Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 33, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 July 1901 — Page 2

THE WEEKLY INDEPENDENT.

CL W. METSKEJL, Pub. sad Prop PZTSrOT7TIX, - - X2TDXA27A E! in Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Itecorj of Uappenin; of Jlneh or Little lmpnrtünr from All Part of ttxm Clri.ej AvorM iDvi.intt. Enterpru, Accident, Verdict. Crime aad War. First clash in the great conflict occurred at McKeesport, I'a., and was cau&ed by reported attempts of employers to import nonunion workers. Cardinal Martineiii, representing the pope, dedicated SL Jos p hat's Roman Catholic church in Milwaukt-3, the ceremonies being witnessed by 4,000 people. Closing meetings of the Epworrh League convention at San Francisco were attended with great enthusiasm. Many delegates started homeward. Heat Sunday reached 103 dtgrees at Chicago's Lthcial thermometer and 118 degrees on the street level, all former ( records being broken. Two deaths j and several prestations. Heat record j broken throughout the corn belt. i i Geiinan Exchange bank of Chilton, j Wis., may pay creditors Z0 per cent cash lost in Lad loans to two concerns i which were allowed to borrow without limit Kansas temperance wom n destroyed a tent saloon at Eldorado and a policy shop at Leavenworth. Fort Scott saloons enjcinel by court. Arthur McLaughlin and Efte Tip'on eloped at New Ross, lud. Girl's father chased them ten miles. rojtcfnce at Mier, Ind., abolished, releasing Postmaster A. L. Fox, who repeatedly attempted to resign. Eighteen incendiary tires last month at Mat toon. 1.1., destroyed property i worth $2.400.000. Burning ship sighted off Gre.nland, Mich., but no signs of wreckage couid j be found, j Epworth league convention at San J Francisco hel l sessions at ihe pavilion ! and at the Aihambra Theater. Many I addresses made. Man and woman arrested at Worcester, Mass.. char-red with attempt to extort $S.(00 from Millionaire C. S. Barton. IIa!. bi Frey of Wabash. Ind.. declares he hi.i invented a car that will travel 300 miles an hour over sea or land. Goxernor Durbin, in letter to State Department, denied story that Italian Consul was refused admission to hospital at Peru. Ind.. where injured Italians were cared for. Union molders in several cities offered aid to the Chicago strikers. All hope of compromise in steel Etrike was ended by declaration of J. Pierpont Morgan upholding combine's etand. Arbitration board gave up attempt to secure a conference. President Shaffer still confident of victory. Letters found in Steyn's captured baggage reveal the desperate plight of the Boers. Ammunition nearly gone, threatened by a famine, and the force In the field disrupted by desertions. Arnesti Z. Gomez, who claimed to be a grandson of General Gomez, committed suicide in the Midway of the Buffalo exposition after trying to kill proprietor of "Streets of Mexico." International Epworth League convention opened at San Francisco with delegates present from all parts of the world. Welcomed by governor and mayor. German Exchange Bank of Chilton, Wis., failed, with liabilities of $000.000 and $ too ,000 assets. Receiver asked by the attorney general. War between the sugar trust and the beet sugar manufacturers of California Is about to open. Tolstoi passed crisis in his sickness and Is out of danger. P. E. Paulen of Chicago committed suicide by hanging himself with strap used by daughter for her school books. St. Louis man went to s1ep in barrel of tar and had to be chopped out. Scattering rains in the droughtstricken corn belt cheek the work of destruction, but drenching floods are needed to save the remnants of the crop. W. R. Miller, station agent of the Metropolitan Elevated road, shot and severely wounded in fight with holdup men, who robbed Iloyne avenu .' station at Chicago. The village park at Allegan, Mich., recently purchased by the council, has been renamed Pingree Park In honor of the late ex-governor. Robert McKce. a school teacher, was drowned in Big Muddy river near Murphysboro, 111., while swimming. IÜ3 companion, Elmer Warson, had a narrow escape from death in trying to ßave the former. President Shaffer charges the steel combine is using Its $200,000,000 reServe fund to sustain the market and thus hurt the strike cause. Federation of Labor promises the strikers $500,000 weekly. Mayor Jones of Toledo fined $5 and costs for contempt of court. Alexander Bush, postmaster at Mills, New Mexico, has been arrested, charged with embezzling postal funds. Ethel Fitch and Annie Gunn were drowned in the Mahoning river at Youngstown, Ohio. The little girls were in bathing and went beyond their depth. Martin Dewitt was seriously burned and his wife probibly fatally by the explosion of gasoline at Grand Rapid.-, Mich. They were exterminating bedbugs with gasoline, and the explosion came when they brought a lamp into the room. August M. Chenidlin, 73 years old, was crushed to death at St. Paul, Minn., by the wheels of a fire engine. The machine, which was going at top speed, struck him as he was crossing the street. For twenty years Mr. Chenidlin acted as tutor for the sons of James J. IM, the railroad magnate.

