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his note to M. Taigny, the French
charge d'affaires, which gave offenso
to France, the incident is closed.
DIR. Theodore De Ecke, pathologist
and expert in chemical research, died
at Utica, N. Y. He was frequently
employed in making examinations to
trace poison.
Snow is reported in Arkansas, parts
of Maryland and Kentucky. At Louis
vile, KY, sleet has caused delay to
wire communications and interfered
with street car service.
The state board of pardons of Illi-
nois has ordered the parole of e. s.
Dreyer, convicted of Withholding funds
belonging to the West Park board of
Chicago.
Edward ]. Leppa, of Akron, o., a
student in the science department at
Ohio Northern university, was struck
by Pennsylvania passenger train at
Ada, o., and instantly killed.
A double tragedy in which Albert
Davy, walking delegate of the Plast-
erers' union, and woman he lived
with in New York City were shot and
killed, is puzzling the police.
-Four persons were drowned in the
Monongahela river at Brownsville,
Pa, as the result of the passenger
steamer Rose Hite colliding with the
towboat John F. Klein, and sinking in
IA feet of water.
Benjamin Endicott was shot and in
stantly killed and his wife was seri-
Triplett and another young man
,,,IN a.
Va.
A hundred Russians on board the
Russian battleship Czarevitch in the
harbor at Colombo, Ceylon, revolted.
Military assistance was asked for and
sent and so of the mutineers were
taken ashore.
A statement by the commissioner Of
education discussing matters pertain
ing to his Office for the fiscal year
1905, shows that the number of pupils
enrolled in the common schools dur
ing that period was 16,256,03S.
Fourteen indictments were returned
by the federal grand jury at Kansas
City, Mo-, against common carriers,
railway officials, shippers and freight
agents, charging the giving of rebates
Judge Brazee, in the municipal court
at Milwaukee, Wis, decided that
Charles F. Pfister was not guilty of
larceny as bailee, as charged in the in
dictment returned on August last by
the grand jury.
Gen. Herman Haupt, veteran of
the civil war and noted railroad man
and engineer and the oldest graduate
of West Point, died suddenly on a
Pennsylvania railroad train between
Jersey City and Newark, N. J.
The cabinet of Prime Minister For
tis of Italy, resigned, following a 12-
hour debate in the chamber of depu-
| ties at Rome and the defeat by the
opposition of the commercial modus
vivendi with Spain.
An extra freight train bound east
on the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western road jumped the track at
| Avoca, N. Y, as it was passing a
westbound freight train and 20 cars OF
both trains were wrecked. The crews
of both trains escaped.
The supreme court of Illinois has
affirmed the verdict of the lower court
which condemned Johann Hoch to
death for the murder of his wife, Mrs
Marie Welcker Hoch, and the date OF
| his execution has been set for Febru-
airy 23.
The steamer City of Lowell ran
down the lath-laden schooner Basuto-
land, Chatham, n. c., for New York
off South Norwalk, Conn. The schoon-
er was cut to the waters edge and was
abandoned. The crew escaped In
boats to the Lowell.
Eight indictments were returned by
the federal grand jury at Philadelphia
against shippers, freight agents and
common carriers in the rebate case
brought to the attention of the grand
jury by United States District At
torney ]. Whitaker Thompson.
BY an explosion of dynamite in the
thawing house of the War Eagle and
the Center Star mines at Rossland
B. c., John S. Ingram was killed, sew
eral miners were seriously injured
and many persons were cut by flying
glass from broken windows.
The federal grand jury which has
been investigating government lant
frauds in Kansas, returned an indict
ment at Topeka against State Senator
F. Dumont Smith on the charge ot
influencing federal officer to neglect
his duties. Five other indictments
were returned.
Incoming coastwise and West IndiaI
trading steamers at New York repor
having weathered recently success
sion of the most violent storms evel
experienced off the Atlantic coast
Many of the vessels came in with decl
houses, boats and pipes badly dam
aged, as a result of the heavy sea!
shipped.
After binding the railroad watch
man, William Jones, and his son t.
chairs in the railroad station at Suf
field, Conn, six bank robbers price
their way into the Suffield Saving
bank, blew open the safe after tn,
fourth attempt and made way will
about $4,000 worth of registered
bonds and stocks. not negotiable.
Hazing of every kind will b,
stamped out of the naval academy a