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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
A STATE OF THINGS.
Why Brides Father Objects to the
Groom.

GrOOm.
Friends of Miss Nellie Trapp, of
Whitestone, L. l., who dared her faith.
er's anger to marry the man she loved.
gathered at the railroad station at
that place Jan. 81 to bid her farewell.
When she arrived with her brides.
maid, Miss Mamie Gibbons, she held
an impromptu reception.
George Trapp, the brides father,
says: Il shall call upon my lawyer to
disinherit my daughter and any Of
my children who attended the cere-
mony. | have many reasons for OBJ
Jecting to this marriage. | think Mr..
Stewart is poor minister of the gos.
pei. Once he refused to help a poor
family in need because they did not
belong to his church. Then l refused
to go to his church and ordered him
out of the house. He made love to my
daughter when she was doing church
work"
Miss Trapp is twenty-nine years old.
She is President of the Kings Daugh.
ters' Society and was church organist.
Mr.. Stewart, the bridegroom, is
widower, fifty-four years old. For
twelve years he was pastor of the
Grace Episcopal Church at White.
stone. He resigned his pastorate last
December rather than give up his love
for Miss Trapp. Since then he has
been living with his sisters in New
port.
Mr.. Trapp is a Democratic leader
in the borough of Queens. He owns
real estate and is reputed to be well.
to-do. He did not bid his daughter
goodbye when she left her home.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Events Of the Week Told In a Few
Words.

The President has appointed Circuit
Judge Taft, Of Cincinnati, Chairman
Of the Philippine Commission. He will
sail from San Francisco some time
after March Is.
At the opening of the proceedings
In the MolineuX trial in New York the
defence announced that they rested
their case upon the evidence as sub
mitted by the prosecution.
TIL Lawton fund has reached $685.
O54
The German direct cable from Emb-
den to New York, by way Of the
Azores, will be laid by London COM
pany. 1t will cost e9S5,000. The
cable will be 1885 miles long.
Emperor William has prohibited
the performance of drama by Herr
Bonn, the actor, which shows Fred
erick the Great in character.
The condition of Congressman Bou.
telle is one of constant improvement,
and the advices received by his friends
are of the most encouraging nature.
Smallpox is killing Indians by the
dozen on the Coville reservation, In
the State of Washington, as they re-
fuse to submit to medical treatment.
Three New York banking houses
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
SPORTING NEWS.

Plans are being formulated by the
members of the Associated Cycling
Clubs of Chicago to construct speed
way extending the entire length of
ere Drainage Canal wide enough to
permit road racing. The distance is
twenty-eight miles. Automobilists as
well as cyclists will be admitted to
the new course.
In letter to the officers of the New
York State Division, League of Ameri-
can Wheelmen, George R. Bidwell
announces that increased rsponsibili-
ties lately assumed by him will make
it impossible for him to assume any
official work from the L. A. W., and
requests that no further mention be
made of his name in connection with
the presidency of that organization.
Harry Suydam, of New York, broke
the amateur record of the golf course
at Palm Bend, Fla, by making it in
80. The former record, 40, was es-
tablshed by G. B. Cory, of Boston, and
has since been equalled by e. G.
Greene, of Chicago, and H. M. For
rest, of Philadelphia.
That the National Baseball League
proposes to use every endeavor to
crush the new American Association
in it's incipiency, is shown by the fight
for possession of the playing grounds
at Baltimore.
The announcement that Leroy See,
the amateur skater, would give an ex-
hibition at st. Mary's Lake, White
Plains, N. Y, on Saturday, drew about
two thousand people to that place. See
gave a fine exhibition and succeeded
in breaking the record for two hun
dred and twenty yards by two seconds.
covering the distance in 19 AS seconds.
Terry McGovern has added another
victory to his string by knocking out
Eddie Santry in the fifth round of
their fight in Chicago. A crowd of
10000 witnessed the defeat of the
western man. Santry's victory over
Ben Jordan and draw with Dixon
made him many friends who believed
he would stay six rounds with the
South Brooklyn wonder. The fight
was catch weights for so per cent. of
the receipts. Siler was the referee,
and the fighters agreed that if both
were an their feet at the end of the
six rounds the contest should be de.
clared draw. It was said they weigh.
ed 124 pounds each.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09

