The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-19
The Senate confirmed the nomIna-

The Senate confirmed the nomina-
tion of S. Davies Warfield to be post.
master of Baltimore. This ends a
long fight which Senator Wellington
opposed and Senator McComas favor
ed confirmation.
Andrew Carnegie has offered TO
give $4,000 to Ottumwa. Iowa, for
public library, If the city will agree
to spend $4,000 year to maintain it.
The creditors Of the late Arch.
bishop Purcell. of Cincinnati, Ohio.
have decided to petition the courts
for the removal of the trustees of the
estate.
The Sunday closing movement in
Chicago is rapidly gaining ground.
Sunday last, for the first time, nearly
all grocery stores and meat shops in
the city We're closed all day.
At Findlay. Ohio, 1t is reported that
a pottery combine has been effected
and that prices are to be advanced
40 per cent
Receipts from customs at the port of
Havana, Cuba for the month of De-
cember, 1899, were $1.10S.1S0. the
largest of any month of the year.
A pension of $50 month. to date
from October IS, 1899. has been grant.
ed by the Commissioner of Pensions
to the widow of Gen. Guy V. Henry,
who died last October.
The financial crisis in Venezuela is
ended. The difficulty between the gov
ernment and the banks has been
amicably settled, and public conf
dence is restore.
The order in council prohibiting the
export OF spruce wood cut from crown
lands has been adopted by the Ontario
government. Consequently, all wood
cut after April 80 must be manufac-
tured into pulp in Canada.
The Secretary of the Interior has
approved a decision made by Assist
ant Attorney General Vandever, that
models in the patent Office cannot be
removed for the purpose of displaying
them at the Paris Exposition.
The California delegation in Con.
gress has called on Admiral Dewey,
and in behalf of the Native Sons OF
California invited him to visit the
state next September. when California
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its admission into the Union.
An epidemic of influenza has broken
out in Berlin, and scores of deaths are
reported. United States Consul Gen,
eral Mason is confined to his bed with
a serious attack
The number of deaths at Bombay,
largely from the bubonic plague, has
increased from 2S2 to 376 per day. The
normal death rate is 75.
f. B. Lambert & Co., shoe manu-
facturers at Riverside, Pa, made an
assignment. Liabilities, $4,000; as
SETS 100000.
Considerable fear is expressed in
the German press that American auto
mobiles will invade Germany, and
higher duty is demanded.
The Ohio House OF Representatives
has indefinitely postponed action on
the resolution expressing sympathy
with the Beers in their war with Great
Britain.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to
give Chillicothe, Ohio, $25000 for
public library building If the city will
provide the site and $4,000 annually
for running expenses. A special elec-
tion will be held to vote the necessary
funds.
At Chattanooga, Tenn, he jury
found Julia Morrison James not guilty
of the murder OF Frank Leiderheimer.
Michael j. Simpson, the alleged Chi.
cago embeAzler, has sailed from Liver
pool in the custody Of American de
tectives
Sir Thomas Upton states that 1t is
not his intention to issue the chal-
lenge for race in 1901 before Aug
ust this year.
John D. Rockefeller, in his reply
to the Industrial Commission, says
that industrial combinations are nee
essary, and urges federal legislation
to govern their creation and control