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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
FREDERICK CITY: MD. FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH %, 1900

as they were not residents of Dutch.
ess County he could not commit them
to the county Jail, and that the only
thing he could do was to send them
to the Albany penitentiary.
The young men were about to agree
to this when Gilmore Rickert, a friend
Of Col Astor, asked the Justice to de-
lay action. Mr.. Rickert called up Col.
Astor on the telephone and briefly
stated the case to him. Col Astor said
he would take care of the three men.
Half an hour later a team from Fern
cliffe drove up to the courthouse and
the young men were driven to Col.
Astor's house.
He fed them and for a while kept
them at work filling his Ice house. He
learned that they had friends in Buff
falo who would look out for them. In
the evening Col. Astor gave each Of
them some money and a ticket 10
Buffalo. The young men left Rhine.
beck the same night.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
FIRE RECORD.

The Port Gibson, Mississippi, com.
press, In which was stored 2000 bales
of cotton.
The Music Hall building, at Quincy,
Massachusetts; loss S5S,000.
At Troy, o., almost an entire square,
including seven business houses The
loss will be from $4,000 to 100000.
The plant of the Davenport Canning
Company, at Davenport, Iowa. Loss,
$15O,OOO.
Five business buildings in Hopkin.
son, Massachusetts,. Loss is estimated
at $62,000
The building occupied by G. b.
Cones & Son, manufacturers of cloth
ing at indianapolis, Ind. Loss, $780,.
900. Four fremen were badly burned.
At Miamisburg, Ohio, the Rothschild
tobacco warehouse and adjacent build
ings. Loss, $150,000.
The Armstrong Steel Works at
Flint. Michigan, have been destroyed
by fire. Loss estimated at $3.50, 900.
Fire at Mount Pleasant, Tennessee
has destroyed eight of the principal
houses, entailing loss Of 5000
Fire has destroyed the scythe man
ufacturing department of the Ameri
can Axe and Tool Company, neal
Ballston Spa, New York. Loss, $40.
600.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Events Of the Week Told In a Few
Words.

Secretary Root and party has re-
turned to Washington from their trip
to Cuba.
The city council of Chicago has
passed the mandatory tunnel ordi.
nances requiring the street railway
companies to lower La Sale, Wash
ington and Vanburen street tunnels
under the Chicago river so as to pro
vide q clear depth of water for navl-
cation of 81 feet.
The amount Of bonds received at
the United States Treasury for ex-
change for the new twos to date Is
$S7,000.000. or this amount $1,000
900 came from persons or Institutions
other than national banks.
The National Educational Associa.
tion has offered $1,000 in prizes for
the best essays on seating, lighting.
heating and ventilatlng public school
buildings.
The British ship City of Florence
has been wrecked at Half Moon Bay,
California. The crew were saved.
The Trunk Line Association has
given rate Of one fare single tickets
for round trip from all parts OF the
United States and Canada for the ses.
sion of the Imperial Council. An
cient Arabic Order, Mobiles Of the
Mystic Shrine. to be held In Washing
ton.
In future no American goods will
be allowed to go north In Canadian
vessels to Skagway for local con
sumption there without payment Of
the regular duties. This is a victory
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
A BIG DIVIDEND.
Twenty Million Dollars for Standard
Oil Men.

THE Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, by w. P. Howe, Attorney"
Such was the signature attached
March Is to checks of the Standard
Oil Trust for the payment of a divid.
end amounting to $2O,O00,00O.
Never before in the history of fl.
nance has such division of profits
been made by a corporation.
These bits of paper bearing the sig
nature of the attorney for the Father
of all Trusts were sent to 5000 share
holders They ranged in amount from
the $40 check sent to the holder of a
single share to that for nearly S5,-
100000 sent to John D. Rockefeller.
Such dividend declared annually
would gladden. the hearts of directors
and shareholders of almost any cor
poration but to the holders of Stand
ard Oil this is merely a foretaste, and
stockholders in the. next ten months
may receive three checks like those
sent out March Is.
Incorporated at $4,000 900 original.
ly, the capital of stock was increased
in 1892 to 100000, of which $780,
100000 is common stock and $10,.
100000 is non-cumulative per cent.
preferred stock. All Of the latter is.
sue is still in the treasury of the com.
pany.
Six years ago Standard Oil common
stock sold in the market at $167
a shares. A few days before the
transfer books closed for the divid.
end on Feb. Is last $547 share was
paid for 1t showing an increase in tha
market value within six years oi
$3S0,0OO,O00.
Of the $4,000 stockholders less thar
a dozen insiders own 80 per cent. oI
the stock and control absolutely the
workings Of the company.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
BIG LIFE POLICY.
Mcdonald, the New York Tunnel Con-
tractor, Insured for $4,000 600.


