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THE NEWS.
Fire at Ionia, Mich., destroyed the Web-
ber block, causing a loss of $76,000; fosur-
ance, $35,000,
Wheeler & Co.'s ship yard, at Bay City,
Mioh,, shut down, throwing 700 men out of
work, as a result of the riveters refusing to
accept a 7 per cont, reduction in wages,
A. Blackley, of Covington, Ga., a travel.
ing salesman, shot himself in the left breast
in a New York hotel. He left a note saylog
that he was about to end his life because of
unrequited affection.
John Morris, sald to be a notorious green
goods man, was arrested in a hotel at Port
Ubester, N. Y. Morris Is accused by Anthony
Comstock, who olalms that he made arrange-
ments with Morris to buy £18,000 worth of
green goods for $1,000,
In the house in West Hoboken, N. J., for-
merly occupled by William E. Brockway,
the forger, now serving out a ten-years' sen-
tence, there were found 850 8100 counterfeit
bank notes of the Bank of Montreal. The
bills, which were printed only on one side,
had been concealed beneath the floor of the
attic,
The ususual phenomenon of a bright
meteor lo broad daylight was observed at
Lick Observatory by E. F. Coddington, It
Was seen shortly after 1 o'clock p. m. at an
elevation of about eight degrees atove the
horizon. It increased in brightness along
its course and disappeared suddenly in a
clear sky without any explosion being heard,
As the result of an investigation at the
Western Theological Seminary, of Allegheny
City, Pa., three students were expelled and
seven others suspended for unministerial
conduct, Another student was recalled from
Princeton for further investigation. The
names of the offending students have been
withheld from the public. The exact charges
are also unknown,
A fire destroyed a large portion of Rans-
burg, Cal. Loss, $100,000,
The cable from Halifax to Turks Island
has been laid, and it soon will be completed
to Jamalea,
D. M. Hough & Co.. shoe manufacturers,
of Rochester, N. Y., have made an assign-
ment. Liabilities, $358,000; assets, estimated
to be £48 000,
Kate Clark, the common law wife of Ed-
ward Clark, a grain scooper, of Buffalo, N.
Y., was beaten to death with a chair. Clark
has disappeared,
Gov. Broxham, of Florida, has invited the
Governors of the Southern and Western
States to attend a congress to be held in
Tampa, in February, for the purpose of pro-
moting trade between those States,
At Albany, N. Y., Senator Ellsworth intro.
duced a bill which combines the features of
his 'anti-eartoon bill of the last session with
provisions of wider scope touching the re-
sponsibliities of rewspaper publishers and
editors,
Kate Forsythe, the well-known American
aotress, died in London.
The Ohlo and Pennsylvania coal operators
Ju the Interstate Operators and Miners’ Con-
ference cannot agree on the nine-cent differ.
entials,
The Japanese crufser was launched at the
Cramps shipyard in Philadelphia,
Fioods in Kentueky did considerable dam-
age, and five lives were lost,
Knox College has conferred the degree of
Doctor of Laws upon Dr. Naasen, the Arotic
explorer,
The Bakers’ Union has begun a war against
the American Biscuit Company, ani inei-
dentally against all employers of non-union
bakers,
George Clark, of Belleville, NX. J., was son-
tenced to twenty years in State's prison at
hard labor for the murder of his wife, Mary.
M. J. Daugherty, of Pittsburg, Pa.. a
traveling salesman, hanged himself with his
handkerchief In a cell of the city prison at
Zanesville, Hé had been placed in prison
two bours before, suffering with
tremens.
Luke Pres! the National
Bank of Potsdam, N, Y., charged with em-
bezziing funds of the bank, was arraigned
before the United States Court and pleaded
not guilty, and the trial was put anti]
the March term.
Three men were seriously and two fatall
burned as the result of a boller explosion in
the Ferneliffe Distillery at Logan and Lamp-
ton streets, Loulsviile, Ky. The fatally {o-
Jured are Jobn Kenney and Phil Kerb.
