Show IMPORTANT av EVENTS E R view of important events at home and abroad the announcement that it was to be the lexow committee investigation in it new york gave the sessions of the past week general interest inspector williams was the principal witness before the committee ex police captain john T stevenson of new york was sentenced to sing sing prison for three years and nine months arid and to pay a fine of 1000 for accepting a bribe the st louis grand jury over afif ty indictments for election crimes sheriff elect henry troll and his son being bein 9 charged with bribery the of flee fice of the states attorney of chicago 0 is to be investigated by the grand jury john powers a chicago alderman charged with bribery has bag demanded an investigation eugene V debs president of the american railway union decided to appeal from the sentence of imprisonment in the case growing out of the great strike the commissioners of brooks county georgia issued a statement saying that all the trouble there was caused by about twenty five white men only about four of whom lived 11 v ed in the county the statement says there has been no race riot in new york samuel C seeley the defaulting bookkeeper book keeper was sentenced to the penitentiary for eight years in the sixth virginia congressional district colonel J hampton hoge republican has served notice of con test of colonel peter J otey democratic representative elect governor mitchell of florida honored the requisition of governor blogg of texas for henry BI flagler of st augustine a director of the standard oil company indicted in texas for violation of the texas antitrust anti trust law the first philological congress ever held in the united states was opened in ane university of pennsylvania philadelphia the directors and managers of the commercial bank at st johns newfoundland f found land was arrested on the charge of presenting a false statement of the bank governor turney will make a contest for the governorship of tennessee the pope has bag ordered catholics to keep out of the orders of odd fellows sons of temperance and knights of pj thing thias if they join they can receive no sacraments of the church the cliff house fit at san francisco was burned the old capitol building at atlanta was damaged by fire about covered by insurance A violent storm accompanied by snow swept the country all along the jersey coast it was very severe FOREIGN the sultan saltan definitely refused to allow united states consul jewett to accompany the armenian commission and make an independent inquiry in to the outrages the resignations of the hungarian cabinet ministers have been accept ed the latter however will remain in office until their successors are appointed A duel between BI jaures and dr barthau Bar Bart thou bou near paris ended in it an exchange of pistol shots in which no one was hurt the czar reduced the number of police charged with the duty of protecting bis big person but he has not abolished the secret police as rumer had it he intended to do A bill to make treason punishable with death in time of peace passed the french chamber of deputies after a heated debate the pope received the officers of the cruiser detroit which recently arrived at naples with the vatican relics made a speech to them and gave them bis big blessing the corean government has decided to borrow five million from the japanese government the japanese parliament was opened it is said that the japanese government distrusts the chinese peace overtures as a ruse to gain time dr jose ellaura former president of uruguay died 1 I P A |