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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05
Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION
FROM WASHINGTON.

For the month of October the imports
of gold were SIG s97, ,9is and the exports
were $500. :I95.
EXPORTS from the United States FOR
the month of October were valued at
sl0a, g3;}. apj. the largest in the history
of the government. Imports for the
same period were worth s56.795,22S9.
GEN KIMBALI.. of the life saving serr-
ice shows in his annual report that
during the past year the total value Of
property saved was 81. $50: total
value of property lost, 81. 3S6. .si5: total
number of persons saved. 3.iil; total
number lost. 80. The cost of the service
was S9ID. .2Ol.
The president has appointed William
X. sullivan. Chicago newspaper man,
United States consul at Bermuda
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the eth aggregated
81, OO7. 49l. .6@9. against 81, a53, O3i,1s6 the
previous week. The decrease as cuE-
pared with the corresponding week of
ls90 was 1876.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven davs ended on
the 18th mum bcred 2gj, against 2S5
the preceding week and 2I9 for the cor
responding week last year.
IN his annual report W =. Hepburn.
solicitor of the treasury. states that
there remains on the docket of his
Office 81. .OOo O01 of uncollectcd Judg-
mcutS. The whole number of suits
brought during the year was 5.sli, Of
which 2,T5i were decided in favor of
the United States The whole amount
collected from ali sources was S197, So,
being an excess of S5ll.32S over the
previous year.
THRorGHoUr the country healthy
condition of trade was reported, with
| the exports increasing and the imports
decreasing.
\ TREATY allowing absolute free
trade between the United States and
| Hawaii has been negotiated.
IT was shown in the third annual re.
port on the statistics of railways In
| the United States" that at the end q.
the fiscal year the railway mileage in
| the United States was lG9, 53I miles
| The number of railway corporations
was LII. The total number of men
employed on the railways was 7i9, sol;
total capitalization of railway proper
| ty. ~. Sg4. 49,. 100. The total number Ot
persons reported killed during the ycai
was 6. so and the total number rcport'
ed injured was 29,O@4.
THE secretary of the interior in his
annual report shows that the nurn bel
of agricultural patents which include
| those for homes'cadS and prccmptions
issued during the year was l!4.30O
| which. allowing 100 acres to each pat
| mt, would embrace au aggregate oi
| Is. 2g1. 600 acres. Over 1900 Indians
| have become citizens of the United
| States, and the total Indian population
was reported "a 30, ,4S3, exclusive oi
natives of Alas ka.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05
WEST AND SOuIH.

AT Raleigh, y. C.. falling limbs of
trees struck two boys, Charles stone
and John Briggs. fatally wounding
them.
4 FEW miles west of Colbert Station.
l. T.. prairie fires destroyed great
quantities Of hay and did much dam
age TO buildings. occupied mostly by
poor settlers
Ir was said that John Powers, a
laboring man of Sheridan township,
Mich, was afflicted with a malignant
type of genuine lcprosy.
The Salton lake that appeared on
the Colorado desert in Colorado some
time ago was rapidly disappearing.
BY a landslide on the Northern Pa
citic road near Canton, Wash, two
workmen were killed and six fatally
injured.
ABSEI WILSON, farmer, found a
coffee pot containing S6T0 IN gold
while seinIng in a creek near st Jo-
seph, Mo.
THE First national bank of Whining
ton. y. C.. closed its doors.
The Dressed Beef and Packing Com
pany's plant at Dallas, Tex, was
burned. causing loss of 100000; in
surance. S5l,005.
Gov. A. p. HovEY's funeral took place
at Mount Vernon. Ind, his successor,
Gov. Chase. delivering the sermon.
AT Peru, Ind, Uncle Jimmy" kooutz
celebrated the 10th anniversary of his
birth He has been blind fortthe past
twenty years.
AFTER an absence of twelve years
Charles NJ. Spangier returned TO his
wife at Hillsboro. ILL.,, and found that
she had been married again. lie left
on the next train.
A TORNADO nearly swept the the viii
lage of jefferson. Md. ont of existence.
In Chicago William Smith was under
arrest on the charge of burning off the
hands of his 9-year-old daughter.
A MOB took George MoXy (coloredI
from the Jail a. Many. La, and lynched
him for assaulting a lS-year-old white
girl
AN engine boiler exploded near
Akron. O.. and Engineer .Iohn Brown
and Fireman George Parker were
| killed
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

nlAND BILL" ALLEN.

