The suburban citizen., 1900-06-09
WASHINGTON, D. c., SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1900.
THE NEWS.

committee by Senator Clark.
The Senate adopted the conference report
on the Sundry Civil bill and 1t was sent to
the President
The Penrose Armor-plate amendment was
carried In the Senate--39 to SO.
The total appropriations by the present
congress foot up $709,729.476.
Governor Roosevelt issued an order dis
missing Major Clinton H. Smith, OF the
seVenty-flrst Regiment, for his conduct at
! the battle Of San Juan.
John H. Holt, Of Huntington, was nomi-
mated by Democratic State Convention for
governor Of West Virginia.
Captain B. B. Dovener was nomin ated for
Congress by the Republicans OF the First
West Virginia district.
Former Congressman Dockery was noml-
mated by Democrats for governor Of Missouri
BY acclamation.
Indiana Democrats nominated John W.
Kern for governor and reafirmed the Chi
cago platform.
The President nominated General Joseph
wheeler to be brigadier general Of the army
The President nominated certain officers
for Porto RlcO and Hawaii and others for
promotion In the army.
In the Senate Messrs. Hanna, Carter and
Pettigrew had sharp words about charges
made by Mr.. Pettigrew.
The Senate, by tie vote, refused to con-
irm W. d. Bynum as general appraiser at
New York.
Major Johnson, with two companies Of the
Twenty-ninth Infantry, and twenty-five men
OF the Eighteenth, captured forty Filipino
insurgents and ten thousand rounds of am
munitiOn on an expedition to the Island OF
Tablas.
A committee OF Atty prominent business
men ofSt. Louis city have sent communi-
cation to Governor Stephens asking him to
order outmilita TO restore order In st. Louis.
The strike situation Is more serious and at.
Is ks on the cars continue.
Four men concerned In the Lancaster Pa
revenue cigar stamp conspiracy confessed
their guilt at Lancaster and were sent te |
prison.
DR.. Richard salter storrs, pastor emeritus
OF the Church OF the Pilgrims, Brooklyn
died at his home, after an illness OF two
weeks
William II. Hummel was hanged at vii.
Transport, Pa, for the murder OF his wife
and three children on November IS, 1899.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
bought the property OF the Wheeling Bridge
and Terminal Company.
Or. Giles Il. Chambers died at Ylneland.
j., OF apoplexy. II was thought at first
ne had been murdered
Risley Record was killed near Shrewsbury.
"a, by swiftly revolving saw at sawmin
A collision occurred on the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad near Weldon, In which two
men were instantly killed and three seriously
nJured' NO. 92, known as the Atlantic Coast
-lne last mall train, ran into an open switch
Il Garysburg, resulting in a collision With
ONE freight cars
Sheriff Noel Roberts and two other men
Tere shot to death at St. Augustin. Texas az
he result Of a feud which also involved the
llling Of former sheriff and his son within
week.
San Francisco hea th authorities declared
bat the death OF the Chlnaman, which was
Investigated, was due to the bubonlc plague.
an attempt to hold up the northbound
on-ball train near Longview, Texas, {
as foiled by the express messenger. /
John A. Graham, Savannah capitalist. I
Hled City Councilman John Bradford In
Fla. /
john Il. Hoke, OF Hanover Pa, was robbed c
thief who had politely asked to have a I
ote changed. h
The frignts Lancaster left PHILADELPHIA 4
ith five hundred boys and landsmen for a Il
ulse. 0
The town hall Of Foxboro, Mass. was o
irned, one man being killed and two in Il
red. o
The anniversary Of the birthday OF JefYer- o.
Davis was celebrated in Atlanta. Ga. b
DR.. Giles Chambers, a prominent physl. tc
an OF Finelaud n. j.. was assasslnated.
A mob OF colored men lynched Dago Pete io
lored, at Tutwller, Miss. al
Mrs. Harriet Barnes committed suicide at
r home In Millville, n. j. a.
heY. Benjamin J. Kelley was consecrated :.
'hop of Savannah by Cardinal Gibbons. III
sisted by the Bishop OF Wilmington and sl
Bishop OF Charleston. The services were tn
Id In the Cathedral-Church in Richmond 20
d were very impressive. ne
1 new trial was denied In Philadelphia to Va
S. Anna Il. Gaz2an, who was ordered to
$40 OOJ for alternating the affections Of
husband OF Mrs Elizabeth G.. Reading.
ll5s olga Nethersoles proposed trip to
rope was stopped by suits filed against pa
by Marcus Mayer, her manager and
de Fitch, the playwright. ru
ulian T. Biddulph Arnold, son Of the ito
5ish poet, who is wanted In England on gu
irlhinal charge, was arrested in San
nciseo, and will fight extradition.
ineent 5. seltzer of Reading, Pa. ac-
ed three members OF the Select Council tas
selling their votes to the Metropolitan Inc
ctrc Lighting Company. OF