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FIVE IN yachtjrowned.

Merchant and Daughter Amos? ae 1 Tlctlmi or Squall. j jj'ive persons were drowned In the sound Friday by the capsizing of the , yawl rigged yacht Venitzia of Philadelpüla at a point five miles east of Sand's point. Two only of those on , board were rescued. The drowned are: Arthur C. Colburn, owner of the yacht, Philadelphia merchant; Ida Colburn, daughter of Colburn; Annette Colburn, daughter of Colburn; Captain Flint of Brooklyn, N. Y., master of the yacht; sailor, name unknown. The others on board the ill-fated craft. Mrs. Walter T. Stankle of Philadelphia, daughter of the owner of the yacht; and the steward, James StanDridge of j jjew York, were rescued by the tus j Gertrude, after clinging for two hours j to the bottom of a capsized long boat, j The yacht was built in 1SSS in Mystic, ' Conn., and was elaborately finished j and furnished. She was fifty feet long ; with a net tonnage of thirty-one. j Awakening at 3 o'clock in the morning to find himself in the grasp of a ' supposed burglar, Morton Starr Cressy, a Harvard law school student who is spending the summer at Brattieboro, VL, struggled until free, and, snatch- ; Ing a revolver from the bureau, fired

EARL RUSSELL SENTENCED FOR BIGAMY.

As?' f V"; j' Earl Russell, who was taken before the House of Lords at London, Thursday for trial on the charge of bigamy, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three months' confinement in Holloway prison. The trial was conducted with curious ceremonies that have escaped the vigilance of reformers. It commenced in the peers- ordinary parliamentary chamber, where their lordships assembled fully robed. The chancellor occupied the woolsack, and ten judges sat facing the peers' usual seats. Behind the lord chancellor stood Norroy king-of-arms, in brilliant heraldic costume. Near the clerks' four shots at his assnilant. On lighting his lamp he was horrified to find that he had killed his friend and classmate, Stony Bristol of Battle Creek, Mich., who had been invited by Cre.sy to stay over night at the house of his grandmother, Mrs. P. Starr, in Brattieboro. It is believed that Bristol, while in a nightmare, took hold of Cressy. Another .lump in Ohio OIL Crude oil went up 3 cents Friday at Lima, O., making 6 cents increase in three days. The advances lead to the belief that the Texas field will not seriously disturb the production of the northern fields, and operations are being resumed. North Lima oil is now S5 cenU per barrel; South Lima SO cents. Another jump of 3 cents in Indiana oil Friday, sending the price to 80 cents, caused great excitement In the oil field about Montpelier. Hants IAtiion Swlnfller. Assistant Adjutant General E. B. Gray of the G. A. It. is sending out from Madison, Wis., to post adjutants throughout the state a description of one J. W. Dunn, alias Dolan, alias Boyle, who has been posing as a pension examiner, and swindling veterans who draw pensions, telling them that their pension has been cut down, but that for a small sum. ranging from $2 up to $10, he would get pensions continued at old rate. Negro Jupect Dmeliaieed. Joseph Robertson and "Bull" Holland, the negroes who came near being lynched at Kansas City by a mob of 2,000 people, on the supposition that they had assaulted Miss Grace Davis, a 20-year-old white girl, and attacked her escort, Vernon Newton, have been turned loose for lack of evid nee Justice of the Peace Ross in discharging the men said that little credence could be given the statements of Miss Davl3 pnd Newton. On the stand both of them admitted having made misstatements regarding the affair. Find Itodr of r.n4t Girl. Bristol. Conn., July 22 While hundreds of citizens were hunting for Agnes Hodges, the missing Smith colleg3 girl, her body was accidentally discovered In Piirgcs pond by William Fitzpatrlck, who was bathing. On making a die Into deep water he struck her body, which immediately came to the surface. lie hastened to the shore and informed the authorities. The spot where the young woman was found was only a few rods from the place where her handkerchief and belt were discovered last Thursday morning.

