Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 16, 1904, Page 7

| | | | | —¢ By C. E. KILEY. GRA} D RAPIDS, - no owns the United States?” asks somelady. Well, the women run thing?) As yet the Russian bear in the f east is only a cub. Will Japan wai till he grows up? If Spain is to become a republic soon the young king should get ready for it by learning a trade. A nihitist shot at Max Nordau, doubtless to confirm the latter's theories as to degeneration. A Harvard professor says some siang words are beautiful and poetic. He doesn’t give a list of them, though. It isnt Colombian bullets that our soldiers need to fear in Panama, but those eighty-nine kinds of isthmian fevers. “The man who talks one thing on Sunday and lives another on week days does untold injury,” says young hir. Rockefeller. To “Anxious Inquirer:” No; as Weimar Rechtsanwalt is not, as you ignorantly suppose, a kind of sausage made in that town. Twenty-five million volumes of Yolstoi’s works have been sold so far. Now will Mr. Richard Harding Davis be properly humble? How quickly a man changes his tele- phone voice into the natural growl when he discovers that 1 is his wife who has called him up. ‘ The reported disappearance of the sea of Azof recalls that old remark that the sea ceaseth and it sufficeth us. Articulate that,.please! When Mijton got $25 for “Paradise Lost” he rever dreamed that m 1903 an American collector would offer $250,000 for the manuscript. The horse car is expected to disap- pear from New York city before the end of 1904. New York is really get ting to be quite metropolitan. A Boston jury composed of unmar; ried men has declared a pretty woman guilty of forgery. Perbaps she in- dwiged in bad grammar on the witness stand. Another revolution has been started fn San Domingo. This disposes of the necessity of settling the revolution that was going on when the present one broke out. ‘The best thing about M Quad’s 67 cent brand of champagne is that, when his stenographer guessed she would have some, he didn’t have to ask her te guess again. Now that Dartmouth has beaten Brown at debate, as well as at foot- ball, the new intercollegiate propor- tion reads: “Brown : Dartmouth :: Harvard : Yale.” M. Bertillon has added the study of physiogomy to his system of criminal detection. By and by even a detec- tive will be able to tell a criminal when he sees him. az British high society has decided that King Hdward isn’t aristocratic enough for any good use. Which makes it necessary for our own Four Hundred to ape somebody else. Skating with. the thermometer marking 10 degrees below zero wouldn’t be half so much fun if the beys all skated on one pond and the ¢irts all skated on another. Perhaps Gen. Ortiz is dreaming that he can lay claim to that $10,000 legacy left by Cardinal Herrero y Es- pinosa for the first Spanish general who can este! the United States. It may baa as that French chemist rays, that there is enough phosphorous in the hnman body to make 820,000 matches, but even so, financially, the operation would not be profitable. Why is it that young men will in- sist upon paying young ladies ‘“mark- ed attentions” when they are the sort that are always most easily iden- tified in future breach of promise suits? As soon as each of the two powers has discovered how much the other can be forced to cede without fighting the negotiations between Ja- pan end Russia will be brought to an amicable close. Lens grinders want more pay and the wholesale price of the material for eyeglasses has advaneed. After a while it will cost a nearsighted man something to look st what are termed the free shows. No, there is no “corruption” in Eng- Jamd except that every “goggle-eyed son of a man with influence,” as one critic expresses it, is given a job at home or in the colonies at govern- ment expense. It isn’t exactly cor ruption. Miss Crabtree, who as “Lotta” was ence a stage favorite, is reported to have made several million dollars in real estate deals. Miss Crabtree is one of the stage favorites for whom it will apparently never be necessary to get up benefits. aa MINNESOTA. | § From the Capital. It is predictad that national legisla- tion during the remaining months of the session practically will be confined to Panama, appropriations and state- hood. : The sceretary of the treasury has forwarded a letter to the house recom- meding an approprition of $25,000 for building. Exactly 150,828 pension certificates were issued for the calendar year 1903, which is 25,000 more than were issued in 1902, and nearly 50,000 more than were issued in 1901. Representative Buckman has recom- mended A. Swanson for reappoint- ment as postmaster at Royalton, Minn. O. J. Buckley for reappointment at Delano, Minn. and H. G. Ingersoll for |, reappointment at Brainerd. Edward Chard will succeed himself as postmaster at Belle Plaine, Scott county Minn. The recommendation for his reappointment was filed by Representative Davis . This office re- cently was advanced to the presiden- tial class. 