The suburban citizen., 1900-01-27
THE NEWS.

Judge Wallace, In the United States CouIe
at Albany, concurred with the lower court
IN refusing to grant a writ of habeas corpus
In the case OF Captain Oberin NJ. Carter,
convicted of conspiracy against the gov
ernment.
May Bebehaus, aged nineteen, died IN
Philadelphia from the effects OF smoking
opium In a den.
Lewis Havens. Of Philadelphia, died sad
denly in a car at Lenoir, N. O.
A fire at Dawson City destroyed S4OO,OOo
worth Of property.
Samuel Peter Meyers was hanged at Som
erset, Pn.
r.. II. Nicholas, a native Of Baltimore, and
Superintendent OF the New York, Philadel-
phia and Norfolk Railroad, died In Philadel-
phia.
Brigadler General Charles W. Squires,
prominent Confederate during the Civil War,
died In st. Louis, aged sixty.
Julius Bandmann, an old merchant OF San
Francisco is dead.
John Klonthan died at Berryville' Va,
aged seventy-one.
Count Boni de Castelane, with his WIFE,
Anna Gould, reached New York, and denied
absolutely that he had lost anything In spec
uatlons, declaring that he had never specu-
lated in his life.
A.P. II. Elder. formerly a publisher In
Chicago, plead guilty in the United States
Court. that city, to having used the mails TO
defraud
Clarence w. Robinson was appointed com
monwealth's attorney in Newport News, va,
to flll tho vacancy caused by the death OF J.
X. NJ. Newton.
John Potter Stockton, formerly United
States senator, who was for years attorney
general OF New Jersey, died at the Hotel
Hanover, In New York.
William W. Patch, who during the war
saved General Sherman and his staff from
capture died at his home In Galesburg Ill.
Captain william II Gibson succeeded Cap
tain Sgsbee as commander OF the oattleshlp
Texas at the Brooklyn navy yard.
] Edgar Walton was arrested in the Chi
cago National Bank on charge OF forgery.
David Murdoch assistant roadmaster OF
The MARYLAND division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Gray's Ferry, Philadelphia, was
killed by train.
The loss by the fire at the winter quarters
OF the Barnum 4 Bailey Circus, at Bridge
port. Ct. is estimated at 1925, 100. Many
cars we're destroyed.
CAPTAIN Frederick j. Mills, formerly
lieutenant governor OF Idaho, who killed j.
G. OMelyeney was acquitted of murder In
Salt Lake
Edward Oswald was found guilty OF MUIR
der In the first degree at Camden, N. j., Tor
billing his wife and six-year-old child,
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Company began shutting downits coal mines
In Pennsylvania.
w. J. Mcconnell, the temperance advocate
Of Cleveland, died in Philadelphia from ex-
cesslve use OF morphia.
John Brown notorious chicken thief,
was sentenced, in Norfolk, to the peniten-
tiary for ten years.
As the result Of family row in New York
between the Colletts and the Spinellas three
OF the Collettls were killed and two OF the
spinenas were arrested, the third being a
fugitive,
The British steamer sutton, with iron ore,
for Philadelphia wes stranded on FenwicR
Island Shoals, near Lewes, Del. Boats from
the revenue cutter Onondaga rescued the
crew.
Marshall Waggoner, an lnfdel who was
converted to Christianity, burned his col
lection OF books on inadeity in the furnace
of the United Brethren Church at Toledo, o.
Rev. Charea Earl Preston, of jamestown,
R. l., who ran away from his wife, was ar
rested IN Troy N y, where he had gone
with young lady of his church.
Miss Kate Herbotscheimer of Princeton,
H.. was acquitted OF the murder of Charles
Snlzman to whom she had been engaged tc
be married.
Mrs Bertha Ruprecht, made despondent
by the death OF her husband in Batavia, N
Y, made desperate attempt to commit
suicide
The will OF Father Chiniquy, the exoom-
mupicated priest, who died In Montreal
gives his property TO his wife and daugh-
ters.
Mrs. Anna George, the woman in the Sax
ton murder case in Cleveland, o., Is now
cloak model in New York.
Seth Low, president Of Columbia College
was also elected president OF Barnard
College
The Baldwin Locomotive Works is build
ing thirty locomotives for French railways
report comes from Chicago that rs I
result Of the recent agreements Of the trunl
line officials separate city ticket offices vii
be abandoned in Baltimore, Philadelphia
and other cities, and Joint offices will b
substituted.
The tobacco growers Of North Corolln'
have agreed to sell none OF their product t
the American Tobacco Company for fly'
years.
A. s. Van Wlckle & Co., coal miners a
Colerane, Pa, have advanced the wages 0
their men two per cent
IL Is reported that forty thousand miner
IN the anthracite region Of Pennsylvania
have decided TO strike.
Thomas Mcdowell, the first mayor Of Sac
ramento, Gal. died at South River, n. ].
aged eghty-three.