The suburban citizen. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1902, 1902-10-04
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

An international conference OF dele
gates from the coffee-producing coun-
tries met at the Coffee Exchange, New
York. President Percy B. OSulliyan,
Of the exchange, is a delegate TO the
congress, and Thomas R. Dawrey, Jr,
has been designated by the State De-
partment at Washington to act as a
delegate on behalf OF the United
States.
Judge Amidon, of the United States
suit of Camille Weidenfeld to enjoin
the Northern, Pacific Railway Company
from transferring its stock to the
Northern Securities Company, ar
raigned the plaintiff severely
Jennie Larsen, young Danish
woman, was found strangled to death
in the apartment OF Louis Appleord in
a tenement in Harlem, New York The
room was filled with gas, and the man
said he had turned the gas on with the
intention OF committing suicide.
Frank Lor gowski, of Detroit, who
claims to be an exiled Russian noble
man, has received notice that the Rus
sian courts have awarded him $4,000.
His estates were confscated in 1868.
The ship combine was incorporated
at Trenton, N. ]. The capital stock is
SI2o,ooo,ooo, of which one-half is to be
preferred stock, with per cent. cumu-
lative dividend.
The Labor and Populist parties and
the amalgamated Republicans in Mon
tana have combined forces to defeat
the reelection OF Senator w. A. Clark
Walter S. Sullivan, colored, was
lynched at Portland, Ark He was ac-
cused of shooting a white man in the
back
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
spent the day on Wall street discussing
The financial situation with bankers
there, He issued a statement more
iully explaining his prop' sed method
Of putting more money i Circulation.
Judge Summerville, q Illinois, has
decided that man whb sells his wife
must insure delivery or he is guilty
5f obtaining money undey talac pre-
lenses.
Miss Alice Hay, daughter of the Sec
retary OF State, was quietly married at
Newbury, N. H., to James w. Wads-
worth, OF Genessee, N. Y.
Henry c. Scheel, a coal merchant of
New York, respondent on account of
The miners strike, shot himself and is
likely to die.
The Rock Island fast mail was
wrecked at Newton, Ia II cars of
merchandise being thrown into the
stream.
An attempt was made to wreck
Reading Railroad express train near
Pottstown, Pa.
Thomas J. Sharkey, who, it is al
.eged, caused the death of Banker
Nicholas Fish in New York, was in
1icted for manslaughter in the first de-
gree.
The United Mineworkers claim that
1onunion men are deserting the mines
because they do not like to work under
he guard OF militiamen.
Gust Z. Siefeld, farmer, living near
Peshtigo, while beating his wife was
killed by his son.
Ethel Belle McChesney, aged 10
years, committed suicide at Syracuse,
N. Y.
R, Bannister Mitchell, a young man
OF Stony Creek, Va, eloped with Miss
Mabel Lee, of the same place, osten-
siblJ to be married. When about IS
mile from her home, Mitchell shot
his sweetheart to death and then kill
ed himself with the same weapon.
Their bodies were found lying together
on buggy robe.
Bishop Fallows, OF Chicago, has ar
rived in New York after a careful in
spection OF the strike conditions in
the anthracite region, and he expresses
the opinion that the solution OF such
labor problems lies in the establish
rlent OF state courts OF labor.
A negro shot and wounded J. H.
Baber, a motorman, in Richmond, Va,
and when a lot of carmen started to
lynch the negro crowd Of his friends
came TO his rescue and a riot fol-
lowed. A number OF men were hurt
and policeman injured.