Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1904-04-15
News of the World

+ 20 'St VAL D"'tlS iOi tilC Nhoiii
pionship May 80. The fight will
take place in San Francisco.
According to the report of the
Texas commission, just issued, the
total number of free passes of all
kinds issued by the Texas lines the
past fiscal year aggregated 436,213,
OF which 1890 were ANIMALS, TO-
735 time passes and 3S1,9O4 trip
passes.
The case of W. S. Taylor, ex-
governor of Kentucky, charged with
being implicated in the murder of
Gov. Goebel, is being continued
from one term Of court to another.
Friends of. Goebel hope some day to
get Taylor on Kentucky soil, when;
the case would be tried. m ~
| Hon. Elihu Hoot, former secretaa
ry OF war, will likely be the next
Republican nominee for governor of
New York. In the event this pro-
gramme is carried out and he car
ries the state by big majority, he
will be a formidable candidate of
his party for the presidency in 1908.
Albert Baldwin, the negro whom
Gov. Vardaman saved from being
lynched by promptly ordering out a
company of state militia, was con-
victed by jury at Sumner, Miss,
OF the murder of Engineer Bogarty
OF the Yazoo and Mississippi Val
ley railroad, and sentenced to be
hanged.
By special act of the Illinois leg
islature, the people in cities and
towns are permitted to vote for mu-
nlcipal ownership of street cars.
The matter was submitted to the
electors OF Chicago at the recent
city election and resulted as follows:
For public ownership, 154, ,434
against, 30,104.
Col. William F. Cody declines to
discuss the divorce suit which is now
being tried in the west, and will say
nothing regarding his wife's allega-
tlons concerning his acquaintance
with women of the stage. "It is a
private matter" says Col. Cody,
"and will all be settled in court. II
concerns no one but myself"
Sixteen more indictments have
been returned against prominent
citizens of Oregon, charging them
with defrauding the government
! out of stone and timber lands. II
is alleged the accused are men Of
wealth and employed homesteaders
to enter the lands which was decided
; to them after being proven up.
When, little less than three
weeks hence, the Worlds Fair gate.
, swing open, practically all of thu
constructive work will have been ac
complished and virtually all of tn,
exhibits will be in their places. Ev
e cry one of the great exhibition pal
( aces is completed except in the mat
, ter of painting, and this will b,
l finished long before April 80.
A correspondent of the Globe
l Democrat, speaking of the convic
tion in federal court of Senate.
Burton of using his influence il
, favor Of a fraudulent concern, saws
: "The downfall of Senator Joseph B
Burton removes from official life
character which, in many of it
e phases, defes analysis. Through
: out his career in Kansas Burtol
! roamed with indiscretion AM
y "neighbored" with folly. From tn
h beginning friendship with Burtol
+ was thing no follower pointed t
e with pride or contemplated with e1
e ultation. 1t was rather a thing t
It be explained or defended. And tn
d most kindly criticism that is passe
/ tpon Burton in Kansas that he ha
no moral sense.'
It Sarah A. White, an inmate @
e the poor house at Columbia, Mo
T. who died recently, left will bt
It queathing to the Locust Grove Bar
/ tist church property valued at Sc,
r eral thousand dollars.
Congress has passed a special az
d increasing from $72 to 500 pc
i month the pension of those wh
y have lost both eyes or have becom
,r totally blind from causes accruin
is in the military or naval service {
Y. the United States,
d Intending to take dose of coug
d medicine, Mrs. Robert Lyons {
RS Pawnee, Ok, by mistake got hol
o, of bottle of carbolic acid an
ID swallowed teaspoonful of the po
er son. She died in fifteen minute
ID On the 7th inst. a destructiy
wind-storm swept over Natche