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The jury in the case of R. D. Fletch-
er, a white man, charged with assault-
ing Mary Gladder, a German girl, in
Russellville, Ky., returned a verdict of
guilty and fixed the punishment at
death.
In a collision between a Louis-
ville and Nashville light engine and a
Southern railway freight near Boyles,
Ala., H. E. Abercombe of Villa Rica,
Ga., extra fireman on the Southern,
was killed.
The launch Maj. Wilcox, owned
by the A. Booth Fish company, with a
half ten of black bass caught with
nets in Lake Erie, was held and seized
by Ohio game wardens and may be
confiscated.
A diver located near Michigan
City, Ind., the wreck of a three-
masted schooner believed to be the
Thomas Hum, which sailed from Chi-
cago fourteen years ago and was never
heard of afterward.
Daniel McIntyre of Gladbrook, Iowa,
gave $10,000 to the $150,000 endow-
ment fund being raised by Western
college at Toledo, Iowa. Leander
Clark of Toledo and Andrew Carnegie
had each given $50,000.
Missouri demands that McCall re-
pay the campaign contribution of
$148,000 and that new officers of the
New York Life be elected, giving
the alternative of exclusion of the
company from the state.
A mistrial has resulted in the case
charging "criminal negligence"
against W. B. Caldwell, who was con-
ductor on one of the trains wrecked
on the Southern railroad near New
Market, Tenn., Sept. 24, 1904.
Failure of the Peoria National
Bank, of which N. C. Dougherty was
president, caused a run on two other
banks, the 60-day notice being invoked
in one instance. Financiers fear a
spread of the panic among deposi-
tors.
Germany and other European coun-
tries may bar big New York life in-
surance companies from doing busi-
ness because of the revelation as to
graft and corruption. This action
would mean a heavy loss to the con-
cerns.
District Attorney Jerome of New
York asked for a special grand jury
to investigate the big life insurance
companies. The son of the president
of the Mutual Life was paid $1,705,-
681 in commissions besides a salary
of $30,000.
Newton C. Dougherty, superintend-
ent of Peoria schools and president of
Peoria National bank, was indicted
for forgery and larceny of public
funds. His peculations extended
over a period of 27 years and aggre-
gate $500,000.
Chief of Police John J. Donohue
of Omaha has sent a cashier's check
for $200 to Butte, Mont., to cover the
reward offered by the chief personal-
ly for the capture of Pat Crowe, who
will be brought back handcuffed by
two detectives.
At Hickman, Ky., after he had re-
turned from church, Emmett W.
Roach, a prominent citizen and teach-
er, was shot from ambush. Roach
lived thirty minutes and gave the
name of his assassin, which has not
yet been made public.
At Minneapolis, Ira Riddle, an aged
sailor, has been stabbed almost to
death in his bed in a lodging house. A
deposit certificate for $150 was
stolen. The bank refuses to give him
the money without a bond, fearing the
old man may have indorsed the cer-
tificate to some one.
Alfred, the younger son of the late
David Shepard, founder of the Nichols
& Shepard Thrashing Machine com-
pany at Battle Creek, was cut off in
his father's will without a cent. The
estate of $1,000,000 is left to the elder
son Freedom. Alfred contested, but
the probate judge decided against him.
Charles King, whose sentence of
death was executed Sept. 30, at Fort
Saskatchewan, Canada for the mur-
der of a young Englishman, Edward
Hayward, is believed to have been
Robert Martelli, sentenced to death in
1900, but through the intervention
of the Italian government given a new
trial and acquitted.
At Sheboygan, the damage suit of
Nic Faber, whose arms were broken,
jaw fractured in three places, one
eye gouged out, teeth knocked out,
and shoulder dislocated, was non-
suited, because the supreme court, in
ordering a retrial by the circuit judge,
decided Faber had no case. He had
been awarded $8,000 against the Reiss
Coal company.
Miss Hattie Dew Hirst, one of the
pretty girls of Huron, Ohio, whose
room was entered by robbers a few
nights ago, received a letter, mailed