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C. D. Graham made his fifth trip through the Niagara rapids in a barrel Sunday. Captain Strong's resignation ordered accepted by Secretary of War. table stood the gentleman usher of the b'ack rod, bearing a long white wand, ten feet in length. This was the emblem of the office of the Lord High Steward, conferred by a royal commission under letters patent upon the Lord Chancellor. The proceedings began with prayer. Then the gentleman usher of the black rod formally delivered the wand to the lord chancellor, who returned it. The lord's chancellor then read the king's commission. Next the deputy garter king-of-arms called the roll of peers who had given notice of their intention to attend the trial. No peers of the royal blood were present. Olive Schreiner In Cage. Ouida, the writer, who In private life bears the name of Mme. Louise de la Ramee, protests in the London Daily News against the treatment accorded by the British military authorities in South Africa to Olive Schreiner, the author. Ouida says: "Olive Schreiner has been transported to a strange place and imprisoned within a fence of wire netting, which is patrolled by armed sentinels stationed at intervals with orders to fire on any one attempting to get through the netting to escape. "She lives alone, except for her dog, in one small room, for which she pays, cooking for herself. S' e is compelled to remain all night without any kind of light. Her husband is refused by the British authorities permission' to visit her, although her brother is a former premier of Cape Colony. "What is her offense? Merely to have espoused the cause of the Boers in the war. Is it tolerable that for this alone she should be subjected to the indignity of isolation and be carried away from all she loves?" In the House of Lords, Lord Raglan, in South Africa, said the whites in the concentration camps numbered 14,024 men, 27,711 women and 43,075 children; that the mortality for the month of June was C3 men, 138 women and 57G children. Ilaby Hinothered In lied. Sleeping on the dead body of his 9-months-old child, whom he had innocently smothered, R. I. Johnson, a night watchman at the Elgin, 111., watch factory, did not know what he had done until his wife arrived home after an absence of several hours and made the .sorrowful discovery. The baby had been placed on a pillow beside him. It is supposed the baby rolled off the pillow and In some way got under the father. The coroner's jury exonerated him from blame. Denver 1'ollee Fight Molt. Denver, Col., July 22 A mob of H00 men and boys made an attack upon the city Jail in an effort to secure Charles Mullein's freedom, but were repulsed by the police, who used their clubs freely uron the heads of the leaders. Fred Hoffman and Albert Gunter were arrested as the leaders of thr mob. Mullein was arrested twice for preaching anarchist doctrines on the streets, and the second time tho crowj that had been listening to him a tempted to storm the Jail.

