Article Text
NEWS IN GENERAL. Henry L. Boardman, secretary of the Platt & Thornburg Paint Company, St. Louis, Mo., has returned from New York with his wife, who eloped with O. H. Roessel. Boardman formally handed his wife over to her father, and says theonly reason he did not kill Roessel in New York was because the New York police disarmed him before they showed him his wife. He says her mind was disordered, and she is not much to blame. A depth of twenty-four feet of snow is reported at Leadville, Col. Charles Lippincott, senior member of the firm of Charles Lip incott & Co., manufacturers of soda water apparatus in Philadelphia, has confirmed the story telegraphed from Boston to the effect that a London syndicate had about completed negotiations for the purchase of the business of the four firms controlling the manufacture of soda water and beer apparatus in the United States. Two workmen at Pittsburg, Pa., attempted to thaw dynamite; one is killed and the other will die. Part of Nashville, Tenn., is submerged, but no great damage done. All hopes of rescuing the entombed miners in the South Wilkesbarre mine are abandoned. Two officials of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers have been desposed and expelled for embezzlement. A heavy loss of life and limb has been caused by a smash-up on the Lake Shore railroad, one mile west of Hamburg. A passenger train from the west, running very fast on a down grade, broke in two. The front part of the train was quickly brought to a standstill. and the rear half. composed of four heavy Pullmans, crashed into the last day coach and telescoped the first day coach. As near as can be ascertained, 10 were killed and many injured. State Treasurer Nowland of Jefferson City, Mo., has handed his written resignaon to Gov. Francis. His deficit is $32, 718.55. White ruffians are endeavoring to drive out of Oklahoma the few colored peop le who have settled there, because of the absurd rumor that the blacks proposed to colonize Oklahoma and make of it a negro State. The teller of the Louisville, Ky., City National Bank has absconded with about $50,000 belonging to the bank. New York fruit importers are disturbed by a report that the duty on oranges was to be increased. Hon. Perry Belmont has received the decoration of Commander of the Legion of Honor in recognition of his services to the French Republic in connection with the Paris Exposition. It is reported that William Waldorf Astor has expressed his willingness to give half a millian dollars for schools for the colored people who are forming a new community in Oklahoma, as soon as they show that they are in earnest in getting at work in their new surroundings. Bailey Roeth, proprietor of the "Union Telegraph Company" of St. Louis, Mo., which promises to make a skilled telegraph operator out of a student in three months upon payment of $40, was arrested for fraud. Roeth has obrained about $10.000 in the past six months from gullible students at $40 a head. He further stipulated that all graduates would be provided with situations worth $100 a month. State Labor Commissioner Merriwether began investigating this company a few days ago, and came to the conclusion that it was a gigantic fraud. When graduates demanded situations R eth would say he had a nice place in South America or Mexico or Siberia. Roeth A number of warrants were issued agrinst
