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Show ON TRIAL FOK EMBEZZLEMENT. A Festive Now Yorker Standing Up in Defense De-fense of Himself. New York, May 7.- Special .1 The case of Peter J. Claasseu. formerly president of the Sixth National bank, who is inflicted for embezzling, abstracting ab-stracting and misapplying the funds of the bank, attracted a largo crowd today to tho United States court, although Jew exjpected the trial would really begin be-gin today. Claassen is accused of embezzling em-bezzling railway bonds ami securities to the market value of $083,000. The usual dilatory motions were successfully success-fully resorted to ami tho crowd was disappointed because the opcuing of what promises to be a sensational trial was again postponed. Uiuonviiie, iuo., yesterday over a trivial mutter. Stearns opened' a jack knife and plunged the blado into Archer's heart, killing him instantly. Hon. C F. Clarkson, father of Assistant Assist-ant Postmaster-General Clarkson. and R. P. Clarkson of ihe Iowa Suite Register, Regis-ter, who has been sick for several months, grew rapidly worse last night aud died soon after inidmght. A serious lire is raging iu No. 14 colliery col-liery of tho Pennsylvania Coal company, com-pany, at Port Blanc'hard, and up to a lute hour last night all efforts to check the flames are futile. Several men at work were overcome, and had to be carried out. The railroad presidents accomplished nothing yesterday, the time being occupied occu-pied in a discussion of the position of the different roads. The general passenger pas-senger agents are making considerable progress in the work oi perfecting a new organization. John H. Wellington of rTiMnd Junction, Junc-tion, Colo., was yesterday married mar-ried to Mrs. Sarah McKee, a charming widow of Toledo, O. She is the sixth woman who has consented to launch upon the sea of matrimony with him. The city election nt St. Paul; Minn., yesterday resulted in a victory for tho 'democrats, they having elected the mayor and a large majority of aldermen. alder-men. The Australian ballot system worked very satisfactorily. Tho campaign cam-paign has been a very bitter one. The British steamer "Wingate," Captain Cap-tain Thompson, with a crew of thirty men, sailed from Philadeldlua gram laden, March 20, bound to Copenhagen, and has not been heard from. Ihe owners and agents have given up all hopes and believe she has gone down with all on board. A man named Cromaek, at Foxboro. Mass., yesterday murdered his daughter daugh-ter aged 13, aud then committed suicide sui-cide by shooting himself. The tragedy was discovered by Cromack's son late in the afternoon, when he returned from a fishing trip. Mrs. Cromaek is employed in a factory in tho village. No cause is assigned for the deed. An important deal was made in Lima, Ohio, yesterday. W. J. Marks, a representative re-presentative of a wealthy English syndicate, syn-dicate, Major Sisson of New lork, General Huss of Chicago, and B. C. Faurat of this city signed a contract for building 18--0 miles o Mexican inter- national railroad from ueming, . in., to Tampolalampo Bay. on the lacihc coast. The amount involved is 9il,-630,000. 9il,-630,000. Joseph Can- and wife of Butler, Mo-quarreled Mo-quarreled Monday night over some trivial affair. Carr raised a chair, as if to strike his wife, when her sou Charles, a"cd 13, who was standing m the vara, threw a stone at bis father through the open door. The missile struck Cm cm the forehead between the eyes, fiac r-iug r-iug his skull. He cannot live. Iheboj was arrested. , The last day of the McCtilla court-martial court-martial was given up to the hearing of a eumentso? counsel for the defense. K , dwelt on the points brought out by the defense in the cross-examination of the witnesses. He said the charge covering the Walker matter was the Z y one on which his client should have been tried. After Choate had ".!i..,i .Tnrltre Advocato Gaist re- |