Show CURRENT COMMENT there seems to be much ill feeling engendered among the rival biographers of the late henry ward beecher by the early publication of the work of assistant pastor halliday and dr lycan L jian abbott mark twain thought he had bad the inside track having effected an understanding with mrs beecher but behas he has been anticipated by halli dagand now joseph howard is to bring out a biography and several other persons are in the field after all the public will be the judge and will buy the best book there will be a regular battle of books of this description during the summer Sg bonnie amaie laurie was some years ago a very popular tune so much so that it is said that whole regiments of soldiers used to join in singing it before the bastions of sebasto seba ba ol 01 but it remained for a citizen oH of Ha anibal aanibal missouri to cap the climax an exchange of recent date says john russell ate his dinner in Ws his room over his store went down stairs wound up a music box placed his coat on the floor seated himself on a low box placed the muzzle of a rei red volver to his left temple and let daylight through his head his spirit took its departure to the strains of bonnie annie laurie which the music box was playing at the time A dispatch dated vallejo may says A telegram was received at the navy department two weeks ago which stated that lieutenant M K had accident lv shot himself while on duty as officer of the watch on the alert mail advices advises just received C put a more serious light on t the he matter while on duty OH the vessel lieutenant stooped to pick up a revolver which proved to have been tied in such a manner that when lifted a bowline slipped over the trigger causing its discharge commander araham graham reports that there can be no doubt there was a plan to assassinate some officer of the vessel and that he has ordered a searching investigation aga tga ti tion lieutenant was seriously wounded in his left wrist and blood poisoning is feared A correspondent ott the butte Butt miner eXiner writing from horse plains may says some time ago the indian who killed james rusk at spokane falls a year agoras hiding biding between missoula and horse plains deputy baldwin balda from spokane falls found his man here today to day in james mc cruas store baldwin proceeded at once to make the arrest when the indian jumped through the store window followed by baldwin the latter fired five shots when the indian turned on him with a knife then baldwin took action in earnest and killed the indian with the sixth shot in his bis tracks at this writing the town is f full ull of indians and as the whites are well armed they will get a good reception if they try any tunny funny work mr baldwin deserved great credit for his bis prompt and effective action quite a number of notices have rt re A bently appeared in our exchanges of a recent invention for pulverizing various substances it is claimed that it works on the principle of a cyclone and that this artificial cyclone will with the imponderable power of the air simply pound all possible substances linto into particles particle 3 that barrels of nails and slag aarein the twinkling of an eye reduced by it without the aid of tooth stamp or roller to impalpable powder we have not a very circumstantial description of the alleged cyclonic before us but presume it differs from the ordinary cyclone in being confined to a certain extent that is that it is not turned loose so to speak and allowed to go around over the country promiscuously like john L sullivan and if it is confined the natural query arises what becomes of the substance I 1 by which it is boxed in the people of kansas are in earnest in their attempts at prohibition if we may judge f from rom the new law enacted enache d under its provisions a druggist can sell liquor only for medicinal purposes and to do this he be must obtain the signatures of twenty five men and twenty five women he must be a graduate in pharmacy of good moral character have a stock of goods exclusive of liquors valued at not less than 1000 udd he must not himself use aiato intoxicants vi can t s as a beverage he must also give a bond in the sum of 1000 for faithful faitha al compliance with th law the man who purchases the liquor must obtain a permit from the tae county judge which is furnished free of charge providing the applicant makes affidavit that the liquor is to be U used sed as med medicine cine stating under oath the nature of the disease A subscriber to the world residing in moscow M boscow russia sends us his bis co copy py of the he weekly edition of march after its ts passage through the hands of the G government overn ment censor A column and a halt cable account of the student plot against the czars azars life is comple completely completed tel blotted out this letter was printed printed conspicuously on the first page of the world the russian post office official who looks after these things first smeared the printed matter with a delicate network ot of mucilage and then covered it with afine a fine black sand the obliteration was complete inthis lathis condition the paper was transmitted to the subscriber subi scriber it is a beautiful testimonial to the survival of tyranny in this age of encil the russian officials should keep an eye on thy the world if ever this liberty loving tygart hating czar despising newspaper gets a good firm hold ou eusea vite territory the house of romanoff will have to emigrate emis rate new york world there has been very pronounced opposition to the proposition gradating ting woman suffrage ever dilce it was first broached one of the most powerful arguments to against it is the demoralizing effect it would have upon the ladies on this point it has been aptly observed that the woman who lives with a roan man days in the year Is not very likely to be degraded tv ta any alarming al alar armins extent by voting with him on the A virginia nov nev dispatch dated 19 a and fatal accident occurred to an italian earned jacobini a wood teamster yester yesterday dav afternoon on the road between como and dayton D drivins r 1 v I 1 down a steep grade he lost his brake in consequence he pitched forward over the end of his wal raaon on among the animals one of them a mule began kicking and before the man could be rescued his head and face were cut in a shocking manner one of his bis eyes was hanging down on OB his cheek he bad a frightful cut across and the lower part of his face about the chin seemed all kicked to pieces |