Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1904-06-24
LAWRENCEBURG, TENN, FRIDAY, d.

1 hO Ltupolui AhlhiobSi Nv pOlAVy
Switzerland, was shot and seriously
wounded. His would-be assassin
was arrested.
The Russians are said to have a
food supply at Port Arthur sufi-
Gent to last two months, but their
coal supply is very low.
Abner Mckinley, brother Of the
late president, was found dead In
4 chair at his home in Somerset, Pa.
Death was due to Bright's disease.
| John Mitchell, president of the
United Mine Workers, has sailed
| for Europe, where he will spend sew
eral months studying labor ques-
tons.
! During severe storm at Warrens-
burg, Mo-, G. L. Clements and Fred
Miller were struck and killed by
lightning while sheltering them
selves under a tree.
! While the japanese naval trans
port Taihoku was engaged in lay
ing mines at the entrance to Port
Arthur mine exploded, killing one
officer and eighteen men and wound
ing two officers and seven men.
An important step in the prog
ress of Japan is apparently about
to be taken in the compulsory
teaching of the Roman alphabet, as
we'll as Romanized japanese al
phabet, in the government primary
schools.
The union butchers Of Chicago
have withdrawn from the local
trades council, giving as their rea-
son the many strikes in which they
have been involved by order of the
council through sympathy for 9TH
; er strikers.
A plot to assassinate the car Of
Russia was frustrated by the dis
covery Of two Internal machines
, that had been struggled into his
palace. The mechanism in each
was working when the machines
were discovered.
The Kentucky court of appeals
has refused rehearing in the case
OF Jim Howard, sentenced to life
imprisonment for completely in the
, Goebel murder. The case will be
, taken to the United States supreme
court.
| Miss Kate Sendry, aged 20 years,
shot and killed Nelson Prowse, her
, brother-in-law, at Austin, Tex. The
9 young woman when arrested said
| fshe shot Prowse to protect her sis
e ter's life. Prowse was a prominent
: printer, being foreman in the States
man Office.
e DR.. Baker Of Illinois, member
2 of the state board of health, after
S visiting several mussel fishing
I. camps, declares that the decompos-
: ed meat from the pearl-producing
a mussels is the cause of epidemics Of
}, illness along the streams from
t which they are taken.
i, A serious hitch has occurred in
e negotiations for the release of Per-
}. diearis and Marley, the men kidnap-
ed by Morocco brigands. The de-
i tails as communicated to the state
: department by Consul Gumeere in
r dictate that Raisuli has vastly en-.
larged his original demands.
/ Gen. Bobcrickoff, governor gener.
f al of FINLAND, was shot and NOR
e tally wounded as he was about to
/ enter the hall of the Finnish senate
i at Heltsingfors, by a man named
T. Sechanmann, who Immediately COM
j. mitted suicide. The assassin was a
J. member of the Finnish patriotic as.
ISOLATION, and the killing of the gov
n ernor general was due to Finnish pa
r triotism.
d Officials Of the pension Office have
e been considering the case Of an ap-
d plicant for government aid who has
+, the most extraordinary matrimonial
/; career, according to his own ac.
T. count, of any man who has evel
Il applied for pension. The man is
/ Peter West, veteran of the Sew.
5. enth Iowa cavalry. He has beer
: married ten times, and to do so has
f been compelled to divorce himself
n eight times.
6 Judge Parker of New York viii
II have large instructed delegation
J at the national democratic conven.
'c ton, but the Hearst men claim he
g will never receive the necessary
two-thirds vote.
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d The supreme court of Missouri
d has confirmed the verdict of tn,
d lower court in the cases of Julius
n Lehman and Emil Hartman, two o.