Fair play., 1906-01-13

whether by accident or with suicidal
intent had not been determined.
The large dry kilns of the William
Ritter Lumber Co, at Panther, w Va,
containing 1900, 600 feet of dressed oak
and poplar lumber, were totally de-
stroyed by fire; loss. 100000.
Ralph Voorhees,, of Clinton, n j.,
has just given a second $100, 900 to Car
roll college, Waukesha Wis, to be used
for the erection of additional buildings.
John Peabody, who lives just over
the Orange mountains from Montclair,
N. j., was arrested by secret service
officers on charge of annoying Presi-
dent Roosevelt with letters attacking
him for his position on the Panama
canal and other political questions. He
was released on promising to cease his
annoyance.
In a shooting affray on the public
road near Akridge, Ga, William Drew
and Newton Threlkeld, prominent and
wealthy farmers, were fatally wounded
Herbert, the 13-year-old son of Drew,
took a prominent part in the fracas, it
being alleged that he fired the shots
that laid Threkeld out.
The president and Mrs Roosevelt
have announced that the marriage Of
Miss Alice Roosevelt and Representa-
tive Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati
will take place at the White House Feb.
ruary II, at noon.
After kissing her husband good-by,
Mrs. Sallie B.ancagniel Pollard, member
| of prominent Louisville (Ky.) family
shot and fatally wounded her three
year-old son and then shot herself in
the head, inhicting a probably fatal
wound.
Lawrence E. Van Winlele, young
| San Franciscan, who was recently sued
for $4,000 damages for alternating the
affections of the wife of Charles n
Watson. a ranChman, committed sui
eide by shooting in Golden Gate park.
Ex-Gov, Bailey, of Kansas, has
turned into the state treasury $1,000 of
money decided by the state supreme
court to have been improperly used for
household purposes out of the executive
mansion maintenance fund.
j. G. harrington, head of an alleged
| fraudulent matrimonial agency in New
Orleans, was arrested in New York city,
preparatory to being returned to New
Orleans. He was indicted there for ad-
vertising the matrimonial offer of an
alleged rich creole widow and roping in
suckers at s5 each.
| DIR. j. G. Howes, of Omaha, Neb., who
was arrested at St. Joseph, Mo, for
sending improper letters through the
| Maysville, Mo-, attempted suicide with
morphine. He will recover.
| Charles A. Edwards, of New York,
aged about 60 years, was found dying in
bed with bullet in his brain and no
weapon anywhere around, at the home
of his brother-in-law, Charles A. Hill
Ter, in New Haven, Conn, where he had
gone to attend birthday party in hon
or of his sister, Mrs. Samuel Harris.
He died without throwing any light on
the tragedy.
Gov. Carter of Hawaii has pardoned
Stephen Mahaulu, who was convicted
| of embezzlement of land office funds
while chief clerk for Land Commission
er f. S. Boyd, who is serving ten years
for embezzlement
Aug w. Schroeder placed ten sticks
of dynamite under the kitchen stove to
thaw them out at Menominee, Mich. His
two-year-old daughter Is dead he and
his wife injured and his home
| wrecked
The designations of James w. Alex.
ander and James Hazen Hyde from the
directory of the Fidelity Trust Co. and
Union national bank of Newark, N. j.,
have been accepted.
| Ten persons were poisoned at the new
Y. NJ. c. A. cafe at Sioux City Ia. by
partaking of breakfast food impregnat-
ed with what is supposed to have been
| arsenic
Mayor Mcclellan of New York, con-
vinced that ne will be retired at the
close of his present term. has determ-
ined to give New York, for the next
four years, a strictly business admins
tration, regardless of politics.
Two lives were lost and a large
amount of property damaged as the re-
suit OF hurricane striking Albany,
Ga. A number of persons were in
jured by flying debris.
| First Lieut.. Roy |. Taylor, coast ar
| tillery, was reduced 12 numbers, by ver-
dict of court-martial. for snoEbery in
causing a. sergeant of his own COM
| pany TO vacate a seat in his vicinity
in theater in New London, Conn.
Judge Thomas II. Paynter was nomi-
mated by the joint democratic caucus
of the Kentucky legislature for United
States senator to succeed J. c. S,
| Blackburn. The nomination is equiva-
lent to election
| President Roosevelt will personally
present TO Capt. Church, now in the
medical corps of the army, the medal
awarded TO him for conspicuous bravery
| at La Guasimas when assistant surgeon
of the Rough Rider regiment. The
| presentation will take place at the
White House.
The United States grand jury at
Helena, Mont, indicted, among others
for illegally fencing public lands, its
own foreman, Joseph p. Woolman, of
Helena Mr.. Woolman, it is needless
to say, retired from the grand jury.
| The Evanston QH.) Y. NJ. G. A.
basket ball team defeated the Yale team
by a score of 16 to 10.
| President Zelaya OF Nicaragua cabled
that the reported destruction of Masaya
1 NV "a rt huual,a WnS untrua Tho Choox