Bill OPPOSED FOR CAPTAIN CARTER.! Solicitor General Richards' I

at Washioxtoa.

PRISONER IS SOUND PHYSICALLY.

SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.

f principal shipping companies at Newport News, Va.. refuted to grant the increase of wages demanded by the I 'longshoremen, and a strike of 500 men

I may result-

At York. Pa.. John P. Pfeiffer, of Reading. Pa., was convicted of forgery | and sentenced to two years in the Peni-

' tentiary.

Rev. George B. Rreser. pastor of Emmanuel Reformed Church. TetHrom scaffolding at Hanover, Pa., and was

killed.

The famous hat trimmings case, whichjtas been seven years in United

«al Richards hied with the United; ch^rs Smith and William Johnson '2S5/tf ,, ^^>SiM?'on b ter ‘baTl^cd 1 *' er ? ka . ,ed at an e,cction nei,r 1S * tX

Seetcocc. He Saya, Has Been

by Three Civil Caarts and Five Jadxes, Nat Caaitlag the baited States Sap re we Caort. Which la New Consideriar the Cast

-Carter s Methods.

1 in the United State-. Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., upon conviction of fraud in connection with harbor improvements, etc., at Savannah. Ga. After reviewing the history of flic case, the Solicitor-General says in part. “The validity of Carter's conviction and sentence by the court-martial, which alone could try him for crimes com-. — :, *-d as an officer of the United f

in violation of the artid s been sustained by thret

courts and five judges, not countini

Court, below which the matter is now j h j nt ._ a , McKeesport, went on a strike, pending for the third time. , h ma) . be the.beginning of a fight beUr. Richards says that the invest!- ; tween the Amalgamated Association Rations of the Government reveal the , an< i the United States Steel Corpora-

loss of an aggregate of $.2,169,159 : tion.

through Carter s operations, of which f The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, he (Carter) • received one-third, with , decided that members of the American traveling expenses added. In view of Federation of Labor had no right to these facts. Mr. Richards asks: | entice a glass manufacturer's appren-

.“Is it any wonder that Carter wants [ bees to join the onion,

to-Ret out on hail? Is it any wonder The transport Thomas arrived at San that Rt-tfesires to be put in a position 1 Francisco with officers and men of the where he can personally handle the Thirty-fifth and Twenty-eighth Volun-’

sinews 9! war which he obtained by tcer Regiments.

fraud from the Government that edu- 1 The Shamokin Silk Mill Company, in cated him and gave him his standing ■ Shamokin. Pa., started up. the girl and reputation?" | strikers being told that their union

Describing the method of Carter's 1 would be recognized.

......

tented to by Garter personally. When Co., of Chicago, died at St. Augustine, the time came to make a payment under | Florida. the contract. Carter, who was located Forty bars of silver builion. valued at • at Savannah and had charge of the $!M0, were stolen from the stwncr work on behalf of the GovcrnmctK. : Lidc. while lying off Newark. N.J. would give to the representatives of Evidence was taken in New York tn °"~ "' 1 ""

THIS FRENCH GIRL FUIXOF NEEDLES. 120 Have Beca Extracted From Mist Landrieux Body. DOCTOR SAYS CASE IS REMARKABLE

ms:

Five Years Axo. Wbea Bat Elcvea Years OM. She Says She AaaseA Herself W.tb Otht- Children Swalknrlax Needles-The Pointed Bits ol Steel Gave Her No Coo-

cera UatU Lately.

Paris (By Cable).—A dispatch from St. Germain, near this city, described the extraordinary case of Julienne Landrieux. a servant girl, from who»< j dozer* '“ r —Jt— --*■

MRS. NATI3N HEAVILY FINED. Th: Scatence Faspcaded While Sfe* Stays Oal of Kaasat City. Kai..js City. Mo. ^Special.)—*lrs. Carrie Nation, who was arrested Sunday charged with obstrurtmg the street, was arraigned before Police Judge McAuley. fined $500 and gives until 6 o'clock to leave the city. - The Judge told Mrs. Nation that if she was found in the city after that hour she would be arrested and put in jail, he agreed to leave town and 15 mintes later boarded a street car for Kan-

ts City. Kan.

