The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-02
: CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events Of the Week Briefly and
TerAely Told.


i Woods, the murderer who recently
! escaped from jail, and Mcdonald, the
| escaped burglar, were captured near
Nelson, B. c.. after a struggle.
/ 8 The well known sealing schooner
/ Agnes Mcdonald of Victoria, B. c.,
captain Outlet, was wrecked off the
coast of Japan. All the crew and 4ss
| ekins were saved.
Robert ]. Powley was put to death in
the electric chair at Auburn, N. Y.
The execution was successful. His
crime was the murder of his wife ON
March 8 at Niagara Falls,
| Acting under orders from Judge Ow-
ers of the district court, posse Of dep
! uty sheriffs rajded every gambling es-
tablishment in Leadville, Colo. All the
| proprietors OF the gambling houses
i we're arrested.
| u Governor Steunenberg is advised that
1 100 Indians. mostly Bannocks from the
\ Lemhi agency and some from the Me-
vada, are ghost dancing on the prairie
near Haley, Ida. The settlers are
Greatly alarmed and have appealed to
ahave them removed.
| 4. Charles Bertrand. known under the
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n ,er of the United States ambassador,
who was committed for trial on June
\ 10 charged with fraud has been sem
| fenced in Old Bailey, London. to ten
| wears penal seITitude.
Tuesday, June ca.
| Colonel F. d. Mussey. the we'll known
| Washington correspondent, died sud-
Lenly at Middlebury, VT, of Bright's
disease. He was 81 years of age and
had been i'll for same time.
Another attempt upon the part OF the
sultan to secure Germany's support for
the retention of Thessaly has met with
a refusal and the advice to conform to
Europe's wishes or the subject.
Mrs. Priscilla Fitzgerald, a colored
woman formerly a slave In Virginia,
died at the home of her son. at Annap-
oils, aged lis years Mrs. Fitzgerald
was born on a Virginia plantation on
Christmas day, 1883.
Governor Lowndes has signed the
death warrant of Peter Monahan, who
was recently convicted In the criminal
court of Baltimore of the murder of his
wife. He will be hanged In the Balti-
more city jailyard on Friday. Aug. 10.
! at Annapolis. charged with an attempt
n wreck the Bay Ridge excursion train
1bm Washington. Smith was seen to
piace a railroad tie on the track at
point near Darkwoods. An employee of
the road saw the occurrence and fright
ened the boy away.
q Monday, June eB.
Daniel Shine. aged IL, student at
the Classical High school. was drowned
at Lake Quinsigamond. Mass.
Thomas Benham, employed at the
factory of the Winsted Comm Manu-
featuring company. was instantly killed
by the explosion of a grindstone.
Ex-State Treasurer BARLEY of Ne
braska, convicted of embezzlement, was
sentenced at Omaha to 81 years in the
penitentiary and to pay fine OF $780,
00o
The Peoples institute at New York
has been organized to educate the pub
lie in civic and social science and to
establish harmony between capital and
labor.
Albert N. King. the embezzling mes
senger of the Boylston (Mass.) bank
pleaded not guilty to the charge OF
stealing $4,000 and furnished $500 bail
for appearance.
Severe earthquake shocks have con-
tinued at intervals of few hours dur
ing the past four days at Tehuantepec
and as far east as San Cristoba. in the
state of Chiapas, Mexico. No further
damage is reported, but the inhabitants
are In state of terror.
Saturday, june go.
John and Herman Riegelman have
been arrested in New York for forging
L railroad tickets.
Guy Roche of New York, racing tout
was sent to Sing Sing for nine years
for shooting George Levy.
A mob overpowered the jailers at
Crystal Springs, Miss, and lynched
John Moses. who murdered farmer.
BY the invitation of Sir Henry Irving,
700 Of the colonial troops now in Lon
don witnessed special performance at
the Lyceum theater.
James Pollard, colored. was hanged
in the jailyard in St. Louis for the MUIR
der of Joseph Irwin. The murder was
committed in July, 1895.
Fire did great damage to the store