Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — Page 6

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EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The administration has about determined to cal) the Honduran and Nicaraguan governments to account. It is Mid that if the Pear indemnity ia not promptly paid a squadron will be sent to eollect it. It is announced that a lady of Pittsburg, whose name for the present is withheld, has founded the Thomas Coke College of Missions in the American University, Washington, I>. C., by the gift of $60,000. . * - - The Fidelity Building aud Savings Union of Indianapolis has begun voluntary liquidation. President J. B. Patten believes all claims may Ik* paid in full if the intervention of the courts is not sought by stockholders. Herr Nowodwonski. editor of the Was aawski Dnewik. and Herr Olszwski, a newspaper correspondent at St, Petersburg. have been exiled to Siberia. They are charged with publishing a confidential administration report to the Czar. Definite reports of the losses by prairie fires in South Dakota sbo whundreds of thousands of dollars’ damage done by flames in various parts of the State. Nearly 3,000 head of live stock was lost and many furms burned clear of buildings. A fire of unknown origin destroyed Charles Bncharacirrf clothing store in Philadelphia, and before the flames were subdued about fifteen other buildings, principally small dwellings in the vicinity, were badly damaged. The entire losa ia estimated at $150,000. Senator Kyle of South Dakota has tendered his resignation as chairman of the industrial commission ou account of ill health. He will continue, however, to serve as a member of the commission. Mr. Kyle will be succeeded as chairman by First Vice-President Phillips. President McKinley lias approved a parcels post convention in-tween this Government and Venezuela, to take effect July 1 next. It permits parcels of merchandise up to eleven pounds in weight to go in* the mails between the two countries, the rate to be 111 cents a pound or fraction thereof. Prof. Witthaus of New* York has completed bis analysis of the body of H. C. Barnet, ami has reported that he found a large quantity of cyanide of mereury in the body. District Attorney Gardiner, at the inquest into the death of Mrs. Adams, repeatedly connected Roland Mollneux with the death of Barnet. Alexander Masterson. a banker, was decoyed into a room in the Burliugtou apartment house. New York, and shot to death. He was killed by Janies Neale Plumb, a retired merchant, who had planned the crime and had with him when he tired the fatal shot a long typewritten statement of the events leading up to the murder. The affair was the climax of a feud of long standing between the two men over family affairs and estates. Suits aggregating $9,000,000 have been filed against the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway Company in the Federal Court at Columbus, The Guaranty Trust Company of New York asks Judgment for $2,087,803. which it claims is due on principal and interest of bonds. M. E. Ingalls and George H. Gardiner sue the same company for $4,970,701. due of 7,930 5 tier cent bonds. The same plaintiffs also sue the railroad company aud the Hocking Coal and Railroad Company for $2,198,500, due of 1,093 joiut mortgage bonds. The standing of the clubs tn the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Bt. L0ui5....11 3Baltimore ... 8 8 Philadelphia.il sLouisville ... 7 8 Chicago .... .10 oNew York... 5 9 Brooklyn ... .10 OPlttsburg .... 3 8 Boston 9 7 Washington.. 4 12 Cincinnati ..7 oCleveland ... 2 9 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western league: W. L. W. L. Detroit 5 2 Indianapolis.. 3 4 Kansas City. 4 2 Milwaukee ... 2 3 St. Paul 3 2 Minneapolis.. 2 4 Buffalo 4 3Columbus ... 2 5

BREVITIES.

