The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-25
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Part,
of the World


The Pennsylvania volunteers have
lett san Francisco for home.
The loss IN the Victor (Col) fire ia
100000. Vs.
Mobs are reported pursuing negroes
accused of crime In Kentucky. Ten
nessee and Georgia.
Secretary of War Root Arrived ut
iotel Champlain for O conference with
President Mckinley.
A battle between the Yaoni Indians
ana the Mexican troops Is reported inn
minent at Potam, Mexico.
The Chicago committee to invite
President Diaz to visit that city were
eiaoorately entertained In Mexico.
A South AFRICAN mining enqineer
established a record Of seventeen DAYS
for the trip from London to Dawson.
The revenue cutter Corwin has tow
ed 1000 ton barge to the mouth Of
the Yukon, 10 he used as a eoalinS
station.
The cruiser Panther has sailed from
Philadelphia loaded with $4,000 worth
of clothing and building material for
Porto Ricans.
The American delegates to tho In.
ternational Congress at Berlin will
work to bring the next meeting to
Washington.
The resignation Of Hon. Thomas B.
Reed as Congressman In the First
Maine District has been received by
Gov. Powers
Gov Roosevelt has appointed Eugene
A. Phillip, of New York City. to sue
ceed the late John VintOn Dahlgren as
q member Of the State Board OF
Charities.
The Havana "Heraldo" published
story saying that Jimlnez, the preten-
der to the Presidency Of Santo Domin-
go, had returned to Havana. claiming
he was taken off the yacht Polaria on
a tug at sea.
The Yaqul rebellion in Mexico is re-
ported to have reached its most critic
al stage.
William +. Fitzgibbon, an invalid,
twenty-eight years old, of Trenton, N.
J., poisoned himself.
A gang of 200 railway grading In
dians In Arizona started to make
trouble for white people.
y mother and four children were
made critically i'll In Elizabeth, N. j.,
by eating canned sardines.
4 plot to break out Of the guardhouse
Mt Fort Sheridan. Chicago, ILL.,, was
discovered and frustrated.
The wife of Joseph Krauta, Of 11s
Wilbur street, Long Island City, found
him hanging dead in his cellar.
News reached Seattle Of the first
legal execution in the Klondike, q triple
hanging having occurred at Dawson on
August 4.
y report is current in Washington
that the Attorney General would hand
down shortly decision in the Carter
court-martial case.
Claus Schretlein, back from Klon-
dixie, declares that Canadian police
drove him and his companions out or
the Atlin mining region.
Louis Marks. Klondike correspondent
of the "Financial News" of London,
sad in Vancouver that the output this
year will he over S2O,000,000.
The steamer Roanoke, from Alaska,
reports at Seattle that the steamer
Portland was probably on 'route for
San Francisco. with $1,000,000 in gold
belonging TO the Alaslen Commercial
Company.
A barn on the Horace Greedy estate
Mt Chappaqua, n. Y. the summer
home OF Rev. DR., Clcndenln, was part
ly destroyed by fire and incendiarism
was suspected The. clergyman ac-
cused adherents of Rev. DR. Briggs OF
causing the fire in st. Peters Church
The Marine Court of Inquiry which
investigated the recent stranding OF
the steamer MerrimaC, on Anticostl Is
land, suspended Capt Thomas A.
Purcell for three months and severely
censured the second officer, William
Goulding
NJ. I.ahori is reported bctter at Rem
pts.
Gov. Roosevelt has agreed TO address
august 30.
The British Government has agreed
to the withdrawal of rXtradltion pro-
ce"dings In the Perot case.
Forty-six cases OF Lubonic plague
hive been reported In Portugal, but
The outbreak is diminishing.
Gen. Merritt was one of the guests
Mt the hotel at which the President
is staying on Lake Champlam:
Richard Croker left Long Brahch on
yachting cruise. and may not rturn
until the first week in September.
Over $2O0OO.OOO in gold certificates
have been exchanged hy the Treasury
at Washington, under recent order.
The Dreyfus court-martial continued
at Rennes, France. Dreyfus gave the
h- to Major Culgnet who testified
against him.
Justice Barnard, at Toughkeepsic, n.
Y, ordered n reduction In the nssess-
ments on John ID. Rockefcller's North
TarrytOwn property.
The Twenty-seventh. Thirty first and
Thirty fourth regiments, newly recruit
90, have been ordered to San Fr9ncls-
co, en- route to Manila.
Suit against Secretary of State Hay
and a steamship company In which he
Is interested, was begun In Cleveland
over q steamer collision.
The Earl Of Denhigh said In Eng
and that unless strong hand wero
shown in South Africa, the cnpire
would face serious trouble.
Died During Surgical Operation.
New Haven, Conn, Aug. 23.-Will-
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