The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-03-09
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The House of Representatives is
likely to pass a bill for the deposit
ing of all government money in ma
tional banks, at two per cent inter-
est and without security.
Alton B. Parker and Charles An
drews, former Chief Judges of the
Court of Appeals. were proposed as
commission to investigate the New
York State Banking Department.
The Page-Agnew Eighty Cent Gas
bill was advanced in the New York
State Senate despite attempts at
amendment.
Crew of the schooner Mary Man
ming, picked up by British steamer
and taken to Boston, clung 110
hours to a deckhouse roof.
Andrew Hamilton reached New
York from Paris and surprised his
friends and foes alike by his unex-
pected appearance.
District Attorney Jerome, New
York, is ready to place before the
Grand Jury all the evidence he has
collected in regard to possible
crimes committed by insurance men.
Executive heads of the big insur-
ance companies held another meet
ing in the Mutual Life Building,
New York., for a discussion OF the
Albany campaign.
Berthe Claiche, New York, was al
lowed to plead guilty to manslaugh-
ter, first degree, in killing Emile
Gerdron, and will tell of relations of
police with women in the Tenderloin.
in suit of Sarah Maddern, New
York. against Peter Duryea, of Ken
tucky, for $4,000 for alleged breach
of promise she testified that she re-
ceived and sent a letter each day for
three years.
President Roosevelt sent to Con
grees elaborate coast defence plans
prepared by the joint Army and Navy
Board, and urged the necessity of
their adoption.
Senator Tillman is beset by col
leagues eager to obtain amendments
to the administration rate regulation
measure.
Evidence was closed in the trial of
former State Senator George E.
Green for conspiracy to defraud the
government in Washington, D. C.
James Speyer and Dudley Olcott
placed their designations in the
hands of Charles Peabody, president
of the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, New York.
Henry II. Rogers, by his counsel
agreed to answer the questions put
to him by Attorney General Hadley,
of Missouri.
Seven men representing the an
thracite coal operators will meet to
consider the demands made by John
Mitchell on behalf of the miners.
There is no agreement with bitumi-
nous operators.
James Wilson, Secretary of Agri-
culture, was reported as having
boasted of spending the money of his
department in the South because
Southern lawmakers supported his
demands for increased appropria-
tions.
Attorney General Mayer, in his
annual report, condemns exorbitant
charges by lawyers in receivership
cases.
The insurance investigating COM
mittee planned to hold its hearings
on the new insurance bills next Fri
day, Saturday and Monday.
Demands are being made for an
investigation into the affairs of the
Prudential Life Insurance Company.
Speaking to a great crowd at the
Majestic Theater, New York, Mark
Twain lauded his late coachman,
Patrick McAleer, as his ideal of a
gentleman.
Preparations are being made to
bring action by which the pastor OF
the Westminster Church may be re-
moved.
President Roosevelt expects the
Hepburn rate regulation bill to be
amended and is explaining his views
to Senators.
A great delegation from New York
city demanded the repeal of the
Mortgage Tax law by the New York
Legislature.
Harry Tenny died after being
knocked out by frankie Neil in
prize fight in San Francisco. His
relatives charged that he was
drugged before the fight.
Rumors that George F. Baer had
been summoned to Washington by
the President to discuss the anthra-
cite coal situation leads miners to
expect important developments.
More rioting occurred in Spring
field, Ohio, but the militia bad the
crowds well in hand.
Stockholders and directors of the
Bankers Life Insurance Company of
New York were called upon to make
good a serious impairment of its
capital and in a few days the pres
ent management will retire.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard A. McCurdy
and Mr.. and Mrs. Louis A. Thebaud
sailed for Europe on the Amerika. Of
the Hamburg-American line.
With an announcement of an ad-
vance of ten cents hundred pounds
in the price of ice it was said New