A dispatch from Providence, r. l.,
states that one of the largest policies
ever written was taken out last week
by August Belmont on the life Of John
B. Mcdonald, contractor for the New
York rapid transit tunnel. The
amount of the policy is given at ST.
100000, underwritten by the New
York Life Insurance Company, as the
principal factor, for a term of five
years, and is said to have been Sc
cured by A. w. Quigg, a brother of
Lemuel E. Quigg, and general agent
for the company in Rhode Island.
The report went on to say that the
annual premium will amount to $780,
900, and that the New York Life In
surance Company had taken 5000, 900,
its limit of the amount, and is now
engaged in writing the rest in various
companies of the United States and
among English companies.
The reason given for this alleged
action on the part of Mr.. Belmont is
that inasmuch as the syndicate of
which he is at the head is the finan-
cial backer of Mr.. Mcdonald, it wants
additional security and financial safe
ty in the event of Mr.. McDonalds
death before the work of building the
tunnel is completed. On this line the
dispatch says:
"The death of Mr.. Mcdonald with.
in the limit of the time of the contract
would involve his hackers in serious
financial loss. This emergency has
been foresen by them, and the deter
mination to secure themselves on his
life was the result"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
ROCKEFELLER WINS.
An Exciting Election Was Held In
North TarrytoWn.


North Tarrytown.
After one of the hottest elections
ever held in North Tarrytown, N. Y,
John d. and William Rockefeller are
again in control Of village affairs.
Their ticket, headed by Thomas Bird
sail for president. won the day by a
majority of more than two hundred.
Mr.. BirdsalPs opponent was John Ca
hill, who for several years has been
a village trustee and who on all oc-
casions has fought any concession to
the oil men.
Every effort was put forth to get
out the voters, and the poll was
about the largest in the history of
the village. nearly eight hundred bal.
lots being cast. All of the tricks
known to local politicians were used,
and the partisans on each side
worked hard.
The entire working force and all
the laborers from lockwood Hall
and BoxwoOd, the Rockefeller es-
tates, were taken to the polls In the
carriages OF their employers.
TIL Rockefeller workers said that
In case their ticket was elected John
ID. Rockefeller would start work at
once on series of improvements
which would cost thousands Of dol.
lars and give work TO the laborers all
summer. II an anti-Rockefeller board
was elected. they said. this work
wonld not he started
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
POLITICAL.

Representative Bailey has left
Washington for Texas, to begin an
extended canvass in support of his
candidacy for the United States Sen
ate, to succeed Senator Chiffon, who
will be candidate for reelection.
The New Hampshire Prohibitionist
State Convention has nominated JOS
iah NJ. Fletcher, of Nashua, for Cover
nor.
The Rhode Island Democratic Con-
vention has named State ticket and
endorsed the Chicago platform.
The Massachusetts, Republican State
Central Committee has designated
April II for holding district conven.
tions for the election of delegates to
the National Convention.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
BLOWN FROM A TRAIN.
A Philadelphia Newspaper Mans Es.
cape From Death.

A Philadelphia Newspaper Mans Es-
cape From Death.
After being hurled headlong from
a railroad train coming over the
Meadows to Atlantic City, N. j., at
the rate of seventy miles an hour,
Norman Jeffries, Philadelphia news
paper man, was found by a rescuing
crew clinging to a telegraph pole
about three miles from that city on
the Camden and Atlantic Division.
Not bone was broken, and, according
to the statements of the hospital sur
geons, he did not sustain fatal injur-
les. Jeffries goes to Philadelphia ev.
cry day and took the bridge train at
Broad street station to join his wife,
When the train reached Atlantic City
twenty-seven minutes late mans
black overcoat, pair of rubbers and
a package we're discovered in a seat
in the smoking car.
Brakeman Hoffman found them un-
claimed, after the last passenger had
left the car, and at once notified
Conductor Goff. Hoffman then re-
membered that about three miles out
from the drawbridge he had a seen
a passenger leave the smoking car
and attempt to cross the platforms
into the next car behind. There was
a violent wind sweeping from the
eastward across the meadows all day,
and, fearing that the passenger had
been killed on the meadows, the
bridge train engine and combination
car were sent back with orders to
go as far as Abscon to endeavor to
find the missing passenger. About
three miles out the rescue crew dis
covered Jeffries standing upright
with his arms about telegraph pole,
on the west side of the track. He ap-
peared very much dazed and weak,
and his head was covered with blood.
He was sent to the city hospital.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
BEGINNING OF THE END PROB.
ABLY IN SIGHT.
A Full Summary Of the TransvaaI
War News-Progress Of the Con-
fiet From Day to Day-The British
Encouraged.