Charles Dickens. Will Wateraa and John
Thompson were badly scalded, but will re-
cover
In Des Moines, In., Judge Bishop, ot the
Polk Distriot Court, bas declared the special
municipal lighting election invalid and the
contract entered Into with MeCaskey & Hol.
comb Company {ilegal,
The trial of Christopher Merry and James
Bmith, the peddlers charged with the mur-
der of Merry's wife, was begun In Judge
Horton's Court at Ohicago. The courtroom
was packed and the crowd outside was as
great as at any time during the fArst trial of
the alleged wife-murderer Lustgert,
The condition of Charles M. Shortridge.
editor and proprietor of the San Jose (Cain,
Mercury, who Is fll at the Gliroy Hot
Bprings, Cala., Is critical, and thers is little
expectation of his recovery,
In Baratoga, N.Y. arrangements were
made by Hugh M. Wilson, of Chicago, for a
Jolat session of the Master Car Buflders and
Master Meochanles' Asscelations of the Uni-
ted States tobe held at Congress Hall in
June next, the exact date to be fixed later,
Among the passengers who arrived at
New York on board the Ward Line steamer
Baratoga, from Havana, was Augustin Cas-
slo, the father of Angelina Cassio vy Claneros,
The United States gunboat Marietta safled
on Sunday for the West Coast of South
America, She will remain in the neighbor.
hood of Panama for several months, possibly
longer,
delirium
f
Usher, lent of
over
DAYLIGHT METEOR,
Strange Phenomenon Observed in Call
fornia.
Director Schaeble, of Lick Observatory,
San Jose, Cal, says: “The unusual phenom-
enon of a bright meteor in broad daylight
was observed here by E. F. Coddington, fel-
iow in astromomy at the observatory. It
was seen In the west shortly after 1 o'clock
P. M. at an slevation of about eight degrees
above the horizon, moving very rapidly to.
ward the north in a path sHghly inclined to-
ward the earth. It increased in brightness
along its course and disappeared suddenly
in a clear sky without any explosion being
beard.”
DERRICKS LEVELED BY STORM.
A Harriemne Causes Havoe In the Lima
O11 Field Distriet,
A hurricane leveled hundreds of derricks
in the ofl fleid at Lima, Qhio, and blew down
telegraph and telephone poles in many foal
ites. A tremendous raiu accompanied the
wind, and streams are overflowlug their
banks,
4 The viliage of Algler, ia the Seoto Marsh,
is completely submerged, and the residents
Lave been compeiled (0 vacate or move Into
second story of houses.
DEATH COMPACT.
John Matthews Killed Family
and Himself,
NEW YORK TRAGEDY,
Apparently the Farents Discouraged by
Misfortunes Decided to Nie Together
and Resolved to Take Their Children
with Them Had Been in Business and
Falled,
New York, says: John
Matthews, a rotall grocer, some time be-
tween Saturday and Monday morning mur-
dered his wife and their two children, a boy
10 years old and a girl twelve, by hacking
them to death with a hatchet. He then eom-
mitted suicide byshooting gimself in the
head. Before dyiug it Is belleved that he
tarned the gas on with the intent that as-
phyxiation should somplete the awful task.
The erime was committed In a small bed
room in the rear of the store kept by Mat-
thews, The wife and her two children met
death while asleep. It Is supposed that
Matthews had become despondent from
pecuniary diffioulties,
The tragedy was discovered through the
odor ol escaping gas, which prompted a
milkman making his rounds to eall a police-
man. Upon the floor of the sleeping room
the officer found the corpse of Matthews.
In bis hand was a revolver and there was a
bullet hole just above his moath,
There wera two beds {nthe room. On one
of these beds lay Matthews' wife. On the
other bed the two children lay, side by side.
The blood stalns made the little room look
like a slaughter house,
That the
A despatch from
suicide were
meditated was evident. Matthews had
walted until his wife and children were
Then taking the hatchet he brained
his wife and at once attacked his ehlidren,
Matthews bad been in the dry goods busi-
ness and had failed. A few months ago he
opened the grocery store and had met with
Hitle His wife, a pretty little
woman, had recently undergone a severas
operation. Thess misfortunes evidently had
prompted Matthews to write this letter
which was found open and uvoaddressed : —
"No healthy man or woman oan commit
suicide from poverty or business reverses,
Ha is so beaithy that hope and activity are
bolling rampant within him. My wonder Is
that sulcide is not more common.
to me a wonderful provision of nature that
a man need not live when life ls burden
some.”
murders and pre
asleep,
SUCOess
t seems
Wife Agreed to Die
Another letter, apparently written
was as follows
It 1s a terrible thing 1 bave to do to kee;
my word, I promised that all shall go with
me, and delay Is no good. If I could
have died alone. 1 love my wife and two
children. I told them I didn’t want to go in
iat er,
ony
guess that my nerve is all that fs left, For
five years we have talked the thing over. 1
always waated to go fa & boat and accident
ally eapsizs. I knew that otherwise I would
bave a hard time of it.”