lent nearly SIvv,v~v Um iurgeu va
ginia state bonds. julius Schroeder
was arrested.
Simon Fatman son of the founder
of the New York Mount Sinai Hos
pital, shot himself in the apartments
of his brother, the superintendent,
Feb. g.
Additional cases of the bubonic
plague and two deaths have occurred
at Rosario, Argentine.
The Cuban census shows the popula-
tion of the island to be 1,572,940,
cases of the bubonic plague in Homo
lulu, with forty-one deaths. All Of
Chinatown has been burned in an ef-
fort to stop the spread Of the disease.
At Marion, Alabama, by the burst
ing of supply pipe at the cotton com-i
press, six negroes were scalded. Two
are dead.
In the Royal Albert Hall, London,
Tuesday evening, Jan. 80, 10000 per-
sons protested against the use Of mass
and confessional in the Church Of
England.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
THE MANILA NEWS.

The insurgents attacked the First
Battalion of the Forty-ffth Infantry
near Mac the other day. A major
and a captain were wounded and one
sergeant killed but details Of the en-
gagement are lacking.
Ships arriving from Legaspi report
that the insurgent General Pana con-
centrated a large force about the top
of the town and made a sharp night
attack on Major Shipton's battalion
of the Forty-seventh Infantry, which
occupied a large convent as a fort.
One battalion and battery have sail
ed as reinforcements for Shipton. The
casualties are unknown.
A corporal and four men while pa
trolling the railroad near Mabacalat
recently disappeared and are supposed
to have been captured. A searching
party looking for them was ambushed
and a corporal killed.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
FIRE RECORD.

The Echo Mountain House, large
hotel on Mount Lowe, near Pasadena,
California, was burned Feb. 5. All
the guests escaped. The loss is about
100000.
The hotel at Billingsport, N. j.,
owned by John Hoffman, was de-
stroyed by fire Sunday morning. Loss,
about $4,000.
Fire swept the dry goods district of
st. Louis Sunday morning. Loss,
$1,5OO,0
Fire at Youngstown, Ohio, the other
day, destroyed the buildings occupied
by the ]. N. Euwer's Sons Co., dry
goods and McElroy & Co., furniture
dealers. The department store of the
G. M. McKelvey Company was badly
damaged by water Loss, $4,000.
Fire has destroyed the building at
Fifth avenue and Thirty-eighth street,
New York, occupied by E. S. Hess &
Co., dealers in antique furniture. Loss,
100000.
A loss of $150,000 was caused by a
fire that destroyed the store of the
Dickinson Arms Company, at Little
Rock, Arkansas, and partially de-
stroyed eight small establishments.
Dynamite and giant powder exploded.
breaking $4,000 worth of window
glass.
Fire has destroyed the building
used as Offices of the experiment sta.
tion at Blacksburg College, Virginia.
The building was stone structure
and considered fire-proof
The eelctric plant and laboratories
of the Bellaire (Ohio) Steel Works,
owned by the National Steel Com
pany, have been destroyed by fire, en-
failing a loss of 100000. Two thou.
sand men are thrown out of employ
ment
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
Philippine RULE.
Features of the Plan Recommended
by the Commission.

President Mckinley sent to Con.
gress Feb. 8 the report of the Philip
pine Commission relative to the civil
Philippine Islands.
Features Of the civil government
recommended for the archipelago in.
clude the appointment of an American
MS Governor, who shall be assisted in
the administration of affairs by
council composed of Americans and
natives. There shall be legislative
assembly, partly appointive and part
ly elective, the acts Of which shall be
subject to qualified veto by the Gov
ernor and the absolute veto of Con.
gress, when in session, and of the
President when it is not in session.
Governors of the provinces are to be
Americans, and the islands are to be
subdivided, Americans or educated
natives to be placed in charge of the
various subdivisions.
The commission has made the
scheme so elastic that as the natives
become educated in self-government
they will be given an opportunity to
administer their own affairs. Self
government will be gradually trans
ferred to them until Congress shall
enact the permanent form of govern
ment under which they shall live.
The commissions recommendations
cannot be put into effect until peace
is restored in the islands. 1t Is under
stood that within short time the
President will appoint new commits
sion of five members, all civilians.
who shall establish civil governments
in Luzon, acting with the military, un-
til the insurrection is suppressed,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
FALSE AFFIDAVITS.
Sensational Evidence in the Clark Sen.
atorial Contest.