The British War Office makes pub
lie a despatch stating that Lord
Kitchener has occupied the town of
Prieska without opposition on the
part of the Beers.
President Steyn, Of the Orange
Free State. has issued a proclamation
that all who sign declarations not to
fight against the Republic shall be
shot.
The Beers have destroyed several
bridges across the Modder river, and
are retreating towards the north of
Bloemfontein.
Generals Roberts and Butler are
still inactive, pending developments
at the theatre of war;
Sir Alfred Miner, British High
Commissioner of South Africa, has
issued a proclamation declaring that
England will not recognize valid any
alterations of property within the
Transvaal or the Orange Free State.
Secretary Chamberlain will issue
proclamation ON the subject of al
ANSCN VI DOCIS " uCSlION JO-
hannesburg. telling what the Beers
may expect in the event of wanton
destruction of British property.
A London cablegram says that the
peaceful conquest of the Orange Free
State progresses so evenly that it is
believed that here will be little or no
fighting until Lord Roberts reaches
the Vaal river. How soon he intends
to start out with this objective is not
yet limited at, but the paciiication of
the Free StaterS seems now engaging
all his attention.
General Gatacre's scouts, who have
occupied Springfontein, report the
country clear of the enemy.
According to Winston Churchill,
there are $4,000 Beers with 20 guns
massed in the Bigersberg range to
meet the British advance.
Lord Roberts is directing his move
ment towards crushing the Boer
forces on the Orange River. He has
crossed the river and occupied the
town of Bethulie. The Beers are said
to be massing in the Drakesberg
ranges, and may make an effort to
check the British advance.
The Pretoria correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says: The Repub-
lie was prepared to grant substantial
reforms and concessions until the re-
ceipt of Lord Salisbury's telegram.
General Cronje, according to Cape
Town special, has sailed for st. Hell
ena, accompanied by all the Paarde-
berg prisoners.
The Government Of Sydney, New
South Wales, proclaimed st. Patrick's
Day as public holiday as tribute
to the bravery of the Irish soldiers in
South Africa.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
A SERVANT GIRLS LUCK
she FALLS HElRESS TO A FOR.
TUNE OF $1s,ooo,ooo.
She Goes to Scotland, Where She
Will Make All Her Friends and
Neighbors Glad Remarkable
Story of Fortunes Whim.

Miss Elsie Tyson, the heiress of
"Old Tyson" the queer millionaire Of
Australia, who recently died leaving
$13.000,000 to her, is supposed to have
been a niece of "Old Tyson"
For over three-score years the lat
ter had no communication with his
family, and before his death he de-
clared he knew of no living relatives
and would leave no will. In Australia
his lawyers, Wilson, Lawrence G. Will
son, began at once the search for a
rightful heir. In an ancient iron box
in his cabin they found letters from
his mother written siXty-ive years
before. They went to Scotland and
found that the Tysons had lived on a
farm of the Duke of Argyle, but that
all of the members of the family had
either died or drifted away. A brother,
John Tyson, was traced to Orange,
N. j., and thence to Evanston, Ill. His
daughter had gone westward years
ago with family of emigrants, who
setteld in Humboldt Co., Cal, where
they own a small farm. On this farm
Wilson, one of the lawyers, who was
searching for the missing heiress,
found Elsie Tyson. She was perform
board and clothing.
Miss Tyson has not yet been put
into possession of her vast fortune,
but that is mere formality. In COM
pany with Wilson she has gone to
Scotland, where her relationship to
Tyson will be further confirmed, and
then she will go to Australia and take
possession of the estate. Before her
departure she said: 81 am going
back to my fathers old home in Scot
land, and l shall try to make the peo-
pie in the place all happy, or at least
all my money cannot give the least
little thing to one of my own people.
They are all gone"
James Tyson, better known as "Old
Tyson" was one of the most eccentric
millionaires who ever boarded gold.
He died two years ago, leaving a vast
estate in Australia, no heirs as far as
was then known, and a record for per-
sonal peculiarities known the world
3over.
The estate of this remarkable old
bushman, who had never passed day
OF his life outside the limits of the
Australian colonies, included millions
in ready cash, 100000 acres in fine
lands, and many million head of
horses, cattle and sheep.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23