4 It cost the government $59,176 to collect customs revenues in Minnesota in the fiscal year 1903. Of this amount $44,790 was expended at St. Paul and $4,386 in Duluth. The sum of $22,572 was expended in collecting customs in North and South Dakota. Senator Hansbeough has introduced a bill which provides for a superinten- dent of irrigation who shall have charge of government work. The sal- ary is fixed at $10,000 a year. The en- forcement of the irrigation act is now in, the hands of the geological survey. People Talked About. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wormley Lati- mer, the actress, is dead at her home in Baltimore. Frank Hodges Clark of Evanston, IIl., once private secretary to Gen. Benja- min F. Butler, is dead. Rev. Elisha W. Cook, one of the three survivors of Yale’s famous class of 1837, is dead at his home in Brook- lyn. Gen. Stephen Moffitt, one of the most prominent men in Northern New York, died at his residence near Platts- burg. Capt. Frederick Pabst, head of the great Milwaukee brewing house, died of pulmonary oedema, sixty-seven years of age. William F. Kendall, a wealthy shoe manufacturer *of Kansas City, died of pneumonia. He was born in Granby, Conn., in 1838. A Gen. James Longstreet, “great, grand old man of the Confederacy,” died at Gainesville, Ga, after two days’ illness from pneumonia. Dr. Hamilton A. West of Galveston, Texas, who was considered as a high authority on yellow fever, is dead in New York after a brief illness at the home of his brother, Benton L. Beebe, editor and publish- er of the Sign of the Times, a publi- cation of the Baptist church in the United States, died suddenly at his home in Middletown, N. Y. John W. Strong, for several years commercial editor of the Chicago Tribune, died in his berth on board of the Monon train a short time before the latter reached Indianapolis. Gen. Guilleaume Lebrun, “father of the Venezuelyan navy” and a Jeading Caracas manufacturer and bridge builder, is dead in New York from pneumonia. The body will be taken to Caracas. Notes From Abroad. Vatican authorities disclaim a plan for American primacy. In capturing a bandit chief, Chinese troops assacre 2,000 persons. A village was destroyed. During the month of December 4,589 emigrants left Naples, of whom 3,883 went to New York. Merit becomes more and more rec- ognized in British public service, to the chagrin of the nobility. Two and one-ualf t6ns of whalebone were sold in London for $15,000 a ton, breaking all price records. Bulgaria has protested to the porte against the celay in putting into effect the promised reforms in Macedonia. King Edward insists upon having a bevy of American women about him when he is a guest at country houses. The December statement of the Lon- don board of trade shows increases of $20,740,444 in imports and $2,020,000 in exports. ; The duke of Roxburghe has resigned his commission, as a lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards, known as “The Blue.” The empress of Korea, who was Miss Emily Brown, a native of Apple- ton, Wis., and the only American girl who ever occupied an imperial throne, is dead. At asecret session of congress at Lima, Peru, the treaty of arbitration for a settlement of the boundary dis- pute between Peru and Bolivia was ap- proved. The Dutch queen mother has accept- ed the invitation of King Edward to attend the marriage of Prince Alexan- der of Teck and Princess, Alice ot Albany, Feb. 10. Portions of the walls of the ancient ‘town of Spoleto, Italy, have fallen and | the historic cathedral containing the frescoes of Fra Filippo Lippi and his tomb are in danger. f new elevators in Minneapolis public: : Sin and Sinners. Prompt action on the part of the Denver police prevented an attempt te lynch the three slayers of Mrs. Young- blood, Peters, Andrews and Arnold. J, B. Marcell, cashier of