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There being no court of criminal appeal in England, and the only re- sort being the crown for pardon, a Renewed Hope for Mrs, May-' monster petition containing more brick, Now Serving a than 500,000 names was prepared ' requesting a review of the case. Life Sentence. 'Home Secretary Matthews held, with GENERAL AMNESTY. that the evidence “does not wholly | FACTS IN REMARKABLE CASE. exclude a reasonable doubt whether jy death in fact caused by the adminis- | London, June 4—It is reported ; _— tration of arsenic,” and commuted that the Baroness Roques, the moth- ler of Mra Florence Maybrick, found the death sentence to life imprison-' | guilty of poisoning her husbund and ™ent. sentenced to prison for life, has re-! It is understood that the late Pres- ceived semi-otticial assurances that Went MeKinley through Secretary her daughter will be pardoned during Hay and Ambassador Choate, asked the coronation celebration this te English government for a par- month as a part of the general am- | don and release of Mrs. Maybrick, ' nesty to be extended to criminals of without reference to the question of | good record. At the United States her guilt or innocence, as an act of embassy mothing is known about i2ternational comity, | the matter, and Ambassador Choate | Should the famous prisoner be in- declines to either deny or confirm the ,“!¥'.ed in the general amnesty to be rumor, Persous conversant with declared two or three weeks hence the late attempts to sec: .' the fact would occasion no surprise mous ca Slag Ag hen lamong the best informed as to the if at last she is to be given her freo- Status of the case, dom, this may be regarded as due to eee | the influence of King Edward and Tuberculosis is Infectious. way be interpreted as a token of his appreciation of American good will. Ever siuce the present home secre- tary came into office two years ago efforts to secure the release of Mrs, Maybrick have been particularly act- ive and have continued up to the present time. ‘The personalefforts of Ambassador Choate, although made informally, have been unceasing, New York, June 5.—Tuberculosisis | jan infectious disease was the conclu- {sion reached by the -Ameriean con- jgress on the subject yesterday after. noon at its final meeting. The deliberations of the congress } were summarized in resolutions stat- jing in the preamble that “Tubercu- losis is an infectious disease, ordi-! narily commur icated from person to PORY, | person by means of the dried sputum The history of Mrs, Maybrick’s sad of a consumptive patient "They ease is familiar to. ev American continue jhowspa ver reader, Sheisthe daugh-) “We believe it to be the duty ofna ter of Willain G) Chandier, a banker) tional, stete and munic ipal govern of Mobile, Ala, and was born in that jments to eract rational methods for MRS. MAYBRICK'S SAD 8 city forty years ago, When 17 years: the prevention of tuberenlosis and! ' \ age shows esuired by James Mavs! we recommend the establishipent ¢ brick of Liverpool then vhont 40" Gistitutions for the care of iudicent yearsold May brick had aved oat o. sumptives life and was atrendy deeliiag oa) Phere should be state an? ; Isa, in! jbealth. He died May 11, ‘Liverpool, and his wife was charge. pal supervision t ices used for the transport» ic | wit h giving him arsenic. with intent 'p issenfeers and, in view of the act | stantly complaining of dyspepsia, of ¢o aveyanees favors the spread of tu deranged digestion, and of nervous! pereulosis and is ininrions to the symptoms, which doctors thought | exuggerated. Ne! the common medicines his physicians ordered, More than that, be was given to dosing himself. ‘Phat he James Poole, Dr. Hopper and others. rine tonics were) transportation companies be indue- ad to pass antl enforce rules against + 4 ed to pass antl enforce rules ugain UO carry a revolver ever since the day, also took actively poisonous drugs | are asked to provide for the publica was proved by the evidence of Sir tion and distribution of literature as public health, it is recommended that the act.” State and municipal governiments a means of education in the preven- On April 27 Maybrick went to the) tion of the spread of tuberculosis, It races, got wet on therace course und js recommended that all cases of the President Roosevelt who, accord- ing to the story now going the rounds of the American press, invari- ably carries his revolver about with him, especially when he goes on bis excursions in the suburbs of Washi- follows in this respect the example of Emperor William, who, for years, has always gone aboutarmed. Firm- ly