The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-08
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly and
Tersely Told.

TerseIy Told.
The schooner Triumph reports seals
plentiful in Bering sea, but restless.
The fortune left by the late Barney
Barnato is now reckoned at less than
s5,O0O,OOO.
Edward McElroy of Toronto shot his
wife and himself in Kansas City, and
both may die.
Hundreds of acres have been burned
over by the forest and prairie fires Of
Indiana and Illinois.
The Canadian customs official at Ia
gish Lake reports having collected $1O,-
900 duties from Klondikers.
Six more of the crew Of the Alaska
steam whaler Nevarch have been pick
ed up, but % are still missing.
A Republican candidate was killed
and a Democrat mortally wounded in
political fight at Knuckle, Kan.
The president appointed Lawrits s.
Swenson minister to Denmark, and DR..
Edward Bedloe consul at Canton,
China.
The court of appeals has denied the
appeal of Charles Burgess, sentenced to
death for the murder of H. V. Whitlock
In 1895 at Auburn N. Y.
Tuesday, Oct. 8.
Four fishermen were drowned off
Long Branch.
Columbia university was opened yes
terday by DIR. Seth Low.
Great damage by typhoon Is re-
ported from all over Japan.
Rapid City, S. D., was only saved
from forest fires by hard fight.
The president has appointed William
r. Finch minister to Paraguay and
Uruguay.
Superintendent Skinner will issue an
order opening the schools at Water
vliet, N. Y.
The department of agriculture in
vites information on the adulteration
of foods and drugs.
Manila advices state that the Span
ish have met with crushing defeats in
the Philippine islands.
The Canadian government and the
Canadian Pacific are both making sur
veys for a railroad to Dawson City.
M. STREET., the new minister of finance
of Greece, says he will arrange for the
issuing of the indemnity loan immedi-
ately.
The president has decided to appoint
M. w. Gibbs of Little Rock, a colored
Republican, to be consul at Tamatave'
Madagascar.
A Seattle man writes home from the
Yukon country that his claim on Ell
MI e600 nm In
gold nuggets this winter.
Lord Aldenham and Henry Rivers
dale Grenfelt, in letter to the Lon
don Times, argue for the acceptance by
bimetallists of the Hicks Beach COM
promise.
Rev. r. ]. Kellogg of Denverside,
Ills, is building parsonage under the
protection of a shotgun. The Car
penters' union has insisted that only
those neighbors who are union men
may help him.
Monday, Oct. 4.
Sagasta has been chosen premier OF
Spain.
Major Lewis Ginter, the cigarette
king, Is dead.
A boy was killed in Keene, N. H, by
swallowing bee.
General Neal Dow, the famous pro-
hibitionist, Is dead.
Four were drowned at Hamilton, Ala,
returning from party.
The German emperor's new naval bill
calls for 100000 900 marks.
Lily Langtry is going to devote all
her time to horse racing.
Lynchers at Osgood, Ind, were disap'
pointed by the escape of their man.
M. Delyannis has not been chosen
premier of the new cabinet in Greece.
He saws he will overthrow 1T.
Ernest Hayden of Springfield, Mass,
and an unknown companion committed
suicide by gas in a room at the Broad
way Garden, New York.
Saturday, Oct. 2.
The Afridis attacked the British In
India only a few miles from Peshawur.
A bad freight wreck occurred on the
Boston and Maine near Holyoke, Mass.
James Cunningham was run over and
killed by trolley car at White Plains,
N. Y.
The danger of the street car employees
strike in Chicago has not yet been
averted.
Postal officials are consulting in
washington over the advisability Of