The news boy., 1896-06-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A PANHANDLE switch engine ran into
a wagon belonging to the Howe Great
London circus at Fifty-ninth street
and Center avenue, Chicago, at 2:30 a.
m, Of the 26th, smashing the wagon
and injurtng its five occupants, three
Of them probably fatally.
A NEW oil field has been discovered
few miles north Of Moundsville, W. Va.
1t is thought that it underlies the en-
tire Panhandle and the southwest corr
ner Of Pennsylvania.
On the 10Th, hurricane and cloud
burst struck Cairo. III. Eleven lives
are known to have been lost by the
sinking Of the steam ferryboat Kath-
crime, near the Illinois shore, about a
mile below the city.
An electric car containing more than
eighty passengers en- route from Vic
toria, b. c., to MacAuley Point to wit
ness sham battle in honor OF the
queens birthday. left the rail while
passing over Point Eliice bridge,
crashed through the ratings and
plunged into the waters Of the bay, 70
feet below. y few Of those on the
outside OF the car were able to swim
to the shore. but over sixty are known
to have perished.
On the Goth. the New York court of
appeals unanimously decided the
Kaines liquor-taX Law constitutional.
Chiet-lustice Andrews wrote the opin-
ion. which was in the case of Eisnfcld
against the New York city excise
board.
OK the 2dth, Charles Cardwcll Me-
Cabe, Earl Cranston and Joseph Crane
Uartzell Wore consecrated as bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal church at
| Cleveland, O.
| EDWARD BETHEL. an actor and men,
Der Of the Boston grand opera stock
company, died at the jail in Hartford,
| Conn.,, on the 26th, of cerebro-spiral
meningitis. On April 90, Bethel, while
in drunken frenzy fired four shots ut
his wife, Dallas Tyler, member of ".
| II. Cranes company, at the Hotel
IIeublein. The following day he was
held for trial in June, and sent to jail
in default of SO, 900 bail.
| NORTH PRoNT, a cataleptic at Betl
Israel hospital, in New York city
reached the thirteenth day of pro
tracted sleep on the Goth. He opened
his eyes on the 25th, but when
the doctors began to experiment upon
him. he dropped off to sleep again
having been awake but minute ant
half.
TIE employees of the Shell Cycle
Fitting Co., of Toledo, o., to the nun
Der of 900, went on strike, on the Goth
| hanarSa tho rnfnSAl m al.
charge an Objectionable superintend
ent The factory, which had beer
working day aud night, was closed.
4 AT Campbell, small place about si'
miles southwest of San Jose, Cal, oil
the night of the goth, Col. r. p. Nc
Glincy and wife, their daughter, Mrs
|, James Dunham; James Wells, son O
!, Mrs. McGlincy; hired woman, Minni
Sheslcr, and hired man, James Bris
coe, were killed by James Durham,
son-in-law of Col. McGlincy, who mad
his escape.
JUDGE COLE, of Washington, on tn
27th, ,sente need Irving Ford, colored, t
, be hanged at the district jail on Jun
, 16next for the murder of Elsie Kreglo
On the 27th. the Sherman statu
commission selected the design sui
mitted by Carl Rohlsmith, of Chicago
, and awarded him the contract 70
, completing the statue.
81 A. CIRCUS that was exhibiting i
si South st. Louis, on the 27th, wa
struck by, the cyclone and destroyed
! fCanvas, wagons. animals, everythin
. vanished. A few of the performer
} found refuge in the vicinity, but th
show itself wss annihilatsd,