Mrs. Nation appeared in court early accompanied by her brother and a woman friend. The courtroom was literally jammed by a curious crowd. Several cates were called before Mrs.' Nation's and she watched the .proceedings with manifest impatience. When Judge McAuley finally askril Mrs. Nation

. of a — — •r has caused much damage

_.i the Rappahannock River. A general jail delivery occurred

Georgetown. Del., from the Sust county prison. Nine of the prisor*

all of whom were awaiting maL r

alone could tn- him lor crimes com--^h drtMape b) . M wing the bars of 1 wntted as as officer of the United States Endows and making ropes out of Uicn

Army, in violation of the articles of ■ clothing

has been sustained by three civil i Ha]f of th ; employees of the W. Dc

mg this ! —ees Wood plant of.the big steel comis now ; hinc. at McKeesport, went on a strike

rnt to a local druggist

imber of needles emerging from various parts of her body. He extracted them with pincers. The girl has re turned several times a day since, and up to this morning the druggist has drawn out ijo needles from her arms, hands, feet, -breast, the lobe of her ear. her eyelids and the comer of her right eye, The girl experiences no pain until she feels, the needle piercing the epidermis. The needles always emerge thick end first, and unless immediately

extracted disappear again.

Two reputable newspapers, the Matin and the Temps, have investigated the matter and vouch for the authenticity of the story. Mile, l^indricux says.that

'fivi years

improvement, and then he would draw | to a Government check for the excess oi i the contract price, representing what 0 gamblers would call "the velvet’—the fruit of the fraudulent conspiracy—«nd putting this in his pocket, would go to

Mew York. “There hi

Solomon Hot< Choctaws, who »

* killing

would meet Greene and

the Gaynors. Then the division would take place. Carter would be specially allowed oat of the amoum $75 for traveling expenses, and the balance would he divided into thirds—one-third going tV Carter, one-third to Greene and onethird to the Gaynors. (In this way Car:w out of the conspiracy $7*a.and of this amouiu-'fhe records :k brokers in l^itw York show - : sted in stocks and bonds

SaBxtz,

of atdek

that he ini $690,301.85.

DIVORCES ARE NOW INVALID.

Casses Mach Anxiety. , F sr , o\ D sS5^ls),'i32: —■iring' invalid divorces granted in Slate in which residence was not iffected.

s p? 6 --

e of rushing home immediately after decrees were granted, less than to per cent: of the divorces allowed during the recent divorce period would be

found valid if contested.

But of those secured a large percentage were agreed cases, where appearance Was made by both .-parties. Comparatively few had bittri contests, and 'y in those can the question of resi-

dence be raised. Many of the latter class, however, included distinguished Easterners and foreigners./ A majority -of these have remarried, and the decirion of riie. court not only affects their -present status, but the legitimacy 0^ many children bora subsequently to sec' ood marriage. This makes rite court’s finding far reaching and creates great

BANK SWINDLER’S RUSE dc a Be* Hurt la Tor.sto by KaWaf

' ^k'swjndl

(Special.—;A Clever le a rich haul in-To-

int of

Sam Frye.

...al ip Texas

ing a number of alleged witches, ere acquitted on the ground of insanity. Charles Henry. 14 years of age. accidently shot and killed William Myers.^ Jr., while playing at the former’s home,

near Martinsburg. W. Va.