convinced, as 1 have mentioned be- fore in these columns, that he is go- . ; | ing to die by the bullet of an anarch- ist—this fate having been prophesied ‘and pulpit throughout the civilized RULERS AND REVOLVERS, cranks of the same nature. It might | therefore quite well happen that the President should have the misfortune to shoot some one by mistake, which ‘would be, to say the least, rather awkward. Roosevelt is so extremely clever ‘with his fists that it is a pity that he does not rely upon them exclusively the concurrence of Justice Stephens, ington, either on horseback oraloot, | 10F tits protection, as experience has | shown that men of the stripe who ‘murdered Mc Kinley are always far ‘more afraid of a sound drubbing ‘which carries with it no glory nor even notoriety, rather than an ounce of cold lead, or a spectacular execu- jtion by mans of the electric chair or to him long ago—the kaiser is deter-| the gallows: m'ned to fight for his life ifnecessary, and, accordingly, never is without his revolver. He is extremely skillful in the use of the weapon, and his “jaeger,” or body servant, who ac- com panies him everywhere, inspects it every morning, to make sure that it is in perfect working order, The sultan is another European potentate who always has a loaded revolver, either in his pocket or un- der the cushion of the divan on which he is sitting, and there is every rea- |son to believe the stories current at Constantinople and in other old world capitols, according to which he onone occasion shot down one of the palace employes whose somewhat unusual conduct led him to believe that he was a conspirator. Subse- quently investigation revealed the fact that the peor fellow was perfect ly innocent, and that he was a deaf jand dumb gardner, who, by reason of his attliction, was accustomed to make odd movements with his arms and bands, King Carlos, of Portugal, is said qo when, while driving along a road in a suburb of Lisbon, he found a big ruffian attempting to knife an elder ly man, and, jumping out of his car riage, beat the latter's assailant into astate of insensibility with the heavy w liking stick which he carried, with attended a race dinner, at which he | disease should be reported by the at- was taken ill, and the result was tending physician to the health symptoms of gastritis, the stomach | boards for the purpose of disinfection ART PiCTURES. \ The great St. Louis Post-Dispatch contains besides the news section, a regul weekly, a 12-page ‘magazine, illustrated in half tones and line cuts anda land, a wonderfully pleasing supplement for child- Mail a P. O. money order to the Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Mo., and get the paper six months and the pictures free. Sunday POST DISPATCH. ren, 60 pages in all. ar 4-page colored comic 4-page children’s wonder- atter death presenting the af =| of houses occupied by consumptives, ance of inflammation. Immediately] - he was taken ill physicians were call- ed by the wife, who attended him until he died, two weeks after being} Garden City, Mo., June 2.—To The taken sick, Mrs. Maybrick fell into|Star: In your paper of Sunday, May woon immediately after her hus- 25, you published an article about band’s death, and was unconscious | the Cass and St. Clair county bonds most of the time for the next forty-| that does an injustice to the people eight hours. of those counties. That your read- On May 14, while still in a semi-}ersmay know how the people of these conscious coudition, she was arrest-| counties look at this question, you} ed, charged by the police, at the|shouldgive equal prominen’e to this, instigation of Hdwin and Michael] or some abler, article. What | write] The Cass County Bond Issues. a well-delivered blow on the side of the head, Victor_Bininanuel,too prefers tot rely ona handy revolver, rather than upon those guards who showed their inability to protect their sovereign from the attack of assassins at the time of his father’s tragie death. Whether King Edward goes about armed or not, I am unable to say But Il do know that some ten years ago ormore, when riding in the park, he came upon a horse whieh had been soseriously injured that it was neces- sary to put the animal out of its mis- ery. The police, who do pot carry 7 SPECIAL All subscriptio NOTICE. patch oftice. ofier must reach the Post-Dis- ns sent on this BEFORE JUNE 16. Boer War Has Cost kngland 28,434 Men, : London, June 5.