Fair play., 1892-01-16

HENRY IRVING. while performing in
/ the Lrceum theater. London, on the
! night of the 9th, received telegram
Announcing the attempted suicide of
his son Lawrence at Belfast, Ireland,
where he was playing with the Benson
company. MIR. Irving finished the per-
! formancc without revealing the con-
I tents of the telegram.
bN the 9Th adviccs from WOmack Hill.
Ala, stated that Neal Sims, a brother
of Bob, two other men and Laura and
Beatrice Sims, while en- route to Leak,
Miss, the rendezvous of the gang, were
met by a posse searching for Neal Sims,
and the party offering resistance, all.
including the women, were hanged to
an oak tree.
ACCORDING to the vote in the national
house of representatives, on the 9th. If
Russia wants the contributions Of flour,
etc. made by charitab BILE American citi-
zens to relieve the wants of her starv-
ing people, she will have to send a ship
for it.
GEN JOHN IRVING GREGG. distin-
GU ished soldier of the war with Mexico
and of the late war, died at his resi-
dence in Washington city, on the 7th,
in his sixtysixth year.
Mrs. MARSHALL o. ROBERTS, one of
New York city's society leaders, was
married, on the 7th. to Col Ralph vi
vian, IF her britannia maiesty's horse
guards.
lT is announced that the French min
istry of commerce will send two com
missioners to the United States in order
to study the petroleum question.
THE ways and means committee of the
national house OF representatives, held
its first rneeting, on the 7th, and
el ectsd r. ". Springer. son of Chair
man Springer, as clerk.
AT Boiling. Ala. on the eth. a boiler
in the saw mill of the Miller, Caldwell
Il Flowers Lumber CO., exploded, kill
ing Engineer Cooper and three others
and wounding four more. The mill is
a total wreck; loss. S25,O0O.
IT is officially denied that King Leo
pod offered to act as mediator or that
he has been asked to act as mediator
between France and bulgaria.
HENRY IRoGET has been arrested at
Port Huron, Mich, charged with COM
plicity in a robbery committed at Mans
field, o., on December IL last, when
the residence of Phoebe Wise was en-
tered and the woman terribly tortured
until she disclosed the whereabouts of
her valugble..
THE body of Tcwlilt PaSha, the late
lShrdive of Egypt, who died on the eth.
was taken from Cairo on the Sth, to
Pff, where it WAS Inferred in a hand
some vault built by the khcdive re-
Gently for the reception of his body and
those of his family after their death.
The German newspapers hope that
The French agitation to secure the
of the british troops from
Egypt will not succeed.
ALL the clergy connected with the
ut Treves are Frustrated with
influenza. Vicar-Gcneral lIenile died
III the Sth.
lT WIS reported at Eagle Pass, Tex,
N the Sth, that Il drtachencnt of Gar
~ $ men had met and defeated Uritet'
states troops between that place and
Laredo.
REV. !. +. ROBINSON, of Fremont,
Neh.. who has been running IA mer-
.handisr business under the name of J.
+. Robinson & Co. is charged by hi.
partner with having embezzled S4,5O)
If their joint funds.
THE boiler makers and iron-ship
builders of Boston voted, on the 7th,
;,I, Z. / l..
,lty and vicinity in the effort to obtain
/ nirc-hour day after May l.
THE archbishop of Mexico denies that
the clergy are aiding the Garza revolu-
ion.