The new hosptial at the University of Virginia was inaugurated, the anniversary of the birth of Thotna* Jefferson being celebrated at the same time. A firm of accountants engaged by the Merchants' Club of Chicago to investigate the accounting methods of the city of Chicago, in a report'to the.club state that taxes to the amount of $500,000 a year for the past decade hare been released as loss and deficiency; that clerical errors, such as posting hundreds of thousands of dollars, have remained uncorrected. and that books of record

have been destroyed.

j. Mile. I^mdri

ago. when "she was It years ' herself, witji other chawing quantities of nre-

_ owed 49 in one day. and never felt any inconvenience until recently. and bis enjoyed the best of hcahh. While relating the foregoing to the reporter of the Temps, who saw her at the druggist’s, she-exclaimed: "I feel one in my eye now.” The 'druggist then upturned her right eyelid, and with a magnet drew out four frigments of A surgeon of the hwsphal of La Saipetriere said in an interview that the

petriere said in an interview . case was quite unprecedented. Needles inserted under the skin were known have Keen borne through the musck . but there was no record of a needle introduced into the stomach cm Irom the lobe of the ear. In such the needle must have traverse

skull, which is incomprehensible. AMERICAN BOER PRISONER.

Rudolph Martiwtca Aaoat the Boer Cap-

r 1 Paris (By Cable.—"Among the Boer prisoners who recently arrived in Lis-

bon from Lorenzo Mai

larqurz. says a

special dispatch from the Portugues capital^'.'was a young American, Ran

iresidei Texas the B

can on _

, bsequcmly he

rested in Lorenzo Marquez at 1 quest of the British, auihoritr”

oVph Marlin sen. w i a son of the p )uri, Kansas and

_ _. .he president of the Mis-

souri. Kansas and Texas Railroad. He

wax captured by the British, leased as an American on promi ' ' tin. Subsequently he

Tie re-

„ - . under

suspicion of being a Boer agen: “Mr. Martinsen, — K ~-*~ '

here, securi

irtinsen, on being brought red bis release through the

ti destroyed.

Fwrrixw.

A French girl is puzzling pbysiciat of Paris, who have extracted hundreds

of needles from all parts of her She says she swallowed them

body,

i years ago. General at

American Com

Yokohama says business men and statesmen in Japan fear a financial panic in that country. '"s The engagement of Miss Daisy Leiter to Spencer Eddy, second secretary of the American legation in Paris, is re-, Liverpool receipts of sugar are enormous in expectation of the imposition by the British government of a duty

on it v

. Eleven hundred Germans and 1000 French-troops join the Paotingfn exTition against Li Knar ' r! — •

s reported ’ —

in London

lans and F^otingfr

on that a pri-

was .

telegram, bad been received to _ 1 that General French, with 500

ipturet* * ”*

ar Ofi

al Kit iwlin son's r Klerk sdi nded and

ners.

Archbishop'Martinelli, papal delegate » the United States, was preconi zed as cardinal at the consistory in Rome and

ronto Saturday, the total amot which will not be known until the tellers and ledger keepers in various banks j

check up business. A stranger assc— ‘ —

-*oc that he lived in Halifax opened in the 1 ^ D -'-" ^

a c

'it other cart

The Pope, in an addi tory, deplered the t

putt **

tijp-

irdinals were also created.

ss at the rival in several

agah

ainst 1

was marked by the ledger keep- | ■only before 1 o’clock, diking the | preceding **“ —*- J

teller an

$Lj55^was presented ne procedure was of Commcrce. wh< to $4900 was cashc eral other banks

Iress

:S of Europe o! hostilities

Church and of the law against rel-

igious associations in France.

The Italian Consul Gctfin-al at Zaiizi- — ° to break

J the pal-

__— and the h‘s son and quantities of arms

captured. _

‘ meeting held in Sofia, resoadopted protesting against

1 the members of the Macej dontan committee and condemning the

adopted at attitude of Russia.

Te a check j- Li'Hung Chang has asked General

1 Chaffee to leave a sufficient number of ; American troops to police the Chinese

city.

j General Gras, inventor of a rifle, died

at Auxcrre, France.

Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany, arrived in Vienna and was rd by Emperor Francis Joseph

Austrian —^ -

British 1

check for ,( the ledger k<

' , during the ; At a big n Hus cneck. I l m ions were nted to .the 1 the arrest of

Jeffrrson City, Mo. (Special).—Governor Dockery has vetoed’ the compulsory education bill, entitled “An Act

to enforce the constitutional right of; and every child in the_Stale to an education; j. Ft

-to provide for truant or parental schools that . ' and attendance officers in cities of 10.- : and that he has advised

ooo population or more, and to prohibit render,

the employment of children during I Prince Ching declares that the school honr* " Governor Dockery dc- I sionary statements regarding a rrb dared that the Act interfered with the in Mongolia ate not supported b)

» «i parents and savored j fact*.

KILLED A CHIEF OF POLICE k Major Pay* Penally ol Crime la

Meadville. Pa. (Special).—Frank Major was-hanged at 2 06 in the afteraocm. Major's crime was the murder of Chiei of Police Daniel McGrath, of Titusville. Pa., on November it, 1899. He was a member of a gang that, blew open the safe and robbed' the Titusville Railroad ticket office and later went to a house on East Spring street, where they intimidated and robbed the inites. They were tracked to this place Chief McGrath and Policeman Shcchy. The gang opened fire at once and Shcehy fell dangerously wounded. Mcgrath grappled with the man at the door, and after he had received his own death wound shot and kiHed one of the Korea Arm* Aisles! Jspso. London (By Cable).—The Government of Korea, according to a dispa:ch to the Daily Mail from St. Petersburg, has decided to build thirty-two coast fortresses to resist a possible Japanese invasion. According to the same correspondent dhe Korean Government has promulgated a Taw enforcing the dea:h penalty for opium smoking.

o the charges s gainst police ai

r McAuley then gave id warned Mrs. Nation :

e to this city again. The fit

ended. It will be held

his dcci-

_ Judgc^McAu!

Nation in case she should return, and until she is released from the court’s order she is practically barred from visit-

ing Kansas Ci:y.

Mrs. Nation pleaded that she wished

to go to Liberty, Mo., within a few days and asked it she would be permitted to pass through Kansas City enroute. Judge McAuley answered in the affirmative. but warned Mrs. Nation not to

stop off here.

A BIO FIGHT FOR FORTUNE Estate of the Late Senator McPherson Involved ••Sf.000.000 Contest. Jersey City. N. J. (Special).—A fight has been begun for the $5,000,000 estate of the late Senator John R. McPher- . . . Mn

trust

elopeme

ated.

only daughter, whose

lent and marriage to Dr. Muir

createdj sensation.

According to thfc terms of the will Mrs. Muir was to have the income of the estate during her life, after which the income was to revert to Aaron S. Baldwin, the executor. Ac his death. $50,000 was to be given Christ Hospital, this city; $10,000 to the Emergent Hospital. VVashington. D. C.. and tl

residue to Yal

—and

»n. D. C.. and the. ■ersity for the edu-

1 support of poor students.

The daughter. Mrs. Muir, arrived from Europe on Thursday and. with her husband, she 'at once called upon counsel and instructed him to file an 1 ' *he probate of the will-

filed will permit-almast

msel

appeal Iron The appeal

The appeal as filed will permit-a any kind of testimony to set the tfient aside, isnch as undue influence, lack of testamentary capacity, and *imilar grounds. The lac: that the will was drawn up and signed only the day before Mrs. McPherson died, and whilst her only child (Mrs. Muir) was in Europe with the Hoboken physician with whom she cloned, w ilh also be one of the points in the effort to set aside the

Disaster at Crlyple Creek.

Cripple Creek. Col. (Special).'—An electric car on the high line of the Cripple Creek district railway jumped the ’track and completely turned over at the terminal Ration, corner of Second and \ avenues, injuring the motorman -n of the twenty passenger*. The car was running 20 miles an hour when it struck the curve, which is very sharp at the point where the wreck occurred.

Coart of Arbitration.

The Hague (By Cable).—Dr. W. H. Dc Beaufort, president of the administrative council oi the permanent A»urt oi arbitration, has notified all the powers concerned that the court is now conlituted. This notification is intended - - • - —

THE BRITISH RUSH A BOER LAAGER. Killed. Ten Wounded and Many

Giber* Captured.