From a letter left by Mrs. Matthews to a
friend it was gathered that she was
to a salelde agreoment,
“Herman is golng
going with him and we are golng to
yar darlings with us ‘rom other letters
the Impression was gaioed that
thews had even urged her busband to kill
bis family and that from time to time he had
put off the execution of their plans.
Mrs. Matthews loft instructions as to
sliothes In which the dead children should be
buried, and sigaifisd the place of
for the entire as Highland, N. ¥
wheres she was born and lived during ber
girlhood, Matthews was 35 years old. His
bank books showed that he had a balance of
about §000,
a party
She wrote as fol
lows to die, and I ag
the
family
CABLY SPARKS
The Rome
Chronlole quotes
ia Rome aad allegad to be inspired from the
the London
article published
correspondent of
from an
Itallan republic,
Polles precautions have besn re
in the vicioity of the United States legation
and the residanes of Minister
Woodlord io Madrid
he English and Se
Ualted States
teh engineers have
HIS FIRST REOMPIION,
Fresident MoKinley Greets a Brilliant
Gathering atthe White House.
A despatoh from Washington, D, C,, says:
~The lower rooms of the White House were
brilllantly lighted Wednesday night and
filled with flowers, which mingled their
bright colors with the green of garlands and
tropical plants, while from the conservatory,
at the west of the mansion, came the famil-
far strains of the Marine Band, The ooca-
slon was the first ofMolal reception at the
White House of the present administration.
There were several changes or {nnova-
tions at the reception. The invitations were
lHwmited, The Marine Band was stationsd in
the conservatory, instead of in the outer
hallway. In the cuter corridor racks were
erected for coats and wraps, and these were
covered with red plush curtains, Instead
ol the guests being forced into the smaller
rooms at the west of the entrance, to dispose
of thelr wraps, a8 In former years, they
passed from the hallway into the corridor,
aud then to the Red Parlor, prepared to
greet President and Mrs, McKinley,
As the New Year reception was omitted
this year, the members of the diplomatic
corps were asked at 8,15 o'clock, and they
arrived with their customary punctuality
and were shown into the State dinlug roo,
where they wero received by President
McKinley, Mrs, McKinley, Mrs, Hobart and
the ladies of the cabinet. Becretary of Btate
Sherman made the presentations to the Pres
ident und Mrs, McKinley.
The floral decorations were very effective,
The east room was especially beautiful, The
window recesses at the porth and south
were fliled with palms, and above the mir-
rors were crotons of various shades and var-
ities, with a draping of smilax over the mir-
rors. The window recess of the large win-
dow at the east filled with towering
palms and tropleal plants. The mirror rests
at the east and west were banked with red
nd white roses, the border of red poinsetta
with ferns. Upon each of the mir-
rors was a circular design of red and white
About pllinrs were garian
smilax, studded with pink
carnations, and
the three crystal ¢
in
Was
leaves
the
roses,
fers and the electric
oned
handel
the celiing were lest with
In the Blue Parlor, where the presidentia
party the fi
very flue, Gver
the top of
opy of swilax,
dreds of tioy
elactric
were
received decorations
ral
head,
1
a's radiating m
the centre chandelier, Was & «
studded thickly with bhun-
star-like, red, while and blue
an
Ihe smilax drag ed over the
filled with
ghia
mirrors was also
and blue stars.
HEFORM IN CIVIL SERVICE,
Working Day.
A despateh from Washington, D, (
~ Livi] Bervios ©
, BAYS
mmissioner John
iow was before th Senate eivil-sorvice |
vestigating e«
the patronage system
ber of and Territories bad not
f aps
nmittee Wednesday,
he sald. n
Hiates
intmen
ceived a
} Were en
* }
merit sysien
He
Washington were req
seven hours a y
4 ’ tha ¢
sald I all the
i
i
!
i
i
over
i
i ave the entrance salary of employes mucl
a entirely
{ at present bh
s work receive from 25 ¢
© SAIATY than employes «
ming similiar work
enoe Is evel greater
approaches
he
metal exertion
{ is required, the wil
ivate employment have for being dissatis
| Bed with their own condition.