HIE HBNCG MURDER II

Youth Charged with Murder of His Sister. CASE FULL OF MYSTERY. Famllr Declare Deed TCa Done ly One of Three I'nkiionu Burglars htate Lays Claim to racts Sensation t I'ittvfiald, Man. Robert Fosburg was placed on trial at Pittsfield, Mass., Thursday morning, charged with shooting his ft' . 1 f . ' ROBERT S. FOSBURG. sister, May Fcsburs, on the night of Aug. 20, 1900. The formal preliminary step was taken today when the young man was called bofore the Superior Court and pleaded not guilty to the indictment for manslaughter. In addition to the fact that the Fosbuigs are people of wealth and social standing, the killing of the handsome girl of 18, in the dead of night and under peculiarly dramatic circumstances, was in Itself so shocking an affair that the country rang with e story for months before it took on th added interest of young Fosburg's indictment and arrest for the crime. Before that event nobody outside a nairow circle in touch With the Chief of Police and tho Prosecuting Attorney here had the r.motst suspicion there was anything else in the tragedy than just what the Fosburg family said t'.err was a plain case of murder committed by burglars caught in the act of pillaging the house. It is tho theory cf the prosecution th. 'it burg'ars had nothing whatever to do with thf crime. The State will endeavor to prove that Miss Fosburg was kil'ed as the result of a furious family figat which broke out in the dead of the night, and that the story of the invasion of the house by burglars was hastily concocted to save the reputation of the family and to avert the punishment of cue of Its members or a crime which even the prosecution does not charge was premeditated or evtl, intended, so far as the victim was concerned, on the part of the person who committed it. It is not the theory MAY FOSBURG. of the police that young Fosburg, even in the heat of passion, intentionally aimed at his sister the shot which took her life. It is their theory that the shot was aimed at another member of the family, either Fosburg's wife or his father, and that Miss Fosbuig, presumably whPe acting as a poacm:iker in the family brawl, came in range of the bullet. There was a guest staying with them Miss Bertha Sheldon of Providence. In her honor they were having a merry evening and retired close to midnight. Story Told by the Family. According to the story told by the family, Mr. Fosburg, Sr., was awakened about 1:30 in the morning by a flash of light and was confronted by a masked man, who held a pistol to his head. Mr. Fosburg struck the pistol away, and then between Mr. Fosbuig and the burglar there was a terrible struggle, during which one of Mr. Fosburg's ribs was broken. Mr. Fosburg also received a heavy blow on the head, presumably indicted by some weapon I(IUlle4 to Ho 1 1 an cod. "Jack" and "Ed" Biddlc were sentenced to death in the Criminal court at Pittsburg, Pa., for the murder of Grocer Thomas D. Kahney of Albert street, Washington. April 12 last, and Walter Dorman was adjudged guilty of murder of the first degree for his part in the homicide. Kahney was murdered while defending his home against robbers, and a few hours later Detective Patrick Fitzgerald was killed in attempting to arrest the Biddies. Jnd;o Wers a Shirt WhUi. Judge Erastus M. Reed, who for twenty-four years has been Judge of the First Hristol District court at Attleboro, Mass., is of the opinion that the dignity of the court does not suffer in the least if a man appears In court In a shirt waist on hot days. ft lax Her.li Stabbed. Tuesday night as Max Regis, the anti-Semite mayor of Algiers, was going to the Casino at Oran, Algeria. he was stabbed In the neck. His assailant was arrested.

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in tha nature of a sand club, and in the hands of a confederate of the burglar with whom Mr. Fosburg was clinched in a deadly struggle. Mrs. Fosburg, Sr., by this time had come to her husband's assistance, and she too was beaten, but beyond severe bruises received no lasting injury. The noise of the struggle awakened other members of the family in their respective rooms. Miss May Fosburg got out of bed and went across the room to the door opening into the hall. As she reached it and was about to step into the hall a man standing on the threshoM of the spare room opposite fired two pistol shots, oiio of which struck her in the heart, killing her instantly. As she was sinking to the floor her brother, Robert Stewart Fosburg, the same who is now under indictment for killing her, who was rushing 'through her room to roach the scene of the struggle, caught her in his arms and laid her down. Then he, too, had a fierce straggle w!;h one of the burg'ars, and was struck on tho head by a confederate as his father had been. One burglar rushed down the back stairs and escaped by the door; two more of the gang got out of an upper window to the roof cf a veranda and so to the ground.

