The news boy., 1894-04-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Huron, O., at midnight of the 9th. to
wreck train No s, the east-bound flyer,
on the Lake Shore road. BY the
mercst accident the attempt was dis
covered in time to prevent what would
have proved a rival of the grea. Ashta
bula disaster.
THE second trial of Richard S.
Heath, charged with the murder of
Louis B. McWhirter, a prominent poll
tician of Fresno, CAL, resulted. on the
11th, in another disagreement, the
jury, which had been out five days.
standing ten for conviction and two
for acquittal.
THE United Mineworkers' conven-
tion at Columbus, o., on the 1lth, Or
dered general strike, to begin April
81.
THE snow at northumberland and
Bloomsbury, Pa, was two feet deep,
on the llth, and still falling.
The Rock Island officials have COM
plimented Engineer J. d. Mckinney
and presented him with a $3.50 gold
watch for ignoring the signal of train
robbers few months ago and prevent
Ill d iloIl-up. SlN VI tile SlOlS AEcu
at the engineer struck the cab.
THE town of Belview. Mimi. had a
narrow escape from being completely
destroyed by fire on the l2th. Eleva-
tors belonging to Mulford Elevator Co.
and the Interstate Grain Co.. of Min
neapolis, We're burned, with 6,O0O
bushels of grain: loss, $4,000.
MAJOR, the anarchist, who was ar
rested in Paris, on the 1lth, on sus-
piciou of having exploded a bomb in
front of the house of Judge Pele, in
Argeuntel, was liberated on the 12th,
for want of evidence.
A NATURAL gas explosion wrecked
the home of William Malseed, of Me-
keesport, Pa, on the lath. Mrs. Nal
seed and her 12-year-old daughter Ettie
were fatally burned by the explosion.
ALFRED ANDERSON, serving life
term in the Anamosa ia. penitentiary
Madison last fall, escaped from the
prison on the night of the 11th. his
fight not being detected until the next
morning. The state offers reward OF
$50 for his capture.
Two NOTORIOUS anarchists having a
loaded bomb in their possession Were
arrested in Rome on the 11th.
THE budget was approved by the
ministers at the British cabinet meat.
ing on the 12th.
A FINE article of glass sand has been
discovered near Lapel, Ind. in suflicien,
quantities to supply the gas belt for
twenty years A stock company will
be organized at once and the quarry
developed. 1t will be a boom to the
glass interests of Indiana, as all sand
has been shipped from Ohio and Hi
nois heretofore.
IN the British house of lords, op the
12th. the earl of Kimberly, in moving
the second reading of the Behring sea
bill, reviewed the whole course of the
arbitration, and expressed approval Of
the action of the marquis of Salisbury
in submitting the question to arbitra
tion.
r. r. DARRELL, who went to Port
land, Ore, last fall without cent, ant
would have been working for the boarC
of charities since but for the kindness
of a clearinghouse keeper, who CAV,
him home, received word on the 12tl
that he had fallen heir to over $500, OO
by the death of his uncle, j. P. Taylor
at Holcomb, Mo.
FIRE, on the 12th, destroyed tn,
United States marine hospital at Po,
Townsend, Wash. There were no f..
talities. The loss is $4,000. The f,,
originated in an clubhouse used as al
oil room. and is supposed to have beel
the work of an incendiary. The hos
pital was built in 1852.
AMONG the passengers who arrive,
on board the Majestic from Liverpool
on the 18th, were Mrs. Nellie Gran,
Sartoris and children and Capt Gran
field and crew of twenty of Lord Dur
ravens yacht Valkyrie.
PRINCE BISMARCK has decided to re
main in Friedrichsruhe until June
when he will 60 to Varzin and sta
there until August. Afterwards h
will perhaps go to Ringen and othe
places in the Rhine country in respons
to the urgent invitation of friends.
JUDGE DUNDY, of Omaha, Neb., de
cided, on the 18th, that the Office mel
and other monthly-paid employees o
the Union Pacific railroad may hav
their salaries restored II, in the judg
ment of the RECEIVERS it ought to b
dome.