The Great Public BenCfactor who Made
Himself Poor While Working for His
Fellows, Ends His Days ~ Public Charge.
CoLUMBrS, O., Nov. 50.-The great
public benefactor. known in history as
Land Bill" Allen, ended his days in
the Franklin county intirmary yester-
day morning at o'clock. after snf-
fering one week from paralysis. Mr..
Allen was born in Window, Conn, May
%, $40 In early years his father
moved to Rhode Island and he was
given an education. lie also learned
the tailor trade. Land Bilr' Allen
also entered the journalistic arena, rum
ming the Rhode Islander. lie married
Zena Weaver, and sold his paper and
came to Columbus in 1929. He edited
the Ohio State Journal and the Cincin-
natl Gazette for Il number of years.
Having the ''homestead' idea, that of
giving 100 acres of land to every man
who would guarantee to settle on it in
the west, he spent $50, 900 introducing
his plans In 1868 the great bill was
passed in congress, but Allen never
took any lands. lie moved to Sharon
township, this county. and began
farming. Shortly afterwards his wife
died.
Sickness came on the old benefactor,
and little by little his property passed
ont of his possession. being sold for
taxes, leaving him at last penniless and
helpless in his advanced years. ~
few weeks ago he was admitted
TO the Franklin county infirmary,
where every attention has been given
him and subscriptions were raised all
over the country to assist him. Ere
the assistance of his friends could be
appreciated. death relieved the old man
of his troubles. His body is in charge
of the superintendent of the infirmary,
who will hold it until Wednesday,
giving the friends an opportunity to
bury him. A monument fund is al
l
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05
THE TREES GIFTS.

All decked in autumn ia -rs gold
A brave old tree raised htgn
His head, and many people saw,
As daily they passed by
And on them all the red leaves fell,
Each one its helpful tale 10 tell
into the ehlldrcn romping by
The colots spoke OF JOY;
To maids the red meant lore and his.
And 20 the growing boy
Ii uea-t srabition, fire and youth
So each one .St,pa = living truth:
The poet felt blissful pain.
Amidst the glowing shower.
This ripened to a song, which moved
The world by its sad power.
Fhe 1rtist caught tfse beauty rare
And made Z p'-trfe. Nonsrous isir.
The man OF thought foGEn ~ sh~ l>oVes
A sermon strong and grand.
Which to a multitude he gave.
Inspiring heart and hand
To saddenet ,res, the rustiinS breath
Said: Life is chang, ,here Is no dealn'
And when the last leaf fell the tree
Found comfort in the thought
That he who gives Is ever rich,
And so his heart failed not
And now, through all his waiting days,
He lifts TO Heaven a song Of praise
Myrtle H Clergyman. In Detroit Free t'Fes'
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

The total gram movement for the
first three months of the crop year in
the spring wheat states of Minnesota
and the two DalSOtas shows receipts at
the two terminal points-Duluth and
Minneapolis - of 53, 500, 900 bushels
The figures are official for both cities,
except for the last day of November.
This is estimated at one-third of the
entire crop of these states Of tins
Duluth received %. 9.O69. 900 bushels and
MINNEAPOLIS "a. $50. 900 bushels. There
are now in store at the,two cities s.0O0,-
900 bushels. This movement far ex-
ceeds anything ever known IN TINS
country or elsewhere.
An awful calamity occurred at Black
burn, England, on the 3Oth An eN-
plosion from some unknown cause took
place in the cellar of the Crown hotel.
causing the collapse of the hotel and
two adjoining stores, and burying a
large number of persons in the ruins,
most of whom were burned to death in
the fire which followed. Thirty-two
persons are believed to have lost their
lives
REV. FATHER PETER HAvERMASs, of
Troy. \. Y, cOmmemorated. on the
Goth. the sixty-first anniversary of his
ordination in the priesthood. He is
the oldest priest in this country, hav-
ing been born in Belgium in 1905. and
entering the ministry in this country
twenty-five years later.
Nnt-nSti n 4
Caprivi's speech in the reichstag de-
priyes the hostile articles in the Ger
man Russophobe papers of all their i'm
nortance. The visit of VI. De Giers has
had a valuable result in dispelling the
clouds between Germany and Russia
and France.
REV. JAMES FIELD SPAULDING, for
/ twelve years rector of Christ church,
Cambridge, Mass. who recently re-
stoned. on the 29tn announced to his
narisbioners that he had become a con-
vert to Romanism.
The fftieth anniversary of the con-
secration to the episcopate Of Peter
Richard Keurick, archbishop of st.
Louis, was celebrated in that city on
the 30th.
An effort is being made by friend:
of DIR. ]. W. Hamilton to have tine
president reappoint him surgeon-gen
eral of the marine hospital service.
The strike of miners in the Pas-de
Calais district of France, involving 40,
600 men, is over. The men returned tt
work on the 1st.
THE suit to test the validity Of the
Mckinley tariff law was begun in tn,
supreme court of the United States oI
| the Soth.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