atorial Contest.
The investigation of the Clark brib.
cry case before the Committee on
Elections continues. The time thus far
has been taken up with the witnesses
for the prosecution and the record
makes up to this time about 500 oc-
tavo pages of print. If as much time is
given to the defence 1t will take sew
eral volumes to hold the testimony.
There are probably more witnesses
from Montana now present in Wash
ington to swear on the Clark side of
the case than have been examined for
the prosecution. Thus far the three
witnesses for the defence have been
most sensational in their declarations.
Following up the testimony of the
witness Lyons, who declared that
Representative Campbell, who acts as
attorney for the prosecution, had Of
fered him a large sum of money to
testify before the committee that ha
knew of the bribery of three members
of the Legislature, two more Montana
/ men Messrs. Wright and Hill, de-
livered themselves of statements even
more sensational than Lyons. These
two witnesses were summoned by the
prosecution, who became suspicioul
of them about week ago, and repudi.
ated them before the committee.
Their entire testimony was, in appear
ance, clean giveaway of Representa-.
tive Campbell and State Senator
Whiteside, who is the managing direc.
tor of the prosecution. Their testi-
mony gave details as to the payment
of a number of small sums, ranging
from 800 to $500, as bribes to procure
testimony histile to Clark. Wright
said that the reason why he went
back on Campbell was that he was
promised $1,000, and did not get it.
"Mr. Campbell lied to me like a dog"
said the witness HILL. "and I lied to
him like dog. He's got a little the
best of me in the guise of Congress-
man, but he is just as dirty as LAM"
Mr.. Campbell disavows any effort to
bribe witnesses, and pronounced as
false the testimony of Lyons, Wright
and Hill.
At one point Senator Hoar broke
in on the proceedings with the remark
II don't see how any human being can
be expected to believe one word the
witness says. He cannot be treated
as source of testimony"
To this Senator Faulkner made the
point that the original memorial from
the citizens of Montana introduced in
the Senate of the United States by
Senator Carter, asking for an investi-
cation of the case, was based upon
the afidavits of these two witnesses,
Wright and Hill, and if this testimony
was not to be taken on the one side
it could not be taken on the other,
and the charges against Mr. Clark
must fall with it.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
The KINGS e .nIlsh at Home.

81 have not been able as yet to pass
for an EngiishmaD. for my speech be-
trays me. The othar day I inquired Of
a policeman the nearest hardware
store. He looked All me in amazement.
then explained that I wanted TO buy
a penknife. Oh said he you mean the
iron mongers.' Yesterday 1 asked the
ticket puncher at all underground rail-
way station: DO take this train for
Mark Lane? No. the next said he;
but If were you j should let the train
take me there instead The other day
I entered a bicycle store and inquired
Of the proprietor II he had wheels to
rent. repeated roy question several
times. but he did not understand me,
and finally I asked: Have you wheels
for lre?' when VIZ forthwith struck a
ba in."-London Letter in Baltimore
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
CASUALTIES.

A Hooking Valley express ran into
the rear of freight train at Carey,
Ohio, on Monday night, wrecking por-
tions of the two trains and killing a
brake man and injuring both engi-
neers and passenger.
William and John Newton, wealthy
bachelor brothers, were burned to
death in the house of the former, near
Portland, Indiana, Feb. 5.
Lee Story, aged % years, and his
wife, to whom ne was married a
month ago, were drowned Feb. 3 in
the Strawboard Mill pond, near Ches-
tertown, Maryland, while skating
A collision between freight trains.
resulting in the death of two men and
the serious injury of two others, oc-
Cured Feb. on the West Shore Rail-
road, near Havannah, New York.
Brakeman William H Dunn, of Syra-
cuse, and Fireman William Caldwell,
of Buffalo, were the men killed.
At Betty-Baker, on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, Jan. 81, two freight
cars got loose, rushed down the noun
tain and collided with a car, killing
George Summers, A. q. Phillips and A.
Surratt.
After carrying his wife and two chill
dren from his burning cottage in Chi
cago Feb. 2, Herbert Fletcher was
overcome by smoke and flames and
fell dead.
Albert Goebel, cousin of William
Goebel, of Kentucky, was riding on a
street car in Chicago Feb. when he
was attacked suddenly with heart dis
ease, and fell from the car, fracturing
his skull.
BY the burning of livery barn at
Muncie, Ind, Feb. 2, Cecil Weekly, a
cab driver, was burned to death, and
forty-seven horses also perished.
Two deaths were caused by cold
weather in Chicago Feb. 2, and many
persons suffered from frost bites of
VARYING severity.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
A Prodlnlons pivIdend.

