The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
II Ame,ican ship owners.

bNNg VI NV N. oCNCu-
er, of Elmira, n. Y. who died last
week, has been incinerated at the
newly built Buffalo crematory. In ac-
cordance with the often expressed
wish of Mr.. Beecher, no ceremonies
whatever were held
Two fresh cases Of bubonic plague
have been reported at Sydney, New
South Wales.
The Kansas City, Pittsburg and
Gulf Railroad has been sold at Joplin,
Mo-, for S12,500,000, to the representa-
tive Of the Philadelphia reorganiza-
tion committee.
The United States Supreme Court
has sustained the constitutionality of
the Texas antitrust law.
Maud S. was buried at Tarrytown,
N. Y, March 20, in the Bonner ceme-
terry for famous horses.
Bishop Potter declares that the
United States must hold on to the
Philippines.
The National Society, Sons of the
American Revolution, has presented
medals to such members of the Dis
trict of Columbia Society as served N
the war with Spain.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey have start
ed for Florida, and on their return, it
is said, they will sail for Europe.
The marriage is announced of Hen
rietta Fairfax Morris, daughter of
Mrs. Gouveneur Morris, of New York,
to Stephen Bonsal, the writer, at the
United States Embassy City of Mexi-
co.
AS train on the Ninth Avenue Ele-
waited Railroad, New York, approached
the Rector Street station, March 10,
a coal chute fell in front of the loco.
motive, unrooting the cab and two
passenger cars. Nine persons were in.
jured.
While the State OF New York is con.
sidering a $60000,000 improvement of
the Erie Canal, a private syndicate is
said to be maturing plans for a $780,
100000 ship canal connecting the New
York Harbor and the Newark Bay.
The canal would be 200 feet wide, 80
feet deep at low water and miles
long.
The body OF William Brown, a
wealthy cattleman Of Hood county,
Tex, was found reduced to skeleton
on a high mountain near Cranberry,
Tex, known as Comanche Peak.
Brown mysteriously disappeared a
year ago. His bank book and other eff
fects and a bottle of laudanum were
found with the body.
By the will of Mrs. Orilla ]. Flint,
Of Cambridge, Mass, the sum of So.
500 is left to Williams College, to be
known as the Ephraim Flint Scholar.
ship Fund, for worthy students.
During the past three months the
Patent Office at Washington issued
735 more patents than during the cor.
responding period of the preceding
year.
Authority has been granted to Gen.
Otis to enlist Filipinos as members of
the regimental bands in the Philip.
pines.
Flores, AguiAaldos Secretary of
War, has surrendered to General Mac
Arthur
The northern half of the Colville
Indian reservation will be thrown
open for settlement about May 1. 1t
comprises a million and half of
acres.
Professor Dean c. Worcester, of the
new Philippine Commission, has ten
dered his resignation as a member
of the Ann Arbor University Faculty.
The delegation of Creek Indians,
which has been in Washington con-
ferring with the Dawes Commission,
has signed a new agreement, which
will be transmitted to the Senate. It
relates to the preservation of the
tribal courts.
AS precaution against infection
with the plague the vessels of the
South Atlantic squadron have been or
dered from Montevideo to Bahia.
Brazil.
President Mckinley has commuted
the sentence of William Steel, late
cashier Of the Chestnut Street Nation
al Bank of Philadelphia, to eighteen
months Imprisonment.
The Ohio House has passed a bill
appropriating $1,O00,O0o for the Tole.
do Centennial, by vote of 60 to 40.
The Illinois Manufacturers Asso-
citation has decided to start an agita-
ion looking to the repeal of the War
1evenue act.
About 1900 lives have been lost by
the earth shocks at Ardin, in Asia
Minor. ~
DEATH RECORD.