THREE NEGROES HANGED. Executed la N;ihi;ie, Tonn., frm the aiu So. fTi.lt I. The first triple execution ever held in Nashville, Tenn., took place when three negro murderers were executed from the same scaffold in the jail yard. The condemned were Babe Battise, Du.sor Thompson, and Abe Petway. The trap was sprung and the men were pronounced dead within fifteen minutes. The crime for which Petway paid the penalty was the murder of an old white man named Wrenne on tho night of May 31, 1900. Battise and Thompson were handed for the murder of Cain Miller, a negro "spotter" for the police. Thompson charged Battise with the crime, and to the last affirmed his innocence. lndhi I'nder Iron Heel. India is threatened with famine to the extent unparalleled in the history of that country, according to Rem sh Dutt. a distinguished Anglo-Indian o'" the imperial revenue department. Mr. Dutt is 2G years of age, and is the author of "Open Letters on Famines" ami "Land Assessments in India." Mr Dutt said at London: "England 3 oppressive and frc-'iuently illegal finan eial treatment cf India is largely responsible for famines. UnUss this system is radically changed the Indian empire will live in a perpetual shtdow of famine, with its attendant misery and death." Woman AVMnpod Rt Pot. Lillie Thomas was whipped at th post established by Justice G. L. Walls in Kansas City Thursday. Lillie is about the color of the ace of spades and was arrested a few days ago on r charge of having abstracted $3 from the purse of Mrs. Martha Etwell at No G00 Fast Fifteenth street, for whom she had been working. The recent succession of extremely hot days plante'' in Lillie an all-consuming thirst for soda water and lemonade. Having n ) other means of gratifying her thirst, when she saw a purse with $3 in it on the bureau at the Ftwell home, she resigned without notice. Man Pose a Woman. A Texas detective has arrested in the King's river neighborhood in Madison county, Ark., a supposed young woman who had been teaching a private school there for some time. It turned out that the school teacher was a man in disguise, and that his name was Sears He is alleged to have been wanted in Texas on the chargp of committing a murder seven years ago. When arrested the young man had in his possession $3,000 in cash carried in a belt. Ie Alolnen Mn In MUtin;. Charles J Luthe, secretary of the Luthe Hardware Company and one of the leading young business men of Des Moires, has been missing since Wednesday night, when he bought a ticket for Denver at the Rock Island office giving the name of C. J. Lambert. No trace of him can be found at Denver His relatives believe he wandered away whil temp .r:iri'y deranged on account of hard work and heat l'Hckln-j I In 11 1 t?nrneI. The packing plant of Jacob Dold & Sons of Wichita was totally destroyed by fire. There were four large buildings. It is estimated that 700.000 pounds of meat, in process of preparation was destroyed. The loss is $G50.000, with insurance about $400,000. One wall fell, injuring four men, but not fatally. Swear (denn Ta a Man Dr. Gale Samuels testified at Parkersburg. W. Va., that Ellis B. Glenn, defendant in the Glenn forgery case, is a man rather than a woman. Several experts in handwriting strengthened the state's case by their statements as to the signatures on the original and the alleged forged notes. Word " hrlMlan" to Stay, The word "Christian" stays in the bill of rights in the Virginia constitution, as far as the constitutonal-con-vention committee on that document is concerned. By a vote of 7 to 4 the committee at Richmond decided today to preserve the original language. Ilelolt Mall Clerk Arretted. Ilany E. Mott, mailing clerk of the Beloit, Wis., postofiice. has been arrested and held for trial on the charge of embezzling 20.000 2-cent stamps. Slt Trut Cute l'rlre. The Michigan Silt association dropped salt from 70 cents to 45 cents a barrel at Saginaw Wednesday. The cut is on account of the increased production, large surplus and a determination to make it warm for manufacturers outside of the association. Kxpoxltlon for Antwerp. The Belgian government and th? municipality of Antwerp contemplate a great universal marine exDosition m the banks of the Scheldt at Antwerp, '

