Show tripi e ot a MEN OF STANDING BO THE LYNCHING A lawyer has his stove loaded with explosives iowa feb 22 last evening hon J D alsop a prominent lawyer of dyersville Dyers ville in this county and mayor of that place narrowly escaped death at the hands of an entering his office he placed in the stove a couple of sticks of wood when almost instantly a terrible explosion occurred the stove was violently hurled up to tho ceiling a partition in the room blown down and fire brands and ashes were blown in every direction one piece of wood flew past mr alsopp head through a window into the middle of the street on being examined it was found the stick had a hole bored in it almost the entire length this aperture had been filled with an explosive aad neatly filled up mr alsop lucidly escaped with a few slight injuries he disclaims any knowledge of the perpetrated rater or his motive in the practice of his profession he has made some enemies five years ago he was cirod upon by a farmer named henry gould and as a result carries two bullets in his body today to day donld was indicted by the grand jury for attempted murder but on his agreeing to leave the country alsop refused to prosecute him gould now lives in cedar falls A miss feb 22 D H smith a negro from forest city arkansas who has been collecting no gro workmen and shipping them to arkansas was lynched by being hung to the limb of a tree yesterday the coroner is investigating and the evidence so far indicates was done by two citizens of beha county and one from lowndes and are men of standing in their communities muni ties county shot ohio feb 22 james M lane county treasurer of pickaway county has disappeared and his bondsmen have taken possession of his office his accounts are 17 short all taken since september or her Il inonIa SAN DIEGO cala feb 22 word reached here that mrs amder a daughter of governor golesby Gg lesby of illinois who is spending a few days in san diego was robbed of in diamonds and jewelry at selmar yesterday they were given to a young man who acted as clerk to be placed in the safe the young man and the diamonds both disappeared les acresti Ar restI diw YORK feb 22 wilson woodruff secretary of the cincinnati hamilton dayton railroad Kail road company under the reorganization of the company effected by ives and stayner was arrested in newark last night it is understood he has been indicted with the principals th nation LITTLE KOCK feb 22 bob watkins was arrested at pine banff arkansas today to day upon the charge of in tei fering with the election officers at Plum merville in conway county at the november election this is the precinct at which the box was stolen by masked men and was tho cause leading to the assassination of john M clayton no arrests have yet been made odthe parties directly implicated in the assassination si of col but it is believed the prosecutions conducted by the federal court of the men implicated in interfering with the regular election of officers will result in bringing out all the facts of the assassination sassi nation an attempted GIBSON mass feb 22 wesley thomas was lynched here today for an attempted outrage on c white woman A train hebberd Heb bery cal feb 22 As trail no 17 left pixley this evening five men boarded it two on the engine engineer ana with revolvers when about two miles from the station it was brought to a stop and the other three entered the express car and ordered the messenger to open the safe forcing him with revolvers dynamite bombs were exploded under the cars and during tha excitement several passengers ran toward tho front two of whom were shot E B bently of modesto was probably fatally wounded the other being charles of el paso who was instantly the train san bacar to pixley where the news was the passenger coaches were not molested enily feb 22 after resting for a few days under tha charge of being a burglar and a fraud T barquet of new york has been proved to be an innocent and injured man his vindication came today to day in a least expected way though tardy it was complete ho was arrested on saturday night on the statement of a miss mapes that he wason 9 of the men who the night babore broke into and robbed the house of her uncle the florist chas T tier the next day in court she swore to hia identification and barquet who has borne an unstained character as an honest and exemplary young man trag held lor trial ox th charge ho furnished bail and has been at liberty since although ho va protected his innocence and satisfactorily accounted for every moment of his time the night of the robbery the young comans womans positive identification has not made his position before his fellow townsmen remarkably mar kably pleasant inspector byrnes of this city whose house was recently robbed set two detectives to watch kiowa burglars the detectives tec tives followed the burglars to mount vernon there their duty ended ext day when barquet was arrested for robbing the tiers house bymes thought he was not guilty and the burglars he set a watch on were so he had the three men arrested and managed to secure a confession from each by making each one believe theother had confessed they completely exonerated barquet tier who has been going around mount vernon offering to bet ten to one that barquet is guilty may now have to sweat for it A million feurle S SAIT feb 22 the china steamer brings news of a great storm in Chee Foo over a million and a half of people are starving eilts occur daily the missionaries have been attacked by mobs february ad a great fire broke out in japan destroying 1000 houses including schools temples and hospitals the following day bouses were burned at yo kaduka and three persons were burned to death the sane day ten houses were burned at jashin and fifteen at tokio the LONDON feb 22 the report that a french cruiser had bombarded sa gallo where the cossack expedition under Atch had settled temporarily killing aal wounding five of the expedition and capturing the remainder is confirmed the bombardment was the result of the refusal of atch