The suburban citizen., 1901-04-20
WASHINGTON, D. c., SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1901
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Domestic.

/ AIClDlSiOp JOIu J. hedHG was INVEST
! ed with the pallium at Dubuque, Iowa.
Cardinal Gibbons conferred the pallium
| Archbishop ireland made the principal
address.
Five hundred employees OF the Onon-
| daga Pottery, in Syracuse, N. y, went
on a strike in sympathy with the girl
strikers.
Minister Loomis arrived at New
York from Venezuela He denies that
he criticized President Castro.
Fifty-one Indians and negroes receiv-
cd diplomas and certificates at the
Hampton Normal School
Alexander Agassiz was elected presl-
dent of the National Academy OF Sci
ence.
Mrs. Anna Sheldon Andrews died at
Slatersyille. h. l., aged 100 years.
Code Denny, a B. & o. brakeman,
was killed at Lamira, W. Va.
Ex- x-Congressman Melvin r. Baldwin
killed himself at Seattle
Harry Taft died suddenly at Martins
burg OF heart disease
Eight hundred longshoremen struck
at Newport News.
DR.. S. II. Scruggs, Jr., was assassi-
mated near Nashville.
OIG lllOuoaHn HlNll WNAAA Ol a 81 nv
at the Natalie colliery, near Shamokin,
Pa.
Sam Smith died at Point Pleasant,
w. Va, after eating 22 hard-boiled
eggs,
The principal shipping companies at
Newport News, Va, refused to grant
'longshoremen, and a strike OF 500 men
may result
At York, Pa, John P. Pfeiffer, Of
Reading, Pa, was convicted OF forgery
and sentenced to two years in the Penl-
tentiary.
Rev. George B. Resser, pastor of
Emmanuel Reformed Church, fell from
scafolding at Hanover, Pa, and was
killed.
The famous hat trimmings case,
which has been seven years in United
States courts, was settled at Philadel-
phia.
Charles Smith and William Johnson
were killed at an election riot near East
St. Louis.
Bishop J. J. Esher, OF the Evangelical
Church, died at Chicago, aged 78 years.
The Red Lion Match Company went
into the hands of receiver at York.
on the Rappahannock River.
A general jail delivery occurred at
Georgetown, Del, from the Sussex
county prison. Nine OF the prisoners.
all OF whom were awaiting trial, made
their escape by saving the bars OF their
windows and making ropes out OF their
bed clothing
Half of the employees Of the w. De-
wees Wood plant of the big steel com
bine at McKeesport, went on a strike.
1t may be the beginning Of fight be-
tween the Amalgamated Association
and the United States Steel Corpora
ton
The Supreme Court OF Pennsylvania
decided that members OF the American
Federation Of Labor had no right to
entice a glass manufacturer appren-
tices to join the union,
The transport Thomas arrived at San
Francisco with officers and men OF the
Thirty-ffth and Twenty-eghth Volun-
teer Regiments.
The Shamokin Silk Mill Company, in
Shamokin Pa, started up the girl
strikers being told that their union
would be recognized,
Gen. A. c. McClurg, head OF the
publishing house OF A. c. McClurg &
Co, OF Chicago, died at ST. Augustine,
Florida
Forty bars OF silver bullion, valued at
$1,000, were stolen from the steamer
Lide, while lying off Newark, N. j.
Foreign.
The South African blue book was is
sued in London, containing letter from
Sir Alfred Miner, in which he says af-
fairs in South Africa are worse now,
from British point OF view, than they
were year ago.
An unexplained explosion in the Ro.
man Catholic Church of St. Michael, in
Berlin, caused a panic, and several per-
sons were injured by flying debris
The ministers in Pekin have accepted
Mr.. Rockhill's proposition for foreign
oard to take the place OF Tsung Ii
Yamen.
The palace of the Empress in PeIin,
occupied by Count Won Waldersee and
MS staff, was burned to the ground
vi Kon Ho, the Korean minister OF
Justice, was condemned to death for
plotting against the Empress.
The claims against China for indem-
lities are now estimated to amount to
e7o,ooo,ooo.
A French girl is puzzling physicians
of Paris, who have extracted hundreds
Of needles from all parts of her body.
She says she swallowed them years ago.
The American Consul General at
Yokohama says business men and
statesmen in Japan fear a financial panic
IN that country.
The engagement OF Miss Daisy Letter
to Spencer Eddy, second secretary OF
the American legation in Paris, is re-
ported.
Liverpool receipts of sugar are enor-
nous in expectation OF the imposition
by the British government OF duty
on it..