The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-30
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Events of the Week Told in a Few
Words

WOFuS.
The negotiations looking to a par
GELS post convention between this
country and Nicaragua, Which have
been in progress for several months,
have been completed and the treaty
will go into effect June 1.
The affairs of Chief Clarence, Of the
Mosquito Territory, the pensioner of
the British government, who is being
sued for debt, have assumed such an
acute Stage that he l&sss appealed to
the government for assistance.
The winter has been unprecedented
lily mild at Cape Nome; ali necessaries
OF life are plentiful and cheap.
Twenty-four of the smaller corpora
tions operating franchises in Greater
New York were valued at $17,000,000
by the State Tax Commission.
There was an exciting scene in
Judge Moore's court, Frankfort, Ken
lucky, March 20 during the examina
tion of the Goebel murder suspects.
Sharp words passed between counsel
causing the spectators to precipitately
flee for the doors and windows. Or
der was restored.
Within week the battleship Wis
consin, now almost completed by the
Union Iron Works, San Francisco, will
be out on series of trial trips.
The several Mormon colonies in
Chihuahua, Mexico, have been in
creased in population by the arrival
of over 5000 Mormon immigrants
from Utah during the last two months.
The State Department has issued
warranty for the surrender to the
Mexican authorities of Bias Aguirre,
charged with murder.
The law providing for compulsory
medical examination of school chill
dren as a precaution against expos
ing pupils to contagious diseases, has
been sustained in the Superior Court
of Chicago.
The number of bubonic plague cases
officially reported at Sydney, n S. W.,
has reached thirty-six There have
been thirteen deaths and 5000 per.
sons persons have been inoculated.
Walter Deucher, Secretary to the
Swiss Legation in Washington, has
been transferred to the post of Secre-
tary of the Legation at Rome.
An official estimate of the damage
to property in Prussia last year from
flood shows an approximate total of
21.000,00 marks.
The clockmakers of the Black For.
est have taken preliminary steps to
turn the entire industry there into a
large company, with capital supplied
by Berlin financiers, and to devote
especial attention to the manufacture
Of American clocks.
Premier Lyme, of Sydney, New
South Wales, Is making extraordinary
efforts to eradicate the plague. Dar-
ling harbor has been quarantined,
and attendants at the exhibition have
been inoculated
The Rev. p. ]. Duffy, of German
town, New York. a suburb of Port
Jervis, was found dead from suffoca-
tion March %, in the Ashland House,
New York. 1t is said that Father DUFF
fy's health had been impaired through
his labors in securing a new house of
worship for his parishioners.
President Loubet will pardon Baron
Christina, who last June assaulted
him at the races. and he will also sign
fifty other pardons.
William III. Crocker of San Fran
cisco, has offered to defray the ex-
pense Of sending out a party from the
Lick Observatory to observe the total
eclipse Of the sun on May %.
Under an agreement just signed the
II. c. Frick has been closed, the law
suits have been ordered stopped and
an amicable arrangement has been
made between the two great steel and
iron manufacturers by which not only
are the warning elments set at rest,
but great steel and iron corporation
has been formed that will be far
reaching In its influence and have
capital of over $2oO,000,000.