THE smallest man in the world"
a midget from Holland, "a years of
age. who calls himself Prince Mig
non." is exhibiting in Berlin. This lit
tie chap. who is exactly two feet high.
is a perfectly formed human being. and
his performances As an acrobat are
really wonderful lie can sing pretty
well, makes his little speeches in
clear AMI ringing voice. and. dressed as
an admiral or in evening dress, proves
himself an excellent actor.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

THE women of California have in
stalled the widow of John c. Free
mont, the famous Pathfinder, in a
pretty little home in the heart of an
orange grove in Los Angeles, as an ex-
precision of their love and gratitude to
the man who did so much preliminary
work toward the building up of the
magnificent commonwealth of Cali
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

THE average number of American
patents issued yearly is about 10000.
England. which comes nearest to us,
issues only about 1000 to 5000 year,
and its system is very much more
lax than ours. Patents are issued in
England without any conditions as
to novelty or merit, and not two appli-
cations in hundred are rejected. In
Prussia the number granted annually
is less than 100; in Belgium l.5OO to
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE three children belonging to an
English family named Trump were
suffocated in their home in Rue Dom
Unique, Paris
Oy the Orclgraise line in Russia
train was dcrailed on bridge and four
cars were hurled into the river below,
killing twcnty-three persons AMI
wounding ten.
A CIECI.LAR was issued at st. Peters
burg to the governors of the various
provinces notifying them to forbid
Jews to buy corn.
ADVICES from Pekin confirm the re-
port that armed bands had devastated
whole district in northern China, pill
LACED and burned mission stations and
massacrcd over 100 Christians.
TIE corn crop in Mexico was said to
be a failure, and the demand for Amer
lean corn would aggregate millions of
bushels.
Is bull-fighting arena at Guanajua-
to. Mex, several hundred assembled
persons to witness fight, when part
of the amphithcater gave way and
twelve persons were crushed to death.
OFF the English coast the British
bark Georgetown. Capt. Scott, was
wrecked and the captain S wife and six
members OF the crew were drowned.
A PROCLAMATION by President Peix-
otto, of Brazil, disclaims all dictatorial
authority and summons congress to
! meet December Is.
Is France consular inquiries showed
! an Indifference and in some instances
/ antagunism to the Columbian worlds
| fair.
ALARGE force of rebels had battle
with the imperial troops near Ching
! King. China. and the imperialist were
defeated with the loss of 700 killed and
many wounded
: BY the loss of the American brig Ia
hiti in the Pacific ocean 300 Gilbert is
! landcrs on board under contract for
,vnrl, in Mexico were drowned.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05
THE WORK OF FIENDS.
A Crowded Passenger Train Thrown from
the Track with Fatal Results.

a Crowded Passenger Train Thrown from
the Track with Fatal Results.
CHARLESTON. =. C., Nov. 30.-The
south bound passenger train with 200
passengers aboard was wrecked. 20
miles north of this city, at 10 o'clock
Saturday night, on the South Carolina
railroad. One man, the fireman, named
Parks. was buried under the tender
ard crushed to death. Baggagemaster
Anderson. Express Messenger Pierson
and three passengers were seriously in
iured. 1t was the work of train
wreckers.
The train was made up of four
coaches, Pullman and baggage-car.
All were thrown down a 3O-foot en-
bankment into a swamp, and all ex-
cept the Pullman were badly wrecked
There were upwards of 200 passengers
on the train. and the light list of casu-
alties is regarded as miraculous.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

