Tiie oldest Baptist preacher in Ihe
stale, Rev. Henry Maher of Powell’s
Valley, Ky., committed suLide. He
would have been a minister ever since
would have been 100 years old in June,
and had been a minister over since he
was 25.
Franz Geratt, for years the leading
socialist In the United Stales, died at
his home in Brooklyn of cancer of the
stomach. For participating in tin at
tack on the church of SI. Paul, Frank-'
fort-on-lhe-Muin, In* was exiled from
Germany.
,f. U. Dii Forest Danielson, of Boston,
lias rented for next season the Switt
estate in Newport, occupied a year ago
liy Mrs. Oriuc Wilson, and Mrs. 13. G.
Tucker, ol New York, has rented the
cottage of Mis. George Merrill, of
New York.
Charles Hodman, a prominent farmer,
was assassinated In his own yard at
Anthony, Kan. He was shot from
amlinsh, and Hie murderer escaped in
the darkness. Hodman had no known
enemies, and the murder is a mystery.
1 le leaves a family.
Coachman Bernard Mackell, former-,
ly employed by Henry G. Hilton, Jr.,
and his wife, Sylvia Gerrish Hilton,
of New York, has brought salt against |
the latter to recover $5OO promised
him for Interposing when her husband
•Blacked her.
H. S. Cowuen, formerly tinman at:
the Duluth courthouse, has brought
proceedings against. Hie county com-1
mlssloners to compel them to re
appoint him. He is a veteran of the,
civil war, and the suit is a test id' the
law reiiuiring that preferences he
given union veterans in public oillces.
