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# CONDENSED DESPATCHES.
An elderly woman, Mrs. Mary C. Tinson of Boston, fell between an in-coming train and the platform at Asnieres, near Paris, France, Monday, and was crushed to death. Mrs. Tinson had resided near Paris for 13 years. Her son is in business there.
Frank Osborn, a prominent merchant of Jackson, Ky., was shot and killed there, Monday night, while ir. his store. Dexter and John Howard, brothers, were arrested in connection with the crime. No cause for the shooting is known by the police.
A writ of habeas corpus asked by attorneys for Carl Riedelbach, the "human bomb," who threatened several weeks ago to blow up the police station at Los Angeles, was denied, Monday, by Judge Willis. The dynamiter was remanded to jail until his trial, Dec. 30.
The Union Pacific Railway, Monday, at Omaha, Neb., made application to the department of commerce and labor at Washington for a license to operate and maintain a wireless telegraph system along its lines. The company wishes to install a technical experiment station and the government is requested to give permission for such a station.
Two thousand members of the Massachusetts militia are expected to participate in the inaugural parade at Washington, March 4. Two regiments of infantry-the 5th and 8th-a regiment of Coast Artillery reserves, the 2nd Corps of Cadets and Troop D of the 1st Squadron of Cavalry, have made preparations for the trip. The expense will be borne by the officers and men.
Capt. Sprague and the crew of the American schooner Henry R. Tilton are safe in port at Lunenburg, N. S. They arrived. Monday night, on the schooner W. M. Zwicker, which picked them up, lest Friday night, after their vessel had become waterlogged in a heavy blow. The crew of the Tilton had been lashed to the masts for many hours when the Zwicker bound, from City Island, N. Y., for Lunenburg came to the rescue.
Several troops of Boy Scouts were requisitioned, Monday, by friends of 15-year-old George Young, missing three days, to begin a search for him among woods and cliffs near Yonkers, N. Y. The boy, a scout and a student of Riverview Academy, Poughkeepsie, went there, last week, to be a guest of a relative over the Christmas holidays. Saturday, he went for a walk and did not return, Young is the adopted son of an aunt, Mrs. Mary Young of South Hadley, Mass. His mother lives in Minneapolis.
A coroner's jury at Chicago, Monday, returned a verdict declaring that Frank Raude, a wealthy contractor, who died at his home, last Friday, several days after making a will leaving all his property to his wife, was the victim of a murder plot. Physicians who analyzed Raude's viscera testified that they found a large quantity of poison in the organs. The jury did not name anyone as being responsible for Raude's death. What action will be taken in the case, if any, has not been decided by Coroner Hoffman.
L. T. Ward, a former preacher and cashier of the suspended bank of Collierville, Tenn., was taken from a hospital, at Memphis, where he was a patient, to the county jail, late Monday, charged with larceny and embezzlement of $38,000 of the bank's funds. An indictment against him was returned, several days ago, but because of his illness he was not arrested until Monday. Ward's condition was attributed to nervous collapse. Bond was fixed at $20,000, but has not been obtained. The bank of Collierville closed its doors, several months ago. An indictment charging that he accepted deposits at a time he knew the bank to be insolvent is also pending against Ward.
Edouard F. Miliis, the Englishman convicted in London of libelling King George V and sentenced to serve a year in prison, was ordered deported from New York, Monday, by the commissioner of immigration at Ellis Island. Milius was held to be an undesirable alien and will be returned on the vessel which brought him. Milius published a sensational story to the effect that the English sovereign had contracted a morganatic marriage in Malta in 1880. The story was disproved in an action for libel brought against him by the solicitor-general of England. He was sentenced to a year's imprisonment, his term expiring Dec. 7, 1911.
Two schooners which were bound for Halifax, N, S., from St. Johns, N. F., were sunk during last week's storms. In neither case, however, was there any loss of life. The schooner Minnie Pearl foundered in the Gulf of St. Lawrence after her crew had been taken off by a steamer. They were landed safely at Tolemway, N. F. The Minnie Pearl was a schooner of 97 tons and carried a cargo of fish valued at $10,000. The schooner Tasmania, also with a cargo of fish, was wrecked on the New Foundland coast. Her crew made their way to safety by boats. The Tasmania, which registered 100 tons, is a total loss.
MADISON
