The suburban citizen., 1902-12-20

THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Louisville and Nashville
was held in Louisville. More than or
dinary interest centered in the gathering
as it was the first meeting Of the stock
holders since the system passed under
the control of the Atlantic Coast Line.
The Office of x-ray expert and cleo
.rical diagnostician Of the law depart
ment Of the City of Chicago has been
created.
The ninety second annual report of the
American Board of Foreign Missions
shows an enormous demand for Bibles
AT Montgomery, Ala, Rev. Charles NJ.
Beckwitb, DID,, was consecrated Epls-
copal bishop of Alabama.
The National Municipal League will
hold its next annual meeting in Detroit.
General Peanuts" well known as a
midget, died in New York
An effort in Chicago to corner Decem-
Der corn failed.
John Best, aged 28 years, while in
sane, ran amuck in Lapeer, Mich. He
wounded his mother, sister and man
and killed himself
Express Messenger Colson was kill
ed and three men injured in a railroad
wreck on the Alabama Great Southern.
The Board of Aldermen OF New
York ratified the Pennsylvania Rail
road tunnel franchise by a vote OF Al
to IS,
Thomas Tobn was convicted Of the
murder OF Capt James B. Craft in the
euderlon district of New York.
The South Pennsylvania Bank at
Hyndman, Pa. was closed by order oil
the Comptroller Of the Treasury
The Board OF Aldermen Of New
York voted 100000 with which to buy
coal for the poor
John d. Rockefeller contributed an
additional $1,000 900 to the University
of Chicago.
Recent discoveries prove that the
Russians occupied Washington State a
century ago.
Ohios municipal code has been de
clared to be constitutional.
The Hillsboro (N NJ Bank was
looted OF $4,000 by robbers
There are 42or students at Harvard
University. gs
Judge Gray temporarily stopped eyi-
dence before the strike commission OF
eXorbitant freight rates by saying that
employers who cannot pay fair wages
ought to get out of business.
Arguments were begun in Chicago in
the injunction proceedings to restrain IA
railroads from cutting rates in violation
Of the Interstate Commerce and Sher-
man Laws.
Robert NJ Snyder, banker and pro-
moter, of New York and Kansas City,
convicted of bribery in St. Louis, was
sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary
The Pennsylvania roundhouse at West
Philadelphia collapsed, burying a score
of workmen and 81 locomotives, but
nobody was seriously hurt.
Albert Lawrence, a railway postal
clerk, running between Buffalo and
Pittsburg, was arrested, charged with
embezzlng 81 letters.
a popular reception was given to the
Cuban children on their arrival at the
. Universal Brotherhood home, in San
Diego, Cal.
Benjamin F. Dennisson, treasurer OF
the American Baptist Publication So
ciety died at his home in Philadelphia.
Col. John w. Ella, president of the
Chicago Civil Service Association, died
in hospital in Philadelphia.
Miss Freda Volquartz, of New York
was attacked by bulldog, which seized
her by the throat and had to be strangled
to death to release its hold.
Felix McCloskey, for 40 years a door
keeper of the House of Representatives,
is dangerously i'll with pneumonia at his
home, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
John d. Rockefeler's dividend check
for the last quarter of the year on his
holdings of stock in the Standard Oil
Company is for $4ooo,ooo.