The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1904-03-25
News Of the World

Hon. W. r. Grace, who served as
mayor of New York City from 1881
to 1886, is dead at the age of ~.
Andrew Carnegie has placed at
the disposal of the national engi-
neering societies the sum of ST.
100000 for the endowment and
erection of the American institute
of electrical engineers in New York
City.
Three persons, two of them be-
ing boys, were killed and eight 9TH
er employees were injured by an ex-
plosion of toy pistol caps, which
completely demolished the two
story brick manufacturing plant of
the Chicago Toy Novelty Company
A letter from German South At
rica gives details of the CHASTITY
treatment Of German settlers by
natives. In one community thir-
teen Germans were tortured to
death, women have been outraged,
and bodies of victims have been
nailed to the door of houses. These
sights so enraged the German SOL
diers that they expressed a deter
mination to kill everything black
Because he stopped in a saloon
to get glass of beer while on the
way to court to answer a charge of
wife Abandonment. John Gabel Of
S. Louis Is out $500. Not being
present when the case was called.
the judge declared Gabel's bond of
$500 forfeited, and refused to re-
consider the matter when the dc
PENDANT appeared a few minutes
later and explained the cause of
his delay.
Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian
aeronaut, has arrived at st. Louis
to make arrangements for locating
his air ship, in which he is to try
for the time limit purse Of $780,
600 offered by the worlds fair. To
win the purse Dumont must travel
through ten miles of space in thirty
two minutes. He will be allowed as
many trials as he cares to make
during the months of July, August,
September and October
Henry Williams, brutal negro,
was hanged at Roanoke, Va. on the
18th. On the scaffold Williams con-
fessed to having assaulted and MUIR
dered three women. The crime for
which he was hanged was commit
ted last January. He entered the
house Of George J. Shields. well
known young business man, and af-
ter assaulting Mrs. Shields cut her
throat He then struck Mildred. the
three-year-old daughter of the
couple, over the head with a hatch
ct and robbed the house.
Pension Commissioner Ware has
issued an order placing upon the
pension list all veterans of the In
ion army who have reached the age
of 90 years and are unable to take
care of themselves. The minimum
is So and the maximum, which is
to be paid after the pensioner has
passed 20 years, is S12 per month.
Allowances at higher rate are pro-
vided for in the order. While it is
not known definitely just what effect
this order will have, or how expen-
sive it will be, the estimates fur
nished the president aggregate about
S20,000,0O0.
Mr.. Knox, attorney general, on
behalf of the government, asked the
supreme court to intervene in the
suit brought by the state of Kansas
against Colorado to prevent the di-
version in the latter state fer irriga-
ton purposes of the waters of the
Arkansas river. There is now avail
able under the reclamation act a
fund of $1G,OO0,00O received from
the sales of public land, and that
fund is being added to at the rate
of several millions each year. In
view, therefore, of the Importance
and necessity of determining the
status Of the United States and the