Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-05-11
SUMMARY OF the NEWS.


The destitution in Jacksonville IS very
great and all classes OF men are clamor-
ing for work Many supplies have been
received, and the insurance adJusters
have already paid out over hall NIL
lion dollars.
The President reached California on
his Western trip and was welcomed by
the Governor of the State at Los An
geles General Shaiter headed the
military escort.
The Pennsylvania miners decided TO
postpone their promised march on har-
risburg, the State Senate committ,e,e
having promised TO report their Dilis
favorably.
The employees Of the United Irac-
ton Company OF Albany went on
strike. and tire was tie-up IN Aioaliy'
Troy, Wateryliet, Rensselaer, ana Co
hoes. -,
Charles Foster, of Fostoria, Ohio,
has made application as a voluntary
bankrupt. His debts are $4,000, and
there are no assets.
Can't lack F. Merriman was paralyz-
ed in a bucket shop in Wheeling and
died in wo hours. His death was due
TO excitement.
Miss Polite Moreland. aged ST. was
married at Bismarck. w. Va, to Grant
Burgess, aged 81.
Miss Juelda Conrad and William
Tribby were married at Harpers Ferry.
William Dickerson was killed near
Fredericksburg by a train.
President Mckinley and the members
OF the Cabinet inspected a gold mine at
Congress, Arizona Interesting ruins of
the Aztec irrigation system were after
wards viewed by the party. Four beau
tiful turquoises, the largest weighing
20 karats, were sent to the President by
the Governor of New Mexico.
The employees in the Delaware.
Lackawanna and Western Railroad
shops 1000 in number, went on strike.
A strike in the building trades OF Louis
vile, KY. was begun. AT the Have
meyers glucose factory, in Edgewater,
N. j., the strikers attacked non-union
men.
The employees of the street railway
lines in Albany, Troy, Cohoes and
neighboring towns went on strike for
recognition of the Amalagamated Asso-
citation OF Street Railway Employees.
Miss Mary Meade Bernard, OF Peters
burg, has been appointed sponsor from
Virginia for the Sons OF Confederate
Veterans reunion TO be held in Memphis
in May.
The Pennsylvania Steel Company an
nounces that wages at the Harrisburg
works will be restored June to the
rates in force before last January.
The Cuyahoga Savings and Banking
Company, of Cuyahoga. Ohio, closed
its doors pending an examination OF
the books of the treasurer, who has
disappeared.
Charles Halton, deserter from Bat
terry F. Second Artillery, stationed at
Washington Barracks, was captured in
Martinsburg, w. Va, and returned.
The coroner's jury decided that the
S-year-old daughter of William Aikens
shot and killed her Older sister, near
Ballsville, Powhatan county, Va.
1t was rumored that the presidency OF
Western University at Chicago had
been offered to Dr. George L. Reed,
president of Dickinson College.
]. P. Eppes, who claims to be Phila-
delphia commercial traveller, was ar
raigned in Fredericksburg Va, on the
charge OF horse-stealing.
The home OF Levy Johnston, In
Prince George county, Va, was de-
stroyed by fire and his two children
were burned TO death.
Leonard s. Outram, of London,
member of Sothern's Company, died
suddenly in Carbondale, Pa, from heart
failure.