ONLY THREE BRITISHERS WOUNDED. A Little SeaMtloa Ceased la Loadoa by a Rumor Thai Genera! French. With Five Hiadrcd British Troops. Had Beta Coptared While HU Force Was Eavriopcd la

a Mitt on the Hills.

London (By-Cable).—The War Office

jm received the following dispatch will a

WOm J,ord Kitchener, dated Pretoria, injurious to legitimate newspaper* : April 15: . , i periodicals which will stop absolutely an "Colonel Sir Henry Rawlinson 5 col- premium inducements.-direct or indirect, umn rushed the South 1-aager. north- , and of whatever character, for *uli‘eripwest of Klerksdorp. at daylight. Six ; lions? In other word*, after a publisher Boers were killed, to wounded 2nd 23 , lias fixed a price cm hi* publication any taken prisoners. Jle captured a 12- , bonus or premium given to the subsetipounder. one pompom complete, and j licr or any combination with another two ammunition wagons with ammum- | thing except a second-class publication lion, shall vitiate that subscription in its re'Onr casuakies were thrte wounded lation to the second-class rates of post-

“Colonel Plumer captured > fi^d cor- age."

n. wit* ten wagon* j

LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

Stop Postal Abases.

Having repeatedly failed to secure remedial legislation from Congress to prevent abuses of the privilege of secondclass mail matter, the Pottoffic* Department officials have under crmsidcraliou the question of the adoption of a proposed rule, by authority of the Postmaster General, to bring about the desired reform*. With this object in view. Mr. Edwin C Madden. Thud AssisUbt Postmaster General, has addressed a long circular letter to about 400 publishers of newspapers and periodicals, set-

£ l^r/m rSS

will a departmental rule be regarded as — 00 j

n inducements.-d whatever rharac

' r word*.

-net and seven 1 ■ and eighteen rifh

were killed." . Southern Railwav. Monday morning. J- 1 c- .I- o. 1. ......... . - .. ;—a . f , 1 ........

ng Colonel Pilcher's operation* ige River Colony seven Boers

Frcsideat's Tear to the Pacilk-

Thc President. Mrs. McKinley and

Washington by the

ta."X F sX3 , br ! uic I, K.: r » Lsn# isra.

has been captured by the Boe-r wl his Wee was enveloped in a mist the hills. No confirmation of the port can be obtained, but **— —

causn? a sensation for a tint The War Office knows r the rumored capture and

credits tl

n, covering and' seven

two Pullman slcepci

credits the report. party from here to The British newspaper* and. maga- j from New Orleans i zincs, commentisg upon the alternating i E. O. McCormick, periods of hope and apprehension which ; manager of the Soutl

periods o[ hope and apprehension which characterize the la:cr stages of the | South African campaign, comjiarc-these |

with the later stage* of the American | The President has War of Independence,as though to em- i William M. Jenkins •*-— 1 ' I Oklahoma Ten 1

•r-'i p

War of Independence,as t phasize these fluctuations. While the letters of respoi lents in Pretoria depfei

,:her des f -

respondents

rw Orleans,

> Portland. Ore.. . passenger traffic

Southern Pacific Line. New (Wien or for OkUlomi-

rided to appoint be Governor ol

“LX'S

ivernor ol -cecd the

msflile cor-', present Cover— let the situ- j will expire soon.

jn in a rather despairing mood, the ; Mr. Jenkins is the present secretary

Pretoria representative of the Daily of the Territory.

Mail sends a dispatch of the most hope- | Cassius McDonald Barnes, whose ‘ is Governor of Oklahoma Terri-

ss. ■ cnssXNgf srx

-■——ling movements. ,I_ *— 1 *" 1 *- -'— — * *- - 00 - ■—

tweepi of 250,

000 mounted men. with a good supply | in Guthrie. Oklahoma, and has been of horses. 40.000 having been secured hi 1 prominent in Oklahoma affairs since

Cape Colony alone.” I that year.

