Potosi journal., 1904-02-10
later NEWS.

The jury, after being out forty hours,
acquitted Eddie Slattery, at O'Neill,
Neb., on the 9Th, who was charged
with the murder of Henry Shaw Shaw
was killed March g. 1903. Slattery's de-
fense was that Shaw was accidentally
killed while he was attempting to take
a shotgun away from him.
James B. Colgate died at his home,
| at 1onkers, N. Y, on the 7th, after an
illness of several months. Mr.. Colgate
| was born in New York. in 1918. Mr..
Colgate was the first to organize, dur
| ing the civil war, the New York gold
| exchange, of which he was, for many
| years, president
Edwin Anderson, former captain OF
police at Sioux City, Ia. was SEN
| fenced, on the 9th, to pay fine of $500
and serve six months in Jail for taking
,bribe from J. H. Bigelow, slot ma
cline man. The sentence was the
limit under the law
In fight at the Coal Creek (Tenn.)
| depot, on the 7th, three miners were
killed and three bystanders wounded.
by two guards employed by the Coal
| Creek Coal Company. Later a deputy
sheriff who went to arrest a guard,
| was killed
| By a decision handed down at Vic
toria, B. c.. on the 9Th, Edna Wallace
Hopper. the actress, was defeated in
her efforts to break the will of her
stepfather. Alexander Dunsmuir, and to
secure portion Of the Dunsmuir mil
lions.
| The postoffce department, on the
9th. announced that all rural free de-
livery carriers in the United States
would have a holiday on the 22d,
Washington's birthday There are ap-
proximately 20,00a of these carriers
Washington Taylor. quartermaster
general of the grand camp of Confed-
crate veterans. of Virginia. fell down
a stairway of his residence and frac-
tured his skull. and died on the 9Th,
without regaining consciousness.
Secretary Of State Hay returned to
Washington. ID. c., on the 9TH, from
Thomasville, Ga, where he had been
He seemed almost entirely recovered
from his severe indisposition.
Judge Thomas f. Upton died at
Bloomington. Ill, on the 7th. aged 70
years. He was a circuit Judge for thir-
teen years and a member Of congress
from 1877 to 1879.
DR.. Charles ". Dodd. a. prominent
physician and local Swedenborgian
leader, died suddenly, on the 9TH, al
Cincinnati, o.. from apoplexy-
Senate-After listening to speeckes
by Mr.. Hopkins and Mr.. Clay in sup
port of the Panama canal treaty, the
senate, on the Sth, passed the bill
granting assistance to the proposed
Lewis an! Clark exposition, at Port
land, Ore. The bill was amended so as
to close the exposition on Sundays,
and the provision for permanent me-
mortal to Lewis and Clark was elm.
mated. The senate, at 5:35 p. m, adj
journed. =. .House-The house debated
at length the proposed loan of s4,6O0,.
900 to the Louisiana Purchase exposi
tion at St Louis as provided for in the
senate amendment to the urgent def
cheney bill, and 1t was still pending
when the house adjourned. The house
pon-concurred in all other amend.
ments except that providing for analyZ
ing and testing at the st. Louis fair
under direction of the geological sur.
vey of the Goals and lignites of the
United States. in order to determine
their fuel values. With the loan
amendment still pending, at Ass the
house adjourned.
In an alteration on railway plat
form at Lewiston, Mo-, 80 miles from
Quincy, H.. Noah Bowles, town mar.
shall, was shot and killed by William
Pittman, who subsequently committed
suicide. 1t was alleged that Pittman
was intoxicated and had terrorized the
passengers on train from Labelle tc
Lewistown, Mo.
In the district court at Cripple
Creek, Col. on the Sth, Judge Lewis
overruied the motion of ex-Congress
man John NJ. Glover. of Missouri, fol-
dismissal of the charges of assault
with intent to murder Sergeants Dit
tlemore and Smith of the Colorado ma
tional guard.
Gustav Marx, self-confessed partici
pant in the Chicago car barn murders
turned aside from this co-defendants
Peter Neiderneyer and Harvey Var
Dine, at the opening of the trial OF the
thee men, on the Sth, and offered te
become witness for the state.
Col. J Frank Supplee. competent
lauthOrity on factory statistics on the
Sth estimated that the number of per
sons thrown out of employment by
the Baltimore (Md) fire would reach
10000. Others estimated the enforced
idleness at greatly more.
Inspector of Buildings Preston, o
Baltimore, Md, made a careful study
on the Sth, of the district which taC
been burned in that city. and placed
1.-e building loss at l50.0o0,o00,