The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-11-29
NAY ESCAPE PRISON.
HOWGATE HAD MANY PRCM!-
NENT ACCOMPLiCES
China in Bad Plight - FIR. DuceS
Talks Back to Archbishop Corr;.Eu
Baltimore Ladies' Invited tn Buy
Green CONGREGATIONAL Finances.
From Far and Near.

blth 10 Na>EitEttI from NEW AtEN Il
few weeks ago the opinion WAS very Tree .
~ expressed i'll the department. as Well !
as through the city generally. that he
would never be brought to trial. 1t WAS
known that any action by. the courts
looking To the punishment of the default
er would certainly involve Il great many
people who We're prominent ten or fifteen
wears ago. and it waS believed that no
legal stone would toe left unrurned To pre-
Vent Il trial of the willy captain. Now
it is announced that flaws have been
found in the Indictment which will be iln-
purfant enough to prevent Il trial. And
thus another unbalanced account will be
carried on the hooks of the Treasury De
partmcnt for years to come.
Baltimore is again being flooded with
green goods circulars. Women are how
given an opportunity 10y the slick gentry
to get much for little. Within the last
few days many of them have received
the imitation typewriter circular direct
ing them how to get the counterfeit bills.
Investigation shows that business women.
dressmakers and others are usually chos-
en- as victims. The circular is headed
"Contidential." and the recipient is add
dressed as ''Friend.'
The annual report of United States
Treasurer IL. II. Morgan shows that the
net ordinary revenues for the last fiscal
year were 500. 722.o19, a decrease Of
SIS. 900 as compared with the year
before The net ordinary expenditures
We're $500 .525.2219. Il decrease of S15,-
33.2.674. Including the public debt the
. total receipts on all accounts We're S124,
OOi.5>S and the expenditures $tEIS,9uS.-
55..
!. q. Brink. a travelling salesman for
the White Manufacturing Company. Chi
c:so WAS locked up in the cage in the
United States Marshal'S office Friday on
the charge of violating the postal laws.
Brink was arrested on Il warrant sworn
to by Post Office Inspector Laughlin. The
young man is accused of conducting a
matrimonial agency and using the mails
to obtain money from susceptible young
men.
! Father Duccy. in a reply to Archbishop
! Corrigan's letter admonishing him for
| taking such Il prominent part in the Lex
! wv committee inyestiga ions at New York.
/ says: Il shall be greatly pleased if Your
| eXccllency will inform me under what
ranonical rules you forbid my presence at
any further sessions of the LeXow COM
! mittce.
Senior Men,lonca. the Brazilian minis
| ter at Washington. has not yet been Off
| cially notified of the decree granting am
neSty to political offenders in Brazil is
sued 10y President Moraes. The decree
is intended. of course, to apply to the
! eases of the participants in the recent
| revolution.
Mrs Marcus Cox wife of a Vancouver.
Il. c.. miser. recently died. and it is charg
ed that death was due to starvation and
neglect. \ visitor found her lying on
bare boards in one room while her hus-
band was counting gold in an adjoining
apartment. Cox will be prosecuted for
causing her death by cruelty.
Dispatches have been received at Che
Foo stating that the Japanese captured
Port Arthur on Wednesday, after eigh-
teen hours fighting. The Japanese fleet
did not take part in the engagement.
though the torpedo boats attached to the
flee, did The Japanese are now leaving
Port Arthur.
Judge Wiedmann. who was sent on a
mission to England by ex-Queen Liliuo-
kalani. has finished his visit and has gone
to Germany. from which country he will
return to Hawaii via Bremen and New
York The judge has not met with sue
cess.
Fire broke out in the barns of the AL
legheny. Pa, Traction Company. Forty
nine horses. seven horse cars and seven
electric ears were burned. Three dwell
ings adjoining were also destroyed. The
entire loss is about $1j.OW.
Five students of the University Medical
College of Kansas City were arrested in
, Oak Grove Cemetery. Kansas City, Kan.
in the act of robbing graves. Their
names are: A. G. Zimmerman. Durant
Hinton. Hopper and Ryburn.
Seven firemen were injured, three of
them seriously. while working at a fire
Friday night in the Chicago lumber dis
trict The men were in an alley sur.
; rounded by blazing piles when one of the
piles toppled over Oh them.
Henry Sfegel. President Of the firm
of Siesel Cooper & Co. of Chicago. pub
licly announces that the rumor that his
firm is to open the biggest store in New
York is premature.
Important papers bearing upon the
case of Captain Howsate. the embcz
zler. have disappeared from the Treas
ury Department.
knights of Labor in national conven
; ton ut New Orleans decided that none
but the American flag should be carried
in their parades.
The National Woman's Christian Ten
. perance Union convention completed it:
session at Cleveland and adjourned.
. G. II. Wetmore. Chicago reporter
has been expelled from Hawaii for al
legged plotting with royalists.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to give
Homestead clubhouse and library t
cost $4,000.
Mrs. W. X. Graham. wife of an ALE
. gheny. Pa. light inspector. took dose o
rough on rats and died. She is though
to have been demented.
The coroner's jury at Syracuse decides
; that Con Riortian died from hemorrha 2
, of the brain. caused by an accidental bloy
struck by Bob Fitzsimmons. The LAT
; ter is acquitted of criminal intent.