The Italian ministry has resigned. Ex-Got. K. U. Scott of South Carolina has been stricken with apoplexy. The home of Gen. Wade Hampton at Columbia, 'B. C.. was burned the other day. The famous asbestos mine at Sail Mountain. Georgia, has been sold for $200,000 to Bancroft & Kenniek, mining engineers of London. Scientists of Europe are much interested hi a new cure for consumption discovered by Prof. Vincent Cervefio of Italy. It is said to be a success. Four men were injured at the Armory baseball park in Toledo by the collapse of a shed adjoining the grounds. One man, Frank Harmon, was fatally injured. A monument to the late Dr. von Stephan. the German imperial postmaster general, who died in 1897, was unveiled in Berlin in the hall of the Postal Museum. Wyckliffe‘B English Bible, known as the Bramhall manuscript, from the Ashburnham manuscripts, was sold at auction at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodges, London, for $1,750. | Marie Burroughs, the woman lawyer who recently sued the cities of Fremont , and Toledo. Ohio, for nearly $1,000,000 damages, has been declared sane by the Toledo, Ohio, probate court. Fire in the boiler room of the power house extension of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, corner of Kent and Division avenue, Brooklyn, damaged property to the ektent of $60,000, , * Immigration into the port of New York baa been unusually great this spring, averaging over 2,000 persons S day. Italians Jare coining in extraordinary numbers. Fire at Broadway and Monroe streets, St. lionis. in a three-atory building occupied by Staudte & Rueckoldt, manufacturers of office and store fixtures, caused shout $20,000 damage. The United States cable steamer Hooker sailed from New York for Manila, to connect by cable all the principal points in the Philippines. The Hooker was formeri? the Panama, one of the first prizes captured Six the Spanish war.

EASTERN.

SXiiial&S The H. C. Frick Coke Company, which employs more than 12,000 men, £«s advanced wages from $ to 12% per cent. The-Lakeport Savings Bank, Laconia. N. H.. has suspended payment and will probably liquidate. There is $227,000 due to depositors. .. A friend of Princeton University, whose name has not been disclosed, has endowed a new chair to the Value of SIOO,OOO. to be called the professorship in politics. Sheridan Shook died at Red Hook. N. Y. He was 77 years old. For many years he was proprietor of the Union Square Theater and of the Morton House. New York. New York capitalists are planning to combine the principal mineral springs in Saratoga under one management hnd make that resort an American Carlsbad. The charter of the Amalgamated Copper Company, present issue of capital $75,000,000. with power of unlimited increase. was filed at Trenton. N. J. Marcus Daly is president, and among the directors gre William Rockefeller and R. P. Flower. , • John P. Itoss of Sharon, Mass., was shot and killed by bis wife, Mary E. Ross, in the course of a quarrel at their home. She says she acted in self-defense, as her band was choking her at the time. The pair had been married about a year and were middle-aged. Fire wiped ont a five-story brick building in Boston occupied by & number of manufacturing firms, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. The ground floor was occupied by the Boston fire department for the storage of extra apparatus. The loss of this apparatus was almost complete. The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette is authority for a story that negotiations are on for the merging of the National Steel Company, capitalized at $50,000,000; the American Tin Plate Company. $5,00),000, and the American Steel Hoop Company, $33,000,000. into a single stock company. United States secret service men captured in Brooklyn, N. Y., a well-equipped private mint almost ready to turn out English shillings made of genuine silver and so perfectly like, those made in the mints of her British majesty that experts would have been unable to detect the counterfeit.

WESTERN.

