The Globe-republican., 1896-01-30
LATE NEWS NOTES.

suicide on . train while en- route to
Princeton, Ill.
A wagon load OF nitro-glycerine
exploded at st. Marys, Ohio, killing
the driver and the horses.
Rattlesn AXE Bill, who murdered a
boy at Isabella, OKLA, was captured
after six hours fight.
Five persons were injured in a head
end collision on the Iron Mountain,
near Fair Oaks, Ark.
Walter Davis of st. Joseph, Mo. was
attacked by lockjaw ten days ago and
starved to death.
The Spanish government has decided
to increase duties on imports into Cuba
to pay war expenses.
Berlin engineer has invented
military rifle discharged by compressed
air.
DIR. Ahlwardt says he will remain in
the United States as editor of West
ern newspaper.
Emperor William and his cabinet
have decided to borrow 3OO.OOG, 900
marks to increase the navy.
Actress Vera Freeman, wife of Max
Freeman. the theatrical manager,
committed suicide in New York.
The Turkish embassy at London
has officially denied the rumor of a
Russian-Turkish alliance.
The War department has announced
that it will prosecute Major Armes no
further.
The subcommittee on commerce of
the Senate has decided against the
free ship bill project.
The House pension committee has
decided on a bill making pensions
vested rights, and relieving widows of
proving their poverty.
Chairman Hit. of the House for
eign affairs committee. says he sees no
reason why the United States should
be compelled to interfere in the Ar
menian question.
Consular Agent Manion has cabled
from Johannesburg that all the Amer
leans are out on bond except John
Hays Hammond, the mining engineer.
EX-Congressman Moran, Il promi-
nent Catholic of Cincinnati, says prac-
tically no attention will be given to
the Pope's anti-secret society ban by
Catholics who are already members of
the prescribed ORDERS.
At Newcastle. Ind. Henry Wilson
and Miss Clara Harris committed sui
eide. because their marriage was
frustrated BY the girls mother. The
couple belonged to prominent families.
Joseph De Trouilly. who claimed to
be the credit agent of i large Kansas
City firm. deserted his wife of three
days in st. Louis after stealing 81, 800
from her. She is left penniless.
China is building a navy.
Some New Workers are running q
corner on r;iisins.
Gomez. the Cuban insurgent leader,
is dying with consumption.
County Treasurer Ed Kirsebom of
Plymouth county, Iowa, IS missing;
ditto SD, 900.
Charles Edward Tracy. Clevelapd's
former law partner. is dead at Colorado
Springs.
Outside companies are selling beer
in Davenport. Iowa, ut So per barrel,
to down home production.
Patrick :. Nagle. a kingfisher law
yer, has been appointed Unlted States
marshal, vice Nix removed.
Turkey Will permit Clara Barton to
distribute relief to Armenia provided
no red cross is shown.
John G. Sheehan has been chosen
chairman of the finance committee of
Tammany Hall for 1886. This makes
him its leaoer.
Secretary Lamont has written Colo
mel Crofton to retire, because OF seam
dals and lack of discipline in his COM
mand. but CrOfton refuses ro do so.
Joseph Wicker, wife and two chill
dren were drowned in the Prairie Dog
fork of the Red river, in Randall coun-
ty. Texas. while attempting to ford
the stream.
&. l.. Mitchell an insane patient at
Mattewan asylum, POughkeepsie, N.
v set fire to the institution in five
places. but the blaze was eXtinguished
with little loss
4 verdict for Dr. kceley was rem
where one Marshall sued for $1,000
damages from the result of his wife
taking treatment at Dwight for the
morphine habit.
r. NJ. Wallace, Ike lieiwan, W. b.
Derrick. Thomas McEiroy and PleaS-
ant Neville have been arrested at
Fayetteville, Tenn, for obstructing
the United States mail. They held q
train until mob could take and
lynch Joseph Robertson and Elias
Nc(;aba, two negroes en- route to the
pen.
Eertram f. Atwater. a young Chi
cago artist, was waylaid and muir
dered by footpads at Webster Grove,
Mo-. a st. Louis suburb. Sam Foster,
a colored cx-convict, and Peter and
John Schmidt. toughs, confessed the
murder. They had a narrow escape
from being lynched. Atwater was on
his way to visit Miss Genevieve orion.
to complete their wedding arrange
ments
The Kansas City Times is to be sold
at public auction February 20. No bid
under $1,000 will be received. 1t is
said that Wiley o. Cox. the receiver,
will buy the paper for a syndicate OF
Missouri Democrats.
4 pOol is being formed in New York