Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-02-12
NEWS BRIEFS.


 of Illinois, will meet on May r.
 Russia will not allow Turkey to interfere further in Crete.
 A Peoria, H., distillery has receiv- ed an order for 30 ,OOO barrels of alec. hol for Hamburg, Germany.
 Searcy Hall, at Huntsville, Ala, was destroyed by fire. Thestudents escaped.
 i Ed Hawkins and his son were in stantly Killed on a railroad crossing near Indianapolis.
 The Indianapolis superintendent of police comments the euriew law, which is now in force in that city.
 A Topeka Judge rules that a bi- cycle is n tool and is, therefore, ex- empt from seizure in execution.
 Federal quarantine was discussed from different points of view in the quarantine convention at Mobile Wednesday,.
 Because Peter Pfeffer wouldnot al low his daughter to marry John Scholield at Louisville, Ky, he was shot and killed by the suitor.
 There are to be more arrests at Decatur, Ala, in connection with the Wright-Gordon perjury and subor- dination case.
 Dr. Sanarelli has gone to Brazil, where yellow fever is raging, to try his serum. He has already tried in- jections of the serum on himself.
 The assassination of Prek' .c Barrias, of Guatemala, has Aoeen confirmed officially Vice President Cabera has taken the reins of gov ernment.
 Before murderer Merry at Chicago goes on the gallows his brains will be examined by the X rays to sec il his brain was affected by n blow from a brick.
 The mutilated and naked corpse of a man was fonnnd in East River, N. Y., yesterday. Some of the limbs were gone. There is no elew to the crime except the character of the wounds.
 The body Of an old man named Langford, in East Tennessee, has been exhumed, and traces of polson have been found. Suspicion points to member of his family.
 The Cuban question was discussed at great length in the Senate yester day, and as usual the galleries were crowded. The subject was the Can non resolution. Cannon opened the debate. and Hale responded in de- fence of the administration. Mason also took a whirl at the matter.
 John Gafford, who murdered Francis Lloyd, near Greenyille, Ala has been sentenced to death. The deceased was known to newspaper readers as .sRufus Sanders. The accused invoked the unwritten law, but the proof showed it was a cold bloode1 assassination, The slayer has Killed several men and served q term in the Arkansas pen.
 The DeLomc letter criticsing President Mckinley is to bring about serious consequences. Woodford, at Madrid, has been instructed to de- liver a note to the Spanish govern ment about it. DeLome does not deny the letter and his recall, un- less he resigns, IS the likely out come of the affair. The incident is expected to ineite the jingoes to fur ther outbreaks. The Spaniards re- gard the matter as a iingoist in- trigue. 1t is said DeLome has thrice cabled his resignation to Madrid
 IT. the zola trial yesterday, Gen. Boisdeffre admitted that before the Dreyfus trial he received document from Esterhazy concerning the Drey- fus ease, but he refused to disclose the nature of the document He said Col. Picquart had been trans ferred to Tunis because favorable to Dreyfus. The General further de- cIarfd that he was unshakably eer- tain of the guilt of Dreytus. Gen. Gong testified, and such a tumult was raised that guards had to clear the court. Gen. Mercier said he be lieved the bordereau had been given to the press ny the Dreyfus family The court would not permit Mrs. Dreyfus to deny this. He refused to say whether or not a secret docu- ment had been given the court, which condemned Dreyfus.