The suburban citizen., 1900-08-18
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

into the Delaware river. Miss Graves
plunged overheard TO save her, and
both sank
Governor Beckham, Of Kentucky
has ordered the General Assembly tC
meet in extra session to consider tht
Goebel election law.
Frank A. Stauber, well-known So
cialist of Chicago, has disappeared
His debts are estimated at S15O,0O0.
Wilkinson, who eloped from Dover
Del, with Miss Packard, has beer
traced to Charlotte, N G.
A design for o monument over tki
grave Of President Lincoln's mother
has been accepted.
The first warship from Greece tC
cross the Atlantic is expected shortly
on this side.
A large creamery at Mechanicsburl
At Charlestown, w. Va. Juba
Young shot Mrs. Susan Morrison il
the shoulder.
Mrs. Cromer Butts was burned t
death in u charcoal pit near Richmond
Pa.
VIM. H. Wagner's large barn at Mar
burg, South Pennsylvania, was burned
Several people were injured ir
runaway accidents at Hanover, Pa.
hotel will be erected at Rounc
Top, Gettysburg battlefield
Woodstock, Va, was visited by q de
structive fire. The Episcopal church
Geary's Hotel and the Burner bloch
were destroyed.
R. H. FerreIl, who killed Express
Messenger Lane, was committed tC
jail at Marysyille, Ohio. When he anC
his sweetheart met both were pros
trated.
Frank Atkinson, aged "a, soldier
in the war with Spain, committed sui
eide at Philadelphia.
Mabel BOntOu, the actress, Is insane
and will be sent to the asylum on
Wards Island. New York.
A strike was ordered in the net fac
tory of Eugene Bennett & Co., Orange
New Jersey.
Ex-senator John j. ingalls, is in
serious condition at Las Vegas, New
Mexico
1t is estimated that 1900 men vii
be under canvas at the Uniformed
Rank, knights Of Pythias encamp
ment in Detroit on August 26.
The United Garment Workers Of
America began a weeks session ut De
troit.
San Francisco mill men have begun
fight for an eight-hour day
The Dakota elevator in Buffalo was
burned, Loss, S9000OO
The jury in the Powers trial went tt
Frankfort and visited the spot where
GOebel fell
The Convention Of the Internntiona
Typographical Union opened in Nil
waukee.
Thirteen are dead and sixteen in
jured as a result of a grade-crOssinl
accident at Benninger's Station, on tht
Lehigh and New England Railroad.
Milwaukee has made an effort t
secure Colonel Bryan, Governor ROose
welt and Carter Harrison to speak OF
Labor Day.
Three street-rallway strikers werl
arrested in St. Louis, charged with dy
namiting.
Robert Kingston Scott, twice Civi
Governor of South Carolina, died a
Toledo,
Judge LacOmbe. of New York. re
fused to grant the writ of eXtraditior
TO Neely.
A passenger train on the I.ehigh AM
New England Railroad struck an nln
nibus containing % persons at Ben
nnger's Crossing, about three mile
cast of Slatington Pa, and eleven o.
the passengers In the bus We're in
stantly killed, a number Of others be
ing fatally injured. The injured wore
Immediately conveyed to St. I.uke'i
Hospital, South Bethlehem, on spe
clal train.
r. II. Forrell, a former employee %
the Adams Express Company was ar.
rested in Columbus, Ohio, and con
fessed TO the murder of Express Mes
senger Lane and the robbery of the
safe on the Pennsylvania eastbound
train. One thousand dollars Of the
money was recovered.
John Peck, of East Fallowhelt
township Pa, became crazed on tht
subject Of the war in China and went
cunning for preachers because he be.
lieved they We're responsible for the
trouble.
Nine persons of picnic party werC
struck by the same flash of lightning
Iu tne Bronx section of New York, OF
"hom three are very seriously injured
FRITZ Schall of Philadelphia, who
got the mitten from his sweetheart
VINO was advised by rortune-teller {,
give nm up, committed suicide
John Butler alias Frisco Slim.
was arrested in New York for com
pllcity in the lpotlng Of the Massanut
ton Bank in strasburg, Va.
Edgar Welch, 81 years old. Of Raw.
mond, Me-, ran down Mount WASHING
ton, reducing the record he had prS
viously made
The Hotel Ohold and adjoining prop
erty, in Hanover Pa were destroyed }