—An official state- gent issued by the War Department __ th) evening shows that the total re- dugion of the British forces inSouth Africa, up to May 30 of the present year, was 97,447. This includes kill- ed, wounded, prisoners, deaths from diseases and men invalided home. Of these, many have recovered and rejoined their regiments, leaving 28,- {134 dead or permanently incapaci- tated. The total number of troops killed in action or who died of wounds is 7,792, while the total number of Kitchener's Pay 1-4 Million. London, June 4.—In the House of Commons to-day the government ‘leader, A. J. Balfour, submitted a | message from King Edward, as fol- lows: “His Majesty, taking into consid- | eration the eminent services rendered by Lord Kitchener, and being desir- | ous, in recognition of such services, to coufer on him seme signal mark | of his favor, recommends that he, the | king, should be enabled to grant | Lord Kitchener million dollars.” John Dillon, William Redmond and j Swift MacNeill, Irish Nationalists, Maybrick, brothers of the deceased tis of the Cass county bonds, and TT and Alice Yapp and Bessie Brierly, | think the St. Clair county bonds were servants and enemies of Mrs. May- secured by the same means. About brick, with having murdered her} 1870, by influencing the county husband by “administering doses of court, the Tebo & Neosho Railway arsenic to him.’’ Search for arsenic|compauy secured an issue of $300,- was made and arsenic was found in, 900 in Cass county bonds. Nota quantitics sufficient tu poison fifty | mile of roadbed was ever graded. persons. Nowe of the poison, how-| Suit was brought to collect these ever, Was found in herapartments or! bonds, the holders claiming to have belongings. ’ bought them, not knowing but they Mrs. Maybrick was taken from her| Were regularly issued. The supreme! bed, still unconscious, to Walton jail | court of the state decided in favor of and ondune 6 the coroner's jury thecounty. The bondholders carried committed her to the assizes at Liy-|thecase tu the United States supreme erpool for trial on the charge of will-}court, and there got a decision in ful murder, theirfavor. The trial began July 31 and lasted acknowledged the injustice of the) eight days, the last two of which were} debt, but rendered the decision to! consumed by the summing of Justice! protect the “innocent purchaser ‘The United Statescourt | {the spot. That is the only the poor brute, and rently was armed or eared to render fitmself guilty of an means of killit no one else appe 4 infraction of the very strict law against the discharge of loaded jire- The prince on seeing how the horse was suffering Without a minute's hesitation pulled a very patty little Derringer from his pocket and shot the horse d arms in royal parks id on ound which | have for believing that King ! Edward goes about “heeled.” There is one feature in this conneec- tion which it is worthy to note. The stories which T have related concern- jing the \ate czar, aid the sultan, show that rulers who go about thus armed are apt to be too quick with Stephens. Four doctors, who testi-| Shortly after issuing these bonds the fied in the case as experts, said that|county court attempted another is- Mr. Maybrick’s death was not dueto Sue of $220,000, Steps were taken their revolvers, and to shoot perfect- ly innocent men inthe belief that tiey are would-be assassins, They | annownded their intention of oppos- ing thegrant at every stage. A reso- lution giving effect to the king's mes- sage will be discussed to-morrow. | deaths from disease in 13,250, $100 Keward 31vu. ‘The readers ot this paper will be pleas- to learn that there is at least one lreaded disease that science has been Ambushed by the Yaquis. ~ arsenical poison. SirCharles Russel, in commenting on the charge of Jus- tice Stephen the jury, said: “He passionately invited the jury to find a verdict of guilty, taking! two days to sum up—the first day jean not be called to account, asin (the case of the ezar, the sultan and | King Edward, they are de jureabove | | the law, while other sovereigns, such jas the kaiser, the kings of Italy, of ' Belgium, ete., are de facto so. But ' what would be the status of the Presi- to arrest those implicated. They evaded arrest by driving from Har- risonville to East Lynne, where they took the train. The people were ex- cited to fever heat; the news sped faster than the railway train. At \ to cure in all its stages, and that is Nae ju —Reports recei . Hall's Catarrk Cure _is the Tucson, June 4. tts received of positive cure known to the medical | here from Herniosillo state that*a Prernity. Catarrh being a constitution- | detachment of 73 men from the force ae judge, and on the second raged GunnCity, the next station, the train like a violent counsel fur the prose-| Was boarded by determined citizens, cution against