The news boy., 1895-09-21
LATE NEWS NOTES.

The Atlanta Exposition opened on
Wednesday.
Fraker, the insurance sharper, was
remanded in default of $40, 600 bond.
New Zealand had severe earth
quake shocks on the 18th and 18th ult.
The Southern NJ. E. Conference
opened at Metropolis, ILL.,, Wednes-
day.
The~New York Republicans met in
State Convention at Saratoga Tues
day.
President Cleveland is expected to
make a speech at Atlanta about Oct
obcr Goth.
Cuban agents are said to be in St.
Louis endeavoring to enlist men to
join the insurgents.
At Princeton. Minn., stroke of
lightning revealed the skeleton of a
woman in hollow tree.
The steamer Catterthun sank off
Port Stephens, New South Wales,
and 53 people perished.
The Missouri State University
opened with a largely increased atten-
dance over that last year.
Henry Starr, bandit and murderer,
was convicted of the killing of Floyd
Nelson at Fort Smith, Ark.
Steamers from japanese ports are
under quarantine, cholera being ram
pant in the Mikado's empire.
Fire on board the steamer Iona,
plying between Edinburg and London
burned to death seven women and a
child.
| The more honest of the English
newspapers condemn Lord Dunrav-
ems conduct in the yacht race as
childish.
The President, who holds ON to an
idea like grim death, is likely again to
appoint ". B. Hurnblower to the
Supreme Bench.
Duestrow will not be retired until
January End. That gives him lots of
time to bribe himself free, if such a
thing is possible.
! Justice Hurt has decided that there
, is no law in Texas prohibiting prize
fighting. Whoever fixed this man
Hurt should get hurt.
The Republic says that Senator
Vest is said to have changed his
views on the silver question. Take
this with a handful of salt.
LATER. Mr.. Vest brands the
above story as deliberate falsehood,
and is for free silver, first, last and
all the time.
The Republican State Convention
at Saratoga, N. Y, nominated Gov.
Morton for President. It's a shame
to make such jokes on the old man.
Kier Hardie, English anarchist
and foul-mouthed fool, is expected in
St. Louis the first week in October.
St. Louis should save her overripe
hen fruit.
The Grand Army proposes to test
the question whether or not pension
granted is vested right. That is
reducing the pension question to a
sheer absurdity.
| Great frauds have been discovered
in the government s experiment sta
tions where sugar was being expert
mented on. Sugar is the cause of
endless trouble, to be sure.
Humble Bees are selling at SC. each
in England. They are for transpor-
tation to New Zealand, where they
are wanted to fertilize the red clover,
which, without their aid, is sterile.
Chicago now proposes to build a
boulevard along the banks of Lake
Michigan, 250 miles long and adorned
by the arts of the landscape garden
er. Nothing small about Chicago.
Before the Prison Congress at
Denver Prof. Warner of California
read a paper denouncing police just
ices, police and sheriffs as about on
level with the criminals they han
die.
Europe, and especially England, is
excited over the large findings of
gold in South Africa, and specula-
tive frenzy almost equal to that OF
the South Sea Bubble has taken hold
OF the London market.
The passenger traffic between
England and this country is now SC
great, owing to the return of tourists,
that over dozen fairly rich men had
to put up with steerage passage on
the steamer St. Louis last week.
4 The United States Court OF Ap.
! pcals has decided that insurance
companies must pay the Insurance
money 10 cases ot suicide, unless II
!, can be shown that the insured inten
, ded to take his own life at the time
iof placing the insurance.