aNNvuhiIi0ua -Iot!s I iIppu ar prices
This is the sepond 'laise" made by
Mrs. Palmer in six morths. She has
gone perS onal IN inspected tile 100
dwelling houses which she and her
husband own, and has ordered rents
raised 20 per cent. Mrs. Palmer is
clearing the atmosphere" before she
goes to Paris. She will sail in two
weeks, and has made arrangements
to be In close touch with her great es.
tate while abroad.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
No Others Like Them.

Three extraordinary idols of brass
have just arrived in Liverpool from
India. The weight of each figure is
about 1900 po,nts, and they are most
wonderfully ard rilliantly made. One
of the figures sands nine feet high,
another six feet, and one is in re-
clining position, with the head resting
on the hand. This last is the largest Of
the three, measuring nearly 10 feet
They are the property of William
Gross, of menagerie fame who claims
that no similar relics are possessed by
any museum or by any private lndi-
viduals in Europe or America. Lon
don Echo.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
THE WASHINGTON NEWS
WHAT OUR NATIONAL LAW MAX
ERS ARE CONSIDERING.
Some Of the More important Work Of
the National congress-BiIls That
the Committees Report Favorably
Observation-Disclosures Topics.

"e NoTHInitteSS nSPoTt FdNOIabV
Upon-Washlnoton Topics.
In the United States senate, Mr..
Morgan, Of Alabama has made a con-
stitutional argument on the Puerto
Rican question. He held that, as the
treaty of Paris was the supreme law
of the land, it was impossible for the
United States to abandon either Puer.
to Rico or the Philippines, and that
the people of those islands were citi.
Zens of the United States.
The House has entered upon the
consideration of the Loud bill to re-
strict the character of publications
entitled to a cent per pound rates as
second class mail matter.
The Sulzer resolution, calling upon
the War Department for information
as to what Notifications Great Brit
ain was erecting on the Canadian
border, has been tabled by vote Of
10 to 81
The senate committee on privileges
and elections has made a report in
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ginia, the legality of whose election
had been contested.
Secretary Wilson has awarded the
contract for supplying the Depart
ment of Agriculture with seed for the
year 1901 to the New York Market
Garden Association of New York at
their bid of S6S,S74. The total num-
Der of packets of seed required is 15,-
0S6,96S.
Senator Beveridge has offered a
free trade substitute for the tariff
section of the Porto Rico bill. includ-
ing a declaration that the Constitu-
tion did not extend over the island.
A canvass shows at least forty-four
Republican Senators in favor of the
House tariff clause in the Porto Rican
bill.
The Notifications bill, appropriating
| $7,000,000 for seacoast defenses, has
/ been reported to the House.
The story that warships and troops
were to be sent to China to protect
! American interests has been officially
denied.
Comptroller Dawes has received
many requests for bank notes from
institution increasing circulation to
par of bonds pledged.
The session of the United States
Senate March Is was enlivened by a
sharp passage between Messrs. Gal.
linger and Penrose, in which the New
Hampshire Senator declared that the
member from Pennsylvania did not
speak the truth when he said that
he (Gallinger) had told him that he
would not speak on the Quay caR.
The dispute arose over a proposition
to fix the time for a vote.
The Senate Committee on Inter
state Commerce has decided to give
three more hearings on the bill to
regulate commerce, on Friday the 2Sd,
and the succeeding Fridays.
Senator Proctor, of Vermont, has
introduced bill providing for the
prevention Of the adulteration Of food,
and authorizing the creation of a
Bureau Of Chemistry in the Agricul-
tural Department.
The House Committee on Naval Az
fairs decided to ask the insertion
Of a provision in the Naval Appropri-
alton bill for two battle ships, three
armored cruisers and three protected
cruisers.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
MILITARY AND NAVAL.

The War Department has purchased
from the North American Mail Steam.
ship Company the steamship Colum.
bia for the dse as a transport in the
Pacific.
Commander William Emory has
been detached from the Inspection
Board and ordered on temporary spe.
cial duty in New York. He will soon
60 to sea in command of a ship.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
New York City "Hayseeds."