inoff to lower the bussian flag which he had hoisted at iagallo Sa gallo movements BERLIN feb 22 the german training squadron which has been cruising along the moorish and spanish coasts has been suddenly ordered to port said it is believed the fleet will ba sent to east africa the four german iron dads at genoa were ordered this afternoon to sail for samoa immediately A dortu dak feb 22 the weather last night and today to day has been the most bitter cold experienced this season the standing kock stage which should have arrived last evening failed to show up at a late hour and grave fears are enter bained for its driver and passengers abe indian outbreak Out brenk MISSOULA mant feb 22 tho excitement cit ement over the threatened outbreak of the reds on the border is growing hourly more intense dispatches have been passing between general buger at st paul and the officers at fort assiniboine and oth er posts in this neighborhood since noon yesterday and it is understood that troops have been ordered ready to move at a moments notice john S roberts a partner of the late J E clifford killed at flathead lake by the indians is here and says of the fight the savages laid in wait for him and shot him they feared him too much to do it openly the indians who did the deed are Koote and not flatheads Flat heads as stated the flatheads Flat heads are the allies of the whites and it is their proud boast that they have never killed a white man the place where this all took place is known as the upper flathead country and is composed of the small settlements tle ments of egan dewers ville and ashley thirty miles beyond ashley is the place known as the tobacco plains where the indians lived and that is but forty miles from the canadian line there are seven ty five white families in all and about 2 the indians are all armed with martini henry rifles and if any outbreak should occur the whites are utterly defenseless they are miles from the Nor thren pacific road at badalli Ba valli at this time there is an abundance of sno wand travel to the railroad would be almost impossible they would be butchered before getting one third of the way in the summer they take the steamer on the lake and thus escape the men are prepared to resist an attack if they can get their wives and children out oi harms way the indians get theia ammunition from the canadian line and are always well supplied dew ers villo where clifford was killed is a miserably small place it consists of grigggs Grigg Bs cabin occupied by the ferryman the united states lane office cliffords store and hotel and i liquor store the is a veritably abl trap and if aa outbreak occurs th whites cannot escape frequent ap peals have been made for a company of soldiers tiie leeport ST PAUL feb 22 according to the officers at army headquarters in this city the dispatch from missoula mont regarding the indian troubles ia exaggerated the only trouble reported in the district was a case where an indian agent had struck an indian who was stealing clothing yoek feb 22 the commit tee in charge of the centennial pele bration of inauguration ia in receipt of an interesting letter from everett wamer of baltimore respecting the sword which washington wore when he was inaugurated and which is in the possession of henry lewis nephew this sword appears as a part of outfit in several portraits among them cne of gilbert stewarts washington irving describes the outfit at this inauguration as follows he was clad in a full suit of dark brown cloth cf american manufacture with a steel gilted sword white stockings and silver shoe buckles arrangements will probably be made during the centennial celebration walto tap 22 the white cap bill has passed the anddew gleato th governor for his approval it provides for a fino of 1000 or less and fixes the maximum penalty at ten years in the penitentiary for participating in white cap outrages stanley BRUSSELS feb 22 lieutenant barret who was at stanley falls when tho stanley letter to tip was delivered has arrived here he states tha messengers were closely questioned and confirmed tho details of the letter lieutenant barret believes that stanley only by strenuous efforts and that emia pasha relieved stanley instead of being relieved by him stanley was enabled to return to in eighty two days whereas the joumei from to wadelia occupied tea month barret states that fresh letters frem stanley may be expected shortly in boston BOSTON feb 23 interesting te divorce suit of earl marble of san francisco has been decided and goes on record as one of the most peculiar cases in judicial history it is peculiar because it is a case of alleged mental cruelty administered to the fragile and delicate imagination of the gentle poet but marble did not win his case his cifa who resides in this city commissioned san francisco lawyers to set forth a general and complete denial of the charge they established her cause to the action of tho court mrs marble said today to day that marble had deserted his home in boston two years ago his departure was contemporaneous with the disappearance of a lady to whom he had been paying marked attentions it is understood that it is to marry this woman that ho seeks a divorce mrs marble avers that the secret of the affair is that marble is a free lover and desires an opportunity of exercising the privilege of his belief marble left missouri under a cloud raided by his indulgences kinli chinese PANAMA 23 aghili has passed a law excluding chinese immigrants from the republic but other classes of immigrants find a warm welcome and the government has repeated its order to its immigration agents abroad authorizing them to give free passage to all who desire to emigrate to chill where on their arrival they will receive board and lodging for fifteen days hundreds of such immigrants have arrived and are on their way from panama five hua dred thousand dollars is the sum the government has been authorized to expend in recommending this immigration on a gigantic scale while her own people are emigrating over the andes |