At Canton, Ohio, the jury in the Mrs. George ease returned a verdict of acquittal. The Buckeye stave works at Continental, Ohio, burned. Loss $15,000, insurance $5,000. Jacob Brown, pioneer resident of South Dakota and civil engineer for the Chicago and Northwestern road, died in Huron, aged 77. J. W. Breed, president of the Central Credit Company of Cincinnati, was killed instantly in that city by an electric car. He was 00 years old. A prairie fire, swept by a cyclone, devastated farms in a path twenty-five miles long and a mile wide uear Coleridge, Neb. Two lives were lost. Henry Gannaway, a well-known sawmill man, was stabbed to death near Ardmore, I. T., by William Wathen. Wathen surrendered and claims self-de-fense. Charles McCullough, a farm laborer, was shot and killed by Mrs. Euniee Brown at her farm, south of Canton, S. D. The woman claims that she shot him in self-defense. ‘All tonnage records were broken on the Lake Shore Railway the other day. An east-bound coal train of sixty-five cars out of Ashtabula, Ohio, hauled by one engine, carried 3,000 tons. High water in the Missouri river at Bt. Joseph and Beverly washed out the tracks of the Rock Island and the Burlington. Bottom lands opposite Leavenworth, Kan., were inundated. The hospital building of the State Asylum for the Feeble Minded at Glenwood, lowa, was destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is unknown. No lives were lost. Loss $25,000, no insurance. According to the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, the administration has information that arms and ammunition of war have been sent from American manufactories to the Philippine insurgents. The Ohio Centeunial Company and the representatives of the railroads entering Toledo met and made arrangements to allow all roads to enter the exposition grounds by means of a loop, the railroads all using one depot. An explosion of n can of oil paint at Tiffin, Ohio, caused the death of Paul Hoffman, aged 14, and seriously burned Frank Bundage. aged 12. The boys were playing with the paint and touched a match to see it burn. Seventeen farmers of Pemiscot County, in southeast Missouri, have beeu lodged in the city jail at St. Louis by United States Marshal Louis C. Boble on a Federal indictment. charging them with cutting the levee. No denial is made by the Nearly 100 survivors of the Sultana disaster gathered in annual convention at Cleveland, the occasion being the thirtyfifth anniversary of the event. The Sultana was a Mississippi river boat, sunk April 27, 1804, with a loss of hundreds of lives. Two desperadoes held up several men near Brigham City, Utah. Captain Brown of the Ogden police force joined a posse in pursuit. A battle took place, in which Captain Browu and one of the robbers were killed. The other robber was captured. Nebraska eiti*ens have cabled $2,350 to the surgeon of the First Nebraska Regiment, Manila, to be used as a hospital fund for the sick aud wounded Nebraska soldiers, the regiment having suffered more thnu any other during the campaign. More than 250 persona were left homeless by a fire in Chicago which started in the Polish district from a gasoline explosion, was swept onward by the high wind then prevailing and destroyed fifty tenement houses. The property loss is about $50,000. • At Minneapolis, a portion of the retaining wall at the west side of St. Anthony fails, 150 feet in length, was carried sway, causing damage of several thousand dollars, and for a time depriving the flour mills on that side of the river of the use of water power. But the mills are preJWmd for sttch an emergency and can run with steam. At least sixty persons killed, over 1,000 injured, residences and business buildings to the number of 200 demolished and the

same Btorm. j The twenty-eighth annual meeting of aions of the Northwest closed at ChAar Rapids, lowa. The following officers were elected; President, Mrs. H. H. Forsyth, Chicago. III.; recording 'secretary, Mrs. W. B. Jacobs, Chicago, Ill.; treasurer. Mrs. C. B. Farwell. Chicago, 111. L. M. Pitkin, president of the Variety Iron Works Company and oaf of the best known business men of Cleveland* was struck and instantly killed by the westbound Lake Bbo re flyer at Colts, a suburb. The body was thrown forty feet into the air and was crushed aad mangled fit a terrible manner. Mr. Pitkin was 70 years of age. G. F. Swift, the Chicago millionaire beef packer, baa been iu Oklahoma making arrangements to purchase several large tracts of (and for cattle grazing. He has already bought several thousand acres in the Kiowa and Comanche country, where Mr. Bwift has had nearly 15,000 dattle brought In already for grazing this summer. Mrs. Samuel Blair of Edgar, Ok., recently sold a farm near Coffeyville, Kan., for $3,000 and with her husband went to Oklahoma, settling near Edgar. The family was accompanied by a hired man and his wife, who had worked for them for several years. A few nights ago Blair and the hired man’s wife disappeared and with 1 hem went Mrs. Blair’s-money, a fine saddle horse and saddle and some of her clothing. s’ A prairie fire which started fifteen miles south of Mitchell, 8. D., burned over about 35,000 acres of farm land, destroying a great quantity of hay. Two men, Frank Howard and Allie Smith, went over to a neighbor’s to help fight the fire, and tied thgir horses in a clump of trees. The fire got into the tree claim, and in their attempt to save their horses they were caught in the flames and. with the horses, were burned to death. Harry J. Fiammger, a St. Louis policeman, committed suicide because his wife did not give him a clean suit of underwear when he asked for it. Fiammger went home at 4 o'clock in the morning after working all night. He proposed to his wife that they go out early and return, so that he could sleep late in the day. * Then he , asked her for the underwear. Upon her telling him that she did not have it just then he walked into the next room ami shot himself. Fiammger was 35 years old and had been on the force a year. A fire which broke ont from incendiary causes in the big lumber yard of the A. Gebhart Lumber Company at Dayton. €>., resulted in the death of Thomas Lawler, a lineman, and the severe injury of six other firemen. A high wind carried blazing sparks from the burning lumber to the roof oil St. John’s Lutheran Church on Eaat Third street, setting that building on tire. Lawler was standing in the church vestibule when the belfry timbers fell on him. The other men were hurt by the flames and by falling. The material loss aggregates $75,000.

