The suburban citizen., 1900-12-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.

tQ but GOlloIpl plONNNhlh6o bAOoo%AN
by Attorney General of that State
against Standard OIL ompany.
The transport Hancock arrived at
San Francisco with officers and men.
Ten sick soldiers died on voyage.
The fourth annual convention Of the
League of American Municipalities
was held in Charleston, s. c.
The cornerstone of the administra-
tion building of the exposition at
Charleston, S. c., was laid
Mr.. W. J. Bryan will visit Florida
during the latter part Of this month.
Rev. D. e. Stuart, the Baptist
preacher of Wyoming, Pa, who was
accused Of causing the death of his
wife by administering carbolic acid,
was released in Wilkesbarre, Pa, no
case having been made against him.
The demurrer of Oberlin NJ Carter
now serving in the Leavenworth Peni-
tentiary for defrauding the govern
ment, has been refused by the federal
courts and he must serve out the re-
mainder Of his sentence.
The Baltimore and Ohio Southwest
ern elected officers in Cincinnati, prac-
| tically completing the plan of consoli-
! datiOn with the Baltimore and Ohio.
Rev. d. M. Heneh, United Brethren
minister of Shippensburg, was de-
| barred from preaching for saying the
church was rotten to the core.
Prosecution Of the Scranton (Pa.)
councilmen for bribery was dropped on
their agreeing to resign their seats
There was an uprising Of cadets at
! the University Of Alabama and all mil
itary duties were disregarded.
Mary Deborah Biddle, who founded
many benefactions, died at her home
in Edgewood, Pa.
Former Congressman Eustace Glib
son, Of West Virginia, died at Clifton
Forge Hospital.
Major Henry Sweeny, U. S. A., re-
tired, died at his home in San Diego,
Cal
The State Department has received
by cable from Pekin the text of the
agreement entered into by the repre-
sentatives of the powers, and 1t is be-
lieved in Washington that all the gov
ernments interested will ratify 1t.
The Presbyterian committee which
examined the returns from the pres
byteries concluded that some revision
of the creed is demanded, as well as a
supplemental statement.
The Senate Military Committee
heard arguments for and against the
\army canteen.
The. Naval Appropriation Bill will
provide for two battleships and two
cruisers.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected by the Gridiron Club.
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and fast freight on the Atlantic
Coast Line at Clifton, Va, Robert
Boyd, the fireman, was killed, and En-
gineer Flipper, of Manchester, had
miraculous escape.
Ex-State Senator Little, of Virginia,
who was arrested in Washington on
the charge Of misappropriating money
was brought to Fredericksburg and re-
leased on bail
James Parker, who had served seven
years of a thirteen-years sentence for
larceny that he did not commit, was
released from the Eastern Peniten-
tiary, in Philadelphia.
The committee of the New York Po-
lice Board exonerated the police from
responsibility for the race riots in
"Hells Kitchen"
Morris Aarenburg, a lad, pleaded
guilty in Philadelphia to the charge
of stealing S8837 from Mrs Margaret
A. Beck.
The body Of James c. Rockenbaugh
was found near Harpers Ferry w. Va,
under circumstances indicating sui
eide.
A shortage in his accounts of $500
| 1nd m fha n 90 I
a tax collector Of Warrington town
ship, Pa
The proprietor OF a saloon in Fred
ericksburg, Va, struck w. Eustace
Moncure with billiard cue, fracturing
his skull.
Five men were thrown from a hand
car on the Berrysburg Railroad, near
Philippi, w Va, and seriously injured
Miss Annie Cook saved the life OF the
child Of G. F. Bowen at Guyandotte.
W. Va but lost her own In doing 30.
Alice O'Donnell, a nursegirl admit
ted having killed the child Of Mr.. and
Mrs James Jones, in Brooklyn.
Mrs. Annie Connell took an ounce Of
laudanum in Richmond, Va, with sui
cidal intent, but was saved.
Typhoid fever has broken out among
the inmates at Sing Sing, New York
A movement is on foot In Richmond
to redistrict the city. One ward con-
tains one-fourth Of the entire popula-
ton, but its representation and its ap-
propriations are on the basis Of the
other wards, which contain only half
as many people. 1t is thus hoped in
his manner to diminish ward politics
Count Pietro Alesso, a young Italian
lobleman, through his representatives
New York, asked the United States
authorities to hunt up his wife, who
can away, and his missing bonds.