The news boy., 1896-07-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE jury in the case OF Mrs. Mary
! Alice Almont Livingston Fleming, on
trial in New York city on charge of
! having poisoned her mother, Mrs
Bliss, returned verdict, on the cad, Of
not guilty.
THE cornerstone of the new Meth
odist college at London, KY, was laid
on the 23d. The exercises were con-
Quoted by Bishop Hendricks, of Kansas
City. The school will be under the
supervision of the Women's board of
missions of the NJ. T. church, south,
and when completed will cost SIS, 900
WHILE making an excavation at
Parras, Mexico, recently. subter-
ranean passage was discovered, which
was explored aud found to lead to all
parts of the city. Several large cham
bers were found, and in one of them
were several casks filled with Spanish
gold coin amounting.to $4,000.
On the 23d ex-Congressman A. T.
Walling dropped dead of heart disease
at Circleville, O., his home.
JOHN l.. CowAN, the Young lumber
merchant who disappeared from Pitts
burgh, Pa, last winter, leaving an In.
debtedness of O.0oo, and was later
| arrested in Central America and
brought back to Pittsburgh, was found
guilty, on the 23d, on three charges of
| forgery.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND returned to
Washington, on the 25th, from his Po-
! ;omao river fishing trip.
| DAVID BELAsco recovered Judgment
I in, Ny,,.lr 49, ,ft
| long trial. for $4,000 against n. X.
| Fairbank, millionaire of Chicago for
| training Mrs. Leslie Carter for the
stage. Interest at Ave per cent. from
1890 was allowed by the court, and mo.
tion BY Fairbank for . new trial was
denied,
Mrs. HANEY, the keeper Of the sec
ton crew boarding car at Rock Springs,
Idaho, and her six-months-old child
were shot and killed, on the Esd. by q
man who was recently discharged from
| the section. The murderer then COM
| mitted suicide.
The big pottery of Richard o. Rem
mey & Son, located at Kensington, Pa,
was destroyed by fire on the a3d. The
loss on stock and buildings will
\
| Nearly loo hands are thrown out of
employment.
An attempt was made about mid
night, on the night of the oath, to as
sassinatc Rev. \. Cornish, pastor of
| the United Brethren church, one of
| the largest churches in Fort Scott.
kas. He had been driving boy thieves
from an orchard and was armed. He
fred four shots at his assailant, who
| fled. but none took effect.
| EX-CoNGREssMAN L. r. HUDp died at
his home in Green Bay. Wis, on the
23d. OF paralysis of the heart. He was
one of the best-known politicians of
the northcrn part of the state.
Mrs. ELIZABETH BURY. wife OF
| Daniel BURY, who was hanged for
his share in the Phoenix murders, in
| Dublin, in 1852. died in Chicago on the
DvRr;G sharp thunderstorm at
Sioux City. Ia. on the Esd. lightning
struck and instantly killed Mrs. Mary
Paulson while standing in her dining
room.
DuEiSG the political excitement in
| Chatham, Ont, on the night of the
Esd, It balcony OF the Royal Exchange
hotel collapsed while crowd stood
underneath. Fifteen persons were Sc
verely ard some probably fatally in
| iured.
EDWARD kANTER died at his resi-
deuce in Detroit, Mich, on the cath. of
| Rright's disease, aged - years. Mr..
! kanter was the founder of the Ger
man-Amcrican savings bank of De-
try!t. and was well known in New Or
leans and other southern cities.
DENNIS GRIFFIN, hod carrier, %
years old. who was working on the
Brighton lodging house in San Fran
cisco when it collapsed. died from his
in iuries, on the 24th, making the
fourth victim of that distressing disas-
ter.
EVERY state in the Union was repre-
seuteu in the fifth annual convention
OF letter carriers. which opened in To-
leGo, O.. on the cath.
BENJAMIN T. SHIvLEY. of St. Joseph
county. was nominated for governor
Of Indiana by the Democratic state
convention, on the cath, together with
| full state ticket
4 CYCLONE swept over a section OF
| country four miles south of Clayton,
| Wis, OF the 2ith. \ number of dwell
| irgs and barns were demolished. One
| man, name unknown, was fatally in
| jared.
! on the Gath the republican editors of
! Michigan paid their respects to Maj.
| Mckinley at Canton, O. They were
| introduced by Hon. James ODonnell,
| editor of the jackson Citizen. formerly
congressman from the Third district,
and prospective candidate for gov
ernor.
A CLoUDBUGsT did immense damage
in Marshall. Tyler and Wetzel coun-
| ties. W. Va, on the cath. Several in
| stances of teams aud cattle being
washed away are reported.
| JAMES EVANS fired into a crowd of
young men gathered at his house in
\ Newark, O., on the night of the gath,
, to 'bell" his daughter Lizzie, who
/ was married early in the evening, and
mortally wounded James Arlington,
aged "a, one of the belling party.
TIE jury in the case of ex-State
! Senator L. G.. OIL, of Youngstown. o.,
on trial at Columbus on charge Of
Offering bribes TO influence legislation
returned a verdict, on the 25th, after
seven hours deliberation, of not guilty
Coz. A. q. BRACKET, retired, dice
at his residence in Washington city on
the 25th.
SIX THOUSAND Sioux, the remnant o
the most powerful fighters of thu