The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-01

OF the battle of Lake Erie, has left an
estate of $4,000, though she lived as
ragpicker in Newport, II. |.
Mrs. Florence Grouse, widow of G..
N. Grouse, is dead in Paris. Her death
recalls the much talked of "Dottie"
Grouse will contest. Mrs. Grouse was
the widow of Colonel George Grouse,
nearest Of kin among the twenty-six
cousins Of D. Edgar Grouse, of Syra-
cuse, who left an estate estimated as
between $s,0OO,0O0 and $2O.OOO,OOO
All the flowers used to decorate the
scene of the Clark wedding in New
York City, $1,000 worth, were distrib.
uted to the various hospitals there. a
wagon load going to each.
Edward J. Eckert was fatally iniur.
ed at Pompton, N. j., by being thrown
from a vicious horse he was riding.
He walked five miles with broken
skull before he could reach his friends
and receive proper treatment. Death
came few hours later.
Ellen Jane Brown, aged eight wears.
was burned to death by being pushed
into a bonfire by negro lad named
Lewis at Amsterdam, n. Y. Young
Lewis had built bonfire and request
ed the girl to get fuel for him. When
she refused Lewis pushed her head
first into the flames. The boy Is a
pyromaniac, having recently burned a
little boy in the face with a blazing
stick.
Mrs. Davis, widow of jefferson Da.
Wis, who has been i'll for some days at
the Hotel Gerard, New York, is still
under the physicians care.
Miss Anna Dittmar, of Middle vii
lage, L. l., died yesterday from burns
received on Saturday while building
bonfire to destroy waste paper.
Howard G. Benham will be placed
on trial for the second time at Canaan
dagua, n. Y, fff the murder of his
wife, Florence Tout Benham. at Ba-
tavia, N. Y, on January 4, 1897.
Three men in boat on Flushing Bay
on Sunday found the body of man
in the water. There was deep cash
in the forehead and the skull was frae-
tured The authorities are of the opin-
ion that the man was a victim of foul
play.
@. w. Bowerman, secretary of the
London Society of Compositors, and
James Sexton, secretary of the Ma
ton Uuion of Dock Laborers will ar
rive in New York on June "a. They
Will lecture in this country for about
six weeks.
Joseph Fritts has discovered both
gold and silver in paying quantities on
his eighty-acre farm two miles west of
Glen Gardner, N. J.
The body Of William Cavanaugh, of
Newark, who was drowned in the Pas
sale RiverSaturday night, has been re-
covered.
Irving Ii. Johnson and Levi Parsons
of Torrington, Conn.,, failed to return
home Saturday from fishing trip. On
Whist Pond their hats were found,
and also the boat adrift right side I'D.
Their bodies have not yet been recov-
cred.
By the will of DR.. Charles Holbert
voorhees,, of New Brunswick, N. j.,
almost his entire property is left to a
favorite son, Louis A. Voorhees,. To
his other three children only $1,000
each is left.
A bold attempt to burn McVeys ho-
tel, in Plainfield, N. J., was made on
Saturday night. A bicyclist stopped
at the hotel and was shown to a room
and few minutes the lattice work on
rear balcony was seen on fire. 1t
had been sprinkled with alcohol and
ignited.
While attempting to cross Fort Ham,
ilton avenue in Brooklyn on Sunday
evening, James Duro, a laborer, was
struck by trolley car and killed.
A suit brought by a man in New
York against hairdresser for the al
legged ruin of his wife's switch has
been dismissed on the ruling that the
hair was not the property of the hus-
band but of the wife, who should have
been the plaintiff.