The suburban citizen., 1902-12-13
WASHINGTON, D. c., SATURDAY. DECEMBER IS. 1902.
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.


Mr.. 7. B. Hutchinson, general man
ager Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has asked to be relieved of his position
because of failing health. He will be-
come assistant to Vice President Pugll'
A convention favoring reciprocity. IS
in session in Detroit. The chief speaker
was Governor Cummins, Of Iowa, who
spoke upon Reciprocity and the Tariff.
The Interstate Railways Company, for
which a charter was granted i'll Camden,
N. J., will it is said, control $50 miles
of street railroads.
At Darlington, n d., Miss Kittie
Vondurant shot Thomas Baker, prom-
nent citizen, five times, Jealousy was
the cause. He will die.
AT Morristown, N. J., Rev. George
Leonard Lose touched a live electric
wire and was instantly killed
AT the meeting Of the board OF alder
men in New York resolution was
unanimously adopted asking the board OF
estimates and proportionment to author
ize an issue of reserve bonds to the
amount of $Ioo,ooo for the purpose OF
purchasing anthracite coal to be dlstri-
buted free, under the supervision OF the
department of public charities, among the
needy poor of the city during the winter
In New York Butch Iobin, who IS
on trial for the murder of Capt James
Craft, made a scene i'll court lie tired
10 lump across table at Assistant Dis-
trct Attorney Clarke, and it took SIX
men to keep the frenzied man from at
tacking the prosecutor.
Mrs. Winifred Owens, aged 32, and her
.wo-year-od baby were found dead from
cold and starvation in a tenement at WI
liamsburg, N. Y. John Stellenwerf was
frozen to death on Staten Island. Lack
Of fuel continues to cause great suffering
| in New York.
Mayor Low, of New York, addressed
a letter to the board of aldermen III
which he expressed his approval OF the
| Pennsylvania railroad tunnel franchise.
By an explosion of gas i'll the South
| Wilkesbarre Mine of the Lehigh and
! Wilkesbarre Coal Company four men
we're killed and several were injured
In New Orleans II street car strikers
were indicted by the federal grand Jury
for interfering with the running OF man
cars.
Representative-elec Carnahan, Repub-
ican, of the Second Indiana district, died
at his home, at Washington, Ind.
The steamship Sierra, while on a voy-
age from Australia to San Francisco,
! struck a whale and broke its back,
DR. j. n. Rice, president of the River
side Canal Company, died at his home, IN
Scranton.
Nearly block of buildings in Atlanta,
Ga. was burned The damage is
100000.
The First National Bank at Irwin, Pa,
was robbed of 200 by burglars.
Because of a scarcity OF coal tour
schools in Philadelphia closed.
Miners formerly employed by MarkIe
& Co.. in the Hazleton region astonished
he Strike Commission by testifying that
the 10 per cent increase in wages
granted in 1900 was not straightout an
crease, but instead a Ia per cent. raise
and reduction in powder price of -
per cent.
Zero weather in Chicago and other
points in the West and heavy snow
storms in Western New York state, to-
gether with the general shortage of coal
are causing much distress and suffering
An order was entered in the Supreme
Court in Brooklyn requiring Morris G.
Mangis to furnish bill of particulars IN
us lHlllioh-hOlldi ANtAk aboiisN 1Ni'' ATSN'e
! c. Fitzgerald.
While trying to escape from a fire at
the home of Max Manthey, at Colgate
Wis, Mr.. Colgate and one child were
kill"d and three others sustained serious
injuries.
Inc territorial senate of Hawaii
adopted the report of the committee for
he dismissal of Superintendent Boyd, ol
he Department of Public Works.
The opening of the new railroad be-
tween Santiago and Havana, Cuba, was
The occasion for an enthusiastic demon
stration.
The thirtieth annual convention of the
American Public Health Association was
opened in New Orleans.
Earthquake shocks in the Hawaiian Is.
lands destroyed a church and other
buildings