The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-05-14

IHE jury In tho murder trial OF 0Esl
Freund, Of Farmington, Mimi, fe-
turned verdict of not guilty on the
6th. DIR. Freund was charged with the
murder of Clara Osler, 4 young lady
with whom he was said to have been
on intimate terms.
KtS6 HUMBERr Of Italy has donated.
400. 600 francs to the families of tho
soldiers killed and wounded in the At
rican campaign without any distinc-
tion being made between the Italians
and native troops in the service Of
Italy.
Tins French excavatots at Delphi
have uheafthed q life-size bronze statue
of bearded man, the largest yet dis.
covered. The date Of the work is $40
b G. The statue is holding the bride
OF q horse, and portions of the horses
figufe have also been found.
A SENSATION has been caused In Brus-
Sells, Belgium, by the arrest of M.
Courtois, an ex-police official, for the
murder of Nine. Herri, who was stran-
gled and robbed in her house recently.
JAMES GALLAGHER, known through.
out the country in democratic circles
as ssWar Horse" Gallagher, died sud-
AOhAy OA WAC otACOU 0O 4NCW A0NOAS
Conn, on the 5th.
JOHN PorULNEY and A. Purslki, two
well-known saloon keepers of South
ON the night of the 5th, In an intoxi-
inthe morning of asphyxiation.
THE house committee on pensions,
on the 9Th, ordered favorable report
on the bill granting an increase to $l3
per month of pension to the survivors
of the Mexican and Indian wars and
to their widows, with a provis6, how
ever, that no widow who was not mar.
ried to the soldier or sailor prior to
March 10, 1856, should be entitled to
the benefits of the act.
THE long talked-of extension of the
civil-service rules, which takes in chief
clerks and all the high-grade depart
ment officials SO as to prevent their re-
moval, except for cause, was signed
by the president on the 9th. Thirty
thousand government employees are
thus added to the protected list.
JOSEPH j. MARTIN, who was treas.
urer of Philadelphia from 1878 TO 1859,
and lead of the cattle-shipping firm of
Martin. Fuller & Co., of that city.
which was the first to develop d mar.
ket for beeves in foreign countries,
died, on the 9th, aged T8 years.
THE claim of Adah Richmond, the
actress, that she married John Stetson,
the Boston theatrical manager and
millionaire, in 1871, in Providence, r.
l., has no official record In that city to
support it.
AT Alonzo,s province of Huelva,
Spain, some miscreant set fire to the
building in which dance was in prog.
ress. Six persons were burned to
death and many were injured.
The treasury gold reserve, at the
close of business on the 7th, stood at
119,Os4, 124. The days Withdrawals
amounted to S96, 600.
CARDINAL LUIGI GALIMBERTI, titular
arch bishop of Nice and formerly papal
nuncio at Vienna, died at Suchtein, near
Dusseldorf, Prussia, on the 7th, from
throat trouble. He was born in Rome
in 1886 and created cardinal in 1893.
The riding school attached to the
University of Heidelburg, Germany,
was burned on the night of the 9th,
and two women, two children and "a
horses were burned to death.
Mr. AUBRY BEARDsLEY, the English
artist who was reported to be very i'll
in Brussels, has recovered his health,
and resumed his work in London.
Tue United States war ship Mime.
apolis sailed from Southampton, on
the 7th, for Cronstadt.