The suburban citizen., 1901-01-12
WASHINGTON, D. c. SATURDAY, JANUARY l2, 1901
NEWS IN BRIEF.


characterizes farmer Secretary Alger's
magazine article as a hodge podge
Of inaccuracies.
Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., pleaded
guilty to embezzling funds of the First
National Bank of New York. He will
be sentenced Tuesday.
George Ward and James Jones, botb
colored, were hanged at Washington
Pa, for the murder of Samuel Wust
Itch, an aged German.
Rev. Vincent Dillonls sued Mayo
Corcoran, of Pittston, who prevented
his delivering a lecture during thC
strike in the coal regions.
Philip d. Armour was buried in Chi
cago His body was placed on view ir
the Armour mansion prior to the
funeral.
Archie W. Benedict, a guard of Au
burn IN. " Prison, was murdered by
Clarence EgnOr, a convict
Northern capitalists will engage ex'
tensively in the tea-growing industry
in South Carolina.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will spend $5,000,0O0 in Improvements
this year
Mr.. M. ]. O'Brien has been reelected
president of the Southern Express
Company.
Governor Atkinson, Of West Virginia
submitted his message to the legisla'
ture.
The Congressional Committee began
its investigation into hazing at West
Point.
Two hundred and sixty-seven cases
of smallpox are reported in Kansas.
Senator Kenny introduced a substi-
tute Army Reorganization Bill
1t is reported that the great railway
systems intend to dispense with travel
ing passenger and freight agents, a
plan which means the discharge OF 50,-
900 men.
Samuel Swlngler, aged eight years,
and John Mehl, aged 10 years were
drowned in the Susquehanna River at
Columbia. The ice gave way under
them.
The transport Grant, which arrived
at San Francisco, reported rough ex-
perience in a typhoOn December Is off
the Japanese coast.
The conditional pardon system has
been found to work with satisfaction in
Virginia.
Four lives We're lost in a tenement
house fire in New York city.
The funeral services over the body of
Bishop Ninde, of the NJ. e. Church,
were conducted in the Central MethO-
dist Episcopal Church, in Detroit.
The transport Ingalls, arrived at New
o. hoA nd
ing the storm, which caused consid-
erable damage.
Clarence d. Wood. an instructor in
Brown University. committed suicide
at the home Of his brother, in Brook
lyn.
General James Cayanagh formerly
colonel of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, in
New York, died at his home, in that
city.
E. st. John, vice president and gem
eral manager Of the SeabOard Air Line,
has rendered his resignation.
Announcement was made that re-
1ners had advanced all grades Of re-
fined sugars 10 points.
The boilermakers in the Erie shops
at Susquehanna, Pa, went on a strike.
Divorce reform Is to occupy promi-
nent place in the New York legislature.
Henry M. Hook, agent for the
knights Templar and Masons' lndem-
nifty Association, of Chicago, was ar
rested in Chicago on a telegram from
Washington stating that he was want
I'd in that city on a charge Of forgery.
The police have not yet solved the
mystery surrounding the murder OF
Frank W. Richardson, of Savannah,
Mo. His wife, who was in the house
at the time and heard the pistol shot,
lid not see the assassin.
John c. Sims, secretary of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, died in
philadelphia hospital, where he had re-
Gently undergone a surgical operation
Tor appendicitis.
A bear belonging to landlord Daniel
Donovan, of the Frantz Hotel, in
Wilkesbarre, broke into the hostelry
and caused a stampede among the
guests, injuring one of them.
The 500 miners Of the Elk Hill col
liery Of the Elk Hill Coal and iron
Company, have gone on a strike and
threaten to call out the 1000 employees
If the cnmpanv.