The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1905-01-23


best known among the pioneer citizens
of that state. is dead.
A denial comes from Essen. Ger
many, of the report that Bertha Krupp.
only child and heiress OF the late Herr
Krupp, is engaged 20 be married 20 DR..
Heck. of Rheedt. Rhenish Prussia.
Senator Scott. of West Virginia, has
drafted a bin designed TO cut down the
cavalry branch of the army to ten reg
iments.
The Episcopal clergy of western Mis-
souri, have invented a new term for the
remarriase of divorced persons They
call it tandem polygamy."
The coal miners. at their convention
in indianapolis. are expected 10 take
steps to place the organization on
war footing for another struggle in
1906
The cruiser st. Louis. now under
construction on the Delaware river,
viii be ready to go into action when
she is launched This is a new de-
parture in warship building.
Hon. Elmer ]. Burkett will be the
youngest man in the United States SEN
ate when he takes his seat as one of
Nebraska's senator's. lie was born in
Iowa in 1867.
Miss Courteney Thomas, a Missouri
girl, viii sing in operate roles at
Monte Carlo for the remainder of the
season. going thence TO Brussels in the
spring.
z. X. Brown. of Ell Reno. Okla. was
found unconscious on the street at
Kansas City. No. evidently suffering
from poison. and died at the police
station. lie was a freshman in the
art department OF the Kansas univer-
sity.
The National Live Stock association
has been disrupted the cattlemen.
horse and swine growers. who were
opposed to utilization with the railroad
and packing interests drawing out and
forming an independent organization.
Chief Wilkie of the United States
secret service announces the appear
ance Of a new and very deceptive coun-
terfeit two-dollar silver certificate. of
series 1899, Lyons register, Roberts
treasurer.
NiHesses for the defense in the
SmOot case. at Washington. testified
that polygamy is dying out in Utah so
rapidly that there is no need of pros
ecuuons.
Fire Ges royed the new theater and
several ether buildings at Neepawa,
Manitoba. causing a loss of $4,000.
The ecclesiastical, cou1 of inquiry at
Reading. Pa. called to consider
charges against Bishop Talbot has
adjourned slime die. the members de
Gliding that the body was uncanonical-
ly constituted.
A well defined movement has been
inaugurated by the Order of Red Men.
in Petersburg. Va. for the erection Of
a monument 10 Chief Powhattan and
his daughter. Pocahontas.
The county treasurer's vault in the
Fulton county court house in Wauseon,
O.. was blown open by four craftsmen,
who secured from 5000 10 $4,000.
Count Pueckler. GermanyS most
noted Jew batter has been sentenced,
in Berlin. TO six months in Jail for
public Indictment TO disobedience Of
the laws and violence of one class
against another.
Silas CARRIER. who served as govern
or Of Nebraska from 1874 to 1878, died
at Omaha. lie was a native OF Ohio.
settling in Nebraska in 1873
Former Gov. Morgan G.. Buckley,
of Connecticut, was chosen by the re-
public caucus. al Hartford, as candi-
date for United States senator TO sue
ceeed Joseph r. Hawley, who viii re-
tire on account of impaired health.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Of Mas
sachusetts. has been renominated TO
succeed himself. and Senator W Muir
~ Crane. to fill the unexpired term of
Mr. Hoar, which he holds by appoint
ment.
Cablegrams received in ST. Louis an
nounce the death OF August Anheuser.
ST., at Krueznach. Germany. from
heart trouble. lie was a first cousin
of Mrs. Adoiphus Busch, of ST. Louis
Rev j. c. Harzel Methodist Episco-
pal bishop of Africa. has sailed for
Liverpool. en- route to his fed Of Ia
Dor
The German mine owners. at a
meeting in Essen. resolved under no
circumstances to yield to the demands
of the miners and to suppress the
strike by every possible means. even
at the cost of hundreds OF millions Of
marks
Habeas corpus proceedings have
been instituted in the cases of the
children taken TO Arizona by repre-
sentauves Of the New York founding
asylum and taken from the persons
with whom they were placed and
adopted by other families.
A commission has been appointed
TO summon a jury and take testimony
concerning the sanity OF Brodie l..
Duke. now confined in a sanitarium at
Flushing, Long Island It is claimed
that Duke is deprived of his liberty
without due process of law.
Official records OF Ellis Island, n. Y,
show that for the first month of the
new year immigration TO this country
is likely to exceed all records.
The Chicago Press club celebrated
the twenty-ffth anniversary Of its
founding with banquet. Col. George