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Show qgN Of THE NfVj The hearing of the Castellane divorce proceedings has been postponed from March Jl to April 32, owing to the absence ab-sence of Countees Anna at .Blarrltx, and the fact that Count Bon! Is engaged In a political campaign. s. i i. The Rev. W. Gourley Connell, . former pastor of the - Presbyterian church -at Lamar, charged with Immoral conduct, had to be sent to La Junta, Colo., to prevent pre-vent lynching. ' - ' '..' Mr. Shackleford of Missouri . made . an attack on Speaker Cannon in the House yesterday In connection with a bill, which he Introduced to put. Missouri soldiers on the pension list. He accused the Speaker of holding up meritorious measures. . Mr. Cannon retaliated. - Mr. Tillman of South Carolina and Mr. McCumber of North' Dakota made vigorous vigor-ous speeches yesterday in connection with the railroad rate bill against the trusts. President Roosevelt has sent a recommendation recom-mendation to Congress that a law be enacted, en-acted, to prevent the destruction of Niagara Ni-agara Palls. . ' ' Acting Mayo.- C. L. Baruth of Medical Lake. Wash., was shot by bis wife following fol-lowing a domestic quarrel and is In a serious condition. He chased her from the novte with a poker, and . returning through another door, she shot him. Sympathy Sym-pathy is with the woman, and she was not arrested. . v ...... - t Twenty-three city and county officials of Buffalo, N. Y.. will be arrested on information in-formation furnished by Rowland J. Con-pver, Con-pver, - the contractor convicted of grand Itrceny in connection with a contract with the county for removing bodies trom an old cemetery. . - .' : Robert Sprlgg. a negro convicted with detaining a white woman against her will, was given twenty- years in the penlten- H. ll. ft: ' Prince Arthur of Connaught. nephew of King Edward, and suite, con-meting con-meting of Lord Redeedale, Gen. Kelly-Kenny, Kelly-Kenny, Admiral Seymour, Col. Davidson. Capt. Wyndham and Miles Lampson of the British Foreign office, arrived In Canada yesterday. Another subscription of $5000 for the Japanese famine relief fund has been re-Cflved re-Cflved at the State department from the Red Cross for transmittal to Japan. Daniel P. Spiers, a well-known ex-slave, who purchased, his freedom In 1851 for $600, d.ed at East UverpoolO.. eged 103 years. The House Committee on Rivers and SSI?0. ye8trday considered the feasibility feas-ibility of reporting a bill carrying a suffl- 1.000,000-to complete the Jetty work at the mouth of the Columbia river In Oregon. Ore-gon. No conclusion was reached. - A negro prisoner at the county farm at Corsicana, Tex., set fire to his cell today In an effort to escape. The flames got beyond be-yond control, and before the prisoners could be removed four were burned to death and a fifth was fatally burned. The negro who started the fire was among the victims. A committee will be appointed by the English Government to consider the question of requiring American Insurance companies doing business in Great Britain to keep enough surplus In that country holderser amunt of English policy- The body of Samuel Nelll of Butte. Mont., a discharged sailor of the battle sMp Oregon was found floating In the l-arbor at Honolulu. An autopsy disclosed dis-closed that he had been drowned There were no signs of foul play. Ndil was STSM?:, dlsc,arfe' wfile the Oregon was In this port. |