Tombstone epitaph., 1892-08-07

addressed the assemblage while drunk. 0TTAwA--It is reported that mil lion dollars will be spent on the forti- fcations of British Columbia- Me Kenzie Bowell, Minister Militia and General Herbert will go west shortly 10 lcok over the ground, and if indi- cations may be relied on, it will n@t
 be long before the work will be begun os throwing up line of defenses which
 will make Victoria Il iortiiiei city, and
 the naval station at Esquimault in
 vulnerable in the event of war.
 NEW ORLEANs-Chief of Po'ice Gas.
 ter has received a letter from what is supposed 10 be the Maia. It asserts
 that the people represented by the
 writer, one P. J. Nunnez. have in their
 posses sioh Judge Marr, of the crimin-
 al district court, New Orleans, who
 mysteriously disappeared in April;
 that they will deliver him for S5O0 or
 liberate him for $l0O, but if any bad
 breaks are made, he will be riddled
 with bullets. If the money is no,
 sent in twenty days they will forward
 his right ear. For further informa-
 ton the writer requests to be address
 ed at Chicago, St. Louis or New Or
 leans. Judge Marr was old and feeble,
 add his friends believe he fell into the
 river and was drowned, at the time of
 his disappearance.
 Los ANGlLEs-Some time during Saturday night William McKelvey, the foreman of Madame Modieska' $ ranch in Santiago canyon about 20 miles from Santa Ana, was murdered.
 His body was found on the ranch yes- !
 ter1ay morning by workman. He had been shot, but by whom is not as
 yet known. The affair seems to be shrouded in mystery. Owing 10 the , fact that the ranch where the crime . was committed is loc csted quite Q dis ! tance frotn a telegraph station, the details could not be learned. William McKelvey, the murdered 7 man, has been employed for three ? years past as the foreman on the ranch : which belongs 10 the great actress. H. has lived in Santa Ana for sevcra ] years. Formerly he was sea cap- , tain.
 NEW YoRK-The Herald's Panami dispatch says: A report Is curren = here today that the Venzuelan Wal | ship, La Justicis, in the possession o 5 the Crespists, captured the Columbian a gunboat Popa, which is in Venzuelar
 waters with cargo of arms for th' g Caracas government.
 Il BFRIIy-Princess Beatrice had Il narrow escape from fire in the castl' o at Heligenberg yesterday morning n Her maid, carrying candle np- = preached too near a IL osquito netting d covering her beistead, setting fire t' c the net. Princess Beatrice, who wa !, in bed, had no time to dress. but raI | out and alarmed the house hold. Tn. ] hose fixture near the bedroom woul' e not work, and the whole wing of ih' e castle was sdestroyedbefore the iiremeI ] arrived. Princess Beatrice lost al. he = jewels and clothes. Two firemen wcr'
 injured.
 HOMESTEAD It Is announced tha those who participated in the brutal e attack on the Pinkertons, after tn, 0 surrender in July will be prosecuted ] foI aggravated assault and battery e highway robbery, larceny, pocket
 picking and other crimes and misde- : meanor. It Is stated that severa ? women who were particularly active s during the time will also be prosecut- = ed.
 NEW YoRK-The transfer expres:
 business, on the lines of the St. Louis
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