The suburban citizen., 1901-12-07
SUMMARY OF TIE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

At Adrian, Mich, the coroner's jury
found that the disastrous collision on
the Wabash Railroad near Seneca be-
tween trains I3 and a was caused by
the negligence of the Wabash Railroad
Company and the trainmen of train a.
A tragedy was enacted in Westmore-
land county, Virginia One man was
killed and two others were seriously, il
not mortally, wounded, The dead man
is William Taylor, Jr and the wounded
are J. Q. Stiff and Willie Hefin.
The congregation of the Brick Pres
byterian Church, New York, has asked
Rev. Henry Van Dyke to act as pastor
until successor to the late Dr. Malt
bic d. Babcock is appointed
The Elizabethton Town Company, in
Tennessee, in which several United
States Senator's including Mr.. Nc.
Comas were one time interested, has
been placed in the hands of a receiver
"A young woman arrested in Wilson,
N C., on suspicion of being the missing
Miss Maud Cropsey is said by the chief
of police of Elizabeth, N c., to be some
other person.
James Wilcox, who is charged with
the abduction of Miss Nellie Cropscy,
the young girl who mysteriously disap.
peared from her home at Elizabeth City
N C.. two weeks ago, was held in ST. ooc
bail to await action of the grand jury.
John Walsh, Chicago detective Is
charged with being implicated with a
gang OF safeblowers in Chicago and the
charges are being investigated by the
chief of police. Walsh denies the charge
The Missouri State Court of Appeals
at St. Louis has decided that applicants
for life insurance forfeit policies if they
do not answer truthfully questions pro.
pounded to them.
Fulton B. Harris, a young dental stud.
cnt, committed suicide on the golf links
in the Eastern Park at Louisville, KY
] M. Bayard, a cousin Of the late Sec.
retary of State, was killed in Texas b,
a railroad train.
Richard Croker says that he has prac
tically withdrawn from the leadership
Tanmany Hall.
Al Lewiston, Pa, white laborers OBJ
iected to working under colored foremen
and quit work
The First National Bank at Fallston,
N. Y, was closed because of the defal.
cation of its teller
Another move Is on foot in Alaska to
secure a territorial form of government
The South Carolina Interstate anc
East Indian Exposition, at Charleston
was officially opened. There was a pa
rade of United States troops State mil.
tia and Confederate veterans. United
States Senator Depew was the orator
Mayor Hayes, the Maryland commits
;ioners and others from Baltimore took
Oart in the exercises of turning over the
Maryland State Building to the expo
Sition. The speakers were Mayor Hayes
and Commissioner Francis King Carey
M Hutin, president of the Panama
Canal Company, presented the offer OF
!he company for the sale of its fran
:hises to President Roosevelt.
A. E. Willis, the alleged forger whose
friends had raised money to satisfy those
upon whom he had passed worthless
checks in Norfolk, Va, has been re-
arrested on information from Charles
ton and Atlanta.
Nelson Fritz, aged 70 years, and his
SON aged 10, we're received at the
Northern prison, at La Porte, Ind, to
serve life sentence for murder.
The United States government will be
asked to appropriate between five and
ten thousand dollars for the jamestown
Exposition
Robert S. Burkhart, son of State Sen
ltor Burkhart, died in Martinsburg, w.
Va, Of heart failure.