The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-10
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81 Notes.,

American naval officers, while
pralslng the workmanship made bv
the British warship Bruizer. de-
cIared the United States Navy still
hoids the lead in target practice.
Investigation of Standard Oil
Company methods was resumed by a
special Grand Jury in jamestown. \.
Y.
10 examine into an alleged CON
splracy whereby ice prices have been
raised Grand Jury will sit in New
York to begin its investigation.
Washington believes railroad men
intend TO raise rates to highest point
When the new rate law goes into
effect.
Record breaking crowds of turf
enthusiasts are gathered in Saratoga
for the races.
While walking in West Twentv-
third Street, New York, a young man
was stabbed by another whom he
had never seen before.
Falling over the back seat of a
car on a scenic railway at Fort
George, New York, a young woman
w2s dragged to death.
Half million people streamed
to Coney Island from New York. to
escape the heat of the seasons hot
test day, which, however, caused few
prOstrations.
After being rescued William and
Abraham Jacobs were drowned from
a rowboat in Branch Brook Park,
Newark, \. J.
Governor Cummins was renomi-
mated by Iowa Republicans and his
supporters gained complete control
Of the party in the State.
Richard Canfeld's gambling house
at Saratoga, \. Y, was closed at the
order of the police.
The government collier Nero ran
aground on Block Island in a dense
fog.
Buffalo was chosen as the place
for the New York Democratic State
Convention and the date set for Sep
tember %.
Assessed valuations in Greenburg,
Westchester County, n. Y, were
raised S4000,000. In Mount Pleas
ant the Rockefellers' assessment was
left untouched.
George Bossett, a Syrian leper,
was mysteriously taken back to
West Virginia by Maryland authori-
ties and left without friends or
money
William ]. Bryan requested the
resignation of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee man from Illinois,
saying he was elected by fraud
The Alabama and the Illinois, OF
Rear Admiral Evans battleship
squadron, We're in collision in fog
off Newport Harbor with slight dam
age.
Friends of w. E. Corey and his
divorced wife in Braddock, Pa, say
the Steel Trusts head paid Mrs.
Corey 100000, she agreeing not
to involve any woman in her divorce
suit.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte,
addressing an Afro-American con-
ference in Washington, D. c., 1e-
clared the negro must work or be
crushed by the whites.
Senator Platt and B. B. Odell, Jr.,
held aloof because of opposition to
President Roosevelt and Governor
Higgins from cooperation with the
Republican Congress Campaign
Committee.
1t was announced a general strike
OF 1900 tunnel workers in New
York city would be ordered and
threat was made to call out 5000
men.
Colonel James Henry Sage, of
Troy. decided TO make an attempt to
break the will of his uncle, Russell
Sage.
Senator Dick and Elmer Dover, of
Ohio, visited the President and will
carry harmony message from him
to the Buckeye State.
AS if to prove that there is abso-
lutte harmony between them, Mrs.
William Thaw and Mrs. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw will together visit
young Thaw in the Tombs, New
York.
Three men were killed, one prob
al will die and another is missing
as the result of an explosion in gun
cotton plant in Newark, n. ].