The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29

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to Patrick T. Kelly, a redhaired
coachman, has shocked Ithaca So
ciety.
Charges have been filed in the
Post Office Department in behalf of
Senator Joe Blackburn of Kentucky,
alleging that mail sent by him to
Frankfort, the capital of the State,
bearing on the Senatorial race had
been diverted and found it's way in
to the hands of his political oppo-
nents.
Two new high records for seats on
the Stock Exchange in New York
were made yesterday. In the morn
Ing 1t was announced that two seats
had changed hands for sos, 900 each,
an increase Of $4,000 over the high
est previous price. After the close
of business third sale was made at
$97,500.
Chicago's Associated banks are the
| absolute owners of all the assets of
/ the three Walsh institutions whose
failure was announced one week ago.
All the stockholders in the Walsh
banks will lose everything they had
invested.
The Coroner's jury in Philadel-
phia found that Mrs. Margarita
Todd, wealthy New York woman,
was killed through unknown causes.
Chief Croker's complaint of lack
OF water pressure for fires is upheld
by committee of the National
Board of Underwriters in New York.
/ James E. Martin, of 500 Fifth
Avenue, New York, was killed by the
overturning of his automobile near
Flushing, l.. l. He was So years old
and the son-in-law of w. V. Brokaw.
Miss Lulu Bowen, for seven years
trusted clerk in the Oakland, Cal,
postoffice, was arrested for embez-
zling $1,000 of Government funds.
When confronted with evidence by
! Secret Service men she confessed 1t
/ seems she has been furnishing mon
/ ey to married man, with whom she
was infatuated.
One of the richest strikes ever
made in Nevada was the discovery
last week in the Polaris mine at
Bullfrog of ledge on the 400 foot
level which assays from $500 to
1915 a ton. The ore is said to be
uniform.
Despite the efforts of specialists
who operated on him, Michael Gu
daily, the New Rochelle coachman,
whose skull was fractured in a run
away accident while he was trying
to save his employer, Thomas w.
Thorne, the broker, and his brother,
Newberry Thorne, at their country
place at Devenport's Neck, died on
Christmas in the New Rochelle hos
pital.
At an ungarded crossing at Allan
tic and Wyckoff Avenues, Brooklyn,
two men, driving to a Christmas
| gathering, were killed.
Arthur E. Sears of San Francisco
has offered a reward and has en-
| gagged detectives to locate Mr. and
Mrs. William P. Booge, formerly of
that city but who since May, 1904,
have made Worcester, Mass, their
| home.
The epidemic of spotted fever at
the Naval Training Station at New
port is causing uneasiness in the
city and although the medical au-
thorities say they have the matter
well in hand four deaths have re-
suited within the past week.
Miss Helen Buck of Manchester,
N. H.. is the champion of Mount
Holyohe College girl athletes At a
recent meet, she ran 100 yards in
10 2-5 seconds, cleared 20 feet 1
inch in the broad jump, feet
inches in the high exhibition game,
and after all this exertion she did
not show the least trace of exhaus-
ton.
Whitelaw Reid, Ambassador of
the United States to England, ac-
companied by Mrs. Reid, have ar
rived in Washington. The President
sent his carriage to the station to
meet them, and they we're taken to
the White House.
Isaac Bloom, a tobacconist at so
Second Ave-, New York, who was CON
victed of perjury for swearing false
ly in an action for $4,000 damages
he brought against the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company, was SEN
fenced to seven years in Sing Sing by
Recorder Golf yesterday.
William Jenkins Emmett, the old
est member of the Emmett family in
America and a lineal descendant of
Robert Emmett, the Irish patriot,
died of bronchitis at his home in
New Rochelle.
A letter was received from William
Scott, brother of Walter Scott, the
death Valley Croesus," saying that
Scotty has been missing 10 days and
efforts to locate him have been UNI
availing.
Mock Duck and four other China
men, who have been under arrest in
New York in connection with the
slaughter in the Chinese theater in
Chinatown in August, were re-
leased. 1t was decided that there
wasn't enough evidence on which to
prosecute.
Daniel E. Storms, Secretary of
State, Indiana. has been forced to
place his property in the hands of
trustee in order to raise money to
make settlement with the State.