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Show the meqiei.. An Ex-Kupretne Conrt Jndae of Arlaona In n Ilx. New York, May 12. Murat Masterson, who says he is an ex-supreme ex-supreme court Judge of Prescott, Arizona, and who lives at 32 West ThIrty-cond Street was locked up tonlzht, on a charge of attempting to kill his alleged cousin and mis tress, Sirs. Alice Hspklnson, at the Grand Central. 65 West Thirty-sixth Thirty-sixth Street. Masterson, according to the account given by Mrs. Hop-kinson'a Hop-kinson'a maid, called at the house early in the evening, and being denied admittance, kicked the door on and entered her apartments, demanding ? 100,000, which he claimed she had swindled him out of. A shot was beard shortly afterwards, after-wards, and Masterson rushed from the room with a smoking pistol in his band, and, running to the Thirtieth Street police-station, demanded de-manded Mrs. Hopklnson's arrest for attempting to shoot him. Mrs. Hopkinsen was arrested, and at the station made a counter charge against Master-on. Kx-Judge Masterson comes from Prescott. Arlr- and Is said to be worth $5,000,000. He had been a vlsltorat the flat a long time, and his son Howard, a boy of 13, lived with Mrs. Hopklnson until a few Weeks ago. Masterson, it Is also said, owns gold mines in Chuahua-hua, Chuahua-hua, Old Mexico, and onyx mines In Arizona, ills story Is tliat the woman swindled him out of $100,-000 $100,-000 in mining bonds, and when he demanded thoir return, shot at him. Lyncbeil. BlXTA. Makiv, Cab, May 12. .Karl this morning twenty masked men entered the saloon where K. I. Crlswell has been confined since Constable Southard's murder.bound Cnswell, hung hint to the rafters and left the body there. Tbe Loss a) 13,000. Willets Point. I I., May 12. The loss by the fire Is mueh less than first reported. The commander of the post says the total loss will not exceed $Lj,000. lnblleaaa JJrensr. Ixweost, May 12. In the Commons Com-mons tonight, Ititchle, president of the local government board, mo veil the second reading of the local taxation taxa-tion bill, dealing with publicans' licenses. He declares the government's govern-ment's purpose was to promote temperance tem-perance by gradually lessening: the number of public houses. Heroic measures would not do. In view of the fact that the country is not yet convert mI to the jocular veto. He appealed to the temperance party to recognizo the-existing facts. Public oplniou would not support them in try-in to reduce to beggary a iop!-raro iop!-raro iugon a legitimate business. t'iin, advanced liberal, moved the iijrcliuu or the bill. While giving a sixpence In the pound to the tenii-cratice party, it gave the llijuur dealers a sovereign. ton tnprlvl. LOMXJV, May 12. The Morning Jjt' Berlin correspondent soys: By today's speech in the Itetcbtag. Von Caprivi passed with one bound to tlie flrt-t rank of Kuropean statesmen. states-men. Tbe opinion universally expressed ex-pressed iu the lobbies was that lu comparison wltlt his predecessor he has nothing to fear. Ills speech was an Intellectual treat of tbe fint order. His whole bearing, and especially the strength repealed In his conciliatory manner toward his opponents, show ed a nobility of nature, na-ture, high integrity and-clearne-s of Iiurpose. The Knix.rorand Kurope are to be congratulated. nriuotalorTurklsli OOlelala. Coststisoi'IX, May 12. De-Javdelc De-Javdelc I'aslia, minister of justice-, and tbe governor of Constantinople were removed owing to tbe protests of Germany and hngland against their conduct In the Moussa Bey and other cases. St.methlnc Ezpeef esl. Albany, May 12. In tho matter of the National City Bauk defalcation, defalca-tion, Bookkeeper Whitney's peculations pecula-tions are now said tn reach over $100,000. United State District Attorney Alexander is here. There are rumors that several sensational arrests will be made. Jntlare Sabln'. Pealb. Sax Framufco, May 12. Judge Sabin, United btates district Judc-, died here this mofulng. He was a native of Ohio. After graduating from the Western Iteserve College he removed to MadLsou, Wis., where he was admitted tu the bar. He served throughout the war with distinction, being at one time assistant as-sistant adjutant general of the army and after the VIcLslurgh campolgu judge advocate. He removed to Nevada after the war. Tonihrnl Heroism. Campbell Ford, Ont, May 12. A small dwelling occupied by a family named Wynn was burned this morning. Thirteen-year-old William Wynn and his grandmother, grand-mother, Mrs. Catherine Soules, were burned to death. The woman was eighty year" of age and help-ess, help-ess, and tbe boy lot his life in attempting at-tempting to save her. WIIITakr a Baek Seat. Ottawa, May 12. The report of the committee on the charge against Sir Frederick Mlddleton, ot booting furs value! at five or six thousaud dollars during the Kiel rebellion, and which finds tho gen-ral guilty, reported In the Commons tonight and, after a vigorous debate, was adorted. Sir John McDonald said It was an error of Judgment on Mid-dleton's Mid-dleton's part, but the government could not condone tbe offense. The report Is considered as virtually Middleton's death-warrant, so far as Ills future usefulness Is concered. He has been Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian militia and Is ex-pected ex-pected to resign tomorrow. |