The news boy., 1895-07-13
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

in Toledo, O., two years ngo, and
whose body he buried under the house
where they lived, and which was re-
Gently unearthed by dog, confessed
his crime while being escorted back to
Toledo.
On the LIST the Illinois Steel Co. raised
the pay of all the men employed in
their Joliet works, except the tom
mage men, 10 per cent.
FLoRrANo PEIxoro, ex-presideut of
Brazil, died, on the Goth, aged SO years.
He was accounted the most adroit poll
tician in Brazil, and won military
fame in the war with Paraguay.
GEN. GREEN CLAY SMITH, the veteran
preacher, soldier and politician, died
at his residence in Washington city, on
the Goth, after an illness of several
weeks duration. He suffered from a
malignant carbuncle, which resisted
all treatment.
On the goth Prof. Thomas Henry
Huxley, the distinguished English nat
uralist, died at Eastbournc, England.
He was born May 4, 1928.
Mrs. BENNETT, widow of Benson
Bennett, locomotive engineer who
committed suicide at indianapolis q
few months ago, locked herself and
her two children in their home in
Jeffersonville, Ind, and administered
poison to each. When found, on the
Ist., by Mrs. John Gonole, a visitor,
Ella, aged 10, and Omer. nged 5, had
long been dead. The woman was
gasping for breath, but unconscious.
All were dressed in spotless linen for
their burial.
THE body of W. I. Lothrop, en- ap-
prentice attached to the cruiser Con-
| cord, who died and was buried at
Wuhu, China, about year ago, is to
be disinterred and brought to this
country for burial at Cherokee Ia,
the former home of the deceased.
THE Otis Steel Co. of Cleveland, O.,
posted a notice, on the 1st., of 10 per
cent increase in wages beginning on
that date. The increase affects all de-
partments. There are 800 men en-
ployed at the works.
CLARESrE AND SADIE ROBINSON. con-
victed of killing Montgomery Gibbs at
Buffalo, \. V, will, through their
counsel, Judge Ilardesty, apply for a
new trial on newly discovered evi.
lish complete alibi, while indicating
that Gibbs was killed by another.
THE big Rex mine at Leadville, Col,
was drowned out, on the 30th, and has
now over $50 feet of water in the shaft.
All the worhmen made their escape.
The owners had spent thousands of
dollars in sinking and pumping the
plant.
WORK was resumed, on the lst. at
| the plant of the umberland Nail and
| Iron Co., at Bridgeton, n. j., after an
idlencss of more than year. Em-
| ployment was given to 150 men.
DR. TnEoBobD SMITH, chief of the
division of animal pathology in the
bureau of animal industry, agricul-
tural department, has been called to a
chair in Harvard university.
THREE masked highwaymen held up
northbound Southern Pacific pas
senger train near Riddles, Ore, at l:l5
o'clock on the morning Of the 2l, by
| placing dynamite upon the rails, They
secured large quantity of registered
letter packages, and robbed the bet
ter.dressed passengers. Officers were
sent in pursuit.
THE funeral services over the re.
mains of DIR. buchanan, who was elcc.
trocuted at Sing Sing, were held in
New York city, on the I'd, Rev. J. E.
Halsey, officiating. The interment
was in Evergreen cemetery.
THE house of Trotter Holiday, at
Gridley, Col, was burned on the lst.
Holiday and Miss Mary Turtle, his
niece, perished in the flames.
The Stamford Conn., Manufacture
ing Co., employing 500 hands, an
nounced, on the Sd, that the wages OF
all its employees would be increased at
once 10 per cent.
TIE loss by the burning Of Godillot's
military Quitting establishment and
other buildings in Paris, on the lst, is
now estimated at between 1000, 600 and
100000 francs.
Two BOMBS were exploded near the
police barracks at Monopoli, Italy, on
the night of the 1st No one was hurt
and very little damage was done.
WHILE GOO persons were crowded OF
a bridge ut Bristol, Ind, on the 4th,
witnessing boat race on the St. 10.
seph river, the bridge suddenly col
lapsed and went down with its living
freight into the stream forty feet be
low. A desperate and narrowing
scene ensued as the victims of the ac
cident, many of them severely injured
struggled and sought to escape from
their perilous position. Many casual
ties. but no deaths were reported,
A LABoRER walking through Boyns
street, Dublin. on the Cd, picked up {
tin canister which was lying in tn,
roadway. He attempted to remove the
cover when it exploded, instantly
killing him. The nature of the explo
sive contained in the can is unknown
DURING a parade In East Boston, OF
the 4th, representing A. 2. A. lodges
Patriot Sons of America, Orang,
lodges, Order of United Workmen ant
other kindred organizations, a series
of riots occurred, in which one mar
was killed and many others were Sc
verely injured, several % the mob be
ing badly clubbed by the police, wh'
did efficient work in dispensing th'
unruly rabble.
Four of the five men who held NJ
the paymaster of the Nacasari Copper
Co., June 13, were recently captured
by the authorities of the Mexican stat,
of Sonora, taken to the scene of thei
crime and shot to death, under til,
new law providing for the punishment
Of train and stage robbers in Mexico.
TAMMANY HALL celebrated til,
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