The suburban citizen., 1902-05-31
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic

Mr.. Frank p. Sargent, head OF the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, is
quoted in st. Louis as an authority for a
forthcoming order for soft-coal miners
to go on a sympathy strike.
At the session of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers in Norfolk, A. B,
Youngson, of Cleveland, Ohio, was re-
elected assistant grand chief engineer
Eastbound Rocky Mountain limited on
The Rock Island route, was wrecked in
Iowa while trying to make up for lost
time. No lives were lost,
The price of soft coal in New York
was advanced so cents ton, total Of
SI.5o per ton since the miners strike be-
gan.
Tops, female elephant of the Fore
paugh & Sells Circus, killed man at
the circus show grounds in Brooklyn.
William Harmon Lane was hanged in
Philadelphia for the murder of Mrs Ella
Jarden and her two daughters. He was
employed by Mrs. Jarden as a servant
A bench warrant was issued in St
Louis against Charles f. Kelly, former
speaker of the Missouri House of Dele
gates, on the charge of misconduct in
Office.
The Worlds Fair managers in St.
Louis will entertain the party of distin-
guisked Frenchmen when they reach that
city.
The second conference Of Jewish
Charities of the United States in session
in Detroit, discussed dependent children.
Western railroads are accused of an
effort to kill the beet sugar interests in
behalf of the American Sugar Refinery.
Samuel Salter, Joseph d. Rodgers,
Clarence Meeser, Harry McCabe and
James T. Sheehan, tried in Philadelphia
on the charge of ballot-boX stufhng, were
found not guilty.
John L. Semplc, the Camden lawyer
who was tried in Philadelphia on the
charge of being involved in the Bridell
Taylor counterfeiting case, was acquit-
ted.
The municipal election in Martinsburg,
W. Va, resulted in the election of Geo.
T. Evans, Republican, over w. II. Craw-
ford, Fusion candidate
Mrs John Einstine, wife of farmer
of Windsor Township, Pa, was feloni-
ously assaulted and murdered while on
her way home from Red Lion,
Sixteen prominent students at North
western University, at Evanston, ILL.,,
we're arrested at the instance of the alum
nj for hazing a student.
1t was officially announced that Semi
tic seminary will be established at
Princeton in Connection with the Theo-
logical Seminary
The sixth biennial convention of the
Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will be held in Geneva, June, 1908
One effect of the teamsters' strike in
Chicago has been shortage OF supplies
at hotels and small dealers,
Rev. DR.. John Henry Barrows, presi-
dent of Oberlin College, is dangerously
i'll with pneumonia.
All the mills in the Augusta (Ga.)
district resumed with full compliments
of operatives.
The Independent electrical supply deal
crs will file complaints with Attorney
General Knox alleging that the Electrical
Supply Dealers Association of the
United States is a trust, and will ask the
Attorney General to proceed against the
association under the Sherman Law.
The Countess Of Buena Vista sued
General Brooke in New York because he
abrogated certain alleged slaughterhouses
she claimed in Havana by virture of a
royal decree from the King of Spain in
1904.
The United States troopship Buford
arrived at San Francisco from Manila
with some soldiers and Felipe Buen-
camino, secretary of war under Agui-
naldo, who will call on President Rose
welt.