The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-03-05

JuDaE BRowx, of New York, handed
down an order in the United States
circuit court, on the Goth, directing the
removal of George Carson and Sidney
Yennie, the alleged post Office robbers
to Springfield, ILL.,, to answer to the
charge of having robbed the post Office
on April last.
The governor of Pennsylvania issuet
q proclamation, ON the goth, designa,
ting April 10 and "a as Arbor days, the
choice of dates being left to the various
sections of the commonwealth.
SAMUEL Edison. father of Thomas A.
Edison. the inventor, died at Norwalk,
o.. on the 26th, aged 90.
The police of Omaha, Neb., have in.
formation that Claycomb, the man
taken back from Des Moines, Ia, for
body-snatching. made contract with
the medical college at Des Moines t<
furnish it IS dead bodies at $50 each.
Mr.. 6. j. GoscHEN, first lord of the
British admiralty, speaking at Lewes
ton. on the 26th, said that conciliation
negotiation and arbitration might bt
valuable, but woe to the nations lack.
ing courage or means to back theii
opinions.
THE action of the post Office depart
ment in refusing the use of the mails
to various bond and investment com.
panies was sustained in an opinion rem.
dered by Attorney-General Harmon.
THE minority of the house commit
tee on foreign affairs say that in their
opinion there was nothing in either OF
the Bayard speeches mentioned that
calls for or justifies any censure by
congress.
GOLD has been discovered in the City
Creek canyon, within the city limits OF
Salt Lake, Utah. Assays are reported
running as high as $500 gold and $40 in
silver per ton.
REAR-ADMIRAL C. c. CARPENTER.
United States navy, lately command.
ing the Asiatic squadron, was placed
upon the retired list of the navy, on
the 9th. being g. years of age.
GEN. LEWIS MERRILL died, on the
27th, at the Presbyterian hospital in
Philadelphia, of an affection of the kid
neys. Deceased was a native of Penn
sylvania, 62 years of age and a gradu.
ate of West Point. He was a COM
mander of cavalry throughout the en-.
tire war of the rebellion and was sew
eral times promoted for gallant serv.
ices.
ALEXANDER RHIMEs, aged rs, of Full
ton county, Ind. applied. on the 27th,
for a divorce from bis ninth wife, to
whom he was married on January II
last, two days after he had secured a
divorce from wife No. 8. iic has a.l-
other wife in view now.
UNITED STATES MINISTER TERRELL
received information from Marsovan,
on the 27th, showing that there had
been no massacre there as had been re-
ported. An outbreak had occurred at
Adana, in which 12 Ar.nenians were
killed and 40 wounded.
DIR. CARL PETERS, the African cx.
plorer, who was recently elected presi-
dent of the German Colonial associa.
ton, is about to undertake new ex-
plcration of Somaliland in the inter-
ests of a number of wealthy Ameri-
cans.
THE Iowa house, on the 27th, killed
the resubmission of the prohibitory
amendment by defeating the resolu-
ton and tabling Il motion to recon,
slider.
OK the 27th the president approved
the urgent deficiency bill; the act
granting leave of absence for a year
to homestead settlers on the Yankton
Indian reservation, S. D., and the act
amending the act for the relief and
civilization of the Chippewa Indians in
Minnesota.