The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-01
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
lelegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.


Second Artillery, died at ChaseH Lake
New York.
A freight and passenger train came
IN collision at Florence, N. j., but no
person was hurt.
Inc transport Puebla sailed from
san francisco for Manila with GAO so,.
diers aboard. 'O-
Hosdlities have broken ont betwean
the Apaches Of Arizona ana tho zunir
or New Mexico
The closing exercises of the camp
meeting at Ocean Grove, N. J., were
held Tuesday.
Inc report Of Attorney-Gen. Griggs
on the Carter court-martiaI case is
expected soon in Washington.
/ The detachment of the Eighth Infan.
Try, returned from Alaska, has been
ordered to Fort Smelling, MINI.
a celebration of the anniversary of
the independence of Mexico Will be
held at Nogales, Mex, September 10.
Mrs. Myrtle Eyler, principal of the
state Industrial School for Girls. at
Trenton, was arrested and gave a bail
bond for $780,
A new case of alleged treason has
been discovered at Nancy. France. the
accused man being French army sub
altern
The contract for printing the official
catalogue of the Paris Exposition has
been awarded the successful bid being
about S90,000
Christian Springman, while at work
ON the roof Of a building of the New.
ark. N. j., Steel Works, fell sixty feet
to the ground, dying instantly.
The Chinese in Thibet attacked and
looted missionary station at faao-An.
No new cases of huhonic plague were
reported at OpOrto, Portugal, and only
one death from the disease.
The battleship Alabama started from
Philadelphia for her trial trip.
Gen. Otis reported that robber bands
IN Negros had been dispersed.
Millions of feet of timber have been
burned in forest fires south of Denver,
Col
The business and residence portions
OF the town of Reading, Mich, were
destroyed Dy nre.
The American Bar Association met
at Buffalo, ex-senator Henderson de-
nver1ng the annual address
Labor Commissioner McMackin was
named by Govs Roosevelt to attend the
trust conferences In Chicago.
-s-a.Ss.--r,vsts s,iuT -a-s4s 60. So.
Watchman Peterson at Englewood, N.
j., was buried in pauper grave.
Lady Yarde Butler has been declared
mentally incompetent by Judge Hall.
at Oakland, Cal, and a guardian ap-
pointed.
Valuable copper, gold and silver de.
posits have been discovered on the
Canadian Pacific extension in British
Columbia.
On account of the Dewey celebration,
the managers Of the Westchester Coun-
ty, N. Y, Fair decided to hold the show
in the middle of SEPTEMBER.
An engine on the Cardenas division
Of the Mexican Central jumped the
track and went over a precipice into
mountain gorge 1000 feet below.
Two sweetening stills at the Stand.
ard Oil refineries at Whiting. Ind,
were destroyed by an explosion. One
workman was fatally burned. Loss,
100000.
Nothing particularly new has de-
veloped in the Dreyfus trial during the
past few days. Startling revelations
are looked for when Du Patty de
CLAIMS deposition is read in court up
to this time everything is in favor Of
Dreyfus.
The Catholic Summer School at Cliff
Haven, N Y. is closed for the eighth
season.
1t is probable that the entire National
Guard of Ohio will visit New York to
welcome Dewey.
Because the lockstep marks a Grim.
inal for life the system will be abolish
ed in Indiana prisons.
Because she stayed out until 2 o'clock
in the morning at a church sociable,
Miss Edith Dunn Of Franklin, Pa, is
dead. shot through the heart by a
ueighbor in mistake for burglar
The campaign against the seating of
Representative-elect Roberts, of Utah,
a mormon polygamist, has commenced
at Providence, r. l. The five city
churches have united in petitions to
Congress asking that he be not seat
ed.
William Quinn. Of Winesburg, Ohio,
has found at Hanna, Ind, his sister
whom he had not seen for 81 years.
The Quinn family was scattered many
years ago and William has been max
ing inquiries for the whereabouts of
his sister for a score of years
Because he loved to play among the
tombs in the old Rice cemetery, John
Waring, aged five, of Victor. n. Y, was
buried there. He was digging at the
base of tall monument when it fell,
crushing him fatally. He lay under
the stone some time before he was
found.
President Bishop, of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
is on the track of four new cases Of
cruelty at the State Industrial School
for girls at Trenton. n. ]. He an
nounces that the fight against Mrs.
Eyler, the matrOn, will be pushed to n
finish He is receiving about 100 let
ters day supporting him in his action
When the big French plate mirror in
the home of Alfred Mermia of Cgdons-
burg, ~ Y, fell to the floor and was
sheltered, the neighbors said there
would be death in the family. Mer-
mia scorned the old superstition and
threw the splinters out of doors. His
seven-year-old son fell on the pile of
glass and a splinter of the mirror
pierced his lung, killing him.
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Brake for Ships.