The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-22
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NoSAiel, Hudue the complaint.
President Roosevelt has sent to
Miss Sarah G. Provost, principal Of
the Cove school, Oyster Bay, where
his children formerly attended, a
generous check to be used in buying
Christmas gifts for the pupils.
Though not yet relieved as mill
tary adviser to the Governor of
Massachusetts Lieut-Gen. Miles has
sent to Gov. Douglas his resignation
as Inspector-General of the State
militia on the staff of the Command
er in Chief.
John C. Stevens, chief engineer of
the Panama Canal, who arrived in
New York from Colon, says that the
sanitary condition of the Isthmus is
all right, as he has found by his ex-
perience there of five months, in
which he has not been Ill day.
ELIMINATION of the body of Mrs.
Frank Brewer, of Toms River, N. j.,
was ordered, brother charging that
she had died from poison.
No other nation on earth has ever
received and accepted 1,026,499 i'm
migrants In a single year, the num-
Der received into the great American
family from other countries In the
year ended June 80 last.
Among the most interesting pri-
vate entertainments arranged for
Nine. Bernhard was dinner which
was given last week, by Mr.. James
Hazen Hyde at his house in New
York. In addition to being the prin-
cipal guest, she was the only woman
at the table
Quietly, but with no special pre-
cautions for secrecy, preparations
are now under way for revival of
gambling in New York after Janu-
airy l. Between Twenty-third and
Fiftieth Streets particularly painters
and decorators and renovators are at
work IN half dozen establishments
once we'll known as clubs"
The payrolls of the Panama Canal
showed 1900 names on December
1. If the present rate of increase
continues the rolls will contain 49,
600 names on January 1.
According to the latest reports OF
the mendicancy department of the
Charity Organization Society, New
York is practically free from profess
sional beggars. Yeggmen, or crimi-
nal beggars, 1t is stated, have been
driven from their haunts in New
York.
Stricken with heart disease, Cen
eral Herman Haupt, veteran of the
Civil War and the oldest graduate of
the United States Military Academy,
died on q Pennsylvania train. He
was born in 1917, and was appoint
ed a cadet by Andrew Jackson.
Frederick G. Graul, Chief of Po-
lice of Paterson, N. j., for nearly
thirty years, died in that city Of
Bright's disease. He was born in
Germany in 1910.
Fire Chief Croker admitted appli-
ances of his department were omen
to some criticisms made by the
Board OF Underwriters, but denied
there was danger of a confagration.
Charles A. Peabody was elected
as president Of the Mutual Life In
surance Company His salary Is to
be $4,000 a year.
George W. Perkins resigned the
vice-presidency and the chairman
ship Of the Finance Committee of
the New York Life Insurance Com
pany and his place as vice-president
was filled by the election OF Alex
ander e. Orr,
Abe Hummel, well-known crimi-
nal lawyer, Is now on trial in New
York on charge of subornation of
perjury. Jerome is pressing him
hard.
F. B. Wolf, 65 years old, walked
into the New York Office OF the Con-
necticut Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, in New York Wednesday af-
ternoon and asked for an application
blank As he was talking to Mana
ger Lane he suddenly fell to the
floor. A physician, upon arriving in
the Office, pronounced him dead.
John McDermot Gearin of Port
land, Ore, was appointed United
States Senator to succeed the late
John H. Mitchell. Mr. Gearin is
Democrat, but is in accord with the
views of President Roosevelts rail-
way and trust ideas. Gearin was
born in an emigrant wagon shortly
after 1t crossed the Oregon border,
on August Is, 1851.
The new battleship Louisiana
made an average of 1851 knots on
her Standardization trial in Penob-
scot Bay, Me.
1t developed that Robert D. Bal
lantine, who committed suicide last
Saturday, had paid $4,000 to
blackmailers.
Lawyers for the packers in Chi
cago sprung two surprises, demand
ing separate trials for the twenty
one defendants and securing free
dom for another. Samuel A. McRob-
erts, financial agent for Armour &
Co., is the man set free.
Trouble in st. Johns Church,
has resulted in the dis
missal Of the Rev. George G. Rich
mond, the curate who recently said
men drawing $4,000 salaries are
thieves.
Thomas j. Dunn, Tammany leader
Of the Twenty-sixth Assembly dis
trict and Sheriff under Mayor Van