The suburban citizen., 1900-09-15
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.


the first degree against Rosslyn H.
Ferrell for killing Adams Express Mes
senger Charles Lone.
Drunken negroes caused a reign of
terror at Huron, Ind.
The Rockingham Hotel, at Nara
gansett Pier, was burned, many guests
losing valuables,
The Overland Flyer on the Burling-
ton road was held up and robbed by
lone highwayman at Haigler, Neb.,
near the Colorado line.
The steamer F. and P. NJ No, 4, OF
Pere Marquette Line, barely escaped in
a gale on the lakes Many of her 300
passengers were hurt,
Fifty corpse robbers at Galveston
were shot.
tower of the Pan-American Expo
stion was blown down at Buffalo.
Much property was destroyed on the
Great Lakes ahoat and ashore.
Large relief contributions were sent
to Galveston by New York, Liverpool
and other cities.
It is estimated tnat 5000 people lost
their lives as a result Of the hurricane
in and around Galveston.
The Baer-M Mckinley wedding was
celebrated at Somerset, Pa. The Presi-
dent was one Of the first to offer con-
gratulations.
Outside Galveston smaller towns are
beginning to send in reports as tele-
graphic communication improves, and
many additions TO the list of dead and
property losses are received. Rich
IIgknhnnn1y 1G
lives lost. Alta Iona, Arcadia, We
lasco, SeabrOoke, Belleville, Arcola and
many other towns have from one to
eight dead. In most Of these places
many houses have been totally de-
stroyed and thousands Of head Of live
stock killed.
The railroads alone will suffer mil
lions of dollars in actual damage to
say nothing Of the loss from stoppage
OF business The International and
Great Northern and Santa Fe have
miles of track washed out, and the
bridges connecting Galveston with the
mainland must be entirely rebuilt.
Details from the storm-swept dis
trict of Texas hourly disclose more
heartrending features, and confirm
early rumors of one of the greatest
NdluNLIODu6N VI ldlt gEdlbs ANO "iAN
communication is yet possible with
Galveston and the only definite news
obtained so far has come by the boats
and refugees
In Galveston the dead are being
gathered up as rapidly as possible,
taken to sea on barges and there
consigned to their last resting place.
This action is necessary to pro-cct the
and hnpotte a
the ground is too wet to permit of dig
ging graves
There seems to be no grounds for
the hope that fuller details would show
reduction in the number Of lives lost,
and conservative estimate is given
at 1000 dead, all told. The property
loss is perhaps even higher than at
first given.
One man was instantly killed, four
others are lying at the point of death,
and four more are seriously burned, as
the result of the explosion Of steam
pipe in Baldwins' Locomotive Works,
In Philadelphia.
The National Association of Life
Underwriters began It's eleventh annu-
al convention at Saratoga President
Jas. l., Johnson, Of Springfield, Mass,
delivered his annual address.
The returns from the Maine cleo
tlon show that the largest Republican
majority save one in the history of the
State has been cast. Every county but
one was carried, and over $50 out Of
181 members of the Legislature were
elected The Republican plurality is
estimated at over $4,000.
The strike in the Pennsylvania coal
region has not yet been ordered by the
executive committee at Indianapolis,
and the opinion is general that trouble
may be entirely avoided. The miners
are all working, as usual, those who
took their tools out having carried
them back.
The steamer Ellhu Thompson ar
rived at Port Townsend, Wash, from
Cape Nome, with passengers, many be-
ing without means serious state of
affairs is reported to exist at the Cape.
The striking employees Of the Craw-
ford Wooden Mills, in Martinsburg, w.
Va, returned to work.
Seven hundred male and female
cigarmakers in McSherrystown, Pa,
went on a strike
William Henry Pitsnogle died at his
home in Martlnsburg, w. Va.
The cruiser Baltimore, in command
Of Rear Admiral Watson, arrived and
anchored in New York harbOr. The
cruiser will be placed out Of commits
sion to undergo extensive repairs.
A woman giving her name as Mrs.
Rosa Heiking, APPARENTLY insane, ere
ated scene at the White House, in
slsting upon seeing the President
Three thousand union carpenters
went out in Chicago because the con-
tractors refused to allow the Saturday
half-hOllday.
BY an explosion at the gas works in
Chambersburg. Pa, George Davis, q
laborer, was killed and the gus works
wrecked.