The Charlotte Democrat., 1897-04-15

PolSOuluS nave Deen traced, ana
seven women have been arrested on
charges of murder.
Fargo, N. D., and a number of
other Northern towns are partly
under water.
W L. Slemmons is forming a
community to colonize in Costa
Rica.
Rigo and ex-Princess Chimay are
! taking pains to make themselve con-
splcuous in Paris inst now.
Vermont's maple sugar yield is
the largest in the history of the
State.
Mrs. Julian Nelson, worth $780,
900, was asphyxiated by coal gas in
her beggar like home, Chicago, Ill.
General Passenger Agent 81. w.
Fuller, of the Chesapeake & ohio
Railway, successfully underwent a
dangerous operation on his foot
yesterday at Washington, D. G.
There is scarcity of onions on
the Pacific slope, caused by the
corner in the Washington and Ore
.gon market.
News has been received that an
uprising against the Spanish Gov
ernment has occurred in the island
of Porto Rico
Neustadt & Co., one of the best
known -four commission houses on
the New York Produce Exchange,
has made an assignment.
At Williamson, W. Va, the long
looked-for trial of Soap" Hatteld
has begun. Great trouble was ex-
perienced in securing a jury. A
dozen or more jurors were rejected
on account of their relationship to
Hatfield. The case is that of the
State against Hatfield for killing
John Rutherford.
Jerry Simpson assailed Speaker
Reed for not appointing the House
committees. The Speaker replied
that he was carrying out the wishes
of the members as he understood
them. His explanation was applaud
ed by the Republicans
Andrew Jeffries Garvey, who
turned informer against the Tweed
ring after the boss had helped him
to fortune and who died in Eng
land Monday, leaves by will large
sums of money to various New York
charities.
By the dismissal of the indict-
ment for murder found against him
in 1871 Thomas Quinn, of New
York, has got rid of an incubus that
has haunted him for twenty six
years, stepping between him and
every situation he ever had
The E. S. Dean brokerage concern,
whose suspension of operations at
New York and elsewhere already has
gained general notice, has been
formally barred from the mails by
fraud orders issued yesteday by the
Postmaster General.
It is understood that the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Buck of Georgia as min
lister to Japan is likely to be hung
up in the Senate.
Nikola Tesla, the electrician, told
the New York Academy of Science
that he had discovered new source
of the Roentgen ray.
tits reported that ex-President
Cleveland will make an address al
the Reform Clubs dinner in New
York this month.
Kentucky Populists adopted g
platform declaring against fusion
t and nominated J. A. Parker for
| clerk of the State Court of Appeals
The gift of Miss Serena Rhine
l lander, of New York City, to st
, James Episcopal Church, will in
clude new edifce to cost $780,
| 900.
An explosion in car loaded with
e whisky, on the Big Four road, al
= indianapolis, Ind, destroyed {
t freight train and fatally injured
r. Otto Crenshaw.
+ The International Association o.
n the Young Women's Christian As
t sociation was organized at Detroit
Mich, yesterday, and reports wer
e made from various branches.
d Ex- Mayor Creiger, of Chicago, Ill
e is dangerously ill.
t, Manager Walter Damrosch ha
n sailed for Europe on pleasure ant
business trip.
d Tobacco plantations in Vera Cruz
l. Mexico, have been devastated by tn
st ravages of an insect.
Hundreds Of idle men in Toronto
+ Out, have appealed to the Govern
IF ment for work to keep their familie
lie from starving.
5y Horace G. Bird, the musician wh
ee led the orchestra when Lincoln wa
n nominated at Chicago, ILL.,, in th1
city, is dead, aged 67.
i'd Rev. James c. Hogan, of Fores
u CITY, Pa, associate editor of th
Of PENNSYLVANIA Methodist, has 81
e, ceded, and will form a Prohibitio
ey church.
,h A wag who wrote IN. A. Hann'
rs Ohio.," on Frankfort, KY, regist'
H. came near creating a panic IN tt
a. capitol
Elisha Dyer's plurality for go
Ill ernor in Rhode Island is about 10.
n 900.
I'M Jesse Grant, son of the late Gel
Grant, is in the City of Mexico a
*, ranging with the Government for
u concession for the establishment
be extensive sanitariums in Lower Ga
ifornia, in the Thermal springs r
an gion.
ers A severe earthquake occurred
nd Girau, Formosa, recently. Abo
er- 800 houses were toppled over al
200 persons were killed or badly /