The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-08-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly and
Tersely Told.

notable Events OF the Week Briefly and
TerseIy Told.
The British steamer Boston City. from
New York for Bristol. England. is
ashore in the river Avon. near Bristol.
The private park of the late Austin
Corbin, at Newport, N. H., containing
100000 feet of lumber has been sold
to lumbermen.
2. H. Esterbrook, division master of
the Union Pacific railroad at Ellis, Kan,
has been shot and mortally wounded by
a discharged employee.
The FIVE year old daughter of Howard
Langlois of Rochester is dead from eat
ing mushroom soup. Six other members
Of the household are seriously i'll.
Three young men robbed the bank at
Pineville, Ark, of currency amounting
to $4,000. They forced the cashier to sur
render the money at the point of a re-
volver and escaped.
Two children of c. L. King, station
agent at Mount Forest, Ont, have died
from eating canned salmon. One child
is seriously and three others slightly i'll
from the same cause.
Tuesday, Aug. IL.
"A dl lHe government WOIhS
at Tybee island near Savannah, fell
through a trestle and killed several per-
sons.
George Seymour, who has been in
hypnotic state for four weeks, awoke
with violent convulsions and is now
able to converse.
In the case of John Waltz, charged
with the murder of Jacob Lemon in
Forest City, Pa, the jury has returned
a verdict of murder in the second degree.
A gun burst on board the British third
class cruiser Champion while practicing
off the Norwegian coast, dangerously
wounding an officer and seriously in
juring three other men.
A steam ferryboat plying between the
old and new towns of Dresden was cap
sized by the wash of large steamer.
More than so people were thrown into
the water and several are missing.
Monday, Aug. 16.
Senator George of Mississippi died at
Mississippi City, Miss. He was born in
Monroe county, Ca, on Oct. 26, 1926.
For 27 days little Elsie Dick, a 1S-year-
old girl of Louisville, has been asleep in
consequence of an attack of typhoid
fever.
Frederick D. Stone, librarian of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, died
suddenly of heart disease at German
town, a suburb of Philadelphia.
Reports from Sancti Spiritus, Cuba,
are to the effect that during the last
four weeks 300 persons have died in the
town. and smallpox has been reported.
The French steamer Vile de Malaga,
bound from Rouen, struck on the rocks
off Alderney island, on the coast of Nor
mandy, and her captain and 10 MEM
bers of her crew are reported missing.
Special Seal ambassador Foster has
information to the effect that a treaty
to protect the seals will be signed by
Great Britain Russia, Japan and the
United States at the sealing confer
ence.
Saturday, Aug. H.
Peter Monahan. aged "A, was hanged
| at Baltimore for the murder of his wife.
The crime was committed May %.
Eugene Pugh has been sentenced at
| Coney Island to one year in the peni-
| tentiary for stealing a pair of trousers.
Sir Isaac Holden, Bart, the inventor
of the lucifer match, died at his home,
| Oakworth House, Keighley, Yorkshire,
England. He was in his ninety-trst
year.
| Herbert A. Willis, the Taunton
! (Mass.) murderer who was shot while
attempting to escape from the state
prison, died in the hospital at that in
| stitution.
Professor A. B. Guilford, principal of
public school No. of Jersey City, COM
/ rnitted suicide in Paris by throwing
himself from a window while suffering
| from typhus fever.
Governor Black of New York has
granted the requisition of the governor
of Louisiana for the custody of Juan
Antonio Magan, who is under arrest in
New York city for having swindled
81. 900 from Pascal Lestelle in New Or
leans by the gold brick scheme.
Friday, Aug. IS.
Charles Radford. a native of Alaba-
ma. accused in Columbia of murder,
has been found guilty and senterced to
be hanged.
General Stewart l.. Woodford. the
new United States minister to Spain
has started from London for Paris with
his staff on his way to Madrid.