Show TODAYS TELEGRAMS c llnrk etnuonan PoimANi Oreg Dec 21 I Yesterday Yes-terday Mrs Margaret Taylor living near Cottage Grove Italic County shot and killed 1 Marioi P Martin aged Tu and an aged pioneer Thu woman claims that Martin camu to her houeduring the absence of her luisbnnil nnd attempted to outrage her She procured n pIstol and re I atrdlv warnnl Martin tu leave I He rcftwwl to do oo aud violently seized hold of her She then lirod Ire > shots striking Martin in till head and producing instant death Mrs Taylor then gave herself up to tIne authorities After a thorough examination of tin tragedy the coronets jury exonerated the woman i wo-man from all blame She told a very lniiit story and all the circuni stiiuce4 corroloralid her statement Jlrs Taylor hits always lames n good name Martin is i tliibfatlier of grortiiupsons and daughter A few years ago he Ireateil hit wife K brutally that chin committed suicide l to ienj his cruelly rub lie Mutbiiviit justllU9 the killing Iltlhp ian III Inrl IAKls Dec I President Car not Is Miniring from inllucnza Owing to his illiii < and tine fact that Timnl thin prime minister Irecluyct minister of war Spuller minister of foreign alluirs anJ Koye minister of ngricultun are iiirvring from the same complaint hu Cabinet council todny was abmidoned j Tamnatsrnmirlticeuhn VASIIIXOTOX Dec 21 The llousu I has adopted tIme nsulutioii IdtJ II ixiiuesting the I United I States Trea ury t < > receive the cash ansi a > ets In the sergiantatamis olllce a a sjHcinl deposit until further orders A iinliiilliH VsJIINOTiiN Dec 21 l Thin < President has nominated Milton Welder collector of internal revenue fur tIne district of Oregon tnr linl Ucr nicm t31ho IOXIXJN hem tlA private dispatch dis-patch received here from RIo Janeiro Jan-eiro ftdtt8 that Marshal Dendori Defuiisecn chief of Ire provisional government of I razifis dying The question as to who will succeed him is engaging serious attention It is lJievcd that a change in the ministry minis-try which would follow Marshal Dcfonnvcas death would lead tu serious complications Itnllrotl nmimrnnrnphne Tmmitmy LmNwWt Nelflre tilMiagnt liartltsmbni hravearntvenb ofa wrck at ltattitrgsonie hnunndrmd mIles west ofhnenustinbs nturrnirc A Iturhinngtomn h Micurl exprtms was run lntto Ire a St Jocepln t Gmarid lslannsl tml at a crorsing The Burlington i Missouri flnnmn is dead anti the ugineer missing It Is believed hunt the os > engers are hurt An Imlrlnnl IIIII IticiIJioNIi Va Dec 20 A measure gignnticscoipelntroduced iu the lower house of tIne legislature is a bill to incoriHirate the Columbia lUihvay and Navigation Cointxiny Among the incorporators are H C Iurson an intimitu friend and syndicate pnrtmr of Jaims tL Blaitif S H Letchcr Dennis Slianalian Edward McMalion J Montague Ashton Starke V I Groner JedHotckIs Park Agnew Francis A beiil IJ S Beuwell Cyrus McConnick J P I Whitney Ucn Nathan GtIV H C Sargent F Olmstedand Chauucey Ies The bill provides that thu comjiaiiy shall have < ower to build railroads steamships occupy and operate wharvw canals shipyards dock basins elevators trausferK lighters sttani tugs milL lurnactsi nuJ own and 01 erate mines 1 1 shall also al-so have the rijht tu acquire and hold stocks and bontJs of any com laiiy chartered liyauy of the reptile iicn of South America etc rite capital stock of tine company will be not less than S10OUulHXJ nor more than IOOUOOlMO The prin clpal ofllce will bu located at Ilich inond ThIs is understood to bu a great PanAmerican enterprise The Irrie Jlasvicrr ATHENS Dec 1Chnakcr gov rnor of Crite has sent a commission commis-sion to Rethymo to Investigate the proceedings there and it lias con tinued the report that the gun d anuses liad killed several unarmed Christians Iiiennitrttimmi tinnm jxiwx Dec 2tTlin steamer frince trWicfnt has been run down by a vessel The crew took to the heals A boat containing thlrtecu men ismijsiu The others landed at Boulogne LrltrrrrnniMaiilrj IXINDON Dec ttJSin Fraud Dcmentou makes public a long let ter written him by Stanley Augusi nut last in which bun latter dwells on Kruins indecision which cost him Stanley a journey otherwise unnecessary of toss miles for Barttelot 1 Iu dwells at much length ou thu case of Barttelot and tIn lallcr needed to extricate hint says UcJf from hb dilemma qualities that will not bu gained savu by Knjcx perlence In Africa anu tulosiztil Barttelots courage aud high qualities quali-ties Stanley finally denies with much emplnula thin alleged Congo atrocILcs cf tIre louyema canui heito l litU tlrrffrtorjr of photographing women during execution During thin wholu expedltlCin hv executed only four men ArqnlllPil CIXCINSATI Dec 20 This morning after two weeks trial the case of lug government agaInst Williaiu Means and John P I Decamp of the Metropolitan National Bank was coucludtsj The oacnsc charged was making a false return of the condition of the bank to thin comptroller comp-troller of currency with the intent to deceive the ofllccri of tho bank Thejury was out half an hour and rcturneda vurdictof trot guIlty Jdlraln JAUWWV Ml ° D v 20 Governor Gov-ernor Iowrr today rcfu ctl tin pcti lion of Jute Kllraln to remit the imprisonment jortiuu of hU sen of the fine but tcuce on payment told him after the enC was decided by the Supreme Court hu might present itto his Lowrys successor rnrTlioiian < l Ilroilpril NKV Vtmic Def20 Two silver1 4 oars valued nt 3 KX were lot oil a truck here today whrfu in transit from thu American Kxchnnge Naj tional Bank to the Cumin scum i ship dock A load ofIO0 < worth i of silver itrmo being sent to the 1 steamship tmbrla for shipment to I KngLindwhcn two of the bars item S missed A Itasrnl HT Ixifis Dec Ibccitemcnt ran very high In Colllnsville lIlt I nols last night Dempsey Pars a tough character btcaniu Int catcJ and undertook to cIsra I the town Ho ran upaif I j thin main street firIng a revolrer I directions and defying a > I torirresthim Wesley IfcavsrV I struck by one of the bulKu trS ott seriously wounded Armed I were yooii formed to arrest Ik 1 but although Nveral shots fired at him from Winchester riui MiotKuns etc and hula jorM V I from under him he manacni cscaiK AMiorttiniu efurb nn livf town Bnrco hail a fuss ttitti t Heinemanwhomheshotaudfam wounded |