One of the most remarkable events
in the history of American trade was
the declaration by the Standard Oil
Company Feb. Of a 20 per cent. quar-.
terly dividend, or at the rate of so per
cent. per annum. 1t will require $780,.
0oO0 600 to pay this quarterly dividend,
which is the largest ever declared by
this company. Last year the total
dividends amounted to 80 per cent,
and in 1897 to 81 per cent. The ac-
tion of the directors sent the price of
stock up from 512 to 544, so that even
"ex-dividend" the stock will be worth
more than it was before the dividend
was declared
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
contractors - dnu o,UUu car
penters are lilccly to go out on Mon

contractors - dnu o,UUU car
penters are lil.oly to go out on Mon
day -c-t.
A strike of the machinists of Brock
ton, Massachusetts, has began to en-
force a petition for a nine hour day,
instead of ten hours, with the same
pay.
The Industrial Trust Company, of
Providence, capital 81 100000, will alb
sorb the Pacific National Bank and
the First National Bank of Pawtucket,
Rhode Island.
The lockout at the piano and organ
factories of Chicago, which has kept
$500 men out of employment for thir-
teen weeks, has been raised. The
former employees will be taken back
without discrimination. The manu-
facturers say that they will talk over
the question of wages and hours with
the men after work has been resumed.
A fish combine has been formed by
forty of the wholesale houses of Bos-
ton and other points on the New Eng
land coast, under the title of the Bos-
ton Fish Company. The authorized
capital is $5,000,000.
The Mexican government has grant
ed a concession to Chicago capitalists
of one million acres of valuable land
fronting on the Gulf of Mexico and ly-
ing in the State of Tamaulipas.
The brickIayers ana piasterers of
Pensacola, Florida, have began a
strike for an advance in wages from
So to $3.50 per day, which the con-
tractors have refused.
Chicago labor unions have an
nounced that the Building Trades
Council will declare against the rules
adopted by the contractors associa-
tions, and order a general strike if
any attempt is made to enforce them.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
Latest News From the Active Busl.
ness World.

The Secretary of War has sent to
Congress the report of a survey of a
channel twenty-one feet deep from
Kill Won Kull to Raritan Bay, New
York harbor, the estimated cost being
100000.
A despatch from Humbolt, Michi-
gan, says the Carnegie Steel Company
interests have bought the Sampson
.rne near there, and will reopen the
property with strong force in the
immediate future.
Employees Of the American Hide and
Leather Company's tanneries at Low
ELL Massachusetts, who have been on
strike, have returned to work, the
difference having been settled by ar
bitration.
Two thousand plumbers and 5000
laborers in Chicago are either on
strike or under orders to strike
against the new rules of the Building
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09

when it will assume the admfnistra-
ton of affairs of the islands, and will
continue this work until Congress
takes action.
That there will be any legislation
by Congress relative to Philippine
government during the present ses
sion is not expected. The administra.
tion of affairs Republican leaders pro-
pose to leave to the President, at least
until the next session.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
DEATH RECORD.

Lorlston NJ. Fairbanks, father Of
Senator c. w. Fairbanks, of Indiana.
died Jan. 30 at Pasadena, California.
Rev. Lucius E. Barnard aged II
years, is dead at Galesburg, Illinois
He bequeathed $4,000 to the Univers.
ity of Vermont, $1,000 to the Auburn,
New York, Theological Seminary, and
5000 to Knox College. To the Boards
of the Presbyterian Church $500 each
is given.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
Arkansas Blue Laws.

An Atchison man returning from
Yellville, in Arkansas, says: "The
blue laws of Connecticut are not more
severe than those of Marion, Ark. II
a man swears within three miles of a
courthouse he is fined 81 and costs,
and as result of the recent influx Of
Kansas politicians there were sixty.
two indictments for swearing pending
at Yellville last week. EhMRs ass -ps
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09

Governor Roosevelt does not intend
to be forced out of the Governors
chair by being nominated for Vice.
President in the Republican National
Convention.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
TIINn|IOlI 4 lI'nAAln'Q [V[Q
IIliiUUull Ii HUiiiniI OLILO
Mrs. Jewell's Opinion of the
South African Situation.
NURSED JAMESON'S MEN
She Was for Several Years Resident
of the TransVaal, Although an Amer
ican-Personalty Of the Boers-The
Jameson Expedition.

