The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
TelegraPhic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

hVP1"Si' ~ D.. was burned.
Albert Smith, colored. was hanged in
the Jail yard at Harrisburg, Pa.
Aguinaldo has refused to release the
spanish military prisoners in the
hands of the Filipinos.
President Mckinley sent message
or coincidence TO the Gar on the death
of the Grand Duke George.
Three arrests have been made in
Philadelphia in connection with the
Fonrth Oh July silk robberies in New
York.
The engineers of the battleship Iowa.
now IN dry dock at Seattle have dis
covered serious injuries to her fur
naces.
ihe total number of yellow fever
cases at Santiago is reported as I42,
ana deaths as twenty-nine, including
four officers.
Secretary Gage said he believed the
republican party should make an un-
equiyocal declaration for the mainten-
ance of the gold standard.
The steamer Queen arrived at Vic
torla, Il. G., with gold from Alaska
varl0uSly estimated to be worth any-
where from $35o.000 to $1,OO0.O00.
The State Department, at Washing
ton, discledits the repert that Canadian
mounted police had been sent to the
ulsputed Porcupine country.
The president has issued an order
extending the privileges ana protec-
tlon of the American flag to the shin
ping OF Porto Rico and the Philippines
An investigation was begun at Com
cord, n. H.. Of the chSrges of violation
OF the Civil Service law preferred
against Senator Gallingcr by ex-Gov.
1881" !
1t is definitely settled that Secretary
Aigcr viii retire from the Cabinet lie
VIII, however, remain long enough to
sign report to Congress on the con.
cluslon of the war with Spain
Reports that revolution was threat.
ened in Guatemala have been CON
firmed.
William A. Ossircr a decorator. was
burned to death in his sleeping room
in Nv Orleans fire.
The Metropolitan Tunnel Company
has been Incorporated at Albany with
a capital of $4,000.
Sixty cadets from the training shin
annapolis visited Lewis Nixon's ship
yards at Elizabeth, N. J.
Gen. Otis cables that two veteran
REGIMENTS were assured, and that he
had enlisted about 1000 men for them.
DIR. Mary G. Edmonds. of San Fran
cisco. died Of fright caused by the ac-
ciden'al setting off of burglar alarm.
Richard Metcalf, a United States
railway mail clerk, fatally shot him.
self in his car at the new Union sta
ton. Boston.
The managers of the State School
Tor the Blind at Batavia. n. Y. have
Issued Statement denying Comptro Ter
Morgan's charges.
Richard Williams. who was Ivncbed
at Alma, Kan. Is alive and recovering.
his body having been cut down after
the mob thought him dead.
George and Louis Grimm. brothers,
aged twelve and ten years. rcspcc.
lively were drowned while bathing in
Rock River, near Beloit, Wis
DR.. Edward McCorn, of the River
crest, il. l., Sanitarium, who shot and
killed Clifton White, for pilfering cher
ries. is seriously i'll in Queen County
Jail.
Gov. Roosevelt gave out n statement
commenting the efforts of the New
YORK City Republican organization TO
reach an understanding with fhe inde-
pendcnts for union against Tammany.
The steamship Portia was wrecked
on flinn's Island near Halifax in n
dense fog. All of the passengers and
crew were landed safely The passcn-
gers were nearly all summer tourists.
The Christian Endeavor Society
closed Its eighteenth annual conven-
tlon in Detroit after having been in
session for one week. The convention
as n whole is reported to have been
the most successful in the history of
the society.
The commission which has been In.
vestigating the charges of the tobac.
co importers against the appraisers
department mt New York has reported
to the Secretary of the Treasury. The
report showed that the men alleged 10
he incompetent were no longer in the
service.
Mgr. Peralta Bishop Of Panama, Is
dead
iHN " ui9tt 4NtWdth udS lcII Nalpar-
also for Manila
Mark Twain has gone to Sweden to
take the Swedish cure.
The commercial treaty between Por-
tugal and the United States has gone
into effect.
EXPreSldent cleveland is said to he
willing to accept chair in Princeton
University.
Admiral Cervera's conduct at Santi-
ago Will not be made the subject OF
official inquiry.
Nicholas Pacala, arrested in New
| York for murder i'm Yonkers July 3.
has been taken to that city.
The aSSassins of General Luna. the
! Filipino leader, have been acquitted on
the ground Of selfdefcnse.
The British Colonial Office has been
informed of a serious outbreak of the
! bubonic plague at Mauritius.
! Minnesota entomologists fear de-
structivI Invasion of grasshoppers
! from their North Dakota hatcheries
DR.. Alfons Mumm Won Schwarzen.
stein will act rs German Ambassador
during DR.. Won Hollenben's summer
leave.
The body of Owen McCann. who was
drowned July 4, has been picked I'D at
the foot Of Twenty-fourth street. South
Brooklyn, N. Y.
The arm of ELI Forbes, of East
Brookheld, Mass, paralyzed for thir