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Pleaded Guilty. Frederick A. Hobbs, ex-receiver of the Stockbridge, Mass., savings bank, pleaded guilty in the Superior court at Pittefield on Tuesday to the charge of embezzling funds of the bank and was sentenced by Judge Fessenden to one day's solitary confinement in the state prison and ten years at hard labor as a maximum and six years as a minimum
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# LATE NEWS ITEMS Baker of Charlestown, Mass., missing- Heavy snowfalls and floods in Asia Minor-Hancock National bank of Boston ready to furnish golato bidders for bends-Boston to be opened as a port of export for Canadian cattle-Excursion train wrecked at Riverton, Va., but passengers were unhurt-President will veto the Dingley tariff bill if it reaches him-Mrs A. J. Knox, an old Massachusetts abolitionist, died at Fresno, Cal-Alexander Macmillan, the well-known publisher, is dead-Fishing schooners Falcon and John W. Bray of Gloucester, Mass., given up for lost. Monday, Jan. 27. Mrs. Emma L. Swan arrested at Boston for an alleged criminal operation resulting in the death of a South Boston woman-Death of Hon. Theodore Runyon, American ambassador at Berlin-Hiram Laster died in McDonough, Ga., in his 129th year-Death of Philip J. 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Nehemiah Boynton of Boston will not accept a call to a large city in the west-Fears for the safety of the American schooner J. F. Coolidge-Rev. Mr. Houghton of Syracuse, in an address in Cambridge, Mass., advised the use of force against Turkey. Tuesday, Jan. 28. Spanish campaign in Cuba showing no decisive results-No attempt made to haul off the steamship St. Paul-Saloonists of Hocksett, N. 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I-Springfield asked to bid for the quadrangular college boat race-Chairman Harrity names a subcommittee to have charge of the Chicago convention-Western roads doing a good grain business-Chicago business men predict a distinct revival of trade-Relief work in a number of Armenian villages progressing-Leading witness against Baron von Hammerstein absconded-English and American capitalists buying up coffee lands in Mexico-Incorporation of the International American bank seems a certainty-New York bankers report the bond issue as encouraging, but unsettled-Burglars bound an employe and tried to rob a safe in a Hyde Park (Mass.) grocery-Horace W. Cook committed suicide in Cambridge, Mass-Conservative party of Canada unable to redeem its pledges about Manitoba-King Menelek demands as the price of peace that Italy renounce her protectorate-Venezuelan minister at Washington denies that German warships are going to Porto Cabello with hostile intent. Wednesday, Jan. 29. Steamship J. W. 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A robber was caught in the act of blowing open the safe in the Lynn (Mass.) common station of the Boston and Maine railroad-Officers of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals object to the order of the cattle commission requiring muzzling of dogs-Delegates from state labor organizations in Massachusetts, formed the "Union Election league" to oppose biennial election. # THE WAIL OF THE ARAB WOMAN. (From the Saturday Review.)
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Embezzler Sentenced. Ex-Receiver F. A. Hobbs of the defunct Stockbridge savings bank, who has repeatedly evaded trial on an indictment charging him with the embezzlement of $16,000 three years ago, was brought from the hospital to the superior court at Pittsfield Tuesday, on a reclining chair. Judge Fessenden sentenced him to state prison for a term, the maximum to be 10 and minimum six years.