The news boy., 1896-05-23


THE venexueiah commission hold; )
meeting In Washington, on the 18th,
for the FIRST time Ia three weeks, all
the members being present except JUS
tice Brewer, who had gone to San An
tonic, Tex, to attend the funeral Of
his daughter.
THE triennial convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
OF America met in Ottawa, Ont, on
the 13th, with Chief Arthur In the
chair.
ApvIcEs from Pretoria, Transvaal,
say that the punishment Of the reform
conspirators whose death sentences
were commuted has been fixed at five
years' Imprisonment.
BENJAMIN HARRISON MCKEE, grand.
son of Gen. Harrison and son of Mr..
j. r. Mckee and Mrs. Mamie Harrison
Mckee, was, on the 13th, reported
seriously i'll at Saratoga Springs, N. Y,
with what appeard to be pneumonia.
Mrs. HENRY ScuwATKA and her six
year-old daughter was shot and killed
by Chinese cook at Yreka, Cal, on
the 18th. The Chinaman made an at
tempt to kill an infant child, but
failed. He then committed suicide.
FIRE, on the 13th, in the house occu.
pied by the American legation for the
coronation fetes in Moscow, Russia,
created considerable alarm, but was
quenched with only the attic being
damaged.
Miss MAIZE TODD, a cousin of Robert
T. Lincoln, was killed at Lexington,
Ky, on the 18th, by being run down
by an electric car while riding a
bicycle.
ANTI-MIssIoSARY riots have broken
out at kiang-Ien. The British mission
was looted and burned. The mission
aries escaped.
Sr. DoMINIC's Roman Catholic
church in Holmesburg, a suburb OF
Philadelphia, was totally destroyed by
fire on the 14th. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, SIS, 200. 1t is stated that the fire
was caused by watchnan dropping a
lighted match in the interior of the
church.
RoBERr II. DoLAS, a photographer
living on Railroad avenue, Wakefield,
y. y, was found dead, on the 14th
with his head wedged between two
picliets of the wooden fence in front
of his home.
The cruiser Oregon, on her trial
trip, on the j4th, off Santa Barbara,
CAL, made lG.1S knots per hour. This
breaks all records for vessels of her
class. and entities her builders to IT'S,
600 premium.
SENATOR I1ANsBRoUGH, from the com.
mittee on library, on the 14th. favor.
ablE' reported to the senate bill fof
the erection of monument ct Gettys.
burg, Pa, to President Lincoln.
a SPECIAL commission has arrived in
san Francisco authorized by the Jap.
ancse government to study into the
workings of electrical power and tele.
phone systems in the United States.
DURING heavy thunder storm, on
the 18th, John Bentzel, aged 65, a
farmer at Obey, Pa, was killed by
lightning as he was in tn e act of aris-
ing from bed.
On the night of the l4th, James
Northrup, of Anamosa, Ia, who had
suffered with asthma, got up and
dressed himself, put on white shirt,
clean underwear. and combed his hair
and then laid down on the bed. Call
ing his wife to him. he told her he was
going to die, and wanted to be buried
just as he was and not to disturb him
in the least. He went to sleep, and in
less than so minutes was dead.
OK the 18th, Judge Baker, of Chi.
cago, granted stay of proceedings in
the case OF Joseph Windrath. who was
to have been hanged for the murder,
on June p last, of Carey B. Birch.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the 18th.
as reported by 7. G. Dun & Co., ag.
gregatcd 2ei, against 221 for the cor
responding week last year. For Can
ada the failures were 81, against 81
last year.
Ok the evening of the 18th the city OF
Sherman, Tex, was visited by the
worst cyclone in the history of north
Texas, which cut a swath $50 yards
wide for several blocks, destroying
everything in its path, and causing
the death of probably 100 persons
while an equal number were severely
injured. Many of the finer residences
of the city were razed to the ground
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