The Mena star., 1898-10-26

Mrs. kessner of Jackson county.
Mo-, has been awarded S5, 600 in a spit
against j. l. Hudspeth for killing her
husband in 1s9" Hudspeth has also
been convicted Of murder in the second
degree and given sentence of ten
years in the penitentiary,
Miss Helen Gould has appeared in a
new role. as the friend of labor. She
has consented to investigate the griev
ances of the ladies' tailors Of New
York who are now on n strike, and if
satisfied that their demands are Just
she will espouse their cause and throw
the weight of her influence and wealth
on the side of the strikers.
According to statement made by
Chas. j. Glidden of Lowell, Mass,
president of the Erie Telegraph and
Telephone Co, and owner of about
$4,000 miles of toll lines throughout
the country, people in San Francisco
will be talking with their friends in
New York over the long distance tele.
phone within the next year.
Miss Laura Williams Of Chicago, the
daughter of Norman Williams and
grand daughter Of the late Judge J John
Dean Cation, is journeying over the
Atlantic TO be welded in London some
time within tie next two weeks to
Major General Wesley Merritt, military
governor Of the Philippine Islands, to
whom her engagement was announced
five months ago. Miss Williams with
her mother and brother. Norman
Williams, Jr., sailed from New York
last Saturday for Liverpool
The diplomatic relations between
France and England are in a very SER
ious condition in regard to the posses
sion of thesFashoda territory Accord
ing to a speech made by the British
chancellor of exchequer, Sir Michael
Hic ks s-Beach, France must fight or
vacate the territory, and she seems TO
have no idea of doing the latter. In
the meantime England has ordered all
her war ships TO take on a full crew
and make other preparations, putting
the ships in readiness for hostilities.
Porto Rico is part of the United
States. The stars and stripes float
over the Island, Gen. Brooke is the
head of the government, and will re-
main in charge until other disposition
of the island is made py congress The
ceremony OF taking possession took
place at noon on October Is, at San
Juan. A national salute was fired by
the American artillery and the guns
in the forts Our new possession is a
box-looking island, 100 miles long
least and west) and forty broad. But
it is so packed full of riches that a
population of 100000 generally lazy,
illiterate and unskilled, are able to
paw $4,000, 00O tribute to Spain each
year, support a Spanish army and a
horde of Spanish Office holders, and
live very com Portable themselves.
In a secluded spot near Philippi, w.
Va, there lives an old man who has
dabbled in the mysteries of the ancient
Egyptians, and has defied the laws OF
nature as far as the putrefaction OF
the human body is concerned. Skilled
in the art of decomposition, and sur
rounded by CHASTITY specimens of his
art, to him belongs the credit OF wrest-
ing from the past the process OF keep
ing intact the body, the process which
has preserved to the world in the shape
of mummies the bodies of Rameses and
the Ptolomys,, with accompanying
history and light into the life of CEN
turies that came and went before the
mission of the Messiah had begun.
This individual is thoroughly COM
monplace and practical and besides
he does not claim to be sorcerer. lie
is known to every one in the county
and a great many people over the
state. He is about 20 years old, OF
benevolent aspect, and is very unas-
suminp. To no one is he reticent ex-
eept in the manner the discovery was
made by him and the ingredients
.ha+ comnose the fluid With the fluid