New Yorkers delight in comic pic.
lures Of the "Hayseed" coming to the
city for gold brick" but recent de.
velopments show that people Using in
this great centre Of the Western Cont.
nent are just as liable to be enticed by
a gold brick swindle as their country
cousins are. The books of w. +. Mil.
ler's 500 per cent. syndicate shows
that 1882 of his victims lived In Brook.
lyn and that they gave him $277,OO0
of their money. The report of Receiv.
er Grant shows how many first class
banks jumped at the offer of "6 per
cent, interest and commission" and
accepted the unsecured paper of the
Third Avenue Railroad without an In.
vestigation Of its condition.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
COL. AsToR's AID
Saved Three Young Men, Stranded,
From Prison.


Col. John Jacob Astor's kindness
has saved three young men who be-
came stranded at Rhinebeck, N. Y,
from going to the Albany peniten.
tiary. Col Astor's country place
Ferncliffe. is near Rhinebeck.
The young men voluntarily ap'
peared before Justice Pottenburgh
and asked to be committed to the
county jail az vagrants. They were
fairly well dressed and had the stamp
Of respectabllity.
They confessed to being penniless
and told the Justice they wanted to
be committed 10 obtain food and lodg
ing. They had tried TO obtain work
but with no success.
Justice Pottenburg told them that
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
DEATH RECORD.

Charlotte p. Mason, of Sandwich,
New Hampshire, is dead, aged 10J
years.
Ex-Judge Fullerton, who died March
Is at Newburg, N. Y, at the age of
SO years. was considered in his day
one of the most brilliant lawyers of
New York.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
Peculiar Old Clocks.

A peculiar clock, of the time of
Charles L., was the lantern. or bird
cage style, which hung from the walls
high up, with its works exposed.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23
Discretion After lnvestloatIon.

They were speaking of the new W,
man movement.
IF girl proposed to you." shn
"you wouldn't dare refuse her
IF girl had the nerve and tn.
termination to make a proposaI
replied, 81 wouldn't dare marry
In view Of the circumstances 81
cided to wait for him to speak
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-23

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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-10-04
Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, a.
second class mail matter.

Delinquent Corporations Made to
Pay Taxes, and Deficit of Three
Millions of Dollars Is Changed to
Il Surplus of Two Millions, and the
Full Appropriation of $5,OOO,OOO
BE Met.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-10-04
Notice of Incorporation.

Notice is hereby given that an applica-
ton will be made to the Governor Of the
State of Pennsylvania on Friday, the 18th
day of October 1900, by c. WILLIAM
WODDROP, B. HARVEY WEIGH,
EDGAR r. KIESS, JEREMIAH KEEL.
LY and w. +. CRAWFORD, under the
act Of Assembly of the Commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania, entitled "An act to provide
for the incorporation and regulation OF
certain corporations approved April 80,
1874, and the supplements thereto for the
charter OF an intended corporation to be
called "Eagles Mere Water Company;"
the character and object whereof, is, the
supply of water to the public OF the Boro.
of Eagles Mere in the County of Sullivan,
State of Pennsylvania and to such persons,
partnerships and corporations residing
therein, or adjacent thereto, as may desire
the same, and for these purposes TO have,
possess and enjoy, all the rights, benefits
and privileges of the said act Of Assembly
and its supplements.
w. f. CRA WFORD, Solicitor.
Sept Is, 1900.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-10-04
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tions-leave Towanda $40 am. and 225
am; arrive Sat'feld, 9.02 a. m. 2.25 p. m.
STAGE LINES
Stage leaves Hughesvill post office for
Lairdsville, Mengwe and Philipsdale daily
Wilson, Beaver Lake and :Fribley on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at ! 80
Stage leaves Glen Mawr tor Hillsgrove
and FOrksville at II 02 a. m.
Stage leaves Muncy Valley for Unity
vile, North Mountain and Lungeryille
daild at II l9 a. m.
Passengers taking trains at flag stations
can secure train excursion tickets from
the conductors.
Philadelphia & Reading, Lehigh Valley
and New York Central mileage will he
accepted only tor through passengers trav-
cling from Halls to Satterfitld or Satter-
field to Halls.
The general offices ot the company are
located at Hugheeyile, Pa.
b. HARVEY WEIGH
President liughsvlir. Pa.
SD. TOWNSEND, gen. Mgr, Iughesvlle, Pa.