The suburban citizen., 1902-02-15
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Domestic.

captain Cunningham, OF Washington.
had his daughter, who had just become
the bride of Joseph NJ. Smith, of Alex
andria, arrested on the charge of rob-
bing him. Bride and groom spent ths
night in the stationhouse, but in the
morning the charge was withdrawn By
the irate father.
Lincolns Birthday was observed as
a legal holiday in number of States.
A fast train on the Erie Railroad was
thrown off the track and into a ditch
by spreading rails about 40 miles from
Cleveland Two people were seriously
injured and many more were hurt.
The establishment of the first free
public school in America was commem-
GRATED in the dedication of the new
Syms- Eaton Academy, at Hampton.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis offers to sell
Beauvoir to the State of Mississippi foJ
a home for old Confederates
Fire at Harmarville, Pa, on the West
Penn Railroad, destroyed $4,000 worth
of property,
Joseph Blackburn, son of United
States Senator Blackburn, died al
Frankfort Ky.
The crew of the lumber-lader
schooner Mary Graham were rescued
from the sinking vessel locked in ice
eight miles off Cape May by the
schooner J, c. Clifford and taken tc
New York.
In a fight between rival claimants foi
property on the lake shore, in Chicago
Frank Kink,- watchman, was killed
and all persons living in that section
were placed under arrest.
Louis Chambers and Telesen Trujillc
fought duel with revolvers in saloor
in Bowen, Col, in which Trujillo wa'
instantly killed and Chambers fatally
wounded.
William Jackson went to sleep on his
engine on the Fort Wayne Road and E
collision resulted, in which one man was
killed and another wounded.
The Seaboard Air Line has bough
two branch lines running into the Fla
Top coal region, and also large trac
of land in the same region.
Three business blocks, the old Peo
pies Theater building and the old Pres
byterian Church building, at Alliance
Ohio, were burned loss $4,000.
The directors of the Academy o.
Fine Arts, at Philadelphia, awarded 3
gold medal of honor to James Mcneil
Whistler, the artist
Many military prisoners will be dis.
charged from the federal penitentiary
in consequence of a decision of the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
in St. Louis that court-martial of reg
ular army officers cannot try volunteers
The coroner's jury in New York
brought in a verdict holding the sub.
contractor, the chief engineer and the
colored mn in charge responsible for
the disastrous explosion in the rapid
transit tunnel.
William r. Redmond and Joseph
Devlin, the Irish patriots, arrived in
New York, their mission being to assist
in organizing the league in the United
States.
State Comptroller Hancock of New
Jersey, has resigned as the result of
the election of ex-Mayor Briggs, of
Trenton, to the Office of State Treas-
urer.
Warden Sofel of Allegheny County
Jail, retained counsel to defend his wife
but will have nothing to do with her
Major E, H Barclay editor of the
Lexington (Va.) Gazette, died in Lex
lngton from blood-clot on the brain.
II. B. Grant, who was a captain OF en-
gineers on General Beauregard's staff
died at his home, in Laurel, Miss.
Bartholome f. Clune, New York
policeman, committed suicide in prefer
ence to sustaining charges.
Rev. Edward A. Waldo, who disap-
peared from his home, in New York
FIVE years ago, and who had been given
up by his relatives as dead, has written
to them from San Francisco, and his
brother, George B. Waldo, New York
artist, has gone to California to bring
him home.