The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-12-22

c"iilSloh between TWO passenger trains
on the New YORK, New Haven and
bloaoWay extension bridge. In this
city ohe car was telescoped and four
persons We're injured Two of them are
now at the hospital and the Others
went to their homes.
san asr rahcisc0, Cal, Dec. 19.-Nrs.
Netlle f. craven, who says she is the
Nl""W OF former senator James c.
faIr' mas won partial victory in
Judge lrouts eourt. The Court has
decided that she may prosecute her
claims for a family allowance If 5000
month"; MIS-. raven VIII now be
permilled To prove II she can do So
Portland, Me Dec. l9.-Adj dj-General
Richards has issued orders for the or
@anzAtlon "f q division of Naval Re-
The state will uniform and equip them,
and the men will be drilled as infantry,
artillery and in signals, and will have
boat and seamanship, as we'll as theo-
retical, drill The division will be mus
tered into the National Guard of the
State before Jan. l.
New York, Dec. l9.-The Produce Ex-
change Trust Company, with capital
of s2,5O000O, has closed its doors after
a brief, sharp fight with the Clearing
House, from which it withdrew early
in September
1t was also carried down to destruc-
Trust, with the paper of which it was
loaded up, but for which, owing to the
detection of the big Minneapolis mills,
who consented to go into the trust and
then refused to do so. Edwin Gould,
one of the trustees, will take charge Of
it and start new company, it is said.
passenger steamer State Of Kansas was
burned here Monday. The loss is over
100000.
Boston, Dec. 20.-Myrtie Peek, the
well-known horsewoman, died at Silver
Lake Kingston, Monday afternoon. In
private life she was Mrs. f. b. Hoff-
combination. Her remains will be tax
en- to Mendon, Mich, for burial
Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 2O.-The Brit
ish steamship Ping Suey has arrived
here from New York, to carry to Rot
terdam the largest general cargo ever
shipped in a single vessel She will
carry 5000 tons dead weight, and the
largely consist
Knoxville, Tenn, Dec. 2O-Stephen |.
near Elizabethton. on October "a he
celebrated his centenary birthday in
the Baptist church he built eighty
years ago. In 1S49 Lewis predicted the
civil war and the death by murder Of
whoever would be president then.
Orange, n. j., Dec. 20-Edgar Bailey,
of No. II Watson avenue, East Orange,
was shot in the leg by a burglar whom
he Interrupted IN the act ot fopplns MS
the burglar, but his aim was poor.
The burglar, however, returned the fire
with effect.
London, Dec. 2O.-The East Coast
cable is interrupted between Lorenzo
Marquee and Mozambique in conse-
quence of a tornado at the latter place,
where houses were blown down and
ships wrecked in the harbor During
the prevalence or the tornado, huge
wave took up a steamship and dashed
it on the beach. seriously cutting the
Eastern Telegraph Companys cable.
The cable station was unroofed' but
the instruments were saved
Chicago Dec Zu'-f uoiic auVocacy Oh
Great britain slae III the 0outh Al
rlcah war py ~. r. De'iJ'sNii'' s IAii- az
schools in Chicago. was the cause of
resolutions being introduced in tie City
Council calling for his resignation or
his immediate suspension and removal
from his position by the Board of Ed
ucation should he ignore an invitation
to step down.