The citizen., 1910-04-01
The NEWS
Domestic

The grand jury of Pittsburg has
demanded that the directors of six
banks give the names of those who
bribed public officials TO name Ger.
tain financial institutions as deposi-
tories for the funds of the city.
A committee of the Washington
Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church reported that Rev. T.
p. Thomas is guilty Of Indulgence
in sinful tempers, and recommends
that he be suspended.
Mrs Mary Scully, wife OF New
York chauffeur. in suing for divorce,
declares her husband earns from
$35 to SEQ a week in wages and 81
or IS a day in tips.
Adrian Gips. general agent of the
Holland-American steamship Line,
pleaded guilty to accepting rebates
from railroads and was fined $4,000.
Galena Clarke, discoverer of the
Mariposa grove of big trees and for
20 years guardian OF the Yosemite
Valley. is dead. aged SO years.
Twelve corpses were found In the
fire ruins of the factory of the Fish
Furniture Company. Chicago.
A 420-pound hog was sold by an
Illionis farmer for S46.2O.
Resolutions were adopted by the
Arkansas Land Congress, in Little
Rock, asking Congress TO pass an
amendment to the appropriations bill
authorizing $4,000 for a topograph-
ical survey of the sunk lands OF
Eastern Arkansas, as advocated by
Senator Clarke.
Count Anton Sigray, of Budapest,
the Hungarian nobleman who is to
marry Miss Harriet Daily. daughter
of late Marcus Daily, the Montana
copper king, obtained at the City
Hail. in New York, license for the
marriage.
Harry E. Kelly, postmaster at
Lynn, n. NJ, is in Jail at Trinidad,
Col, charged with having obtained
between $4,000 and $4,000 by issu-
ing postoffice orders to his wife and
creditors.
The strike of 1900 painters,
which began week ago in St. Louis
was settled by the master painters
granting an increase in wages OF 12
cents an hour until January, 1911.
George H. Alling. aged 80 years,
president of a rubber company, was
instantly killed at the plant in Bar
berton, o., while inspecting some
electric wiring.
College men are accused of being
the most lawless element of modern
society in a report 10 be submitted
to the Oberlin Association, of Illinois.
Mayor Arthur Howard, of Salem,
Mass, finds that his executive couch
is not exactly a bed OF roses He is
contending with all kinds of trouble.
Mrs. Henry Clyde Beggs, of Pitts
burg. collapsed on the Boardwalk at
Atlantic City and died before a ply
sician could reach her.
Indianapolis and Indiana welcomed
former Vice President Fairbanks and
Mrs. Fairbanks home from years
trip around the world.
The plant of the Delaware River
Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works
at Chester, Pa, was sold at a re-
ceiver's sale.
Fanny Crosby, the blind hymn
writer and poetess, observed her nine.
tieth birthday at Bridgeport, CT.
Conductor o. E. Wellman and por-
ter Samuel Williams. of a Royal
Blue express on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. were shot and killed
by J. II. Bethea, a passenger while
the train was near Newark, Del.
Bethea refused to surrender and was
shot to death by the police when the
train reached Wilmington, Del
William H. Marker, former cash
fer of the First National Bank, OF
Upton, Ind, admitted that he had
made false entries in the bank s
books and written false letters that
were used for deceiving the State
Insurance Department of Ohio.
Through the testimony of George
Callaghan. siX-year-old boy, John
O'Hanlon, a New York chauffeur
was convicted today of manslaughtel
In the second degree.
Charged with kidnapping 16-year.
old Ruth Beardsley, Sheldon Cobb
% years old, of jamestown, n. Y
was arrested in Cleveland, o.
Thomas F. Ryan. has donated ST.,
600 to the fund for the French Hos.
pital in New York.
James Bellows McGregor, said tC
be the oldest Mason in the world
died at Newport, n. II.
Nine additional Pittsburgers con
fessed to being involved in the coun
cilmanic graft scandal
A Goldfish six feet long was captur
ed off Wainscott. Long Island.