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electric wire Jerome adjourns Patrick hearing till April 3. thus insuring another reprieve for condemned man. David E. Sherrick ex-state auditor of Indiana, has made good all of his shortage of $147,000 A receiver has been asked for for the failed Southern Bank & Trust Co. of Fort Smith Ark The ezar, by an imperial manifesto soon to be issued is to further guarantee liberties to Russia Congressman Bartholdt will ask a $1,000,000 appropriation for a new post office for St. Louis Erie railroad refuses to arbitrate passenger differential question and eastern lines fear a rate war The war minister of France declares the defensive department of the republic is in the best condition Six Kansas lines reconsider the oil rate advance and will obey the law. looking for relief to the next legislature A blizazrd raged in the northwest the latter part of the past week, passing over the great lakes and down the St. Lawrence valley Stuyvesant Fish is to head a policy holders' movement to thoroughly in vestigate the affairs of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. A package containing $1,900 was stolen from the safe of the Adams Express Co. at the railroad station in Springfield, Mass An inquiry by ministers and doctors in Chicago has developed the astounding assertion that there are 70,000 "coke" fiends in that city, The death of young Harry Tenney, as the result of a prize fight at San Francisco, will probably call a halt on pugilism there for awhile A powder magazine, with 100 tons of powder, located near Safe Harbor, Pa., blew up and James Sweeney, a waterman, was blown to pieces. Joseph B. Slebeneck, for ten years editor in chief of the Pittsburg (Pa.) Chronicle-Telegraph, died, Friday, of pneumonia, after a few days' illness By the death of Anderson Fowler, the retired vice-president of the Fowler Packing Co., the government lost an important witness in the packers' cases. Fire caused a panic in the Park Gate hotel in Chicago, but all the guests escaped in safety There were a number of thrilling rescue incidents. As a result of differences between the union bricklayers and the Building Trades council in St. Louis, work on 50 stractures is completely tied up. Senate passes Indian bill without proposed committee changes in clause re. lating to sale and lease of coal lands. La Fellette's proposed amendment is defeated The Arkansas river is getting freakish It has left the channel it has pursued for more than fifty years and cut through the lowlands east of Pine Bluff, Ark Beer Inspector Crenshaw of Mis. souri says that since the putting on of the Sunday lid the sale of beer has materially increased, mostly of the bottled goods variety, for Sunday use. Mrs. John Weiher, wife of Alderman Welher, of Milwaukee, declares that if her husband does not quit politics she will sue for divorce. She says that every whisper of boodle makes her sick. The body of G. W. Chapman, a prominent hardware merchant of Emmetsburg, Ia., was found floating in the Des Moines river, near Harvey, Ia., with every indictation of murder. He had been missing since December.
