The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-05-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly and
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A. w. Tourgee was nominated consul
at Bordeaux.
Senator Quay signed a petition for
Chapman's pardon.
The insurrection in Honduras is end
ed, and the country is again peaceful.
Kaiser Wilhelm sent $1,000 to the
Paris charity committee crippled by
the bazaar fire.
The fourth annual convention of the
National Association of Chiefs of Po-
lice is being held in Pittsburg.
Baron Reedtz Thott, prime minister
and minister of foreign affairs of Den
mark, rendered his resignation to King
Oscar.
1t is said at Chicago that Brigadier
General Brooks, in command there, will
command the army in General Miles
absence.
The sale of the Atlantic and Pacific
to the Santa Fe company has been con-
frmed by Judge Ross in the United
States district court at Los Angeles up
on application of Chairman Walker of
the reorganization committee.
Floyd Chilston and Bud Cashier, two
young men of Dickinson county, Va,
fought a battle with their fists on the
top of Cumberland mountains. Chill
ston died in few hours, and Cashier
was dying when last heard from.
Tuesday, May IL.
Francis L. Eames was elected presi-
dent of the New York Stock Exchange.
The body of an unknown woman was
found in the Central park IN. " reser-
voir.
Thomas H. Stout was sent to Sing
Sing for three years for forgery at New
York city.
Howard Scott was sentenced in New
York city to die for wife slaughter dur
ing the week beginning June IA.
A British officer and 80 coolies have
been killed by an avalanche on the
Sprlnagarleh road at Simla, British In
dia.
James Kennedy, while coastng down
hill at Goshen, N Y, on bicycle,
was thrown to the ground, and his
skull was fractured.
An explosion has occurred at the
Snaefell lead mine on the isle of Man.
Twenty miners were entombed, and it
is feared that they have been killed.
Monday, May 10.
Two sisters, the younger of whom
was just about to sail for Ireland, were
asphyxiated by gas in New York.
Receivers of E. S. Greeley & Co. of
New York found accounts muddled and
said there may have been big defal-
cation.
The new timber drydock at the navy
yard at Brooklyn sprung leak, and
an accident to the Massachusetts was
narrowly averted.
President Mckinley opposes the
sugar schedule in the senate revised
Dingley bill on the ground that it
gives too much protection to the Sugar
trust.
E. Kellogg Beach, retired million
aire capitalist, committed suicide in
the bathroom at his home in Chicago
by shooting himself in the mouth. De-
spondency over i'll health is supposed to
have been the cause.
Two shocks of earthquake were felt
in Rome and vicinity. Many residents
of the city were panic stricken and
rushed from their houses into the
any serious damage done.
F. NJ. Blichtenberg of Astoria, Or,
a young Englishman who arrived in
this city about a year ago and left
year later has met a horrible fate at
the hands of cannibals in the South
Sea islands, who devoured him.
Saturday, May 8.
Russell Sage denies that he has fallen
out with George Gould.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harris and servant
girl were killed by tramps near Wau-
kesha, Wis.
| Mrs. John Morgan rescued her hus-
band and children from death by fire In
| New York city.
A verdict for $39Oe9 was granted in
| Brooklyn against ]. E. Searles of the
Sugar trust and in favor of his former
housekeeper.
Twenty victims Of the Paris fire of
] Tuesday last at the charity bazaar on
! the Rue Jean Goujon were buried yes
| terday
Rector Henry Mottet of the Church OF
the Holy Communion, New York,
caused the arrest of G. Weinberg for
| challenging him to a duel and threaten
i ing to kill him.
John Rheinhardt, a fireman, was suf-