the Bank of Highlands, Kan., has been arrested on a Grand Island train at Troy, Kan., charged with forging notes aggregat- ing $30,000. Ray C. Johnson of Burlington, Vt., shot and killed Mrs. Sadie Peters, a waitress with whom he is said to have been infatuated. Johnson admitted the killing ans is under arrest. Word has been received at the treas- ury department of the arrest of B. L. Peer, deputy surveyor of customs at Syracuse, N. Y., charged with embez- zling $1,200 of government money. James Swanney, found guilty of kill- ing William Turner in a mountain feud and paroled at Uniontown, Pa., Dec. 23, so that he might pass the holi- days at his home, has not yet surren- dered. D. Freedman, a manufacturing jew- eler of Chicago, was held up and rob- bed of nearly $4,000 in cash and jew- elry by two masked men at his place of business on the sixteenth floor of the Masonic temple. D. S. Richardson, general superin- tendent of the San Francisco post- office, has been dismissed on peremp- tory orders of the postmaster general as the result of the scandal over con- tracts for leter boxes. Charles T. Hazelton, a salesman from Kansas City, reported to the St. Louis police that he had been held up a masked highwayman and robbed of $1,000 in bills, after which the man knocked him down and escaped. Casualties. Four persons have been killed by the explosion of the boilers on the British cruiser Wallaroo. Fire partially destroyed the Iowa capitol building at Des Moines, caus- ing a loss of about $500,000. A passenger coach in Maryland roll- ed down a mountain side. Two peo- ple were killed and thirty others were injured. The Indian industrial school near Fort Qu’Appelle was destroyed by fire and it is estimated the loss will be over $40,009. Seventeen persons were killed and thirty-seven injured in a train wreck near Topeka, Kan., due to trainmen’s carelessness. The City roller mills at Holland, Mich., owned by C. De Kizer, were completely destroyed by fire. Loss, $50,000; fully insured. The First Baptist church at Indian- apolis, Ind., was burned to the ground. The loss is $50,000. An overheated furnace caused the fire. The carriage and wagon machinery factory of Lane & Roach at Syracuse, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. Loss,/ $114,000; insurance, $70,000. One minute and fifteen seconds after an alarm of fire was sounded in the Union school at Salk Lake City, the 750 students had marched out to safe- ty. ‘ _Chief Roe of the London, Ont., fire department was killed and three fire men badly injured by the collapse of a burning wall Sterling Bros.’ whole- sale shoe factory and warehouse was burned. Domestic. The strike of the stationary engi- neers against the Building Managers’ association at Chicago has proved abortive. Archbishop Farley of New York has received a large photograph of Pope Pius X. as a New Year’s gift from the pontiff. ‘ The late Congressman James J. Belden left a fortune of $5,000,000, of which the widow gets $1,000,000 and local institutions $325,000. The Republicans of the Third Penn- sylvania congressional district nom- inated George A. Castor to succeed the late Congressman Henry Burk, Repub- lican. At a meeting of the National Amer- ican Skating association, E. Clifford Dunn has resigned as secretary and Francis Clarke was appointed to fil] the vacancy. A conference between striking mold- ers and officials of the Sharon, Pa., Foundry company has resulted in a compromise on the wage schedule and the men returned to work. Judge Jacob Fawcett, for years a judge of the district court at Omaha, has been appointed commissioner of the Nebraska supreme court. He was born and raised in Hazel Green, Wis. The national Union of Women’s Or. ganizations has issued a circular an- nouncing the formation of a prelim. inary organization “to protect the country against the treasonable and polygamous teaching of Mormonism, and to maintain Christian ideals of marriage.” Hack drivers in Albany, N. Y., have gone on a strike, and much inconveni- ence, especially to undertakers, has ensued. The burial of the dead has been accomplished, however, by sum- moning hearses and carriages from Troy. The message of Gov. W. C. Beckham of Kentucky, while admitting that con- ditions in Breathitt county were, at one time, unfortunate, scores “yellow journals” for their exaggerations and recomn the passage of a law msk- | in iuesrerious in th state crim. IAPAN TAKES WHAT 1S