The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-22
THE NEWS In BRIEF
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

The United States cruiser Detroit
has arrived at Caracas.
Workmen preparing Manila trans.
ports have struck at San Francisco.
The bubonIc plague has broken out
at Asuncion. the capital OF Paraguay.
Town correspondent said the Beers
were expected to attack at any time
The yellow fever situation at Key
West is regarded grave. There are al
most 400 cases.
President Romano has promised
exposition in 1901.
The steam yacht Virginia, built for
Mr.. Isaac Stern. of New York, was
launched AT Bath, Me.
Frank Pugh. grandson of the late
John Stephenson car builder, commit
ted suicide at New Rochelle, n. Y.
Rear-Admlral Watson reported the
engagement of the gunboat Paragua
with the natives at San Fabian, Lin
gayen Gulf.
Gen. X. A. Alger has been an.
nounced as one of those who will wei.
come the Kansas troops returning
from Manila.
Rev. Il, II. Dolllver. in Chicago.
made plea for the union Of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church and the Meth
odist Church South.
A meeting of Chicago building CON
tractors, declared against lockouts,
strikes or boycotts, and pledged action
to avoid them if possible.
The departure of the Thirty-iirst In
fantry from San Francisco for Manila
has been delayed by the discovery Of
a supposed case of smallpox among
the men.
Gen. Otis cabled that Private Hoon,
Of the Fourth Infantry, in whose be-
half Gov. Bushnell protested to Presi-
dent Mckinley. had been found guilty
of forgery.
Gov. Roosevelt has designated Jus.
tice Walter Floyd Smith, Of Elmira,
as an associate Justice of the Fourth
Appellate Division, in place Of the late
Justice DI!Id l.. Iolhhlt
Mrs. Mary Brooks, who served tweu-
ty-three years in n Michigan prison
for the alleged poisoning Of her hus-
band in 1879, has been married to d.
! Fl. Stuart, who had been the chief wit
ness against her.
A serious break occurred in the
Forestport feeder to the Erie Canal.
Prominent Democrats held meetings
at Chicago TO discuss campaign pluns.
A cigar syndicate has been formed
Mt Tampa, Fla, with 4 canital nf S25.-
! ono, 900.
The Presidents dinner for Admiral
Dewey at the White House, has been
set for October 3.
Arizona and New Mexico officials de-
clared they would not follow Cali
fornia in the proposition to quarantine
consumptives.
The American gunboat PampangC
chased the British steamer Yuen-Sang
suspected to be a filibuster from the
Luzon coast to Hong Kong.
Gov. Roosevelt proclaimed Friday
and Saturday, September 20 and 30
as holidays througout the State, il
honor of Admiral Dewey's safe re
turn.
A Hong Kong dispatch stated tha
Aguinaldo was willing to free hi
Spanish prisoners, but that Gen. Otis
would not allow Spanish vessels to &,
to Filipino ports to receive them.
Gov. Lowndes and Senator yelling
ton, of Maryland; Mayor Malster, o
Baltimore, and Gen. Felix Agnus pro
tested to the President against the as
signment of Admiral Schley to tn,
South Atlantic station.
Chickasaw legislators wanted TO pu
the cost of marriage licences at 81.
GOO, to shut out white men from par
ticipating, through marriage to lndiaI
women, in the allotment of lands.
Gov. Bushnell has Appealed to Pres
ident Mckinley for clemency to M
Ohio volunteer, who. contrary to mill
tary regulations, addressed letter tC
Gen. Otis, and was sentenced to i'm
prisonment in consequence.
A fire in Lincoln, Neb., did $500. .O0C
worth of damage.
Burglars blew up the safe in the
Post Office at Leechburg, Pa, and Sc.
cured $4,000.
The American Glass Company, with
$17,000,000 capital. was formed nj
Pittsburg
Six negro miners were shot dead and
one fatally wounded in a riot at
Carterville, Ill.
Sixty-seven survivors of the Edmon.
ton trail to the Klondike, have reach.
ed Wrangel, Alaska.
A Washington sculptor has begun q
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