lN session in Chicago the worlds fair
directory figured the expenses OF the
exposition at 2l,O0O,O 600.
NICHOLAS STARK and his brother
Leonard were fatally stabbed at a
German dance in Cedar Rapids Ia,
during a quarrel
Grs SIMMcSps aud Frank Garrett
were hanged at Mansfield, La, for the
murder of IN unknown man, and
Lorenzo Perez, 4 Mexican, was hanged
at Midland. Tex.
SEVEN sailors were drowned by the
wreckinr of the steam barge oswe-
catchie and its consorts, the Goodale
and Potter. on Lake Huron off Stur-
geon point
THE millionaire banker of Kansas
CITY. No. David I. Beals, whose ,
year-old boy was kidnapped, paid So
900 to the kidnapcrs for the return of
the child.
Ten business places at Rock Creek,
O.. being half of the business portion
of the town, were burned.
DURING a fight Ietween train hands
and Italian workmen at Yorbville, o.,
three of the latter were fatally wounded.
JOHN MILLER and Joseph Wolph,
neighbors, fought with an ak and a
hatchet near Lima, o., and both would
die.
On the Flint & Pere Marquette road
a passenger train crashed into the rear
of the Lake Shore express at Toledo,
O.. causing the death of seven persons
and badly injuring twenty Others
THREE men robbed Isaac Simmons,
farmer. and his wife, living near
Tranquility, O.. of $1,000, all the money
the old couple had saved for number
of years.
AT Marshalltown. Ia, ID. c. Thomas,
an employe of a packing house, shot
and killed John HockridGe, the proprie'
tor of 4 boarding house, and then COM
mittcd suicide.
\ GRAIN elevator and contents at Es-
CANADA, Mich, were burned, causing a
| loss of S250,O0)
THE fiftieth anniversary of the or
dination to the priesthood of Arch
/ bishop Peter Richard Kenrick was eel
ebratcd in 81. Louis
/ IN the Northwestern railway yard,
in Chicago a mail ear was burned, and
eighty sacks of mail matter were de
stroyed.
FIRE destroyed a large portion of the
business part of Tracy, Minn.
THE death of George Wheaton Allen
better known a. ''Land-Bill" Allen
the original of the homestead act, oc
Cured in Columbus, o., aged S3.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

SOCIALISM is rapidly spreading in
tiermany. The number of socialists
who voted at the elections in 1871 was
lOl, 927: in 1874, 32l go: in 1879. 49i, a.;
in 1873. 431, 15S; in 1851, 3ll,961. At
this period Prince bismarck caused the
inti-socialist laws to be passed. In
1884 the socialist vote was 5i9, 800; in
1887, 763, I2s and in 1890. 1.34I, So.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

From water, sugar. a certain kind of
mineral salts and free acid an arti-
fetal honey may be made that can he
used with good effect now and then in
relieving the tired maple molasses of
commerce from its monotonOus attend
ance on the sad and spiritless buck
wheat cake now prevalent.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05
The Chinese government has adopted

The Chinese government has adopted
extreme measures in order tc convince
foreign powers that it is in earnest in
its efforts to protect foreigners a de-
cree has been issued making the print
ing and publishing of anti-foreign
placards a capital offense. and those
already under arrest are to be beheaded
as warning to others In the ordi-
nary course of events their execution
might be delayed two months, but the
government will not suffer the laws
delay. small though it may be, to inter
fere with its demonstration of SINGER
ity. Whether western nations will be
pleased by an exhibition of zeal which
outrages their principles of justice re-
mains to be seen.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

The second of the three competitive
tests of armor plate made in the
United States took place few days
since on the shore of the Potomac. near
Washington. and demonstrated in the
opinion of Secretary Tracy and experts
that this country can produce better
armor for vessels than can be produced
in EurOpc
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05
An Omaha Editor to Receive an Unwef.
come Welcome.

OMAHA. Neb., Nov. 29.-When Editor
Rosewater, of the Omaha Bee. return 5
from Washington. where he went with
the Omaha delegation seeking the re-
publican national convention, he will
find a policeman waiting for him Yes
terday q. VI. Hitchcock, editor of the
World-IIerald, filed a complaint against
him charging him with criminal libel,
which is felony in Nebraska. Rose
water recently stated in an editorial
that Hitchcock perjured himself when
he took an oath to his alleged circula'
ton.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05
-Four Serious Charges Against the Mayor
of Allegheny City.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. Nov. 29.-Last
evening Mayor Wyman of Allegheny
Citywas notified that four charges Of en-
bezzlement and extortion had been pre-
ferred against him by City Comptroller
Brown before Alderman McMasters
Without awaiting the formality of an
arrest, Mayor Wyman visited the alder
mans office and gave bail in $1,000.
The hearing in the case was set for
Friday next The charges specify as
sessment CT witness fees, collecting the
same, and failure to turn the money
thus collected over to the city treasury.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