EGR Sequel to the Lynching of tho Leader. BATTLE IN CITY STREETS. Great Excitement at (1pt':uiiI, !., Follow a Inclilng. Which Lead to Discovery That Colored Men Are Orcanlzeil aud Armed. Jesse Phillips, labor agitator, preacher and lodge organizer, who murdered ycimg Lucius Reed h iv July 16, was lynched in Cleveland, ML-s., Saturday niyLt. lie was captured in the afternoon at Mound City, after a 6harp fight with the officers ,and was being brought here for trial whrii a posse of citizens ui'-r the puny and took possession of Phillip?. He v.v.s. at onco hurried lure aud hanged xo the cross arm of a telegraph po'e. Just as the phiyers w re dispersing three armed n"-roe.- rode into town, and, stopping three white citizen? on the main street, ma the threaten;:ig demonstrations. This was the signal for battle, and fire s np-wd upon the negroes, two of tie m beinc kiii.-d. I one outright nr.d the body of the other being discovered at th. edge of the town this morning. The third mm escaped. All were armed with Winchester rifles and were well mounted. During the remainder of the ni.sht excitement was at fever heat in the city. All the streets were pn:ro'!ed by he.vily armed men, and any overt act would have meant terrible warfare upon any negro who could have b"cn found. Fears ar-1 yet entert? inel t'.'.nt the lynching of Phillip? will breed bloodshed. He was especially active in organizing "protective societies" arnone the negroes, and it is thought they may try to avenge his d ath. The work of organizing the mgroe? has been going on for some time, and it is known that the lodges have provid d themselves with arms and ammunition. It ha? ben decided by th1 whit s that it is absolutely n c t-:;ry to b-.-ak up these organizations. The enforcement of this decision is Jik!y to battended with serious resu 'ts. Tho fact ha? developed that the killing of young Reed was a s' tidied scheme on the part cf the negn Phillips w :? given the weapon with which he d:d the shooting by a negro. Gus Joius. Phillips himself confessed to these facts when he was captured yes erday. Tapers found on his person riiselus -d plots to murder a number of planters. Totstoi I4 Serlr.mly III. M. Tchertkoff, who is Count Tolstoi's representative in Great Britain, has received a telegram asserting that the famous Russian is dangerously ill with fever, accompanied by great weakness, and that his state is very serious. The dispatch was received from Tula, European Russia, where Count Tolstoi is understood to be.

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GEN. BUTTERFIELD, CIVIL WAR HERO, IS DEAD.

Gen. Daniel Buttcrfield, who had been ill for a year or more, died at his home in Cold Springs, N. Y., Wednesday night. Gen. Ilutterfield was born in Ltica, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1S31, was graduated from Union college and civil 6erved with distinction in war. Resigning from the the army he became assistant United States treas urer in New York, and afterward organized and built a railway in Central America. In September, 1SS6, at St. Margaret's Westminster, England, Two Fires In Michigan. The big maple flooring factory of Thomas Foreman & Co. at Pctoskey, Mich., has been destroyed by fire, together with six million feet of lumber and a dwelling house. The loss is estimated at fiOO.000. Insurance, ?56,000. The fire caught from the engine room. The Michigan barrel works, located in the north end of Grand Rapids, Mich., burned with an adjacent lumber pile and a large amount of stock. The loss will reach $250,000. Woman Horned to Iath. Miss Elsie Hirsch, the 19-year-old daughter of Simon Hirsch of the Star Distilling company, Cincinnati, lighted a gas stove in the bathroom. Her nightdress caught fire, aud she was burned so badly that she died later. Her screams attracted members of the family, who rushed to the bathroom, but found It locked. They broke in the door and found the young woman writhing in agony. Miss Hirsch was prominent in society circles, and a pupil at Miss Butler's school, and was one of the most brilliant girls

MRS. PAUL KRUGER DEAD.

