The suburban citizen., 1901-02-09

NEWS IN BRIEF.


Va, indicted Allan A. Moss, mayor; j
II. Hughes and Mark McLaughlinI
councilmen; Samuel r. Register, oI
Richmond. attorney for the Newport
News Railway and Electric Company
Philip NARROW, agent for a paving con
Germ, and B. f. Smith, contractor, for
bribery and corruption in connection
with the awards OF city contracts iof
street paving, bridge building and the
construction of the city jail.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the temperance
crusader, made no effort to surprise the
Topeka "jointists.' Guards were or
duty about the places. Chief of Police
Stahl and Sheriff Cook warned the
keepers of the joints to close.
The Confederate Veterans Associa;
ton OF Savannah adopted resolutions
against an invitation to President Nc
Kinley to attend the reunion at Mem
phis
Two negro prisoners in Florida
jail were shot and killed by a lynchine
party.
Members OF the w. c, T. U. smash.
ed saloons in Dalton, Ark.
Fish Commissioner Dawney, for the
Western Shore of Maryland, has III.
formed Frederick county sportsmen
that 10000 speckled brook trout and
5000 rainbow trout will be supplied for
stocking county streams.
A new electric railway company will
present claims for franchise before the
Allegheny County Commissioners. The
road will run between Cumberland and
Westernport
At Topeka, at 8 a. M, Mrs. Nation
and five of her followers wrecked the
Senate saloon. Mrs. Nation was In
jured. The police have her in charge
One shot was fired
The special House committee on the
st. Louis Exposition voted to report
favorably the bill appropriating $5,"
100000 for the Louisiana Purchase Elk.
position.
Robert B. Todd, formerly Justice Of
the Supreme Court OF Louisiana, died
at the home of his daughter Mrs. s
B. Daniels, in Brooklyn.
Clarence V. Wallace, contracting
agent for the B. G. o. r. r. In Phtla-
delphia, was brutally beaten by a high
wayman.
Two hundred and fifty Chicago sa-
loonkeepers have been arrested for vlo-
lating the Sunday law.
A national Federation Of Churches
and Christian Workers Is being formed
in Philadelphia.
The mother of Senator Wolcott, Of
Meadow, Mass.
James McTome committed suicide by
hanging in the York (Pa,) county Jail!
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie is represented
as anxious to retire from business.
Addison Cammack at one time q
plungeT in Wall street, is dead.
President Mckinley has been invited
to visit Little Rock, Ark.
Edward EIdridge Salisbury, profess
sor of Yale, is dead
Sarah Bernhardt has insured her life
for 100000.
Willie Wilton, colored, who was ar
rested in Portsmouth, Va, on the
charge of having committed telon-
ious assault on Mrs. Watkins, OF
Blackstone, Nottoway county, Va'' was
taken to the Penitentiary to protect
MIN from lyncnerS
The stockholders of the York South
ern Railway met in New York, and al
most unanimously voted for the ratln-
cation OF an agreement of consolida-
ton with the Baltimore and Lehign
Railway
Rev. Henry c. Whiting, Ph.D., who
was for II years professor of Latin
at Dickinson College, was found dead
in bed at his home in Carlisle, Penn
sylvania.
Edouard Gadona was held for the
United States grand jury at Albany for
smuggling Cinnamon across the border
at Plattsburg, N. Y
Fire in Detroit caused damage
amounting to 100000 to the Dreskill-
Jupp Paper Company and Detroit Free
Press Printing Company.
The Chamberlain Hotel property at
Old Point, Va, was sold at auction for
$780, 900, the committee Of the bond
holders buying 1t in.
Richard Phillips, colored, convicted
of murder, made an attack on MS
taller at Newport News, and then pre-
tended to be crazy.
The house of John w. Snapp, near
Vanclue, Va, was ransacked by
thieves, who got away without disturb
ing the family.
John Mundell trading as John Mum
dell & Co., operating large Shoe fac
tory in Philadelphia, made an assign
ment.
The Ward Line steamer Santiago de
Cuba arrived at New York from Cuba,
after an exceedingly rough voyage.
w. d. Minestree, who had brilliant
record in the Confederate Army, died
AZ his home in Petersburg, Va.
Senior Andrade ex-president OF
Venezuela, Is in Havana. He denies
that ne is on fillbustering expedl-
tinn