The news boy., 1894-04-21


the 11th, doing much damage to ship
ping and other exposed property. Four
teen lives are known to have been lost
along the New Jersey coast.
AMzIE SMITH, who for thirty years
has been in charge of the senate docu-
ment room, was taken suddenly i'll at
his desk, on the l1th. and was at once
removed to the senate library and put
under the care of physician.
THE trials OF Francis Coffin, Percival
Coffin and A. S. Reed. charged with
aiding and abetting Theodore P.
Haughey in wrecking the indianapolis
national bank, were begun in the fed
eral court at indianapolis, Ind, on the
10th.
TIE pope, in special bulletin issued
on the 10th, nominated Cardinal Ram
polla, papal secretary of state. as arch
priest of St. Peters. His holiness de-
clares that this action is taken in rec
ognitiou of the cardinals great serv-
ices to the church.
THE works of the American Grape
Sugar Co. at Buffalo, n. Y, were de-
'stroyed by fire on the l2th. The lives
of sixty of the night workmen on the
top floors were imperiled, and after
the fire many of them We're missing.
Loss, sl,200,00O; insurance, s500,0o0.
THE American Railway union has
asked Judge Dundy Of the federal
court at Omaha. Neb., to order salaries
of monthly.paid men on the Union
Pacific restored to the figures existing
prior to September last, and that the
restoration date from the receivership
in October.
Mr.. WILLIAM WILDE, the divorced
husband of Mrs Frank Leslie, of New
York. was married in London, by spe-
cial license, recently, to Miss Sophia
Lees, young lady of Irish parentage,
who is said to be very wealthy. The
fact of the marriage was kept secret
until the 18th.
THE French government has re-
ceived advices from China that the
Chinese at Hsianfu have burned the
French mission at that place and NAL
treated and imprisoned the French
missionaries. The government has de-
termined upon demanding an explana-
tfon and apology.
THE house committee on interstate
and foreign commerce, on the llth, or
dered favorably reported bill pre-
pared by the committee providing
retired list for officers of the revenue
cutter service, by which all officers
who are disabled are to be retired and
given waiting-ordcr pay.
WIDESPREAD dissension has been
caused in the Oklahoma presbytery by
a certain faction of young men voting
old and tried ministers out of their
fields against the wishes of the
churches where they We're serving and
recommending certain personal friends
yet in college, for the places.
S
The report of the late Sir Gen. Por.
tai, who was British consul general
and political agent at Zanzibar, has
been issued. The report strongly
urges the construction of a railway to
the coast and the draining of the ter
ritory around the Victoria Nyanza
u
commerce in that region.
]. w. WooD, ex-treasurer of Calhoun
county, Mich, and grand receiver o
the A. o. U. w., has been missing
since March 26. His books are nov
in the han6s of the officers of the or
ganization, who are investigating hi
accounts for six years--the time he hal
held office-and up to the 9th they hat
found shortage of over 5000 in hi
accounts
LATE news from Hawaii. per steame
Monowai, say that the ex-queen's or
gan, the Holomua, of the 2Sth ultimo
contained a notice of the Hui Alok;
Alma to the Hawaiian people whicl
was practical warning against tax
ing any part in the coming election
for president, on pain of incurring tn,
displeasure of Lilioukalani, whom tn,
natives seem to believe will soon b,
restored to her royal prerogatives.
DURING fire in Davidson's theater
Milwaukee, early on the morning o
the 9th, the roof fell in, carrying dow
nearly q score of firemen, eight o
whom were cremated in the audito
rum, while q ninth was killed by q lad
der falling with him. The rest Of thos,
who went down with the roof wer,
rescued by their mates, all of them
however, badly injured, some fatally
The Liliputians lost ali of their valua
. ~ costumes and properties
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