Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1904-04-22

Fire in Mckinney, Texas, de-
stroyed property valued at 100000,
with insurance $15O,O0O. The fol-
lowing firms were burned out:
White Dry Goods Company; Larg-
ent Bros, books and jcwclry; White
q Price, drugs; Heard & Price, gro
GERS, and A. E. Daw, grocer.
Prince Hugo Hohenlohe married
Nine. Helga, the famous and
beautiful circus equestrienne. Nine.
Helga's first husband was q circus
performer The princes mesal-
lance violates the clause in the Ho-
henlo'le family laws, providing for
forfeiture of rank in the event of a
mes'lliance. The prince gladly
mWle the sacrifice.
The mysterious disappearance of
a s5O,ooO registered package, sent
by the Traders bank of Kansas
City to banking house at Great
! Bend, Kan, on February 9 last, has
been unraveled. The man who stole
the money and confesses the crime
is Edward Griffith, a son of the post
master at Great Bend, and there is
a woman in the case.
Tucker Pinckney, brother of
Congressman Pinckney, was shot
and killed at negro church near
Hampstead, Texas. Pinckney with
a companion who had previously
had trouble with some negroes, went
to the church during service. I'M
mediately after Pinckney entered
the church firing commenced and
he fell dead with seven bullets in
his body.
Judge Benton, in the circuit
court at Richmond, Ky, has thrown
out on peremptory instructions Of
mental incapacity, all the various
wills left by the late Gen. Cassius
NJ. Clay This leaves the generals
property to his natural heirs. and
cuts off Dora Clay Brock, who at
one time received considerable no.
toriety as the youthful wife of the
aged statesman.
A western senator is authority
for the statement that ex-Secretarv
OF War Roots is slated to succeed
Chief Justice Fuller of the United
States supreme court, upon the re-
tlrement of that eminent jurist.
The ex-secretary has been slated by
enthusiasts for every prominent Of
flee where a possible vacancy might
occur, from president down, since
his retirement from the cabinet.
Commissioner Of Immigration
Sargent asserts that a large ma
jority of immigrants coming into
this country are of a dangerous
class, and advocates radical changes
in the immigration laws. The to.
tai estimated alien immigration tc
the United States from 1,T6 tc
1920 was 100000. The total mum.
Der of arrivals for the fiscal veal
ending June 80, 1908, was 857,046
By the explosion Of two thousand
pounds Of powder on the battleshil
Missouri, twenty-nine men we're in.
stantly killed and five injured, two
/ fatally, The explosion occurred a
Pensacola, Fla. The Missouri was
on the target range with the Texas
and Brooklyn at practice, when ;
charge of powder in the 12-inch left
hand gun was ignited from gas ant
exploded and, dropping sparks be
low, ignited four charges of powde1
in the handling room and all ex
ploded. Only one man of the en-
tire turrct and handling crew sur
vived.
Preparations are being made t.
install at the worlds fair in st
Louis the Arkansas exhibit of th
Iron Mountain land department
The space assigned for this exhibi
: is in the main exhibit hall on tn
first floor of the Arkansas build
ing. Mr.. Dean, commissioner O
the Iron Mountain land depart
. ment, has gone to the trouble o
t preparing one of the best exhibit
: of Arkansas products the public ha
i ever viewed.
!, The United States supreme cour
has decided that books published pc
!. riodically are not entitled to trans
. mission through the mails as sec
!, ond class matter.
The states of Nebraska, Kansas
. Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Oklaho
ma and South Dakota, will have t
! import 100000 men to assist i
;, harvesting the wheat crop this fall
" according to members of the West
= ern Union Of Free Employment