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powers HELD WITHOUT Bail
AWAIT ACTION OF GRAND JURY
Taylor's Pardon was IgAoFea-court
Denied the Right of the Repabli-
can Governor to Grant II, and Held
IL was No mar to the Prosecutor
Powers Made No Defense.

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day OF the trial OF republican Secretary Of
State Powers began with the court room
cleared of all people excepting attorneys,
newspaper correspondents and officers Of
the court. The attorneys for the defense
held a consultation, after which Governor
Brown for the defense announced that no
testimony would be introduced for the
defense and that they would waive fur.
Their examination.
The pardon issued to Powers by Gov
ernor Taylor was rendered by Brown a.
bar to the prosecution and he asked that
defendant be dismissed. Colonel Campbell
said the commonwealth denied TaylOr's
right to issue pardon. Governor Brown
then moved that the prisoner be dismissed
upon the evidence, but the motion was
overruled.
Bail was then asked for.
Judge Moore said: 1T is not my belief
that Powers fired the shot which killed
Goebel, but on the evidence it is my opin
ion he was connected with the conspiracy
to kill him. l shall therefore order that
he be held over without bail to the Frank
lin county grand jury that thu ease may
be further investigated"
Il, E Youtsey, republican auditor
Sweeney's private secretary, was arrested
today as the man with the black mustache
whom Golden mentioned in his testimony
as the man to whom John Powers gave
the key to the office Of Caleb Powers.
loutsey is half brother of John l.. Craw-
ford a prominent republican OF Newport.
says the Deal Is Completed.
London. March pa dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph from Paris says:
The sale of the Danish Antilles to the
United States has practically been com
pleted."
Killed the City Marshal.
st, Louis, March ga special to the
Dispatch says that Ellsworth Evans
shot and instantly killed Assistant City
Marshal Hennecke at Bonneville, Mo.
When shot Hennecke was attempting to
arrest Evans after he had robbed cigar
store.
A Star special says: Evans, the muir
derer of Marshal Hennecke, mas been cap
tured 10 miles east OF Bonneville. Prep
arations have been made to lynch the pris-
oner.'
Negro Lynehed ~ q Mob.
Belair, Md, March 2s.-Louis Harris,
a negro who was arrested recently charged
with criminal assault upon Miss Annie
NaItiyain taEau H. s..I
lynehed by a mob of 20 men. A fusillade
OF shots were exchanged between the sher-
iii and his deputies and the men, resulting
in the wOunding of two men The mob
hustled Harris to a neighboring yard, and,
placing the moose around his neck, flung
the other end of the rope over the limb
OF tree. As he was hoisted from the
ground the limb snapped and Harris fell
to the ground. He was lifted up again
and hanged second time. Several shots
we're fired into the body. The loose end
OF the rope was tied to a gate post and
the corpse was left hanging until this
morning Miss MeIllvain, Harris victim,
Is about "a years of age.
LOOkA Like AEEressIveness.
Yokohama, March pa Russian
squadron has arrived at ChemulpO. 1t is
believed this presages demand for a CON
eession of Ind at Masango, small harbor
20 miles south of ChemulPO, and is arous-
ing uneasy comments in Japan.
Beers MassinE at BIEEersberg.
LAdysmith, March est is reported
that the Beers are massing their en-
trenched positions at Biggarsberg, and it
Is added that their transport trains are
packed at Newcastle, in readiness to facili-
tate their retreat in case necessity requires
SUCH a step.