The news boy., 1896-03-14

of murder In the first degree at Mason
City, Ia, on the 5th, and sentenced to
life Imprisonment at Anamosa. He poi
soned his wife in June, 1895.
Ex-STArE SENATOR w. G. GEAR, on
trial at Columbus, o., charged with
bribery, was on the 5th, acquitted by
the jury.
KING MENELrK IL of Abyssinia, who
has just administered such crushing
defeat to the Italians, claims to be de-
scended in direct line from Menelik
l., emperor of Ethiopia, son of King
Solomon by the queen of Sheba. Meme
lik II. succeeded to the throne in 1889,
on the death Of John H., and concluded
in that year treaty with Italy, which
placed the kingdom under an Italian
protectorate. He has quarreled with
the Italians over the text of that
treaty, hence the war.
UP to the evening Of the 5th 90 bodies
had been recovered from the Cleophas
mine, at Kattowitz, Prussian Silesia.
1t was believed that 20 bodies remained
in the mine.
THE undergraduates of Princeton
(N. J.) university, on the night of the
5th. burned in effigy the king of Spain
in a demonstration, in which several
hundred took part. The flag of Spain
was dragged through the main street,
aud later was torn to pieces in the
center of the campus.
The Venezuelan blue book, which is
entitled documents and Correspond
ence Relating to the Question Of the
Boundary of Guiana and Venezuela"
was issued by the British government
on the 9th. The volume consists of
443 folio pages, with a separate book
containing nine maps, and treats ex-
haustively of the occupation of the ter
ritory in dispute by the Dutch and En-
glish long before Spain planted a col
ony there.
THE Hooking Berry gas well, two
miles west of Metz, w. Va, belonging
to the South Pennsylvania Oil Co.
took fire, on the 9Th, from the friction
of pebbles which were being elected
from it while Foreman Wright and his
men were pulling the casing. One
man was fatally and several severely
burned.
LORD LANsDowNE, British secretary
of state for war, has attached a mem.
orandum to the army estimates stat.
| ing that, in view of recent events,
it will be impossible to reduce the
strength of the garrison in Egypt in
| 1896.
CAPT GEN. WEYLER has issued cir
cular to the various military command
ers in Cuba instructing them to arrest
no more civilians for deportation ex
cept upon indisputable proof of theii
connection with the insurrection.
q. OLDHoUsE and his wife and five
children perished in the burning OF
their home near Alma, Wis. on the
night of the 5th. Their bodies were
found in the ruins.
The arsenal at Cadiz. Spain, is being
worked to its full capacity in the
manufacture of guns, cartridges for
artillery, etc. and the greatest activ-
ity prevails.
The appellate division of the New
York supreme court, on the 9th, rem
dered a unanimous decision affirming
the order of the lower court, which
give decision in favor of Laidlaw
against Russell Sage for $4,000 and
costs amounting to $1,000.
SECRET SERVICE AGENT GEORGE r
BAGGs, on the 9th, raided the estab
lishment of the Metropolitan Photo
graph-Lithographic Co., on the to,
floor of the building No. 26 Clintcs
place, New York city, and captured an
entire outfit for counterfeiting So sill
yer certificates of the series of 1891
with the Window vignette.
CHARLES w. SANFORD, collector O.
taxes of Concord, Mass, was sentenced
by Judge Sheldon, in the superior
court of Middlesex county, at East
Cambridge, on the 9th, to serve a tern
of Imprisonment of five years for tn,
embezzlement of S14 900 from the towr
treasury of Concord.
THE Iowa senate, on the 9th, tabled
a motion to make the resolution sub
mitting a woman suffrage amendment
to the constitution a special order
thus finally disposing of that question
for this session, the house already hav
ing defeated the original resolution.
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