FOUR PEOPLE STRUCK »Y EXPRESS. Mr. Rodeabart la Office.

t*™ -»- ««. i-. l 4r, R 1 ^Jx:"h,. R XS t s„;l

Moaiea Harled Great Distance. * member of the Civil Service Commis-

Wilkesbarre. Pa. (Special).—A party sion. All the employees of the Comof four people, while crossing the tracks mission were introduced to him. Later of the Lehigh Valley railroad, at South the board held a session and transacted Wilkesbarre. were run down by the Buf- business that had been waiting for a falo express going north. Three of the considerable time pending a meeting of party were killed and one injured. Tlie a majority of its members. When asked dead are; Morris O'Connell, aged 41: regarding bis. civil service policy. Mr. Mr*. Morris O'Connell, aged Mr*. | Rodenberg said: "I certamly believe in Frank Cranmer. aged 40. Injured: Frank <be spirit of-civil service reform, and I Cranmer. O'Connell and his wife were will execute and enforce the law to the

—tertaining the Cranmer couple, whose; best of my ability."

roe is in Bradford county. During . 4 c, r evening they visited relatives in this _. _

A Saxessor to Baroa Five.

tiScatK

take the place of a formal inst

tion. The court has no: by China. Luxemburg.

istalla-

been signed

Tur-

CokroelJHaskk Dei* Omaha. ‘ Neb. (Special).—Colonel John R. Musick. aotbor, journalist and politician, died of heart failure at his apartments m this city. Injuries received while rescuing the injured after a cyclone at Kirksvtlle, Mo., were causes which led to his death. Colonel Musick devoted a g«at part oi his life to writing historical '-stories for young people

home i ...

ZrStS te* return "v* 'tee | D^rtmcnt h« been home of the O'Connells. When they Y~ d J h ™““, h ‘ ke . Ammo* Ambassa-

LX '.K’X

sssr ifxp'Xw— «r W ^d h wl^ "pffi d up ‘htubs^tuf praIT.ion% ’bW and one arm broken. He was taken to : Capita! News ia OeacraL a .hospital, where be died m a short lime. | chief Justice Bingham, of the Di.-

Huntington. W. Va. (Special).—Dr. Charles Kelley Gardner, one of the oldest physicians in this city, died Sunday, the result of an overdose of morphine, taken, it is believed, with suicidal intent. r»_ — — U -I- 1 - 1 " 1 IgfioUt

THF MANILA FRAUD TRIALS. v SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES.

lining. commissary -bile the depot comer of the ' Teoricr-

. onally spent dSys a* Pitt's house in questionable sociaty. Pitt's house is a bacchanalian rendezvous, and prominent officers frequently visited it, drinking champagne and playing poker. Women of dopbtfui reputation hay-c often been known to be there. It is aU«*effXKiri5»e ’ ' ’ ’

Manila (By Cable).—The (rial ol Commissary Sergeant John Mcsion. charged with complicity the commissary frauds, i* finished. No verdict was announced and Mesion's conviction i* uncertain. Other* trials of those implicated will follow. Capt. James C. Read, formerly depot commissary at Manila, has been ar-

rested.

It is alleged ihat entries upon the books of Evans & Co., governmenf contractors, indicate that the commissary officers Received the following sums:

upward of

gover

the t .... the followi Major George B. Davies, t $1000: Capt. James C. Reao. *1000; Capt. Frank II. Lawton. $750; and Mr. B. Tremaine. Colonel Woodruffs chief clerk, $700. It also appears that Evans A Co. furnished the handsome residence of Colonel Woodruff. Harold M. Pitt. of Evans ft Co., who is

& [ l’•Ord State* will leave here Saturday.! r. Gcorral Wood will preen* the com- I [ raWMin k> th* Pr t »ideM- He w.H l t . here Froiay and go to Wa-hragio. way of Tarapa. Fu TW (uU. » —“>• ht-S* 1 .

a that had the inside

track in securing goteroinent contracts, and h is also asserted that he was the prime mover in the scheme to re-estab-lish cockpits .in Manila. Mrs. Lara being subsidized in securing a cockpit It is asserted that the commissary dc-

lUthoritzed purchases

e* of champagne. Pitt sold addition to what the trans- . _ght, the commissary import-

ed aoo gallons in February and a like amount, in March. The commissary and the commissary sergeant kept private cirriages and indulged in other cx-

ithy, several years. SWa ia • Fftear*

. I a temporary reci .