SOUTHERN.

The body of Mitchell Daniel, a negro, was found in the road near Leesburg, tia., riddled with bullets. Russel Borver, a saloonkeeper of Coalbnrg, W. Va., was found dead on the Chesapeake and Ohio tracks with a bullet wound in his body. Willis Sees, a negro, aged about 30 years, was taken from the jail at Osceola, Ark., and hanged in the jailyard by a mob of forty men. Sees was in jail on a charge of barn burning. Judge Martin of the Circuit Court at Little Rock, Ark., rendered a decision upholding the constitutionality of the antitrust law, but limiting its force to offense* committed in the State of Arkansas. ' The American army under Gen. MacArthur crossed the Rio Grande river, P. 1., and drove the Filipinos from their stronghold on its bank. The enemy retreated rapidly, burning many villages in their flight. The Greenwood County, South Carolina, men charged with having entered into a conspiracy to drive away or kill James W. Tolbert, the Republican assistant postmaster at McCormick, 8. C., have been discharged from custody, the jury returning a verdict of not guilty. News has been received at Little Hock, Ark., of the assassination in Van Buren County of the son of Hugh Patterson, who was murdered in December, 1897, by Lee Mills and WiH Hardin. Mills was hanged a few days ago and Hardin was shot to death in jail. It is believed that young Patterson was murdered by friends of Hardin for revenge.

WASHINGTON.

Lewis Baker, editor of tj»e St. Paul Globe, and ex-minister to Nicaragua, died at Washington, aged 67. The State Department has withdrawn any objection it may have entertained to the dispatch of Spanish troops front the Philippine Islands to the Carolines. Rear Admiral Howell has been relieved as senior member of the naval retiring board. He will be succeeded by Admiral Schley. Captain Cook has been ordered to duty as a member of the naval examining board. Commander W. W. Meade has been ordered to the command of the Brooklyn. ■ - r ”

FOREIGN.

The Transvaal gold output for 1898 was $81,000,000. Thomas Mack, a young blacksmith of Indiauapolis, has gone to Russia, where he will be chief horseshoer in the Czar’s stables at Moscow. Owing to an inrush of water at the Ktschnar gold nline, near Troisk, Russia, a shaft in which ninety-five men were at work collapsed. Sixty-two of the miners were killed and nearly all remainder were seriously injured. w The British Government has decided to contribute an annual subsidy, to the full amount recommended in the report of the Pacific cable committee of 1886. for the construction of a cable from Britan

light ship was struck bv a passing vessel. courts. The claim will be set up that as Porto Rico ia now a portion at the United States it is unconstitutional to charge customs dues for goods sent from one portion of the country to another. Gen. HenCy, the American military governor of Porto Rico, has Informed the insular committee recently sent there from Washington that he does not believe the Porto Ricans should be encouraged to look forward to statehood in the American Union. He thinks they will do better wader a territorial term of government.

IN GENERAL.

Navigation is open from Lake Svperior through to Lake Huron. Very Rev. L. Elena, vicar general of the diocese of Hamilton, Ont., is dead, aged 82 years. The failure is announced of the Cosset Cycle Company of Toronto, Ont., one of the oldest and largest bicycle manufacturing firms in Canada. Several towns in southern Illinois and Indiana and northern Kentucky were shaken by earthquake shocks. No loss of life is reported, but several persons were injured and many buildings rendered unsafe. Very Rev. F. Barnada. acting administrator of tbe archdiocese of Santiago, has been named archbishop of Santiago by Pope Leo XIII. Father Barnada it a native Cuban and a great admirer of American institutions. It is understood at Skaguay, Alaska, that the Canadian Government has instructed its collector to see that all American convoys are allowed to proceed to Log Cabin as formerly. It is further stated that the Canadian officials, iu stopping convoys at the summit, acted without authority. Dr. ‘John Duncan Quaekenbos, emeritus professor of Columbia University, has become convinced by a series of remarkable experiments that hypnotism may he employed to a great advantage not only yin alleviating pain and curing certain diseases, but for the purpose of reforming criminals and the treatment of certain forms of insanity. Reports received by grain men in Toronto, indicate heavy damage to winter wheat in sections east of Toronto. In many cases tbe crop is a total failure, and farmers are plowing up the ground preparatory -to planting spring wheat or, barley. Last year’s crop of winter wheat in Ontario was estimated at 20*000,000 bushels, but there will be a big decrease this year.

