The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-05-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly and
Tersely Told.


Notable Events Of the Week Briefly and
Tersely Told.
Apple tree worms have reappeared in
Saratoga and adjoining counties, New
York
Jersey City's street and water board
was compelled to reinstate in office IA
Did soldiers.
A bronze statue of Peter Cooper was
put on it's pedestal in Cooper Union
park, New York city.
Henry o. Havemeyer the sugar king,
was put on trial in Washington for re-
fusing to answer senate inquiries.
During a display or fireworks at
Nantes, France, persons were killed
and about 20 injured by the explosion
Of bomb.
Fire destroyed the Wholesale grocery
store of Smith Bros. and badly dam
aged the grocery stock Of ]. M. Nixon
& Co. on Bay street, Savannah; loss,
$4,000, fully insured.
The secretary of war has awarded
the large contract for building six locks
and dams in the Monongahela river to
James McCarren of Philadelphia at an
aggregate cost of $622, ,181.
Albert M. King, the Boylston Nation
al bank messenger who disappeared
last Wednesday with $4,000 of the
banks money was arraigned In the
municipal court in Boston on charge
of embezzlement. He pleaded not guilty
and was admitted to bail in $3.50
Tuesday, May 25.
New York city's first school for tru
ants was opened.
Hackensack, N. j., is in arms against
the granting of a trolley franchise.
Dissolution of the Spanish cabinet is
threatened, and Campos has been called
to Madrid.
The presidents power to remove office
holders was upheld by the United States
supreme court.
President Mckinley approved the res
olution of relief for starving Ameri-
cans in Cuba within ten minutes after
he had received it.
The birthday of Queen Victoria. who
was born in 1919, was observed through
out England with the usual artillery
salutes, the ringing of church bells and
reviews at the different naval and mill
tary stations.
A boy named Dinehart, 10 years old.
while playing with a number of COM
rades, was killed by live wire at Syra-
cuse. One of the youngsters threw a
coil Of small wire over trolley cable,
the ends coming in contact with the
track. Young Dinehart grasped the wire
and fell dead.
Monday, May "a,
The first view of the heavens through
the great Yerkes lens was taken at the
observatory at Williams Bay, Wis
Samuel Lacombie, 2 years old, fell
FIVE stories through an airshaft in a
New York east side tenement nhouse
and will probably live. Both legs and
several ribs were broken. nSdGa1 sTs
+ Peter S. McNaily,s the WE'LL known
long distance swimmer, has-sailed from
Boston on the Cephaionia for England,
where he will make an. attempt to
swim the English channel. '.r
William r. Morse, aged AZ years, a
bookkeeper was arrested at his resi-
dence in Brooklyn on a warrant issued
by Justice Williams of Watertown, N.
Y, charging him with forgery
The monument which Charles Broad
way Rouss presented to the Confeder-
ate Veteran camp In honor Of the dead
soldiers of the south was dedicated at
Mount Hope cemetery, New York city.
Frank Quinn, 10 years: Charles Coats.
IL years; James Coats, 8 years, and
Charles and Albert Svic, twins, years
old, were drowned in the Chicago river
while trying to cross on an improvised
raft
Saturday, May 2e.
A cloudburst in the Asolin valley,
Washington state, did 100000 damage.
Albert Schweigert, an escaped luna
tic, tried to kill his family with an ak
in Newark, N. ].
Manhattan directors will test the
third rail system with view to adop-
tion on the L roads of New York city.
Steamer Florida was sunk in a colli-
sion on Lake Huron with the @. W.
Roby, which saved the Florida's crew.
Joseph H. Earle. United States sena-
tor from South Carolina, is dead He
was born in Greenville, s. c., April 80.
1S47.
A Ninth avenue L engine collided
with crowded Sixth avenue car, in
New York city, damaging the car and
injuring George Carlson Of Brooklyn.
J. Powley was found guilty Of the