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HARTFORD, CONN.,, March 49,
| Mrs. Resale Hooker Yelling, daugh-
ter of former State Senator Edward
! w. Hooker, of Hartford, to-day sued
I her husband, Professor William c.
/ Yelling, of Trinity College, for d.
vorce, alleging intoIerabIe cruelty. She
/ charges her husband with sticking a
pin in her back, pushing her into a
gutter, throwing books, the leg of a
couch and clock at her, threatening
her with revolver and carving knife,
pulling a chair from under her and
choking her and pulling her hair.
SHREVEPORT. LA, March 18.-
| Joe Tinker, manager of the Chicago
Federals, to daV received wire from
/ Gu riley Watson, former Cub south
paw, notifying him of the death OF
Watson's father, in Toledo, Ohio.
VERA CRUZ, MEX, March 10
Special Envoy John Lind left here to-
d." with party of friends for Al
Varado, SO miles southeast of Vera
Cruz. This is the first time that Mr..
| Lind has been outside the city since
special guards were detailed to pro-
tect him and the United States cor
, suIate.
SAN LEGO, CAL, March a.
Gen. Francisco Vssquez, Governor Of
| the Northern district Of Baja, lower
California, and his staff arrived to-
day from Ensenada and left irme-
| diateIy by automobile for Tecate 70
| investigate the murder Of Postmaster
/ Frank Volney Johnston and the burn
! ing of the postoffice and store build
! ing by Mexican bandits. Vasquez de-
| clared that every effort would be made
to effect a capture of the bandits
LEAVE ,IWORTH, IAN March 49,
After more than five years search and
/ long being given up for dead, James
Cook, son Of a wealthy business man
of St. Louis, Mo-, and nephew of Mrs
Amelia Oliver, of Kansas CITY, was
found behind the walls of the Kansas
State prison to-day. He is serving
an indeterminate sentence of from five
to twenty two years for manslau5h
| ter.
NEW YORK, March 1s.-col.
George W. Goethals. the Panama Ca
nal builder, was witness to day be-
fore the United States Grand Jury,
graft in connection with the building
of the canal. Goethals was questioned
at length concerning the conduct OF
John Burke, of lndianap polls, who was
superintendent of the commissary de-
partnent in the Canal Zone. A num-
Der of indictments are expected.
WASHINGTON, March 18.-An-
nouncement that the Progressives in
the House would make an issue Of the
refusal Of the Democrats and Repubii-
cans in the judiciary Committee TO
recommend the expulsion OF Represe
tatiVe James 7. McEermott, of Hi
~. for his connection with the Mu'-
hall lobbying activities, and that the
ProgressiVes will offer a substitute
was made to- day by Rep esentatIVe
Kelley, of Pennsylvania.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, March ia
Governor Hiram w. Johnston to day
appeal ed to the War Department in
Washington for additional troops to
protect the Mexico California border
line.
WASHINGTON. March 1s.-Two
locomotives and six freight cars were
wrecked in tunnel on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, near West Alex
ander, day, making the second
freight train wrecked in this vicinity
within "a hours.
WASHINGTON, March 1s.-Deelar-
ing that workers who received less
than 81 a day are paupers, Minority
Leader Mann, in the House, to- day
said he would introduce an amend
ment so defining them. This came in
the course of Mann's discussion of
the HensIey bill to shut out convict
and pauper made goods from the
United States.
CHICAGO, March 19.-Elsworth 8.
Overshiner was reported hurryina to
Chicago from the East to-day to re.
marry his former wife. Mrs. Florence
Wooley Overshiner- Bentley. Mrs.
overshiner- Bentley was freed to re-
marry her husband when Judge Sui
Ivan annulled her marriage to Leroy
Vernon Bentley. She became the lat
ter's bride shortly after her divorce
from Mr.. Overshner over year ago.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, March ia
The steamship Atlantis arrived here
this afternoon from Vera Cruz and
Tampico with % American refugees
on board. They say conditions about
Ismpleo are daily growing worse and
think the rebels will take the city
soon.