The age-herald., 1897-12-15
TeLEGRAPHiC BREWTlES.

Alfred Shelby shot George Jenkins to death near Paducah, Ky, yesterday.
 Seventy dogs bound for the Klondyke from Antwerp reached New York yester- day.
 Dan Stuart is reported as saying that the fights he is arranging will take place at Carson City.
 Mark Hanna denies being in i'll health and says peope in Washington will find him very lively.
 Albert S. Warner, the chief conspirator in kidnapping little Johnny Conway at Albany last summer, has been captured at New York.
 There will be a mass meeting of miners in western Kentucky Saturday for the pur- pose of forming an alliance with Indiana miners.
 Municipal elections were held in thirteen Massachusetts towns yesterday. Seven of them voted in favor of licenses and six against.
 Alfred Hochstetter was instantly killed yesterday at Beaver Dam, Wis, by Jacob Somer, his brother-in-law, while quail hunting
 Bates Soper, who murdered his wife and two children at Aries, Mo-, in July was sentenced today to be hanged on Feb ruary A.
 Rev F. s. Lines, of New York was yes- terday elected secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Episcopal church.
 Frank Mcconnell was declared the win ner over Fred Agnew before the Acme club at San Francisco last night at the end of the eighth round.
 The missionary board of the Southern Presbyterian church, which met at Nash vile yesterday, reduced the salaries of its missionaries 20 per cent.
 James Noland, a man arrested at St. Louis recently for house breaking. las been identified as James Oldham, a gradu- ate of Trinity college.
 George F. Slosson, professional billiard champion of the world, yesterday accepted Jacob Schaefer's eha,enge for an 1S-inch balk line match at 600 points.
 John Persons, captain of the Thunder Bay life-saving crew, of Alpena, Mich. has been charged with negligence of duty by his subordnates. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says that the forest system of forgeries in dealing in real estate is about to be exposed and the participants punished.
 The French government. it is announced, contemplates the suppression of the news papers which are alleged to be systemat- ically inventing DreyfuS stories. The steamer Osprey has detained the
 
 N s.. as it is thought the latter vessel has been violating Canadian custom laws. | The Paris Figaro says that paper has received news of the safety of the, French expedition under Maj. Morchand. which it has been reported was massacred near Barel-Ghazel, while on it's way to the Nile. fierce storm with chilling rain and winds blowing off the lakes, moved sea- ward from New York yesterday Danger signals were up from Delaware Break water to Boston. Coasters lay quiet in port
 Prof. Stockmeyer, of Chicago. a prog nosticator of more or less fame, predicts furious blizzard on Wednesday, and ! that western gales will set in about the Fist or 22d inst. and continue for two days throughout the northern states.
 Otto Lenke, aged 12, and his sister few years younger were found dead in their beds yesterday morning at Toledo, O., and in an adjoining room Fred Lemhe, father of the two children, was found in a dying condition Escaping gas was the cause. The faculty of the Princeton university decided to rebuke the sophomore class be- | cause the members at the class election l last Friday wrecked the Robert Bonner gymnasium, in which the election was he'd. | This action is unprecedented in the annals | of Princeton.
 | Judge Swift, in the United States circuit | court, at Detroit, has dismissed the bill of | complaint in the case of the Campbell | Printing Press and Manufacturing compa- | ny, of New York, against the Duplex | Printing Press company, of Battle Creek, | Mich, for alleged infringement of patents. | On application of the American Loan and l Trust company, Judge Knowles, in the United States circuit court, at Helena, l Mont, entered a decree for a deficiency 1 judgment against the Oregon Short Line 1 and Utah Northern Railway company for | $1 ,049 799, the amount due on the sale of | foreclosure.
 | Ex-Congressman Frederick G. Nieding | haus, president of the Cotton Stamping 1 company, of St. Louis, has arranged with | the following firms to consolidate with his | own, which represent a capital of $25 000,- l GOO; Kircherner, of Milwaukee; Mathe, h. l gram & Co.,, of Baltimore; Haberman Man | ufacturing company, of New York; Bell l aire Stamping company, of Harvey, ILL l Ironclad Manufacturing company, of New | York, and the Central Stamping company, l of York