Show HANGED HIMSELF he traded off his cifes horse A QUARREL THE RESULT AND tiie sudden afu ofu prominent liisi onn farmer solved his body round gt rom i tiec special Spec idl to the 0 dec til diio mystery surrounding alie disappearance ot mark kern a prominent bolk county fanner has been by the finding of hia dead body after ho das absence hanging from a tree i mile liis residence hii domestic relations up to alie time he left homo had been plead ant but on the daiy diy lie left lie had a quarrel v etli hia ife and daug liter be caubo of ha ing traded off a hore kiich was a peti ith alie ionian is generally believed to be alie cauce of his suicide A JCK ane marer special to the ENQUIRER dec 21 tie trial of bauso the man who is alleged to have committed a series of murdena at pont ponta a somewhat similar to those perpetuated by jack alie ripper was begun at nancy today to day just a year ago a pawnbroker and his wife at pont ponta a were found 1 ing murdered in their shop with their throats cut baat february a madame terry a coal dealer was murdered in the same way three days later a woman named francois who kept asdall wine shop was found dead and mutilated in her home the town w as in a state of panic and scores of people ere arrested but they were found innocent at length at the request of the local police jam e the celebrated detect hc was sent down from paris and he len nd n d that a stranger had called dpn several shopkeepers at late hours wi alced them if they were alone and bulher strange questions this man wag at length to and arrested in that town daego it was then ascertained biad left porta port a in july of last year having obtained employment as a printer at port a on the day after alie murder of the pawnbroker and his wife he sent liis wife francs and on the I 1 day tho woman francois was murdered and lie paid off his gambling debts A coin found in liis pocket was stained and a button like those on her dress found in her hand was of alie same color as the prisoners finally in ids trunk was found a chipped and blood in daego waa triad at toulouse on the charge of having robbed and murdered an aged widow but was acquitted for want of evidence it was in 1887 suspected of having murdered an aged couple near epical and the following year couple in the same district alie evidence against daego this time is overwhelming and liis conviction is confidently predicted by the public prosecutor SAFE ARRIVAL OF AMERICAS ECLIPSE PARTY special to alio washington dec 21 secretary blaine received a cablegram from london today to day informing him eliat the american scientific expedition had safely reached west africa and eliat the members are hopeful that their observations of the suns total eclipse which takes place tomorrow to morrow will result beneficially fici ally for science the eclipse will be invisible in alie united states except at cape sable and hatteras it will be four or live years before another will oci cur congress appropriated to defray the of alie party of scientific gentleman who sailed in alie united stiles steamer pensacola for africa last november the details of alie observation were ai ranged by a board composed of commodore john G walker clinef of alie bureau of navigation captain superintendent of the naval observatory professor asaph hall of the naval observatory and professor simeon newcomb of the national almanac tho expedition is divided into two divisions one of which is under alie direction of prof joseph of aliis city and the other under the supervision of prof D peck 1 todd of amherst prof is an I 1 expert in solar photography and he has charge of the corps choso whoso special duty it is to obtain photographs of the eclipses in the various pleases ases prof todd was formerly a commander in alie united states navy princeton columbia and burdwise Bur doise colleges are also represented in the expedition some of the scientists during the trip will study marine biology the trade winds of the ocean gravitation of the earth at different points the depth of the ocean anthropology and the alora and fauna of africa the unscientific will hardly appreciate the wisdom of so long a journey to a most inhospitable region of the world to witness an eclipse which will last only four minutes and all the observations of which will last not longer than three hours the party consists of twenty four persons A detail from the crew will assist the scientists in their work the crew and officers of the pensacol Pena acol a number capt A R yates is her commander the expedition is expected to return here about february 15 by permission of the portages Por government the pensacola was permitted to land at san de beanda on the west coast of africa then the party on inland to maxina on the auanzo river there the two divisions separated and established stations about one hundred miles apart |