, 1902-03-20
SHORT

II BtAN hlliiuul hlttllb6 VI IN
Farmers National Congress will be
held at Macon, Georgia, October eth,
sth. 9th and 10th.
Prince Henry of Prussia sailed for
Germany on board the Hamburg
American liner Deutschland oil Tues
day.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of
President Roosevelt, accompanied by Il
party of friends, including Senator
Thomas @. Plat, arrived in Havana
Wednesday.
John Lawson, known in bicycle cir
cles throughout the country as the
Terrible Swede," was taken to Il hos
pital in Milwaukee, having been
stricken with pneumonia.
The Capetown correspondent of the
London Standard cables hat the
breathing of Cecil Rhodes is most
difficult and labored, and that all the
dangerous symptoms remain
| Brigadier General David S. Stanley,
U. S. A, retired, %ho rendered gallant
md distinguished services in the war
of the ReOelliof. is lying dangerously
i'll at Ills home IN Washington.
The jury in the case of william
Brooks, charged with the rIurder of
James Roberts in The Dawson Club sa-
loon, Cripple Creek, Gu Christmas
morning, returned Il verdict of not
guilty.
Premier Sagasta announces the def
mite resignation of Senior Urzaiz, the
minister of finance. The Spanish cabi-
net meets tomorrow, when new heads
of the ministry of finance and the in
terror will be appointed.
Sarah Jane PETER, wife of ex-Sen-
a.A, i" rBnGTu - anUn ItAl In
Washington, ID. c., at the residence of
her daughter, Mrs. N. j. McIlhenny.
Mrs. PETER, who was seventy years of
age, suffered IN attack Of paralysis in
January.
Two natural gas explosions at Peru,
Ind, wrecked two buildings and In
jured six people. Frank Kiley, ST., is
supposed to be fatally injured. Others
injured are Frank Kiley, Jr., james
and Bridget Kiley, Mrs. John Hayes
and baby.
The Baroness de Roques denies all
the reports that her daughter, Mrs.
Florence Maybrick, will be included in
the coronation amnesty, saying: II
have not received information of any
sort relating to Mrs. Maybrick's posi-
BILE release"
a cyclone swept through the south
ern section of Copiah and the north
ern section of Lincoln counties, Missis-
sippi, killing at least seven persons and
leyeling buildings, trees and fences.
Montgomery, n village in Copiah coun-
ty, was almost wrecked.
> Bishop Henry c.. Potter was the sub
! ject of special prayers by the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union of
Newark, New Jersey. That Bishop
0 IpAttnV- V.Nn uAA tIh. - % md
Sunday saloon question in Il different
light was the burden of applications
in his behalf.
George E.. Rateman. n hack driver.
wns awarded S4iG by n Jury in the
District Court rs a commission for
having secured for j. G.. Hiesiand, Il
Manitou curio dealer, II purchaser for
Il valuable mineral collection. Bate
man ''steered' the purchaser to HE
, stands store.
Fire which oripinotrd I'm the kitchen
of tbc residence of Arthur Bouchnrd.
Notane Quebec. caused the death of
Mrs Rnuchord and nine children.
B%ouchard Jumped from an upper story
window and was about to be followed
by his wife, but she failed in her at
, tempt and persisted.
At the nu,rterlv MEETING of the
Western Union Telegram Company
General Thomas n Eckert was elected
chairman of tho board of directors and
Colonel II. c. Clowry. now vice presi-
dent ana general sunerintendent of the
western division MT Chicago. was elect
ed president and general manager of
the company.
' A $4,000 city hall building will be
erected ut Canon CITY this summer.
The contract has already been award
ed to $. A. Van Buskirk. n local con
tractor. Work upon the building will
commence as soon as the site, which
is now occupied by a small frame
building used for public school pur-
poses, can be cleared.
A meetinp of tho creditors of tho
late Archbishop Purcell was held. tn
which resolutions were adopted asking
for the discharge of the receivers and
appealing TO Rome for special collec-
tions throughout the United States to
wine ont the Indebtedness of which