Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1895-03-09
VOL. KILL.

VOL. KILL
THE Red Cross hospital at Che Foo
was reported, on the lst. to be full to
everiiowiEg with sick and wounded.
RICHARD O'GoaMAN, the eminent
Irish nationalist, scholar and orator,
died at his home in New York city, on
the fst, in the seyenty-fi fth year OF his
nge.
CHARLES MORGAN, one of the Aqua
creek train robbers, was found guilty
at Stafford Courthouse, Va, on the
2sth, and sentenced to eighteen years
in the peni;entiary.
Two NEW York detective sergeants
were arrested, on the 9th, by Supt.
Byrnes. on bench warrants issued by
Recorder Golf charging them with
compounaing felony.
TIE trades unions of San Francisco,
headed by the Typographical union.
are waging boycott against the Sal
walton Army because the War Cry of
fee in that city is a non-union Office.
THE loss of life by the Inter-Oceanie
railway disaster, % miles from the
Mexican capital, was aseertained. on
the 1st, to be sixty FIVE killed, besides
forty injured, many of them fatally.
PRINCE METTERNIcH, son of the Ia
nous Austrian diplomat of that name,
was found dead in his bed in Vienna,
on the morning of the 1st. The cause
of his death was apopiexy. He was 65
years old.
PosTMAsTER-G GENERAL BIssELL ten
dered his resignation to the president,
on the a7th, to take effect upon the
appointment and qualification Of his
successor He will probably remain
in Office until April 1.
JoHN w. SHewALTER, nominated by
the president, on the 25th, to be Judge
of the seventh judicial district, is a
resident of Chicago, and IS about SO
years of age. lie is acknowledged to
lie one of the ablest lawyers at the bar.
IT was reported in Rome, on the 1st,
that Deputy Antonio Comandini. di-
rector of the Morning Courier, who had
been missing for a fortnight and was
supposed to have been killed by the
anarchists. had left Italy for America.
Tn Sc hot Moi Willis IN
who is under sentence of death in
Honolulu for conspiracy to overthrow
the Hawaiian republic, has a large
number of friends in Pennsylvania who
are making an effort to have the death
sentence commuted.
THE German architect, Furm. has
pronounced the most classic monu-
ments in the pantheon at Athens to be
in most precarious condition, and
asks for fund of 100000 draehmas
$500, ,000) to cover the expense of
strengthening and putting them in
good order.
Ina duel at Neuilly, France, on the
1st.. M. Percher, a newspaper man,
known also as Harry Ais, was run
through the body, the sword of his
oppone Mt, Commander Lechettelier of
the marine force, penetrating his right
lung. He sank to the ground and ex-
pired almost Immediately.
THE United states senate, on the
Goth, by decisive majority, voted for
an amendment to the general de-
ficency bill restoring the full bounty
on sugar up to August, 1894. and eight
tenths of a cent per pound on all SUI
gars above so per cent. polariscope test
produced up to june 80, 1895.
THE Joint library committee of the
house and senate decided, ON the 2Sth,
by unanimous vote, to reject the
statue of Gen. Grant which was pre-
sented some weeks ago to the govern
ment by the Grand Army of the Re-
public. because it is not a correct rep
resentation of its illustrious original.
THE Mexican war ship La Libertad,
which left Vera Cruz, about month
ago, to participate in the carnival fes-
tivities at New Orleans, and which was
given up for lost, anchored 30 miles be-
low the passes of the Mississippi river,
on the 9th, after stormy voyage
which is ordinarily made in three
days.
c. DoNNoILY, an Omaha (Neb) gam
bier, having confessed that he had
paid 81 800 to 8 certain official for pro-
lection, Judge Scott demanded the
name of the official. This Donnolly
refused to give and Scott at once sem
fenced him to Jail. declaring that he
would stay there forever unless he con-
fessed.
BIZ an explosion ID the mines Of the
Santa Fe Co., at White.Ash. N. NJ, on
the nth, forty miners are reported to-
have lost their lives. Twenty -one
dead bodies were taken out of the pit |
soon after the explosion, but the dense
smoke rendered thorough search for
those known to have been still in the
mine impossible.