PROBA- BLY FINAL STEP IN NEGO- TIATIONS. RUSSIA HOPES IT WILL BE SO WORDED AS TO PREVENT RUPTURE. BUT IS CONCENTRATING TROOPS WARSHIPS ASSEMBLE AT PORT ARTHUR TO WATCH FOR THE ENEMY. Tokio, Jan. 18. — The final confer- ence before the throne to decide upon the response to Russia began at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Jt was attended by all the members of the cabinet, five of the older statesmen, Admirals Ito and Ijuin and Gen. Ko- dama. The conference was of long duration. Its result is unknown. It is said, however, that the response which was drafted yesterday was ap- proved and that it will soon be de- livered to Baron, de Rosen, the Russian minister. This answer of Japan is regarded ag the final step in the negotiations. Pub- lic interest in the outcome is at fever heat and developments are anxiously awaited. Will Fix Date for Answer. London, Jan. 13. — A dispatch from, Tokio to Reuter’s Telegram com- pany says that an answer from Rus- sia probably will be asked at a fixed date. M. Pavloff, the Russian minister at Seoul, has assured Mr. Hayashi, Jap- anese minister, that the number of Russian legation guards will not ex- ceed 126. The Japanese minister pro- posed to carry into effect an arrange- ment by which a collision between the ‘Russian and Japanese guards would be avoided, which arrangement was cordially agreed to by the Russian minister. Bear Hopes for Peace. St. Petersburg, Jan. 13. — Japan’s reply is expected in two or three days, according to reliable information, re- ceived here, and there is good reason for believing that the reply will be so worded as to prevent an immediate rupture, leaving both governments in a position to continue negotiations looking to a pacific settlement. Orders Opening Up Wiju. Seoul, Jan. 13. —- The emperor of Korea has ordered the opening of Wiju, subject to the acquiescence of China, by telegraph. The American, English, Russian, Italian and Japanese legations at Seoul are under guard. It is stated that sweeping changes will be made soon in the personnel of the Korean government favorable to Jap- anese interests. Bear Watching for Enemy. Port Arthur, Jan. 13.—It is reported here that owing to threatening news received from Korea the commander of the Seventh Russian brigade has gone to the Yalu river to select tem- sorary camps and effect concentration of troops. Owing to the apprehensions of a daring dash on the part of the Japan- ese upon Port Arthur, the authorities here have taken extraordinary precau- tions in and about the town and along the whole line of the Manchurian, rail- road. Rumors were circulated some time ago that the Japanese intended to take advantage of the festivities incident to the Russian Christmas and surprise the warships here. Consequently a vigilant watch was kept night and day. The whole Russian, fleet is now in fighting trim. Czar’s Finger on Situation. Paris, Jan. 13.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Paris edition of the New York Herald says that com- munications of the highest imporiance are constantly passing between the czar and Admiral Alexieff, the Russian viceroy in the Far East. Mediation Not Wanted. London, Jan, 18. — A news agency dispatch from Tokio says that it is understood that Japan has informed Great Britain and the United States that her apparant inaction is not due to a desire for foreign mediation, but to a policy deliberatelf adopted. GET A FAST MAN. the Runner, Will Enter Wis- consin University. Madison, Wis., Jan. 13. — “Dutch Keisel,” champion distance runner of the Iowa state high schools, will enter the university the second semester. Keisel will materially strengthen the track team. He did the half-mile in 1:58, and two miles in 9:57 1-2. Keisel, POWDER PLANT EXPLODES, Two Men Are Instantly Killed and Building Is Wrecked. Peoria, Ill., Jan. 13—A message just received from Edwards Station an- nounces the blowing up of one of the buildings of the plant of the Buckeye Powder company, completely wreck- ing one of the buildings. William Justis and Leonard Shailer were in- killed» The shock was plain- Jy felt here, a distance of sixteen ‘miles, while all the windows within a | PEACE @R WAR HANGS ON IT Witness. Chicago, Jan. 13.