Chief Examiner Serven, of
oyes ne
“except where great
lesa reason
the commis
WEST FI.
Brother of Cuban President
Surrenders to Spain.
IN TRUE MILITARY FORM.
Important Accession to the Cause of Aue
tonomy from the Insurgent Ranks
Hundred und Ten Rebels
Their Arms—Surrender Carried Out
a Dignified Manner,
One
Lay Down
in
A cabelgram from Havana says: The
Bpanish authorities report that the insor-
gent General, Juan Masso Parra, with the
forces under his command, Lieut, Cols
Augustine and Ferla and Jose Carmen
Hernandez, Majs. Pellclano Q
urnino Leon, and Vietorano Gomez, with six
other oMeers and 110 privates, well armed
and well supplied with ammunition, have
surrendered at Fomento to the Spanish Gen-
eral, Aguirre and Benor Marcos Garela, Got-
ernor of Santa Clara Province,
The Insurgents ure sald to formed
in line, and delivered up thelr arms accord-
fog to the ordinance, shouting “Long
Bpain,” “Long live the Hegent,
“Long lve Spanish Cuba, “Long live
autonomy."
Gep. Juan Masso
Senor Bartolome
Cuban republic,
During the last ten days
are sald to have lost 115 killed and B4 taken
prisoners, with 242 Remington rifles. In ad-
dition to those who surrendered with
Juan Massa Parra, acoording to the Spanisis
authorities, fifty-six other armed
surrendered ug
isndn, Bat.
have
Hive
Queen
and
Parra is a brother of
Masso, resident of the
the insurgents
{yon}
men have
am them two Lieutenant
loers. The
hand
Hpan
ish troog ., «
} #t 12 killed and 93
n the other
DRY i wound
The Spanish nister at Was
eelved a cable
firming the precedin
the details as they are stated.
says the form of presentatic
Tr
dignified
for others to fol
The
character as will
The
Jann Mass
3 with Bart
iban
eal
rank of
~calied (
ral and military character
sation give unusual Importance
THE ADMINISTRATION POLICY
win
but the Ships are Heady
Autonomy Be Given a Fair Trial,
Regarding the
istration as to C
felt that the san
vali that existed +
ast message
was stated ths
hveny
sald to entertain t
The auton
three weeks
when
the au
#0 that it is
at Havana
had been examined and
| ofMce, not idiog relostatements,
eutire expense of lhe examiaation was $2.74
each, and cost of examiniog and certifying
these appointments to oMee was 811.75 each.
nel
ths question of hours of labor,
for eight hours a day ls the priacipal con.
tention in the great strike,
Two flibustering expeditic have
cently landed in Caba and the rebels
met and escorted them inland,
Sir James Westland, the flasnoce minister
o! the lodia council, introduced a bill pro
vidiag for the currency notes ir
Judia against goid
Sir Tatton Sykes testified that 1
flest forgery of Lis name for
twelve years ago.
The Rev. C. H, Dodson, whose nom de
plume was Lewis Carroll, the author of
“Aloe ln Wonderland,” died ia England,
ne re-
bave
fssae of
Counell of State, is dead.
A British steamer brought a report to
saw a German warship ln a disabled condi
tion.
The Insurgents have destroyed large quan
tities of tobacco plants growing under pro-
tection of Spanish forts in Cava,
Disorder Is ended at Havana, but the
peaceful citizens look for farther outbreaks
The Washington offlsials will keep war ves-
sels ready lor possible attacks ou Ameri.
cans,
C. P. Villiers, the veteran member of the
English Parliament, ls seriously iil.
I:1s reported that the British euginesrs
will give up their big fight for aa eight-hour
day and wiil end the strice.
Great popular feeling has been roused at
Paris by Zola's attack on the army. Student
mobs paraded the street, but were dispersed
by poiloe,
The Pope's declaration in favorol a re-
pudlie fa Italy is thought to portend great
daager to the Government,
Ofisial reports from Havana asnousce
that all is quiet there,
Bsaor Robledo, In Madrid, spoke of the
riots in Havana ay ab argument against th
Government's autonomy scheme,
Charles Pelham Villiers, the father of the
House of Commons, is dead,
Legal Meaning of Intimidation,
Judge Bheldon, of the Buperior Criminal
Court, st Boston, decided a point of law
which i+ of Importance to labor organiza.
tions. He ruled that the word “intimida-
ting,” as used fo the s'atate, means “threats
to use forse” and does not mean ‘threats to
leave work,” or “threats to refuse to work
with others.”
