wounded.
Peter Rowe, aged IL years, was
thrown from bicycle at Plainfield, n
j., while riding at rapid pace and
struck his head on a jagged stone,
iracturing his skull. He died in short
time.
Terence V. Powderly of Pennsylvania,
formerly master workman of the
Knights of Labor, has taken the pre-
scribed oath and received his commits
sion as commissioner general of immi
grafton at Washington.
Ivory Law, young farmer of Shell
byville, Ind, was reprimanded by his
sister for going on spree. He became
angry and horsewhipped her until the
whip was worn out. She was so badly
injured that she will die.
The American bark Nonantum, Cap
tain Newhall, from Newcastle, N. S.
W., for Panama, has been lost on Easter
island, a small island lying in about
II degrees south latitude and ITO degrees
west longitude. All on board were
saved.
Tuesday, Aug. 8.
Solomon Gardner, New York bot
tier, was cut in the left side by the ex-
plosion of a soda water generator.
The gunboat Bennington has arrived
at San Diego, Cal. She will remain
there a week or two and then go to
Honolulu, with instructions to survey
Pearl narbor.
Gus Zimmerman, the American cham
pion rifle shot. won the first prize and
Ignatz Martin Of the New York
Schuetzen corps captured the second
prize at the tournament at Bingen-on-
he-Rhine.
Captain General Weyler has signed an
order expelling from Cuba Eduardo
Garcia, the correspondent Of New
York newspaper, and George Eugene
Bryson, correspondent Of The Journal of
New York.
William Lockwood, a 14-year-old boy
In Jersey City, froze both arms so bad
ly that 1t will probably be necessary to
amputate them. He held them in an
Ice cream freezing mixture for four
minutes on a wager.
Forest fires have been raging for
week past in the Tolagh district, AL
geria, and they now extend over 20
square miles One thousand five hun
dred men of the Foreign legion are fight
ing the flames night and day without
success.
Monday, Aug. 2.
AS a result of a mountain slide on the
southern slope of the Koppen, one of
the Riesen- Gebirge peaks in Germany,
six persons were killed.
General Count Won Blumenthal the
only surviving commander of the Prus-
sian army of 1901, has just completed
a term of 20 years service.
Fannie Gaffin, Is years old, ascending
in the elevator of the Cataract Paper
company's mill at Niagara Falls, put
her head out of the door and was in
stantly killed, the head being almost
severed from the body.
Thirty-two employees of the San
Francisco mint have been discharged,
in accordance with Instructions from
Washington, on account of the stoppage
of the coinage Of silver, the appropria-
ton for which is already exhausted.
The Jury in the trial of Charles w.
Shading, treasurer of the Illinois State
university and president of the Globe
Savings bank, has returned verdict
of guilty. The trial was on an indict-
ment charging Spading with hypothe-
eating $4,000 of Maccupin county
bonds.
Saturday, July 81.
Rev. Father James Perton, who died
in New York last February. left will
beoueathing his fortune to charity.
James Henry, bachelor, aged 104,
and Miss Emily Boynton, 81, both col
ored. have been married in Knoxville.
The British ship Tasmania, Captain
Grain, from Calcutta, ran upon sunk
en- rocks off Cape Maria. at the north
ern extremity of Auckland, and sank
Immediately All on board were saved.
Five drill holes blasted in Six Mile
hill shaft at Houghton, Mich, broke
seven tons of ground, over one ton of
which was native copper. This is by
far the richest strike Of copper ever
made.