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The pension appropriations for the
current year foot up $14G, 7O7 $50, which
is $1I, OO0, 900 more than last year.
Capt. w. i. Andrews started On his
p~erilous voyage across the Atlantic
ocean in a si~xteen-foot skif boat last
Wednesday afternoon.
A contract for new Methodist church
has been let at Winston. The building is
to be completed by the meeting Of the an
nual conference at that place in Decem-
Der.
1t is estimated that that the strike atthe
Homestead, Pa, steel works, has cost all
concerned, the state in the cost Of send
ing the steel company, and the wOrkmen,
about $4,000 day, or 81 ,O0O, 900 since
the trouble began. These strikes are a
costly business.
Becoming madly infatuated with ROl-
land Moore, a boy Of 10, Mrs. DR.. John
Aldrich, aged IS, offered him $4,000 to
marry Der. He did SO three years ago.
Tho matter was kept secret until last
week when the woman refused to turn
over the money. Moore has left for parts
unknown with a goOdly sum Of her
money. Both parties occupy high So
cial positions. The boy husband lived
like a monarch while there.
The police nave captured the fire bug
who has destroyed so many thousand
dollars worth Of property in San Anto-
MIA, Tex, during the past few months.
His name is Joe Mcdonald, a painter.
He fired a residence in the suburb Friday
night. and was caught as he was leaving
the premises with stolen goods in his
possession. Other stolen property was
found at his home which had been Sc
cured at recent ]incendiary fires.
An application for an absolute di-
vorcc, with alimOny for herself and two
children, will be made in the court of
%chancery tomorrow by Mrs. George kreig,
of Elizabeth, against her husband, Mrs.
Kreig alleges that she had to leave her
husband because of his infatuatiOn for
colored women. Mrs. Kreig also alleges
that her husband used to apply three
kinds Of complexion powder to his face
every evening, and that he would spend
half an hour before q looking glass at
this work.
Peter +. Young was struck on the head
and killed Friday night by unknown
thugs on Third street, near the capitol, at
Washington. Near the scene was found
an AK handle, covered with tufts of hair,
with which the fatal blows had been
struck. Young was the proprietor of a
small tobacco and confectionery store on
East Capitol street, and it has been his
custom to carry home his receipts in a
small leather handbag This is missing,
and it is presumed that robbery was the
murdcrers' motive.
a young man named Ralph Johnson,
the son of a we'll known resident of WASH
ingtOn City, met Il horrible death at the
Baltimore and Ohio station Saturday.
Just as a train was backing into the sta
ton young johnson attempted to cross
the track and was caught between the
rear car and the station bumper, crushing
his body into space not more than an
inch in thickness. As s0on as the train
came TO a standstill the engine was cut
loose and moved away, and not until the
engine could be recalled was the diving
boy released.