Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-02-03

in increased activity on the part Of the
'evolutionists.
Samuel II. Piles. of Seattle, was
elected United States senator by the
Washington legislature on the thir-
teenth joint ballot,
An unprecedented snowfall is report
ed in the Klondike region, with bitter
ly cold weather. All the trails are i'm
passable, the snow being drifted in
some places 20 feet deep. Some loss
of life is feared.
Many improbable stories continue to
appear in the st. Petersburg dispatches
of some of the London papers All the
more trustworthy journals, however,
have begun to recognize that, for the
time being, at least, the revolt has
failed.
Through the efforts of Ambassador
Powell Clayton, the bodies of the four
Americans who were killed by Yaqui
Indians near Cohachi, Sonora, have
been sent to their relatives in the Unit
ed States
The department store Of Bannon &
Co.. at st, Paul, Mimi, was gutted by
fire; loss, S15O,O00.
Eighteen persons, all Mexicans but
four, are reported to have been killed
by Indians in the Yaqui country in
Mexico within one week.
Seven hundred immigrants on the
steamship Vaderland are held at Quar-.
antine, New York, pending investiga-
ton of the cause of the death of ten
during the passage across the Atlantic.
Charles L. Blandon, clerk in the audit
ors office of the post Office department,
has been suspended pending his trial,
in Missouri on the charge of accepting
money in connection with the selection
of sites Tor government buildings.
Mrs. Ida Perdue and her half broth
er Hannibal Connors, charged with The
killing Of the husband of the former
at Richmond, Mo-, have been taken to
Kansas City and placed in Jail there in
order to avoid a possible attempt at
lynching.
Miss Eugene Uhlrich, of Sioux City,
Ia, who was recently placed under ar
rest at Limoges, France, on the charge
of being a Russian spy is reported
dead in that city
Miss Helen Frances Warren, daugh-
ter of Senator Warren. Of Wyoming
and Capt. John j. Pershing, U. S. A.,
were married in Washington. Presi-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt attended the
wedding, The couple will be "at
home" il Toxic, Japan, after March |,
where Capt. Pershing has been as
signed to duty.
a company has been incorporated to
build an intcrurban electric line from
East st. Louis TO Waterloo and Chcs-
ter, Ill.
On account of fear Of an outbreak Of
yellow fever. Gov. Davis of the 18TH
mian canal zone, as an emergency
measure, has taken full control OF the
sanitary work in Panama and Colon.
Thirty strikers were either killed OF
wounded at Riga, Russia, in an at
tempt to disarm the soldiers. The lat
ter first fred volleys into the crowd
and attacked them with their sabers.
Preston NJ Wigginson, an election
Judge, was sentenced to jail for 90
days on his plea of guilty of fraudulent
voting at the November election in
Denver, Col.
Senator Culberson Of Texas, was
formally reelected by the legislature
| in joint session.
Prof. Wolf, of Heidelberg, Germany,
has discovered new planet of the thir-
teenth magnitude.
Charles l.. Freer, a wealthy citizen
Of Detroit, Mich, has offered to the
Smithsonian institution at Washing
| ton, as a gift, a collection of curios
valued al 100000.
Eitel Fritz, second son OF the German
emperor, is seriously i'll, pneumonia
| having developed from a recently con-
tracted cold The emperor Cancelled his
birthday celebrations.
Five fremen were injured by fall
ing wall at the Kips bay brewery fire
in New York The men fought the fire
for eight hours during one of the worst
storms New York has known since the
great blizzard Of 1888.
Tho American legation at Panama
announces one death and six cases of
| suspected yellow fever ON board the
cruiser Boston. The ship has been
| fumigated.
The governor general of st. Peters
burg has issued a proclamation, in con-
| junction with the minister of finance,
to the striking workmen, inviting them
to return to work, and promising them,
in the emperors name, certain re-
forms.
County Judge James Hargis, of Rrea
thitt county; Alex Hargis, former State
Senator Ebert Hargis, Ed Callahan
sheriff of Breathitt county, and Jesse
Spyer, former deputy sheriff, have
been indicted by q special grand jury
at Lexington, Ky, on a charge of con-
spring 10 kill James Cocllrill, city
marshall of Jackson,
As the result of the sanitary cam
paign against yellow fever, the dis
ease has been practically wiped oat N
the city of Mexico and surrounding
country,
Sunday, January %, 1905, will &c
down in history as one OF the darkest
days in Russian annals. Hundreds OF
men, women and children, workmeu
and their families, under the leader
ship Of Greek priest. named GCpon
bent on presenting their grievances
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