CASHIER CALLED THE TURN.
fe Bob a Portland Bank
Thwarted
| Bold Attempt
:
1 A bold attempt was made to hold
| ( ens at Portiand, Oreg.. on
{ east side about 3.80 o
: but owing
| ne &# Canbler A
i was put to flight
I'he bank had just el
| Mr. Lambe
was
| vauls when a masked man
door, which prot
In his right band be held a revoke
his left he was
face
Bank
10cK in the allervoon
urage and thoughtlul
¥. Lambert, the rol
Lid
to the
ber
without securing a cent,
wed for the day, and
pager, with his assist
{| Bulbs,
is ably ten foot from the
counier
| var, while with
noiding bis mask vi
fog to a stack of Lillis on the counter behind
the serean, the robier demanded that Cash.
jfer Lambert Band them
tarted to pick up the money, but at
same time secured a revolver from
drawer. As soon as the robber saw that he
was confronted with a revolver he turned
and fled, but bLelore hie reached the street
Cashier Lambert fired a shot at him, which
passed through his clothing.
Dowens of peoples were ou the sireet and a
large crowd was attracted by the shooting,
but the fleeing robber soon secured hie
horse, which was tied oniy a block away,
and mounting It, was soon out of sight.
ss 10 his
ont
the
Pittsburg Improvements Completed,
The Improvements that the Baltimore and
Ohio Raliroad bave bad under way at Pitts
barg for the past 15 months have been com-
pisted with the exeoption of a small amount
of paving between the tracks, which will be
done In the spring.
The line now bas splendid terminals at
that point and sufficient trackage to handie
the vast amount of business with not only
economy but with ocelerity. The changes
cost in the neighborhood of $450,000 and
sonsist of a new yard at Gisowood (one of
Pittaburg’s suburbs), a double track trestle
nearly two miles in Jength, the changing of
the line of road leading into the passenger
station and the building of new freight
yarda near that point,
Big Five ia East Grand Forks,
East Grand Forks, N. D., has suffered an
other severe fire. An elevator and the
bridge approach are in ruins, a sumber of
ators buildings burned, and the east end of
the bridge is badly damaged. The loss will
reach $125,000; insurance, $100,000,
i
i
i
$
i
i
i
hether t
the plan
Hahed with any
approxima
In the :
to be io the harbor
hours of any cris
American interests
In order that there m
an emergen
General Lee
v firise it eaid
g Sy f
wereag
has bees
direct requests to the commanders
warships #0 that the vessels uid
receipt of wo
lays incident
through the ¢
To a great extent the
of Gen, Lee
if an emergen
Atierican vessels I his {
¥ to the tumult of a critical nature
as anpect! the general qi
f intervention
he to a ol
der immediate
ready stated, it
ian of
the a
start
from him, without
hm
having his reauests
inl routine
i
al Washingt
intelli :
ant
gant
re pon as t
lied ug
the |
bower ar
*Y regtires
sole
h no « n with
0
t
War
BR
of the
sald iministrat
estabifehed §
the present tit
LATE INVENTIONS,
An Eagiish firm is manufacturing a lock
which has the Keyhole set in the edge of the
outer doorknob t
vents the Knob from turning.
a piece of metal baving a roughened or file
like surface to sharpen pencils, the devices
being fastened on the frame by two screws.
Btenographers will appreciate a newly de
sigoed notebook which bas a hinged arm at-
tached to the cover to form aa easel su pport
and raise the book into a noarly vertical
position,
To prevent sceidents from persons falling
into elovator or mine shafts a woven net is
hung on each side of the cage, with eross.
net partitions at short distances to eaten the
falling person.
