The news boy., 1894-09-22

TERRIBLE hurricane passed over
the southwest coast Of Spain, on the
13th, wreckine many small vessels.
The town OF Gata was partly destroyed
by the storm.
ThE country around the city Of Luck
now, India, and a portion of that city
was submerged, on the i3th, by foods
in the river Goomty.
BERNARD TOKER, German farnef
living near Connellsville, Pa, was shot
dead and His wife was mortally wound
cd, on the 18th, by Frank Morris, 16-
year-old son of the man from whom
Toker purchased his little farm.
BREAKING all previous records, in be-
ginning and ending its business within
two days, the twenty.eighth national
eheampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic in session at Pittsburgh. Pa,
adjourned sine die on the 13th.
WM. LAW, a observation-disclosures en-
ploye of the West Pennsylvania rail-
road, was arrested, on tho 14th,
charged with an attempt to wreck the
Freeport accommodation train at a
sharp curve between Butler junction
and Sligo station, Pa, by rolling a
large rock on the track directly in
front of the approaching train.
EARLE UProS committed suicide at
Marshalltown, Ia, on the 14th. by talk.
ing poison. He was the husband Of
the well-known physician, Rosa Up.
ton, who left him last spring and went
to Milwaukee. Dependency, due to
domestic troubles, is supposed to have
been the cause.
FRANK NORRIS, who, on the 12th,
killed Bernard Loker and fatally shot
Mrs. Loker at Connellsville, Pa. and
later wounded Joseph Halfhill, near
Rich Hill, was arrested, on the 14th,
and fully identified.
FOREIGN missionaries in the Shin
King province are fleeing to New
Chang, fearing violence at the hands
of Chinese soldiers, who, it is reported,
are burning the Christian chapels.
JOSEPH HARE, postmaster at Hill
City, 5. d., was ar, ested, on the 14th,
charged with emtezzlement.
BARRETT SCoTr the embezzling treas.
urer of Holt county, Neb., was found
guilty on the 14th.
PROF. G. T. WRIGHT, of Oberlin (O.)
college. the noted geologist. who ac-
companied the Cook Greenland excur-
sion party. has returned to his home in
Oberlin. He says that on the morning
the Miranda sunk nearly the entire
crew of sailors were so intoxicated that
they had to be helped from the vessel
when she went down.
SEVERAL new cases of smallpox
were discovered at Leavenworth. Kas..
on the 18th, and there was one death
from the disease. The disease prevails
mostly among coal-miners in the south
ern part of the city. A Quarantine has
been ordered at the Soldiers home. and
no one is allowed to leave or visit there.
ROBERT j., PA" Hamlin's phenome-
nal PAGER, created a sensation at Terre
Haute, Ind, on the l4th, by going a
mile in 2:011a without apparent serious
effort. Hamlin is confident his horse
will yet pace in two minutes.
FRED MILLER, German, at Kenton,
o., aged TO- in a fit of jealousy. fatally
stabbed his aged wife four times and
cut her head open with hatchet. Then
he jumped into SO-foot well and was
killed instantly. Both We're well-re.
spected German pioneers.
a HORRIBLE murder was reported at
Atchison. kas., on the 14th, ]. Stong
and daughter being the victims. They
lived on lonesome farm in jackson
county. and he was supposed to be a
miser. Both the father and daughter
were killed and their cabin burned.
GEN. FRANCISCO DE BOURBON, of the
Spanish army. who recently issued a
manifesto claiming heritage to the
throne of France, will be kept under
military arrest for two months in Mad
rid as punishment for issuing the mani
festo.
CAPT. w. S. BRIDGEMAS. late com
mander of the cruiser Baltimore, who
arrived at Tacoma, Wash, few weeks
ago on leave of absence, is danger.
ously i'll with Asiatic fever, contracted
in Corea, and is not expected to live.
FIRE, early on the morning of the
18th, partly destroyed the big barn OF
the National soldiers home, north of
the city of Washington. causing a loss
of about $4,000. The fire is believed to
have been the work of incendiaries.