—Building Commis- sioner George Williams was the chief witness yesterday in the inquest. He testified that during the construction of the building he had visited it but once, that time being about two weeks prior to the opening of the theater on Nov. 23. He said that at that time the structural part of the building was completed, but the little things which go to finish it were not in place. He neyer looked at the plans of the build- ing save on one occasion, when, ac- cording to his own statement, he saw them for perhaps ten or fifteen sec- onds. He said that personally he knew nothing of the construction of the building, save what knowledge he had obtained as an inspector. Mr. Will- jams declared that last October he re- ported to Mayor Harrison that not one of the theaters in Chicago was com- plying with the ordinances. The may- or turned over his report to the coun- cil, which turned it over to a com- mittee and nothing was done. SECOND TERM FOR HANNA. Largest Majority Ever Given a Sena- tor From Ohio. Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 18.—The Ohio legislature by separate ballot of the NAVAL AUTHORITIES CONVINCED THAT COLOMBIA MEANS TO FIGHT. BIG COLOMBIAN FORCE IS READY FOUR THOUSAND WELL-EQUIPPED MEN IN WAITING AT TITUMATI. 6 MAKE A NAVAL DEMONSTRATION UNITED STATES VESSELS READY TO LAND MEN AT MOMENT’S NOTICE. Colon, Jan. 13.—United States naval authorities here appear to be con- vinced from the tenor of the reports which are continually brought in, that Colombia is determined to send an army to attack Panama. house and senate yesterday voted to return Marcus A. Hanna to the United States senate for a second term. The result will be formally announced at a joint session at noon to-day, a joint ballot being unnecessary by reason of Senator Hanna having a clear major- ity in each branch. Senator Hanna was re-elected by the largest majority ever given to a candidate for United States senator from Ohio. The house cast 86 votes for Mr. Hanna, two Re- publican members being absent, and 21 votes for John H. Clarke of Cleve- Jand, the Democratic candidate, one Democratic member being absent. The senate cast 29 votes for Mr. Hanna and 4 for Mr. Clarke. The Republican majority was 90. REWARD FOR FIREBUGS. Council and Citizens Set Aside $1,200 for Protection. Sioux Falls, S. D., Jan. 13.—Several recent attempts of firebugs to burn some of the best buildings at Garret- son have aroused the citizens to ac- tion. The city council has offered $300 as a standing reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the incendiaries, and in addition the business men have subscribed the sum of $900, making $1,200 as a fund to be used in the apprehension, and prosecu- tioa of those responsible for setting fires, THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. $t. Paul, Jan. 18. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 86 1-2@87c; No. 2 Northern, 84@843-4c; No. 3, 75 @ 811-2c; no grade, 65@75c. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 40 1-2@421-2c; No. 3, 401-2@41 1-2c; No. 4, 39 1-2@40 1-2c. Barley—Malting grades, 421-2 @ 571-2c; feed grades, 37 1-2@40c. Minneapolis, Jan. 13. — Wheat-—No. 1 hard, 875-8c; No. 1 Northern, 86 5-8c; No. 2 Northern, 83 1-8@84 1-8c. Duluth,Jan. 13. — Wheat — No. 1 hard, 86 1-8c; No. 1 Northern, 84 5-8c; No. 2 Northern, 82 1-8c; flax, $1.00 3-8; oats, 37 1-8c; rye, 54c; barley, 34@52c. Milwaukee, Jan. 18. —- Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 87@88e; No. 2 Northern, 84 @86c; May, 871-2c. Rye—No. 1, 571-2 @58e. Barley—No. 2, 64c; sample, 36 @é6le. Oats—Standard, 38 1-4@38 1-2c. Corn—No. 3, 41@42 1-2c. Chicago, Jan. 13. — Wheat — No. 2 red, 90@91c; No. 3 red, 88@90 1-2c; No. 2 hard winter, 79@81c; No. 3 hard winter, 71@79c; No. 1 Northern spring, 85@87c; No. 3 spring, 783@S86c. Corn—No. 2, 44c. Oats—No. 2, 36 1-2¢; No. 3, 36c. Sioux City, Iowa, Jan. 13. — Cattle —Beeves, $3.50@4.90; cows, bulls and mixed, $2@3.50; stockers and feeders, $2.50@3.80; calves and yearlings,$2.25 @3.25. Hogs—Bulk, $4.55@ 4.60. Chicago, Jan. 13. — Cattle—Good to prime steers, .70; stockers and feeders, $2.25@4; cows, $1.50 @ 4.25; heifers, $5@6; calves, $3.50@7. Hogs —Mixed and butchers, $4.50@4.90; good to choice heavy, $4.50@4.90; light, $4.50@4.70; bulk of sales, $4.65 @4.80. Sheep—Good to choice weth- ers, $4.10@4.75; Western, $2.75@4.60; native lambs, $4@6.30; Western lambs, $4.50@5.25. South St. Paul, Jan. 15. — Cattle — Good to choice steers, $3.70 @ 5; good to choice cows and heifers, $2.50 @3.65; butcher bulls, $2.50@3; veals, $2@5; good to choice feeding steers, $3.35@3.75; steer calves, $1.50@2.50; geod to choice