A new ecan-opener has a pair of shear
blades set at right angles with the handles
to be inserted in an opening in the can made
by driving the puneh at the end of one hau
die into the ua,
A recently designed plumb bob has a
spring reel mounted in lis upper portion to
carry the supporting cord, which passes out
through & hole in the top set on a line with
the point of the bob,
Spring bicyele frames are being made with
teleseopin tubes lnclosing air cushions which
receive the force of the jar from rough roads,
the cushions belong inflated the same as
pneumatic tires,
To light the fire in a stove at any desired
time an absorbent roller is set at the top of
an inclined surface, to be ignited and rolled
under the fire box when set In motion by the
clock mechanism,
Two Southern men have designed a motor
dor use in churning which consists of a
framework oarrying a shaft, having a wind.
wheel at oue end and a crank at the ober,
which operates the dasher,
i
i
i
WASHINGTON NOTES,
The torpedo boats Cushing aud Ericsson
have sallefl from Key West for Tampa, Fla,
10 be present there during the fishery coun
gress about to be held,
Commander W. M. Fogler has been trans
ferred from the Eleventh Lighthouse Dis
trict, at Detroit, to the Third District, at
Btaten Island, relieving Commander EF, #,
Buow, who is placed on waiting orders,
Lisutenant-Commander Duncan Kennedy
will take charge of the Eleventh Lighthouse
District, where ho has acted as assistant to
Commander Folger,
The President has withdrawn the nomi.
nation of Passed Assistant Postmasters Ed
win IB. Webster and George W. Blmpson to
be paymasters in the Navy,
The Btate Department bas ordered George
H, Murphy, one! the clerks of the Copsu
inr Bureau here, to go at once to Colon and
take ocbarge of the consulate there made va
cant by the death of Consul Ashby,
Benator Frye was authorized by the Sen
ale Committee on Commerce to report the
bill recently introduced by himself provid
now
place of
rev
take the
win to
enue cutter vessels to
old vessels, which bave gr
worthy.
The House Committee on Pacifie Rallroads
took up the Foraker bill for the buying in of
the Kansas Pacific by Government, but
after a short discussion deferred action un-
til Baturday, pending the action of the Ben.
als on the measure,
Representative Dorr, of West Virginia, has
introduced a blll extending the general pen.
sion act of June 27, who
served under the authority of the Governors
be unsen-
the
1800, to soldiers
West Virginia, Kentucky,
seourl,
Another unsucosss!
by Benator Carter t«
upon the census bill,
The House (
nes pon-eoncurred
ate
of Tennessee and
Mi
'
mad
YOoie
i attempt was ”
fix a time for a
nmities
in ail |
the
amendments 1
deiega
the
hilndeipbia
ppeared before
8 to argue
the League
MINEKS WILL SHARE.
y Are to Get Some of
iy the New Coal "Combine
RAY
t the oo
y eniletl the min
it Is to thelr
the nse
that
serate in
peraie in
Mr. Morgar
Virg
The nati
Virginia is at
® organis
tated
reafization, whiel
and wil
organi
ration will
t in Chicago th
ide representatis
Ti
iiate the prices which
§ woek
er of all the local
organi
are t ruse
aby Ad ip
cach district
it genera
the territory of
Meanwhile the Jocal
witra
the
mpany. In Pittsburg
greatest friction
of th re have sign
nt, I New
i Cleveland Gas ( is
of the districts bituminous al
ve already been twenty to
wey
rates
five cents a ton in dei patie
We
Wl «
r-fifths 10
ai districts. The
wo decided that screen be
ight t
ii coal be weighed reened
pis
FAMILY BOUND AND GAGGED.
Daughter and Three Sane Are Helpless,
Five masked men entered the
Mre, Anna Crate, two miles east
Dam, Olde, and at the point of
bound and gagged Mrs, Gratz, ber
ter, her three sons, aged from ten to
teen years, and two farm hasds,
Hauenstein and Adolph Follett
Leaving one of their number to guard the
victims, the remaining four robbers
the house, securing about #50 in money,
two gold watches and some jewsiry, After
this they went to the kitchen, cooked then.
selves u breaklast and departed, leaving the
family still bound.
About an hour later one of tbe family
succeeded in getting free and gave the
alarm. No trace of the robbers ean le
found.
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John
LEPROSY INVESTIGATION.
Surgeon -Ueneral Wyman Says There are
Many Cases in Amerion.
