The suburban citizen., 1900-03-10
THE NEWS.

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an explosion in the Red Ash mine, at Fire
Creek, w. Va, on the south branch OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. More than
thirty dead bodies have been taken out.
Congressman Alfred G. Harmer, known as
the Father Of the House" who has served
thirteen full terms in Congress as rep
resentative OF the Fifth Pennsylvania dis
trtct, died In Philadelphia, at the age oil
seventy-ave years.
The grand jury in New York brought in
indictments against six men, holding them
responsible for disseminating the false ru-
mors that brought about decline In Brook
lyn Rapid Transit stock.
Edward Q. Flanagan who murdered two
women, killed one man and attempted the
life OF another, was tried, convicted and
sentenced numerous times, died In prison at
Atlanta, Ca
The strike OF thirty electric crane men at
the works OF the Pressed Steel Car Company
in Pittsburg, Pa, threw thousand men out
of work
Proceedings were instituted In Brooklyn
against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company by Robert L. Cutting. on behalf Of
the stockholders OF the Staten leland Rapid
Transit Railway Company.
Police Magistrate Mott in New York held
Olga Nethersole, Hamilton Reyelle, Marcus
Mayer and Theodore Moss for trial on the
charge Of presenting an immoral play
("sapho'D at Wallack's Theater.
Cecil Leslie, advertising agent Of the
Franklin Syndicate, was arrested in Brook
lyn on two charges OF conspiracy and grand
larceny, and plead not guilty.
broken rail threw passenger train over
an embankment near Huntington, Pa. The
conductor was killed and anumber Of passen-
gers injured.
The holder Of one share Of the stock ofthe
Blackwell durham Company prevents Its
sale TO the American Tobacco Company.
Ono hundred thousa.il 7-nas was given
to New York University for the building Of a
Hall OF Fame for Great Americans.
Miss Alice Connolly was found unconscious
In her home In Norfolk, Va, having been at
taoked by some unknown burglar.
Edward R. Holder, New York broker,
failed, his liabilities being S279, ,455
The Governor OF West Virginia pardoned
Henry b. Christie, life prisoner
The Independent Window Glass Associa-
tion has given up the struggle
A number OF non-unionlsts joined the
strikers in Chicago.
The Democrats, Populists and Silver Re-
publicans OF Kansas held a meeting to settle
their differences as to the State offices and
get together for the state campaign
President Jordan of Leland Stanford Uni
yersity, in lecture in Chicago, expressed
the opinion that the century would witness
the downfall Of Great Britain.
Miss Lillian Butts daughter OF a million
Slre lumberman Of saltwater, Mimi, eloped
with Albert S. Franklin, negro, and mar
ried him in Chicago.
Incendiary attempts to burn the house OF
Rev. Cornelius Illyasevits, of st. Pauls Uni
ted Greek Church, in Wllkesbarre Pa, drove
the minister insane.
Some unknown person mixed an acid with
the holy ashes in st. Roses Catholic Church
Meriden, Ct, and the worshipers were badly
burned.
Mrs. Bertha Boyce Lankford. who divorced
one husband and killed two who had been
uniaithful TO her. died at her home In Dallas,
Tex.
James. Manson is dying In Putnam, Ct,
from mercurial poisoning. There are some
mysterious circumstances connected with the
case.
Differences as to the efficacy Of faith as
cure OF disease caused the divorce Of George
White, ex-Congressman, from his wife at
Chicago.
A conference OF Afro-Amerieans was held
In Washington ut which the testing of suf-
frage legislation In the South was discussed
Letters OF administration on tho estate of
John Sleeper Clarke we're granted In PhIla-
delphia TO H. E. Garsed, Of Govanstown.
President Patton, in an address in Ohioa.
go, said that Princeton University needed
81 900 900 TO carry out projected improve
ments.
A burglar brutally assaulted with a club
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. T. Miller while they
were asleep in their bed in Norfolk, Va.
William Chappolle, OF steubenville, shot
his wife, whom ho found living In question
able house in Wheeling, W. Va.
John G. Farra, cashier OF freight receipts
OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at VII
mington, committed suicide.
Augusta Donenion, twenty-five years Of
.sge, Tenderloin woman, committed suicide
on New York street.
Mrs. Leland Stanford was reported to be
seriously Ill in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, In
New York
Five persons were burned 70 death and
three injured in fire In a Bowery tenement
In New York.
Walter L. Farnsworth, blgamist, was SEN
fenced by Chicago judge to the penitenti-
Ary.
Cashier Harry l.. Armstrong, of the de-
funct Continental Bank Of Memphis, Tenn,
accused Of making illegal entries, was ac-
quilted.
The official call was issued for the annual
convention OF the National Republican
League, to be held In st. Paul on July II.
The revenue cutter onondaga returned tc
Norfolk, after an unsuccessful search for the
missing spanish steamer Minerva.
The steamer Alamo brought to Now York
the captain and crew OF the schooner Anna
g. Keteham abandoned vt sea. -~--