Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-02-11
NEWS BRIEFS.
The Democratic State Convention


 of Illinois, will meet on May IT.
 Russia will not allow Turkey to interfere further in Crete.
 A Peoria, H., distillery has receic- ed an order for 8O,0O0 barrels of alco- hol for Hamburg, Germany.
 Searcy Hall, at Huntsville, Ala, was destroyed by fire. Thestudents escaped.
 Ed Hawkins and his son were in- stantly killed on railroad crossing near Indianapolis.
 The Indianapolis superintendent of police comments the curfew law, which is now in force in that city.
 A Topeka Judge rules that bi- cycle is a 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 would not al- low his daughter to marry John Schofield ct 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- iections of the serum on himself.
 The assassination of President Barrias, of Guatemala, has been 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 see if his brain was affected by blow from Q brick.
 The mutilated and naked corpse of man was founnd in East River, N. Y., yesterday Some of the limbs were gone. There is no clew to the crime except the nhararter Of the wounds.
 The body of an old mannamed Iangford. in East Tennessee, has been exhumed, and traces of poison 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 q 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 Rufus Sanders. The accused invoked the unwritten law, but the proof showed it was q cold bloodea assassination, The slayer has killed several men and served a term in the Arkansas pen.
 The DeLOme letter criticising President Mckinley is to bring about serious consequences. Woodford, at Madrid, has been instructed to de- liver q note to the Spanish govern ment about it. DeEome 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 incite the iingoes to fur ther outbreaks. The Spaniards re- gard the matter as a jingoist in- trigue. It is said DeLome has thrice cabled his resignation to Madrid.
 h the Zola trial yesterday, Gen. Boisdeffre admitted that before the Dreyfus trial he received 6 document from Esterhazy concerning the Drey- fus case, but he refused to disclose the nature of the document. He said Col. Picquart had been trans ierred to Tunis because favorable to Dreyfus.. The General further de- clared that he was unshakably eer- tain of the guilt of Dreytus. Gen. EGonz testified, and such a tumult was raised that guards had to clear the court. Gen. Mercier said he be- lieved the bordcreau had been given to the press by the Dreyfus family. The court would not permit Mrs. Dreyfus to deny this. He refused to say whether or not secret docu- ment had been given the court, which condemned Dreyfus.