The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-15
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dal! companies were found guilty of
accepting rebates from the Burling-
ton Railway, in Kansas City.
The Berwind- White Coal Com
pany is paid $4,000 a month by the
Pennsylvania for handling it's cars
on Harsimus pier, but the railroad
does the work itself and is allowed
500 month.
Colonel Henry A. Du Pont, Repub-
lican, was elected United States
Senator by the Delaware Legislature.
In a Bridgeport court John Brown
was found guilty of burglary and
woUnding Mrs. Elizabeth Converse
Morrill,, of New York, and sentenced
10 twenty years in prison.
The steamship Allegheny, of the
Atlas line, ran into a huge water
spout, breaking it and bringing down
tons of water on her deck.
John D. Rockefeller has begun
war on snakes. He has offered twen-
ty-five cents for every reptile killed
on his place.
Secretary Taft presented commits
sions to seventy-eight young men in
the West Point graduating class.
Charles l.. Tucker was elctrocuted
In Boston, Mass, for the murder of
Mabel Page.
Majority and minority reports, re-
spectivcly against and for Senator
Shoots retention in the Senate, were
submitted by the Committee on
Privileges and Elections.
President Roosevelt upholds Sec
retary Shaws "stand pat" tariff
speeches and attacks upon Governor
Cummins, of Iowa.
Losing her course in a fog, the
Westernland, of the American line,
from Liverpool for Philadelphia,
went aground five miles off Cape
May
One person was killed and twenty
nine hurt when the Atlantic City
express on the Jersey Central dashed
into an oTen switch at Eatontown
\. J. Cassatt, head Of the Penn
sylranla Railroad, fled his answer
10 the questions OF the systems
graft Investigating committee, and
denied holding any coal stock.
Experiments by Dr. Leonard Pear
son, of the University of Pennsyl
yania in immunizing cattle from tu-
berculosis have been declared sue
cessful.
Forty thousand Christian Scien-
fists dedicated the $2,000,000 tenn
pie OF the Church in Boston.
James R. Day, Chancellor of Sy
racuse University, attacked the Pres
ident and defended great corpora
tions.
Investigation by Commissioner
Ellison revealed new system of Sc
cret taps of the city's water mains in
Brooklyn which have cost New York
S150,000 in the last ten years.
One woman was killed and several
persons injured by falling trees dur
ing a storm that passed over New
burg, N. Y, and five persons were
struck by lightning while seeking
shelter from rain in Jamaica.
Bishop Potter, back from Europe
and Egypt said there was little real
cordiality between the United States
and Craat Pritain
Police fired on striking miners at
Indiana. Pa, killing two men and
wounding six, after strikers had
opened fire with revolver shot.
Washington has declined to ap-
point American inspecors for the
elections in Panama.
Clerk on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road testified that he had bought
5000 worth of coal stock on a sal
ary of $50 to $126 month.
Indiana Democrats indorsed Will
liam ]. Bryan for the Democratic
nomination for the Presidency in
1906, and many prominent men also
favored him.
DR.. Mueller, before the American
Medical Convention, declared that
only about fifty per cent. of cures
were effected by DR.. Lorenz's treat
ment of congenital dislocation.
Eighty persons were seriously in
jured by tornado that practically
wrecked a Mennonite settlement
near Hillsboro, Kan.
To finance the firm of Sears, Roe
buck e Co., of Chicago, which is to
be formed into a $40,000,000 cor
poration, New York bankers will Of
fer stock in Wall Street.
Bankers and others complained of
a dearth of one-dollar and two-dollar
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