Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-03-31

SOhtotiNS III NOuStcoo, uicu al HIS lOluc
in Albany, N. ", after an illness of
some months duration. He was
leading democratic opponent of free
silver.
Capt. Connaughton of the steamship
Tacoma, captured by Japanese gun
boats while carrying supplies to Via
divostok, cables to Seattle, Wash,
that he has been paroled at Yokohama,
and that the crew will be sent home.
Judge Scott, in the district court at
Sheridan, Wyo., rendered decision
adverse to Col. VIM. f. Cody buffalo
Bib on his petition for divorce. An
appeal will be taken unless new trial
is granted.
In retaliation for the failure Of the
Hay-Bond treaty the Newfoundland
| government has ordered customs col
| lectors throughout the island to refuse
American fishing vessels licenses to
procure bait in colonial waters.
Twenty-four Chinese were discov-
cred in boxcar in the Southern Pa
| citic yards at Yuma, Ariz., and were
arrested. They had been struggled
over the Mexican border at Ell Paso,
Tex, and were going to Los Angeles.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cass Goddard, one of
the most prominent women of Colora-
do, has been duly commissioned as
deputy sheriff of Ell Paso county, in
the interest of, the Humane society.
Russia has just concluded an inter
nal loan of $100,000,00O at the ennis
sion price of So, and bearing interest
at five per cent. The government
savings bank takes one-fourth of the
issue.
Alonzo J. Whitman, of Dansville,
N. Y, former member Of the Mime
sofa legislature, was acquitted of
charge of grand larceny at Buffalo,
NY.
State Auditor Wells of Kansas will
| refuse to register the state oil refinery
bonds until ordered to do so by the
| supreme court. This will force an i'm
mediate test of the legality of the
| bonds. ~
The japanese warship Kashina was
successfully launched at Newcastle
upon-Tyne, England. Nine. Arakawa,
wife of the Japanese consul general at
London, pressed the releasing button.
Mrs. Aggie Meyers, charged with the
murder of her husband in Kansas
City, Mo-, has been granted change
of venue to Clay county. She will be
tried in June.
Secretary of the Navy Morton has
changed his itinerary. Instead of go
ing first to Havana he sailed direct for
| San Juan, Porto Rico, and will return
via Guantanamo and Havana.
The board of directors of the James,
town (Va.) Exposition Co., will name
an advisory board of 100 prominent
citizens, headed by ex-President Gro
yer Cleveland.
William T. Brisbin, painter, who
confessed that he stole $500 from a
house in which he was working at
Waverly, Mass, has surrendered to
the police of Los Angeles, CAL
], w. Shumate, dry goods mer-
chant of Cotton, Cal, was shot and
killed in his store by burglars.
The Nebraska senate passed the
house bill outlawing the practice Of
Christian Science in Nebraska.
The two houses of the Pennsylvania
legislature held joint special session
to listen to eulogies on the late Sen
ator Matthew S. Quay.
DR.. Henry H. Kane and DR.. William
N. Hale who pretended to treat John
j. McCallum by the 'radium process"
charging him $4,000, pleaded guilty
to grand larceny, in New York, and
were remanded for sentence. The
money has been refunded.
Twenty Russian families, bound for
Yankton, S. D., have gone astray
somewhere between Odessa, Russia,
and their destination. 1t is feared
that they have been shipped, by mis-
take, to a South American port.
Work has been ordered suspended on
nine apartment houses in the Lenox
avenue district of New York, owing
to fimsy construction, and the walls
have been ordered taken down.
| Twenty-one persons, members of a
funeral party. were injured, one, a man
of 80, fatally, by the trolley car on
which they were returning home run
ming away down steep hill, near
Martie Faye, Pa, and running into an
embankment.
The police report on the Brocton
(Mass.) disaster gives the following:
Bodies recovered, IS; identified, IA;
missing, 45. Those known to have es-
capped from the building, many badly
injured, lumber 1888.
The United States warships Olym-
pia, Missouri, Kentucky and Des
Moines arrived in the harbor of Ha-
vana, on the goth inst, on friendly
visit. The officers paid their respects
to President Palma, and were warmly
welcomed.
Conrad Schwartz was hanged at
Cuero, Tex, for the murder of William
Earle. telegraph operator at York
town.
The state troops and United States
marShalS have all been withdrawn