Ferdinand W. Peck, the United States commissioner to the Paris exposition of 1900, has been officially notified of the allotment of 56,500 square feet in the Vincennes annex, divided as follows: 21,500 square feet for railroad exhibits, 4,300 for automobiles, 8,000 for bicycles, to be housed in a building erected by the American manufacturers; 19,400 far operating machinery, 2,700 for life-saving exhibits. This makes a total of 300,600 square feet of space allotted to American exhibits, sr double the amount of the original grants. . Bradstreet’s view of the business situation is thus summarised: “Favorable weather conditions find reflection in reports of good retail distribution of spring and summer goods, and in fair filling-in orders from jobbers. Demand from first hands for general merchandise is, if anything, quieter, in keeping with the ‘between season’ period now at hand. Industrial activity continues specially marked, a pleasing feature this week being the practical absence of the nnrest, particularly in the building trades, noted for many years past about May 1. favoring retail distribution, the springlike weather conditions, however, have been the reverse of stimulating qs regards quotations of two of the countries’ greatest stapes, wheat and eotton. In these and in hog products the tendency of values has been toward a lower range. Winter wheat crop advices have continued irregularly unfavorable. Cotton has wenkened on better reports. The strength of the lumber markets shows little impairment. Wool as a whole is quiet and steady. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregated 3.028,283 bushels, against 2,932,959 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,615,079 bushels, against 3,091,940 bushels last week.”

THE MARKETS

Chichgo—Cattle, common to prime, 13.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; com. No. 2,33 cto 35c; oats, No. 2,26 c to 27c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 60e; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 55c per bushel. Indianapoli*—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs,, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 37c; oats. No. 2 white, 30c to 32c. St. Louis—-Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 80c; rye, No.il, 50c to 58c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; bogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2. 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c, oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 03c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 30c; oata. No. 2 white, 3?c to 33c; rye, 01c to 03c.

MRS. GEORGE IS FREE.

I DISC'D RL At Canton, Ohio, tbe jury in the case of lira- George, charged with the murder of George D. Saxton, brother of Mrs. McKinley, brought in a verdict of acquittal at 10:43 o’clock Friday morning. The jury bad been out since 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Before the verdict WS» read the court cautioned the audience that there must be no demonstration, in spite* oi that order there were loud cheers as tbe clerk rend tbe verdict of “Not guilty.” A score •f women rushed to Mrs. George and •book her hand. Congratulations were also extended to her attorneys*. Mrs. George worked her way to the jury box* took each juryman by tbe band, and gave them a word and a nod of thanks. Then tbe court said she was discharged and released the jury. For ten years no,murder trial baa excited such intense interest throughout the country as that of Mrs. George. The high standing of the family to which tbe murdered man belonged, his own peculiar reputation in the community where he lived, tbe loyalty with which his weaknesses were shielded by his neighbors, and the visitation upon him of a punishment which many of his close friends believed to be juat sufficed to give the trial a melodramatic effect. Crowds were drawn to the conrt room of daily drawn to the modest court room of the little Ohio city for three weeks, and the circumstances centered the attention of all reading Americans upon the woman there battling for her life. Mrs. George passed through the hardest ordeal of the trial during the summing up

MRS. ANNA E. GRORGE.

by James J. Grant,' assistant prosecutor. Mr. Grant was Saxton's lifelong friend. He went into tbe case because be deemed It bis duty. He has known Mrs. George for years and she dreaded him. For five hours he leaned against the table,, beside which she sat, and pat all the bitterness at his soul, into his eloquent and stinging plea. He is of massive frame and has a ponderous voice and. It is no wonder that Mrs. George trembled as he spoke ever her bowed head. Once he shook in her face the revolver with which- she wan said to have shot Saxton aud dangled the bloody cent of the dead man in the other. She sat unmoved and showed no emotion, even when he turned to her, ids taee ablaze with wrath*, and called her a murderess. But at night* when she reached her cell, she- broke down and had to have medical add. Prosecutor Pomereue closed bis argument in the case shortly before aeon Thursday* It was one of the oratorical and logical efforts of the-triat He claimed that tbe defendant was simply a Resigning woman* who had played for high