Colum^ia^S. C. (Special).—Captam j farmer*^National ^Bank -^Vct^enne*.

KILLED FOR WINTER'S WAGES.

shaw and Greenville Shaw, of Washington. be delivered to the Maryland authorities on a requisition from the Governor of Maryland. The men are

WaytaM aaf Mattered After c , har ,^ fc,l *i'h "statutory burning " of a *' "" mamtrev dwelling in Montgomery county, a St rattle The salaries of the clerks in the post-

Greenville Junction. Me. (Special).— * n a11 large cities and town* The finding of the body of Mathison !" ,he country have been ordered to be Pare, a woodman, at Askwith. has re- increased, owing to the growth of busialed a most brutal murder, with rob- j neSf - Postmasicr Warheld, at Balti•rv as the motive. * j more, has been authorized to appoint The victim, who was 21 years old. > ut more clerks on July 1, and six more

id worked this winter on Moosehcad : on October 1..

ke. On March 8. when he had fin- I Robert Grayson, a Baltimore and tied his work, he received his wages. 1 Ohio braketnan, living in Baltimore, nounting to $108. and started for his ; w*s killed at Langdon, District of Co-

nne in St. Benoit. Canada. . himbia.

No tidings as to his whereabouts I Seventy thousand square feet of were learned until Thursday last, when . ground have been bought in Washinghis mutilated body was found by a party ,o n for buildings for the French em-

of wood cutters. The body, which was ; ha^s) - -

frozen, lay in the snow. - The man had .} b . e ynilcd States Supreme Court deitly been shot by a rifle ball, cided that divorces are only generally struck him in the face. There ' a! ' <i ^hen .the parlies have a legal''

which struck him in (lie face. There indications that k struggl’e took

the rifle wound had not

ital. as there e and neck.

ic biitt end

oaey and a valise ^ PUb t RaOwiy Newport - News.

There was a meeting here utives of the commercial

bodii

object wras to formulate a plan to creating -a railway ( commission.

Vlctia at Kralack; Fcsd.

SneedsviUe, Tenu. (Special).—Even Bledsaw. a feudist, was found dead, sit-

I when .the parties hare a

bona-fide residence in*the State which

granted them. -e

ife cuts ' The Government is said to have made side of : compromises with the importer* in the ,hed as if from a blow "hat'trimmings'' cases,

id of the rifle. His i 81:6 President made a number of ap- ' with clothes : poiurment* oi surgeons in the Volun-

poiotroenu * i teer Altny.

j A* a result of a _ ; xuguratiou excrcist

a meeting during the in-

___ — rises- the engagement is /c ... announced of ex-Congre»sman J. Frank oirtpresaT j A,drich - f Missouri, to Miss Malhilde

century, died of paralysis.

, isador Cam bon ha* purchased , site on which the French government

will erect an embassy.

Plans have been arranged to be presented to Congress far an extension of

! the Cap—'

mcosaw. a icuurav, was luanu acaa. sit- The ting upright against a tree, grasping his and a rifle rightly. It is beheyed he had been the Ma

decoyed to the desolate spot in hope t roism. despite the recommendation u>

who killed hi* ] the contrary by Rear Admiral Crown-

t The Comptroller of the Currency ' — rived

the Capitol.

The Navy Department gave a medal ad a graunty to Sergeant Helms, of "larine Corps, for gallantry and hedespite the recommendation *-

Secretarj- Hay has been rounding the •* V learn what so* ol a treaty ngland Va-tng on the isthmian