The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-05-21

pAxDI6PATCH from Havana to- tho
Madrid impartial, on the t2th, denied
the reports that Gen. Weylef had re.
signed or would resign.
WALTER 8. HOBART, tho young mil.
Honaire turfman, was united in mars
riage to Miss Hannah Williams, OF San
Francisco, on the 18th, at high noon.
II was fumored In Washington. on
the 18th, that Mavroyen Bey's recall az
Turkish minister TO the United States
was due to displeasure felt by his
government over the passage by com
Hfess of the Armenian resolutions:
He will be succeeded by Mustafa
Tachsin Beys principal assistant in the
Turkish foreign office.
On the 18th ex-Police Captain Ed.
ward B. Carpenter pleaded guilty In
the criminal branch supreme court Of
New York. TO the charge of bribery
made against him. Justice Keogh b
sentenced him to three months in the
city prison and to pay a fine of 81; 500
The case grew out of the Lexow ii.
vestigation.
The Venezuelan commission held a
meeting in Washington, on the 18th,
for the first time In three weeks, all
the members being present except JUS
tice Brewer, who had gone to San An
tonic, Tex, to attend the funeral OF
his daughter.
BENJAMIN HARRIsoN MCKEE, grand
SON OF Gen. Harrison and son Of Mr..
j. r. Mckee and Mrs. Mamie Harrison
Mckee, was; on the 13th, reported
seriously i'll at Saratoga Springs, NY,
with what appeard to be pneumonia:
The triennial convention of the
Brotherhood Of locomotive Engineers
of America met In Ottawa, Ont; on
the 18th, with Chief Arthur In the
chair.
Mrs. HENRY SCHwATHA and her six
year-old daughter was shot and kille j
by Chinese cook at Yreka, Cal, on
the 18th. The Chinaman made an at
tempt to kill an infant child, but
failed. he then committed suicide.
FIRE, on the 18th, in the house occu-
pied by the American legation for the
coronation fetes in Moscow, Russia,
created considerable alarm, but was
quenched with only the attic being
damaged.
ADyIcEs from Pretoria, Transvaal,
say that the punishment of the reform
conspirators whose death sentences
were commuted has been fixed at Ave
years. Imprisonment.
Miss MAIZE TODD, a cousin of Robert
T. Lincoln, was killed at Lexington,
Ky, on the 18th, by being run down
by an electric car while riding d
bicycle.
ANTI-MIssIoNARY riots have broken
out at Kiang-Yen. The British mission
was looted and burned. The mission
aries escaped
ST.. DoMINIC's Roman Catholic
church In Holmesburg, a suburb of
Philadelphia, was totally destroyed by
fire ON the 14th. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance. $45, 200. It is stated that the fire
was caused by watchman dropping a
lighted match In the interior of the
church.
ROBERT Fl. DoLAN. a photographer
living on Railroad avenue, Wakefield,
N. Y, was found dead; on the 14th
with his head wedged between two
pickets of the wooden fence in front
Of his home.
THE cruiser Oregon, on her trial
trip, on the I4th, off Santa Barbara,
Cal, made 10. 7S knots per hour. This
breaks all records for vessels of her
class, and entities her builders to ITS,
600 premium.
SENATOR HANsBRoUGH, from the com.
mittee on library, on the 14th, favor
ably reported to the senate a bill for
the erection of monument at Gettys-
burg, Pa, to President Lincoln.