In considering the present South
African War, says Mrs Fletcher Web
ster Jewell, in the New York Herald.
l involuntarily look at the situation
through a wOman's eyes. and, passing
the causes, think first of the conse-
quences. The first picture that comes
to me, therefore, instead of being one
of glory and fame as the result of the
different battles, is of carnage and
death, of widows and of orphans. This
comes home all the more keenly be-
cause l happened to be a spectator Of
some of the exciting scenes in and
about Johannesburg during the latter
part of 1895 and the early part of 1896,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09

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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1900-02-27
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Forecast Of Work in the House and
Senate This Week.
PUERTO RICO TARIFF
II Takes Precedent In the House With
n Division on the Iilll Among
the Parties Quay Case Be-
fore the Senate.

Washington. Feb 2G.-Tho event Of
the week IN the house will be the taking
Of the vote on the Puerto Rican tariff
bill. This has hccn set for 3 D. m to
morrow, although the differences which
have arisen ou the bill may compel re-
arrangement Of the programme.
The general debate On the measure
will closc tolay and tomorrow up Ia the
hour II voting the debate will proceed
under the five minute rule. Extaondi.
nary interest attaches ~ the outcome of
this struggle, owing 10 the differences
which have arisen on the Republican
side Of the chamber.
For the rest Of the week no exact pro-
cedurc has been made except that the
Alalnma contested elections case of
Aldrch ". Robbins will hc considered
as soon as the Puerto Rican bill is out Of
the way This case involves the race
questions aud gives the opportunity for
that extended range ~ debate usually
excited by questions Of that nature
The army appropriation bill is on the
calendar and doubtless will receive con.
sidemtion the latter part % the week
Owing to the extent Of the military
forces in the Philippines. the appropria.
tion this year are exceptionally heavy
and this may bring ON general dis.
cussion Of army Affairs aud the Phil.
ippincs.
The Hawaiian hill and the Nicaraguau
canal bill also are awaiting hearing,
although IL is not likely either Of them
will BE- taken up this weck
The time " the senate during the
present week will BE- divided between
the questions Of the finances, the govern.
ment policy toward the inSular posses.
sious and the SEATING Of senator Quay
unou the nomination of the governor oi
Pennsylvania.
The Hawaiian hill remains tho uniin-
ished business subject to removal at nny
time by the Quay resolution and also by
the conference report upon the currency
bill.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1900-02-27
ONE TRUST coLLAPsEs.
Receissr Appointed Tor the United state.
MiIlinE Company at Milwaukee.

Receiver Appointed FOR the United state.
niIIiaE compaay at Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, Feb. 26.-The United States
Milling company. generally known n
The -four trust, went to pisces Saturday
afternoon, but the fact did not become
known until today when Judge
Jenkins IN tho United States court Of
Nov Jersey appointed three receivers Zoe
the COMPANY, two u whom arc now IN
charge NJ the property The collapse Of
Tho company was due. il Is said 10 It's
inability to lloat rs securities on tho
op"n market
George William Ballou. tho stakeholder
who instituted the suit IA which the re-
coiverS were appointed, made the follow
ing statement concerning the causes
lcaling Ia the failure u the company in
the complaints
IN the organization u the company
II had heen hoped sufficient means would
be- provided for the purchase Of property
required hy tho company and 10 supply
sufficient working capital To carry on tho
business by Slln Of first mortgage
collateral gold bonds. but because
Of the tight money market aud
depression IN industrial securities the
company was unable 10 carry out the
plan and was obliged Ia resort IN borrow
my money on ~, collateral trust bonds
and otherwise urged To secure a tenn.
ppury loan by the issue Of socallcd trust
nouds and further by the failure Of this
plan, by borrowing IN opeu market. The
money 80 borrowed constitute, a floating
Indebtedness which amounts tn 81 OBS.
sos. 1T which Slii. Jos II duo and sJ0l..
$50 o. demand.
Tho United States Milling company
was formed with u capital stock IT s25.-
an 900 on Aprl23. 1899. having secured
control IL the extensive -four milling
property in West Superior. Minneapolis.
Duluth. New York state and New Jcr
scy. While the original suit Is In New
Jersey. the greatest litigation probably
will be- ~ Wisconsin. asa majority Of
the cOmany's properties are In this
state
The company, Mr. Hallou scts forth.
will b. unable 10 meet any of irs nblign-
tons ~ they mature. It, cash IN the
bank Is but SiO0O. and It has M balls or
accoints receivable. the proceeds 81
which would b. sufficient 10 meet the
inaturcd and maturing obligations.