The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-02-27

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served with q disposses, notice, Jamea
Mccartney, q New York bartender,
shot himself through the head, in his
apartments, on the 18th, while standing
with his wife's arms around his neck.
Their six children were asleep in the
next room at the time.
BESIDES the sum of 50, 500, 900 which
will be asked by the British admiralty
for the construction of four battle
ships, four first-class cruisers, four
third-class cruisers and 60 torpedo de-
stroyers, the government will ask par
lament for large sum for guns and
men.
A JOINT resolution to revive the
grade of acknowledgement of the
United States army was introduced in
the senate, on the 10Th, by Mr.. Elkins,
Of West Virginia. and referred to the
committee on military affairs.
The board of inquiry that investi-
gated the grounding of the steamship
st. Paul exonerated Capt. Jameson of
any culpability in the matter.
The vote on the Arizona statehood
bill has been reconsidercd in the house
committee on territories, and it now
stands unprejudiced, as it did before
the vote sidetracking it was taken.
The pardon of ex-United States Con-
sui Waller, a prisoner in France on
conviction of treason in Madagascar,
was sent to President Faure, on the
10Th, for signature.
The young king of Corea has arrived
at st. Petersburg with the object OF
seeking the projection of Russia for his
country.
A DISPATCH from Havana says that &c
days is the limit which Gen. Weylel
has set for the wiping out of the revo-
luton. He promised a delegation of
sugar planters that by March Is the
country would be cleared of the insur.
gents.
The city of Guthrie, Okla, retains
title to Noble park. containing almost
IS acres, in West Guthrie, by decision
rendered by Secretary Smith, affirming
a lower ruling.
A FIRE occurred during masked
ball at San Tarem, Portugal, and in the
ensuing panic many lives were lost.
Forty dead bodies were recovered.
j. T. LANBoRN, wealthy farmer,
was found murdered in his house at
Fall Leaf, Kas., on the 10Th. The
murderers literally chopped the old
man to pieces. They left no clew.
THE grand lodge of Kansas has de
cided to esta blish a Masonic home ir
that state The location has not beer
fixed.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND in denying
pardon, on the Goth, to +. NJ. o. Hol.
ston, convicted of forgery in pension
case, said he was decidedly in favor of
strict punishment '.in a case like this
which involves the swindling of the
poor and needy veteran and prostitu-
tion of the benevolent intentions of
the government as embodied in it's
pension law"
AN expedition b ound for the interior
OF Labrador will leave Philadelphia, in
June, for the purpose of studying the
Esquimeaux and collecting specimens
of the fora and fauna of that region.
Prof. Frank Russell, curator of the
University OF Iowa, will accompany
the expedition as archeolOgist.
On the Goth the president signed the
act to extend the mineral land laws
of the United States to lands en-
braced in the north half of the Col.
vile Indian reservation.
THE secretary of the in terror, on the
Goth. approved school indemnity selec-
tions embracing 1875 acres of land
inu ring to the state of Minnesota, sit
rated in the Marshal, ST. Cloud and
d Delu tn land districts.