stock cows and heifers, $2 @ 2.35; heifer calves, $1.25 @ 2; good to choice milch cows, $30@40. Hogs—Range price, $4.20@4.60; bulk, $4.40@4.50. Sheep — Good to choice lambs, $5@5.50; fair to good, $4.50 @ 5; good to choice yearling wethers, $4.35@5; heavy, $3.75@4.15; good to choice ewes, medium weight, $3.50 @ 3.65; culls and stock ewes, $1.15@2.25. ADMITS HE KILLED MAN. William Kunnecke and Other Prison- ers Plead Guilty. Pierre, S. D., Jan. 13—What prom- ised to be a, long term of court in Stanley county is practically ended by pleas of guilty which have been made in court by William Kunnecke, who is charged with the murder of Andrew Demmber; by Robert’ Sallsbury and ! Lewis Bewker to the charge ot/horse | stealing, on Da Rapa eho aed Breed oy horses, The Panaman authorities yesterday received official confirmation of the fact that the Colombian troops at Ti- tumati number at least 4,000 men un- der the command of Generals Ortiz, Uribe-Uribe, Bustamente and Novo. These troops are well armed and sup- plied with ammunition and have four guns, three steam launches and a large supply of cattle. News also has been. received that the Indian chief, Inanaquina, returned yesterday to Cartagena to interview the Colombian officers regarding a re- quest made by them for 200 Indian cayuocos (small boats) to be used by the army at Titumati in crossing riv- ers. Can Hold the Trails. Col. Villamil, who is now stationed at Rio Mandinga, at the mouth of the San Blas bay, in command of a hun- dred Panaman soldiers, in a report sent in yesterday, said he had no need of more troops. The colonel said he already had sent out scouts as far as Concepcion to the east and Culebra to. the west, who have confirmed the be- lief that the mountain trails are so dif- ficult that it would be an easy matter for the colonel’s command to stop any army attempting to pass over them. A scouting party of United States marines has just left Colon on the steamer Herald for Nombre de Dios, from which place they will send a small boat to Mandikja with the ob- ject of Undertaking a Journey to the Dayien district, toward Tiburon. This expedition is likely to be absent for two or three weeks, and on its re- turn the naval authorities will have the fullest information obtainable re- garding trails, etc. It is expected that all the warships will leave Colon to-day for the purpose of making a demonstration along the San Blas coast. The vessels will land an attacking force the moment infor- mation reaches them that Colombian troops have crossed into Panama terri- tory. There is no sign of a Colombian army in the vicinity of Panaman ter- ritory on the Pacific. The outlook is apparently warlike. FORGER AND BANK SWINDLER. Man Wanted on About One Hundred Charges Is Arrested. San Francisco, Jan. 15.-— Holbrook Eppill, a_ self-confessed forger and bank swindler who is wanted in vari- ous guarters of the United States on about one hundred different charges, was arrested here yesterday, Sheriff Shipman of Kalamazoo, Mich., assist- ing in the capture. After his arrest Eppill confessed to his profitable ope- rations of the past few years, which had extended from St. Paul to New Orleans. MINE IS BURNING. Flames Defy Efforts of Miners to Quench Them With Water. Shamokin, Pa., Jan. 13.—Fire of a mysterious origin broke out in the No. 8 slope of No. 9 vein of the Cameron colliery, operated by the Mineral Rail- road and Mining company, yesterday, and gained so rapidly that it is impos- sible to fight the flames with water. The burning portion is being closed in an attempt to smother the fire. FUNERAL OF GOV. FOSTER. Attended by Distinguished Men of Ohio.and Other States. Fostoria, Ohio, Jan. 13.—The funer- al of the late secretary of the treasury and ex-governor of Ohio, Charles Fos- ter, was held here yesterday after- noon, the services being conducted at the Methodist Episcopal church in the presence of a large congregation, in- eluding many distinguished men of Ohio and other states. Farmer Found Dead. New Rockford, N. D., Jan. 13. — Charles Ducke, a young farmer resid- ing southeast of’ this city, was found dead in the barn among the stock. The cause of death is not known. The coroner is investigating. Larceny Is Charged. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 13. — J. M. ; Wilcox, former storekeeper for the Southern railway here, was arrested on an indictment charging larceny of , brass and other material valued at