het\”’ and three of the guilty parties lost dent of the United States if deceived by appearances, he were to shoot a aes ce daresy 2 Constitutional) of General ‘Torres, who is pursuing , acting directly upon the| the Yaquis in the Mazatan moun- tains, was ambushed and thirty of dand mucous surtaces of the sys- het rte Reg — their nftmber killed. The Mexicans building up the constitution | ran out of ammunition an ng nature in doing its work,| in a hand-to-hand battle with ‘the haye so much faith in} Yaquis. Fifty of the iatter-are re- “dig age they offer One| ported killed, but their number over- mer that it} helmed the Mexicans. The surviv- ors returned to Hermosillo. Fifteen 7gc. | of them are wounded. — JUDGE HOOTED AND HISSED, The jury was out only thirty-six minutes and the verdict of guilty wus a surprise to everyone. The! judge was hissed and hooted in the court room and it was with difficulty he reached his carriage. The sentence | of death which followed this strange verdict was condemned by the press ' perfectly innocent man, in the belief {that the latter was about to make aril! an attempt on his life? The present | chief magistrate has the reputation, “C” With a Tail. ; ; which has followed him from the ah with — by x trade: | West, of being very quick with tis took dor ib'oc the light is - —— gun. Heis also impulsive. Moreoy-! metal box! ach tablet stamped: he is perfectly aware that his hfe! C.C.C. Never sold in bulk, All is in perpetual peril at the hands of druggists, roc. ‘anarchists and other pestiferous . . ' their lives as a peualty for their crimes.—Theodore L, Hutton? bulk: All druggists, roc. Margeise De Ponrenoy Remarkable Cave. Leavenworth, Kan., June 4—The most remarkable cave in Kansas was discovered to-day in the Digh bluff overlooking Oak Mills, a station on the Missouri Pacifie railroad, ten miles north of Leavenworth, It is very small of the entrance, but the interior is over twenty feet wide and deep enough to allow aman to walk without stooping. The cave has ev- ery appearance of having been built by human hands, and it is believed by some that it may contain some treasures. Tt will be thoroughly ex- plored by a party of ten men. Warmed-Over Friendships, Post-Dispateh, Nothing is more insipid than a warmed-over friendship, [tis even more tasteless than warmed-over love When once the glow is off the river Thelate Czur Alexander THD always; and the bloom: is off the rve, there is jearried a revolver, and is believed to [to human art or endeavor by which hive shot inca similar manner ac. {it ean be restored, We may try to cident Col von Reutern, nephew off bind al prodigal trend to us wath the minister of finance of that name [hoops of steel ito they are of ne deriy officers of the emperor, en a Phy fai I upou the latter verv sudden! miler triv ' Will wget side path, as Alexander was stroll i try to delude qurs sale WW og along through the pact at- Hor the suke of the olden tines, loop ehina in the dusk, his mind pr bly down in our hearts we know that we occupied with the trequeney of the! distrust hin hihilist attetpts upon his life. He ‘took, according to the story. the| May Pipe fola Gas to Joplin, colonel for one of the conspiratar ene me and shot hin dead on the spot Joplin, Mo., dune on. franchin Was granted to-nftht to a Kansas City company represefited by ex-Chiet Hale, of that city, for the purpose of furnishing Joplin and surrounding towns with natural gas from the lols natural gas district Phecompany is required to deposit 32.400 as an guarantee that the con- ditions of the franchise will be fulfill: ed and readily provision, The maximum charge for gas under the franchise is 50 cents consented to this per 1,000 cubic feet. CAST ORIA. Beasethe The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature : Thick Two Lawyers Fought in Court. Omaha, June 6.—Judge Estelle’s court room in the equity branch of the district court was the scene to- day of a tist fight between two law- Yeiser and John T Cathers wa yers, John Q, being examin. witne nd became angry at Yei plimentary things were sad by both attorneys, Cathers administered a severe kick to his opponent and the fight followed. The court was ad- journed and juryimen separac | the combatants. Judge Estelle has not named the punishinent theattorneys will receive eda rsquestions, neon Do Not Expect Miracles. If a cold, long neglected, or inm- properly treated has clutched you by the throat, you cannot shake it loose ina day, b®& you can stop it prog- ress and ina reasonable time wet rid of it altogether, if you use Allen's Lung Balsam. 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