The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-02-16
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was elected Speaker of the New
York Assembly last night, signally
defeating the candidate of B. B.
Odell, Edwin A. Merritt, Jr., and ].
M. Wainwright of Westchester.
New jerseys State Road Commits
sioner in annual report recommend
ed heavy tax on automobiles in in
terest of protection of highways
/ Patrick, condemned murderer,
though near collapse, still directed
his final fight for life. His wealthy
! sister arrived to aid new counsel in
struggle.
Commander Lucien Young, U. S.
N, who was the commanding officer
of the gunboat Bennington at the
time the boilers of that vessel eX-
ploded in the harbor of San Diego,
Cal, on July 21, causing the loss of
sixty lives, will be reprimanded by
the Secretary of the Navy.
About 1000 housesmiths went on
strike in New York, Jersey City,
Newark and Long Island, to enforce
/ a demand for an increase in wages
from $3.50 to $5 a day.
William Smith, thirty-nine years
years old, and Philip Jones, forty
five, of Bristol, Pa, were drowned
in the Delaware River by the swamp
ing of rowboat near Burlington
Island. Samuel Bell, of Bristol,
clung to the boat until rescued.
Albert T. Patrick, who is under
4 sentence OF death, has retained new
counsel to carry his case to the Uni
ted States Supreme Court. This was
made necessary owing to the Illness
Of David B. Hill.
The Republicans in the Ohio
Legislature have a majority of two
in the House and will control its or
ganization, while the Democrats,
with majority of one in the Senate,
/ will organize that body.
One of the biggest real estate
/ transactions recorded in Westches-
ter County was closed by John II.
Trenor, a retired New York dancing
| master, who sold his farm of $50
/ acres on North Street New Rochelle
I for s450,000. The purchasers are a
New York syndicate, who will i'm
/ prove the property Mr. Trenor
bought the tract twenty years ago
for less than $4,000
Manning G.. Palmer, the seventy
six year old president of the Ameri-
can Exchange National Bank of Sy-
racuse, was taken to Auburn prison
on New Years to begin the serving
of a sentence of five years, imposed
in the Federal courts. A jury had
found him guilty on GA of 70 counts
of an indictment charging misappro-
priation of the banks funds.
Archbishop Moeller of Cincinnati
has played havoc with the plans of
two local churches by ruling that
Catholic singers may serve only in
their own churches, and not for
Protestants.
Elias P Mann, the first Republi-
can Mayor of Troy in thirty-three
years, was installed in office with i'm
posing ceremonies.
The great steel dry dock Dewey
started on its fourteen thousand mile
voyage to the Philippines, towed by
two vessels and accompanied by two
other naval ships.
In 1905 1879 miles of new rail-
way tracks We're laid In the United
States, on 337 lines in forty-fve
States and Territories. In addition,
several hundred miles have been
graded and track is being laid on
many lines.
General Theodore A. Bingham has
/ been appointed Commissioner of Po-
lice in New York by Mayor Nc
Clellan.
Thirty-four lives were lost when
the British ship Pass of Melfort was
wrecked on the coast of Vancouver
Island That one of the victims was
a woman, presumably he captains
wife, is indicated by clothing which
J has been washed ashore.
District Attorney Jerome declared
that gambling houses and poolrooms
in New York are in full blast, backed
by politicians.
Nine. Lillian Nordica stamped out
fire on the Metropolitan Opera
House stage in New York, while four
thousand persons in the audience
and hundred on the stage cheered
her for her bravery
When Charles T. Yerkes, who died
last week, made his will several
years ago he announced that he had
left his collection of pictures and OBJ
| jects of art and his two houses at
Fifth Avenue and Si&ty-eight Street
to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York. This property is worth
about S5,O00,000
Andrew Carnegie has advised
friends that he will spend the win
ter at Dungeness, Georgia, the win
ter home of his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Lucy Carnegie. 1t is his intention
to write his autobiography during
the winter
The Interborough Rapid Transit
| Company announced last week that
with the beginning of the new year
the pay of the men employed on the
elevated and subway systems will be
raised. About 10000 men will be
benefited by the increase.
The total receipts from the Liquor
Tax law in the State of Now Yorl- for