The suburban citizen., 1901-04-27
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Domestic.

Joseph H. Shepherd, for many years
a clerk in the office of the Auditor o
Public Accounts in Virginia, was arrest
ed in Richmond on warrant sworn on
by the Auditor, charging him with the
aiisappropriation of public funds.
Encouraging reports come from Gin
cinnati and the flooded district. The
rivers are beginning TO recede at many
places and at Cincinnati the highest
stage has almost been reached.
Miss Isabel Goodrich Stillman, daugh
ter of Mr. James Stilman, millionaire
and Mr. Percy A. Rockefeller, son OF
Mr. William Rockefeller, were married
in New York
One hundred negroes left Greensboro
N. c., for the coal mines of West Vir
ginia
John Costello, an old-time circus
clown, died suddenly in New York
A representative of the American
Missionary Association made an inyes
tigation which developed that the deati
rate among the negroes in the South il
greater than among the whites.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
sustained the constitutionalty of Gov
ernor Stones veto, which cut of ST.,
100000 from the public school appro
priation.
Rev. Mr. Burden and Rev. DR.. Web
ster had narrow escape from drown
ing while driving in a ford across Back
Creek from Winchester, Va.
Fairfax College, Winchester, offered
FIVE scholarships for young ladies with
in the boundaries OF Winchester Pres
bytery.
Patrick McEvoy stopped an Italian
man and woman who were burying
child alive at Hastings-on-the- Hudson.
J. V. Alfriend & Co., booksellers, and
James R. Bannar, jeweler, of Norfolk,
Va, confessed judgment.
Frederick Wagner was convicted oi
arson in New York and sentenced to rs
year in State prison.
The purchase of the Eagle Fire In
surance Company in New York BY
Vice President Evans, OF the Cont
mental, is regarded as the first step in
the formation of an insurance combine.
The arrangements made for Presi-
dent McKinley's Western trip will save
him from the strains on his physical en-
durance and patience to which he was
subjected on previous trips,
Cornelius Van Ness, the Newburg
On. " millionaire, and his young wife
agreed to give to his nieces $375,ooo,
and they Withdrew their suit, which had
tied up his estate.
William Schellheimer died in Fredo
MIA, Pa, from injuries received in rail
road accident, Christian Scientists hav-
ing been called in to attend him instead
of surgeons.
John Henry Walden was arrested in
Christianburg, Va, on the charge OF
poisoning his wife. The doctors are not
sure whether she was dead or alive
when buried.
DR.. S, O. Burdatts extracted two
teeth from the jaw of Charles Morris, in
Wheeling, while the latter was hypno'
tized, without his knowledge.
1t is feared that the secret OF canning
crabmeat died with James McMenamin
OF Hampton Va. who died at the Johns
Hopkins Hospital.
Jose Antonio Monangas, secretary oil
the Venezuelan consulate in New York
was recalled to prevent his marrying
a BROOKLYN girl
The grand jury at Buena Vista, Va,
has found several indictments against
persons accused of making moonshine
whiskey
John Leckrone, a retired farmer, liy-
ing alone near Orrstown, Pa, was
found dead in his house with neck
broken.
George F. Stoner was killed in Phila-
delphia, and his daughter OF Io is held
pending an investigation.