Senator Gallinger, from the _enate Com.
mittee on Public Health, reported favorably
to the Senate a bill authorizing an investi-
gation of leprosy in the United States, and
in doing s0 presented a letter in support of
it from the Rurgeon-General of the Marine
Hospital Service,
The Burgeon-General expresses the opin.
ion that there are many more cases of jep.
rosy in the United Btutes than are setually
known,
Mafia Murder Brought to Light,
A Mafia morder was revealed in New Or
leans by the finding of & trunk in the open
street in the rear of the eity, which contained
the body of an Italian with the bead almost
Lut from the body.
AS A
or
A A300 AAS I HS. AISI 5 BY
SHOT BY A MILLIOXAIRE,
Dr. Bimamonn, of Bt, Louls, Bhot a Man
Whe Attacked His Daughter,
Dr. Charles ¥. Bimmons, a reputed mii-
lionaire, and president of the Simmons Pal
ent Medicine Company, shot Emil Davidson,
bookkeeper for the 8t. Louls Trust Company,
ut the corner of Cardinal avenue and Olive
street, Dr, Bimmons, who Is an elderly man,
met Davidson the street, Passers-by
heard angry words and the next instant
Blmmons drew a revolver and fired five
tines, euch shot taking effect. Davidson
dropped to the sidewnik., He badly
wounded but will recover
on
in
Bimmons was arrested, He told Captain
Boyd that the man be shot had attacked his
duughter and that in shooting Davidson be
tad avenged the wrong done his daughter.
his is Dr, third deadly affray.
Beveral years ago he stabbed his brother-in
nw in Missiseippl, Three years sgo he
ed his bookkeeper, named McBrain.
simmons
stabi
WAR ON SANDY FORK,
Eight Men Killed, Your Wounded and the
Trouble Is Not Ended,
A specia
fight on
tinued all
reported killed
Hyden, Ky., says thal »
"ork, Leslie County, con-
! Eight men were
tollows Williams,
Tom Wilson, B Colewell, Tom Shelton,
Peter Dorrough, ) « Paine, Ellas Howard
and Abel Coombs Bim Martin
and Lew Gossom were seriously wounded,
The extraordinary bic
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da
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John
osolored;
lietting began or
Wednesday, when a party of negroes, whe
what is
a dispute concerning
was progressing. Drunk-
the brutality of the fight
Four men were killad then
y the fighting was regewed
were Brads nt eailed %
tigen 7 fei
Viger ¥ i
the game
$
t
1 both sides,
A BAILROAD WITHOUT CAPITAL.
Texans Farmers Are Building It By Doing
the Work Themselves
Besidents of Texus, Southern
rhosstern O
I:
TUNNEL TIMBERS ABLAZE
Fromm a Locomotive Canse =
Unique Fireand a Fatal Accident.
at the
of Wes!
war killed ana
ABOUT NOTED PROPLS
in the feat of plantiog 1!
rado
several
Northumberland,
#o¥ C8
alinton, vides son of t
Viscount 1
df Mexborough,
Buddhism
Thomas Ball, one of the American
residents in the sculptor fraternity at Flor
left that piace to in the
United States,
W. N. McRendrick, of 81. Louis, has a
Masonic wateh charm made from the bell
that sounded the first alarm in the great
Chisago fire of 1871.
It appears that the laste George Julian
Harney wes not the fast of the Chartists,
That distinetion belongs to William Rex, of
Plymouth, Eagiand, who is U3 years ol age.
Miss Abigail Hill Laughlin bas woz the
debaters’ prize of Cornell University, Mise
Laughlin is a resident of Portland, Me, a
graduate of Wellesley, and is now a law stu-
dent at Cornell.
Signor Trentanove, the well-known scuip-
tor, living in this country, but maintaining
studio in Florence, has just completed there
his olay model of Daniel Webster, which fis
to adorn the Capitol at Washington.
President Blake, of the Spartanburg Fe.
male Coliege, at Spartanburg, 8 C.. who
died recently. was a descendant of Rir Wil.
Ham Biske, who settied on the Cape Fear
River early in the colonizing days of North
Carolina,
Princess Theresa of Bavaria, daughter of
the Prince Regent, h.s been made an honor.
ury doctor of philosophy by the University
of Munich, She is also & member of the
Royal Academy of Belences, is 48 years old
and a spinster,
Kati Frenzel, of Berlin, who celebrated his
0th birthday recently, bas been editor of
art and literature on the «aff of the Na-
tional Zeitung for 27 years, and ss a dra-
nus openly
oldest
locate