1111 or in iraniTviii irnin 1 Awy at I'r-nri. Mrs. Kruger, wife cf fo.m r Presi dent Kruger of th South African republic, died Saturday of pneumonia, after an illness of three clays. She was 07 years old. Mrs. Kruger's long separtion from her husband, combined with tho death of her favorite daughter, Mrs. ?mith, last week, had completely broken her spirit. Mr. Eloi'f and many other members of the Kruger family were at her b dslda when she passed away. She wa.s sorawhat younger than her husband. She had heme him sixteen children, eleven of whom are still living, including five daupkk-rs. In the small, unpreientloui hous in Pretoria used as the presidency domestic habits were very simph. The president and ids wife Wtr habitually early rlrTs. Ilr in i:iclric Cli.ilr. Frank i;n. rhoini, the Chautauqua county murderer, was put to (': ath by cl-ctif ity in the prison at Auburn, N. Y. Tue current was tu.rvd on one r.vlnuto and five seconds, and the man was pronounced d;ad. When he took his f-e.-.t in the chair Wtiimrholm appear.1 to be on the point of utter col'pse. As the straps over th face were pat in position th- dorm d man tossed hi? 1: d to one ?:do and uttered low moan. The cu-ie-.u was of 1.S00 v;dts and seven ampere-:, which was reduced alter two seconds to volts for half a minute, and then increased to its original strength fer two seconds, Vvhen it was auain reduc ed to 200 volts h:iif a m;nute: and iiHT-asd ta 1-CA when it was turned o;T, and the u-in w; s dead. Woman Straneetv Murdered. Mrs. George V. Lane, wife of a rich u-tird farmer living two miles north of Carton, 111., was found dead In a woodshed by her husband on returning from Carton on Tu. sday motning. ho had ben strangled. An examination of the body by the coroner's jury uisclcs'. 1 scratches on hor throat, and the imprint of fingers there. Footprints were found leading to the back of the house through a cornfi'ld, and also leading awny from the house. A Place from winch tho tracks led was found where some one had been lying, watching the house through a hedga. The object seems to have ben neither assau t r.or robbery. Mr. T.ane is 80 years old and hi? wife wps 40. J 11 auf Ayiuo Ouu r:tiil ii.-!. Dr. Henry Sehaberg. city health officer, of Kalamazoo. Mi-h., has establishe'l a strict quarantine r.gainst the Michigan insane r.sylurn, where twenty-nine cases of smallpox and varioloid were discovered. No one is allowed to enter or leave the asylum grounds. Workman Mtmg. r. who went to his home in the city is quarantined. Vaccination of the 1 .70 j inmates ha3 begun. The health officer alleges the asylum management has been careless in admitting patients without vaccination. The disease was brought into the institution by a female nurse who recently visited her home. It was first diagnogel as chickenpox. he married Mrs. Julia L. James or New York, the bishop of Bedford and Canon Farrar performing the ceremony. He planned, organized and commanded the civic parade on the third day of the Washington centennial celebration in New York on May 1, 1SS9. the largest movement of civilians in a public demonstration known In modern history. He decMned the Republican nomination for Congress in the Tenth congressional district of New York city in 1S91. NN iHiuine llirenlen .Jerusalem. "Death and famine threaten the Holy City," says the Jerusalem correspondent of the Standard in a communication, "on account of the scanty water supply, due to the Insufficient rains of last winter. The Sultan has granted permission to the municipality to bring water from the pools of Solomon through iron pipes into the city along the line of Solomon's stone aqueduct The new works were begun today on telegraphic orders from the Sultan. They will be finished in two months." Lorillartr Will to Stand. Chancellor Magee promised counsel for the executors of Pierre Lorillard at Trenton. N. J., that he would be at the state house next Thursday, when Lori Hard's will is to be offered for probate. In a subsequent conversation with counsel here in the Rogers will case, the chancellor said he had been informed that there would be no contest in tho Lorillard case. This announcement was not official in character, although the Information was assumed to have come to the chancellor from counsel for the executor

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