MRS. GEORGE IN COURT.

stakes and lost and who killed the object she used to gratify her ambition. Defense Cleverly Conducted. Mrs. George’s counsel had early forced the State to exhaust all but one of its challenges. She had twelve remaining at that time. A little later the State exhausted its last challenge. She still had eleven. The power was in her hands to pick almost a new Jury. Then she grew more careful yet. Juror H. A. Smith once lost a brother. His neighbor killed him ted. h That* wmTjns? after*the but the defendant thought he might yet retain a notion that acquittal in a case of homicide was not proper, v Throughout the trial Mra. George was an aid and support to her counsel* She suggested Questions oit cf oas-cx a minatiou a»d decided what defense should be at-I-Uenth! the h hlnd*s“f shrewd ari^eja

ton several years. Her husband, Samplo C. George, was a carpenter, and <*<*" •»» a country bred girl. bbe had wariied young and was tbe mother of two boys when she came to Canton. Still a young woman, she at once attracted the notice of George D. Saxton. Up to this time Mrs. George’s life bad been one of rectitude. Saxton was one of tbe wealthiest man in Canton. It waa not long before his persistent attentions to Mrs. Go«*ge P co ‘ i voked scandal. Sample €. George left ‘ Ms wife, took his children from her, said sued Saxton Tor alienating her affections. Mrs* George went to South Dakota and ; obtained a divorce. Saxton, she saya, bad I promised to marry her. On her retain to Canton quarrel followed quarrel* until at last Saxton had the woman ejected from her apartments in a building owned by him. An. order of conrt was also obtained prohibiting her from visiting Saxton or entering the Saxton block. Finally Sax- ! ton refused to in aery the- woiian and rimthreatened to kill him. Two days later he wao shot. In support of its theory that Met* George waa the murderer the- prosecution introduced a witness*. Mrs* Eckroate, who said she saw the shots fired at Saxton and recognized Mrs. George as the woman who fired them. This was tbe only witness of the crime* and her testimony was vigorously attacked by the defense* which showed that the woman had been for years a confirmed morphine eater, and therefore was not a capable or reliable witness. It Was further shown- by the defense that at the time of the shooting it

GEORGE D. SAXTON.

was too dark to distinguish even, at short distance the features of a person, and that the neighbors who hurried to the seene us the tragedy could not identify even the murdered, man until they stfuck a matchand held, it to his facet It had. rained, on the day of the murder, and the woman, seen walking away after Saxton’s shooting was obliged to travel over muddy roads. Yet Mrs, George when arrested, at 7:30' o’clock, had on. slippers that were unsoiled, her clothing waxfret- from, mod, and close examination of her apparel in the house failed to reveal mud-stained articles. When taken to the. police station several burs were found on her dress, and the State offered these as evidence, aa the ground around the scene of the murder was thick with the plants bearing them. The defense demolished this evidence by showing that the route over which Mrs. George walked to the police station was in one place thick with the same plants. A revolver also figured In the case. It was found concealed some distance from the scene of the shooting, with three discharged cartridges in it. The prosecution offered it in evidence m the weapon used by Mrs, George, but had no evidence to show that she ever owned it or thot it had been in her possession. Mrs. George when arrested was enfan and self-possessed. She maintained the same bearing during her trinL When arrested the fingers and naila of one band had dark stains on them. These, the prosecution claimed, were powder stains, and it had her nails scraped and the scrapings submitted to analysis. When a chemical expert appeared daring the trial to testify as to the result of this analysis the defense objected to the introduction of bin testimony, and the court sustained the objection. The prosecution added little information on the most vital print, the murder Itself, to that given the day after the commission of the crime. The prosecution was conducted on the theory of motive and intention—the jealous fury of a woman rained and cast aside, while another occupied her place.

GATHER IN CIGARS.

Revenue Collectors Find More Goods With Bonne * temps. The revenue collectors continue to gather in cigars from the Pennsylvania factory JLt Parker,-

Told in a Few Line[?].

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