PROF. Keller. of the Allegheny oh.
servatory. estimates that the sun will
warm and light the world for ten mil.
lion years. This should arrest the pam
icky feeling entertained by some per-
sons in consequence of statements that
Old Sol is gradually withdrawing from
huSiueSS
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05
Death of n Wealthy Rcrluse.

G.. NJ. Pike the wealthiest man in
Texas county. died at his home. eight
miles west of Licking, aged about &c
years. of pneumonia. By energy and
zeal he had amassed an immense for
tune. His mode of living was some
what unique for man OF wealth. he
living in seclusion among the hills OF
Pine river.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

The government library building at
Washington is to be of New Hampshire
granite and the stone for one story of
the building was recently shipped from
the quarry. 1t will require two and a
half years more to get out the stone for
the entire .Vilding.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

JAPAS has been visited by terrible
earthquake. one of the most dcstruc-
tive of modern times. The point of cen
tral convulsion seems to have been
some one hundred miles west of loko-
hama The bed of 4 river was raised
six feet and nearly two hundred miles
of embankment were ruined. Newly
formed geysers spoutcd mud for hours,
n lake six hundred yards long was
formed at the foot of a mountain, and
numerous yawning assures opened at
the feet of terrified men and women in
the cities, while their residences were
tumbling about their heads. About 1000
people were killed and many injured
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

KAISER WILHELM is eighteen times a
duke. twice grand duke, ten times a
count, fifteen times a seigneur and
three times a margrave, besides being
the king of Prussia and emperor of Ger
many
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05
Death of Ex-Jud:c John McCue.

Ex-Judge John McCue died at his
hcme in Pike county. AT the time OF
his death he was president of the Farm
ers' bank of Bowling Green.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

THE oldest college graduate in Amer
ica. SO far as known, is Amos Andrew
Parker. of Fitzwilliam, y. ii. lie is
also the aIumnus who has been gradu-
ated the greatest mum ber of years from
an American college. He graduated
from the University of Vermont in 1913,
and he celebrated his Tooth birthday.
He is finely preserved old gentleman,
and reads, writes and gets about like a
man of 30. His father, Nahum Parker,
was soldier in the revolutionary war
and afterward United States senator
from New Hampshire, and for twenty
years a judge. Two uncles of Amos
were killed at the battle of Lexington.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

The ST. Louis Traffic commission have
asked the st. Louis and Mexican lines
for protection against the freight rate OF
So. per 100 from New York to Mexico.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

CHARLES brigham, who entered the
postal service in Boston in 1887. is still
clerk in the post Office in that city, in
which ne has seen ten postmastcrs
come and go, and is now serving under
the eleventh.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

The st. Louis Baptist orphans home
has been remodeled and enlarged, and
the institution will now shelter more OF
the little unfortunates.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

Rov. the 1-year-old child of j. L.
Phclan. an engineer on the Missouri.
Kansas & Texas road, fell upon piece
of glass at SedaIia and the left eye was
cut rOmplctely out.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

THUNDER and lightning are exceed
ingly rare on the Pacific coast A genu-
inc thunder storm has visited California
but twice in twelve years.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

CHARLES STEWART PARNELL's estate
will be inherited by his brother, John
ParneIl, who has left this country for
Ireland
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

THE trunk of one tree in the new
state of Washington was large enough
10 hold twenty-eight people, who util-
lied if as dining-room.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

Circuit Attorney Clover of st. Louis
has instituted mandamus proceedings
against sixty-six companies under the
antitrust law.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

-sbe-s.How can we keep them nom
knowing that We are or'oe snu
GROOM" He-"Oh, il anyone asks nv
Il YOU are my wife IN say; No
Brooklyn Life.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05

The 7-months-old babe of Mrs. Joseph
Fortune was burned to death in Kansas
CITY. The mother was badly burned
irving to rescue it.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-05
For Enhezzlement.

J.C. Barber, formerly treasurer Of
Mcdonald county, has been sent to the
penitentiary for two years for embez.
clement,