The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-20
means of an increase of rates.

bill providing for shorter hours of the
drug clerks in the city of New York.
Under its provisions the clerks are
prohibited from sleeping in the stores
or in apartments connected with the
stores.
The sealing steamer Panther has
returned to st. Johns, Newfoundland,
with 12,700 seals. The aggregate re-
turns show this years seal hunt to
have been the most profitable known
for generation.
The Governing Board of the Inter
national League of Press Clubs has
decided to hold the annual meeting
of the League in New York, on July
II.
Citizens of Austin, Texas, in mass
meeting on Saturday, decided to build
steam plant to cost $3.50. 900, to take
the place of the Dam and water sys-
tenn wrecked by the flood a week ago.
The two houses of the Ohio Legisla-
ture are deadlocked on the appropria-
tion for the Ohio Centennial at To-
ledo. and there is little hope now OF
the bill becoming a law. The dis
agreement is over the amount. the
House insisting on 100000 and the
Senate half that sum.
The Ohio Legislature has passed
bills providing that eight hours shall
constitute a days work for all men
employed on public works, requiring
that all workingmen shall be given
two hours respite from their labor on
election days.
The transport Tartar arrived at
San Francisco on Saturday after a run
of thirty days from Nagasaki.
Murat Halstead has accepted the
presidency of the new college of
Journalism" a Cincinnati institution
devoted to teaching practical news
paper work.
Mr.. and Mrs. John d. Rockefeller
announce the engagement of their
daughter, Alta, to f. Parmaee Prem
tice, of Chicago.
The Postoffice Department has made
arrangements for providing a first
class money order system for Cape
Nome, Alaska.
The Chicago Sanitary Board has
reached decision to spend $3.000,000
for the improvement of the Chicago
River, the work to be accomplished
within the next twenty-four months.
The President and Fellows of Har-
ward have voted to guarantee $4,000
to welcome 1850 Cuban teachers.
This action on the part of the univer-
sity places the success of the enter
prise beyond a shadow of a doubt.
There was fall of snow throughout
the Mississippi Valley April 12. Un-
usually cold weather is reported in
Texas.
First Lieutenant Edward c. Brooks,
Sixth Cavalry. has been detailed to
duty as auditor of the Island of Cuba.
Three thousand people are dying in
Porto Rico for lack of supplies that
could be bought ors$10,0o0.
Two brothers have been convicted
of burning a girl to death and given
life Imprisonment in South Carolina.
Testimony in the Clarke divorce
case in Pittsburg involves Mr..
Carnegie" who acted Queerly at a
dinner party in New ork.
BY the collapse of a building in
Pittsburg April 13. three persons were
killed
The Baltimore and Ohio and the
Pennsylvania Railroad companies, it
Is reported. will absorb the Philadel-
phia and Reading and Jersey Central
systems.
AT least two Americans of the Clark
excursion party died of smallpox.
Lieut-Col Hayes, son of the late
President, will quit the army as
protest against the submission of his
superior officer to robbery by Dato
of the Sultan of Sulu.
Delegates to the Republican Ma
tional Convention elected in Maine
are pledged to support President Nc
Kinley.
Gov. Roosevelt threatens to defy
the Republican National Convention
If an attempt is made to "hurrah" 1t
into naming him for Vice-President.
Messenger Boy Smith has sailed on
the st. Louis bound for South Africa
with his album of schoolboy greetings
for President Kruger.
Lieut-Gov. Woodruff is still in the
race for the Vice Presidential nomina-
ton, although Hanna informed MIN
in a thirteen-hour conference that the
Administration desired Cornelius N.
Bliss.
The Earl of Warwick has arrived
in New York from Liverpool. He will
fish in Florida waters and keep an
eye open for mining investments.
The annual report of the treasurer
of the Continental Tobacco Company
shows assets of $100.000000; a 31a
per cent. dividend was declared.
Miss Jennie E. Stevens, of Water.
bury, Conn.,, says she was hypnotized
into becoming the second wife of the
late Commodore Mayo
Miners in the Klondike believe the
gold fields at the head of the Koyu.
l-ik P've~ will rrove richer than
those at Cape Nome or the Klondike.
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