The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-11
THE COUNTRY N GENERAL.
A Summary of Happenings at
Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS CONDENSED
A Review of What Has Transpired
Of Public Interest.

Of Public Interest.
Parkersburg, W. Va. Aug. S-Alf N
Williams, well-known Democratic
POLITICIAN and shoe merchant, has as
signed. Liabilities are estimated Mt
( $l6n.0O0; assets about $4,000.
Greenville, Ohio. Aug. S-William II
Li@htner, resident of this city. who
has suffered for years with rheuma-
tism, began hiccoughing last Thursday
! at ! a. III. and has not stopped vet
Physicins fear he will hiccough him
self to death.
Pekin. Aug. S,-M de Giers. the Rus
sian minister. has addressed a note to
the Chinese foreign office warning that
body that the signing of a nalliance
! with Japan would give great Offense
TO RHssla, ana that the consequences
to China would be most serious.
Newark, y. j.. Aug. S.-William e.
ReScupS, nine years of age. of 375 New
street, this city, was drowned in the
Morris Canal at the foot of Norfolk
street. Young RescupS, after being in
with cramps and drowned before aid
could reach him.
Greenock, Scotland. Aug. S.-Irhe
British steamer Samara. Can't. Walker.
which has arrived here from st.
Thomas. Canada. reports having pass
ed through ice fields l30 miles east Of
Belle Isle, when icebergs 800 feet high
q si,rl Tod Tf... l.
posed to be damaged, being full Of
water
Stratford, Conn. Aug. S-Thirty pas
SengerS We're killed and a dozen in
Jufed near here, by trolley car plung-
ing over trestle fifty feet high.
The line had Just been opened for
travel and evidently the car was not
under control, as 1t approached the
treStle at high rate of speed. The
wheels left the tracks Immediately and
bumped along the ties. then the car
plunged over the side, the trestle not
being protected by guard rails.
In Its fight Of fifty feet to the mud
flats below the car turned completely
over As it struck the ground the huge
four-ton motor was torn from its fas-
Jennings and broke through the floor of
the car crushing many passengers to
death against the roof, which was i'm.
bedded deeply in the mud
Five minutes before that the pas
SengerS on the crowded car. delighted
with their first opportunity of seeing
the beauties of the HouSatonic River
on such lovely day, were laughing
and singing. When found by men who
hurried to their assistance they were
simply iammed into a human mass be-
meath the great motor.
There was only one eyewitness to the
scene. That was young woman who
| had noticed the unusual speed of the
car. When it toppled over the trestle
and the shrieks of the passengers rang
in her ears, she could bear no more
and tainted.
The exact number of passengers ON
the Inflated car is not known. Almost
Immediately after the accident, and
while men were trying to rescue the
living and eXtricate the dead. some
employe of the road took away the
register of passengers and secreted it.
Bridgeport, Conn, Aug. 9.-George
Hamilton, the motorman of the ill
fated car which with its human
freight plunged over the side of the
big trestle on the Shelton Traction
Company's road, was arraigned before
Justice Peck in Stratford Court. The
charge brought against Hamilton was
that of manslaughter. He pleaded not
guilty, and without having heard evil
dence of any kind Justice Peck con-
tinued the case for one week and fixed
the prisoners bail at S2.000-e Hamil-
ton was released soon afterward and
went to his boarding place in Bridge
! port. His surety was William 3. Tut
| Tie, a Stratford druggist. Hamilton
would make no statement after the
hearing.
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