The suburban citizen., 1900-04-14
The NEWS.

Judge Johnson's departure for Nome left
the Alaska Territory without judge or
judicial office.
The United States Government awarded
to tho Oceanic Steamship Company 1O-year
contract at Ga mile for carrying the
Australian and Rnglish closed malls across
the Pacific.
Two italian strikers were shot by deputy
sheriffs In New York during a riot.
Charges were made ut the meeting OF the
Chicago Presbytery that the General Assem-
bly, was dominated by system Of bossism
and One-man power worse than any political
machine.
The rumors looking to the combination Of
the Csrnegie-Frlck Interests and the Cramp
shipbuilding concern has been denied Ivy the
latter company.
Owing to the strike OF tho miners, The con.
ditiOn Of the coal trade has assumed alaEn-
ing proportions in Plttsburg, Pa.
A complete steel house was shipped from
Philadelphia to Prince Yoshibiso, at Toxic,
and 81 locomotives aud dtenders woSe shipped
10 Russla.
Captain Louis ostheim, First United States
Artillery, was found dead IN bis room in
Chicago hotel, wish bullet-hole in bis
temple.
H.H. Pitcher, a banker, in charge Of the
LlvermorO Bank, az Oakland, CAL, COM
mittpd suicide, his trusteeship Of an estate
valued at s6OO 900 being under investigation.
Foster Grubb and @. H. sheRfier were
killed, and Samuel K. Clouser fatally Injured
while working under cars in the railroad
yards at Harrisburg Pa.
The case OF tho B lltimore coffee merchants
against the New York imports was begun
again before the Supreme Court In New
York.
Chaplain Charles D. Pierce, IN his report.
defends tho eanteen ut Manila, aud says u
replaces o number OF dlsreputable gin
shantes.
An Unsuccessful attempt was made to rob
the First National Bank Of Charlestown, W,
w. This robbers were discovered and driven
on.
Vast sections Of farming land in Texas IS
Inundated, and 1t Is reported that a number
Ofllv, have been lost.
Rev. Dr. william f. Junkin, Of Montclairi
N. j., a brOther-ln-law OF Stonewal Jack
con, died from pneumonia.
A FIRE in Greenpolnt, N, Y, destroyed sew
eral factories and threw 1iteen hundred men
out OF employment.
william Mohole was arrested at Paterson
n. j., while manufacturing counterfeit silver
money.
Charges we're made that BrlgadIer General
Funston put two Flliplnos to death without
trial.
Joseph Zlmmer, Of Paterson, N. j., killed
George Marion in hotel at WallingtOn.
The plans for the new convention hall a'
Kansas City have been completed.
John NJ. Egan Was elected president the
Central Railroad Of Georgia.
The Losses to crops by the floods in the
Texas loWlands will be enormous. Ths
powprhouse at Austin, in which eight work
mrn were drowned, was undermined by the
hood and machinery valued nt s3OO,OOO de-
siroytd.
From National Democratic headquarters
comes report thnt preparations are being
made to boom Ex-Governor Robert L. Patti
son, OF iPcnnsylvanln, for vice president.
Webster Davis, former assistant secretary
OF the interior, made speech Mt the pro-
BOer meeting st ongly condemnlng the Bstt-
ish dip omRcy and military methods.
The large department store of Joseph
Horne & Co., In pittsburg, was destroyed by
FIRE. The loss will be nearly two million
dolarp.
There wns very large audience at Wal
lacks, where the play OF "Sapho' was again
put on, with Miss Nethersole In the title
role.
A four-yenr.old son OF Russol Nicklas, in
Chambersburg, Pn., was Killed by being run
over,
Emma SPINNER, lovesick girl Of nineteen
years, committed suicide near Paterson,
New Jersey.
Judge Brown, Of the United States Dis
trict Court in New York, says his decision
discharRinR the prisoners in the Carter con-
spiracy cnse WAS 10 accordance with prece-
dents, the prosecution having followed q
wrong method Of procedure.
Three building associations in Atlanta,
with branches ia other StateR. applied for re-
ceiveTs In Atlanta on account Of excessive
taxation.
A treste on tho Durham and Charlotte,
near Gulf, went through wrecking an ae-
0OmmodNtion train.
The Louisville Oourier-Journal says 81, 600
wHS paid In advance TO the man who shot
Goebel.
Harry Hamberger, convicted Of murder in
Detroit, Mich, attempted to commit suicide.
A strike Is threatened by ths telegraph
operators on the Southern Railway system.
King and Lewis Goodsby, colored, were
executed In Baxley, Ga., for murder.
20. DlekensheetH, a Kansas City news
paper man, committed suicide ~ Atlanta,
d.. Hathaway, president OF The American
Sabbath Union, announced to the Newark
Conference lhat President Mckinley had de-
Paris Exposition would be closed on Sun
day.