The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-03-30

Wheeler.
Attorney General Hadley went
back to Missouri, leaving clear
road for John D. Rockefeller to come
and go as he chooses.
One life was lost in the burning of
the steamer Plymouth at Newport,
R. I.
Miners present ultimatum to Joint
Scale Committee, demanding H55
per cent. increase in wage scale.
Secretary Taft explained to the
Senate Committee on Military At
fairs the payment by the Government
of General Woods travelling ex-
penses while on his recent trip from
and to Manila.
Governor Curry escaped in the
fight with Pulajanes on Samar Island
and will wage war of eXtermina-
ton on the fugiuves.
At the request of relatives a guar
dian has been appointed for the
$1,000,0000 estate of Mrs. Henry II.
Coke, to prevent her marriage to an
English physician.
Five former employees of the En-
terprise National Bank, of Allegheny,
Pa, which failed last October, are ar
rested on charges of false entries and
conspiracy.
Representative Payne, chairman Of
the Ways and Means Committee, def
initely announced Congress will not
undertake to revise the tariff
Charges OF conversion of life in
surance funds and of fraudulent con-
spiracy were made against the Nc
Curdys, Thebaud and Raymond in
complaints filed by Joseph H. Choate
for the Mutual Life.
Judge O'Sullivan, New York, Or
dered the Grand Jury to make a full
inquiry into the case of insurance
contributions to political campaign
funds.
Andrew Hamilton is in New York
City and prepared another step in his
campaign against the insurance men.
That the Standard Oil Company is
on the verge of reorganization in
its business methods was indicated at
the resumption of the hearings in the
Missouri case.
Charles Moran, before Judge Fos-
ter in General Sessions Court, New
York, pleaded guilty to damaging by
dynamite property of their enemies
for the Housesmiths and Bridge
mems Union.
Vincent Carpi, artist and waiter,
shot Miss Louise Franchini probably
MORALLY and killed himself in New
York.
At the hearing of alleged jury
bribing charges before Judge Sea-
bury District Attorney Jerome, New
York, took exception to a ruling Of
the Court, and, becoming angry, left
the room.
A canvass of the New York State
Senate indicated that the leaders Of
both parties are opposed to imme-
date action on the Armstrong insur-
ance bills in their present form.
Republicans and Democrats at AL
bany decided to push the Hearst re-
count bills, as village elections indi-
cate the municipal ownership move
ment is gaining in the interior of the
State.
The Rev. ]. B. Lentz was killed by
lightning while preaching in a church
in Carson, Iowa.
Governor Cummins, of Iowa, wrote
to Senator Elkins, of West Virginia,
repeating his charge that the Senator
stands for railroads against the peo-
pie.
Andrew Carnegie suggested that
railroads be allowed to appeal from
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion's rate decisions only when the
roads incomes are seriously affected.
Manuscripts of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne were damaged by water at a
fire in the home of Julian Haw-
thorne, his son.
Count de la Vaulx plans to make
a balloon ascension late this week
from West Point, N. Y.
New York women crowded the
Hudson Theater to hear eulogies of
the late Miss Susan B. Anthony by
her former fellow workers.
Charging that in one instance con-
domination commissioners received
S152,512, when the awards were
only $1,144, the Merchants Associa-
ton, of New York, will demand a re-
form in the present system.
The Elsberg Rapid Transit bill
was slated for a second contest in the
Senate in the endeavor to have the
Grady amendment stricken out.
President Roosevelt told the Keep
commission that there was too much
red tape in the executive depart
ments.
The schooners Governor Ames and
Laiok were in a midnight collision
off Sandy Hook, in which the latter
was sunk.
Mrs. H. e. Huntington was grant
ed an allowance of $4,000 a year BY