The Globe-republican., 1896-02-20
LATE NEWS NOTES.


Britain to the American Boundary
Commission.
Thousands of citizens Of Troy, N. Y,
! attended the funeral of '.Bat'' Shea,
| who was electrocuted.
DR.. Carleton Smith of New. York,
has photographed his own brain. The
cathode ray was not used.
Senator Tillman advised the South
Carolina Democracy to leave the party
if the National convention failed to
declare for free coinage.
John P. Harmens, u tramp, found
$4,000 which had been buried by train
robbers near Sacramento, Cal. He is
now in Jail and some of the money has
been recovered.
| In an uprising at Seoul. Korea, Feb
ruary l., the premier and seven offi-
Gals were murdered.
The chamber of deputies expressed
confidence in the French cabinet Oy
large majority vote.
| A ferry boat was overturned in the
river at Brisbane, Queensland, and
forty persons were drowned.
John billions amendment to the
the government for failure to propose
home rule for Ireland, was defeated by
| a vote of l:6 to loo.
Fire at Shawnee, Okla. destroyed
the Dexter block; loss S25,OOQ
Nebraska Prohibitionists in State
convention at Lincoln got into a fight
over currency and the free silver ele-
| ment won.
At Milan, Ohio, three men were in
stantly killed by the caving in of the
walls of an artesian we'll IN which
they were working.
Gomez says SPANS new captain gen.
eral in Cuba is an honorable but cruel
soldier.
A cablegram received by the Science
Observatory of Boston announces the
discovery of a new comet by Perrine,
one of the astronomers at Nice.
The Nebraska Republican State
Central committee convened at LIN
coin with full attendance, and de-
cided that the State convention to Sc
lect national convention delegates
will be held April IL.
San Francisco has evolved a ''Jack
the Ripper"
Martial law has been discontinued
in Nicaragua.
Indiana Republicans want new APP
porticnment law.
The Methodist book concern is to
build $780, 900 building in Chicago.
Pennsylvania Democrats have put
up Governor Pattison for president.
Spotted fever has broken out in the
convict camp at Wooley's Mill, Ark
Edison is trying to send pictures by
telegraph now by means of the ROent-
gen discovery.
Lincoln's birthday was suitably eel
ebrated all over the country on the
night OF February II.
John PatOk, a wealthy farmer of
Ennis. Texas, was murdered, robbed
and cremated in his house.
Paul Bray, son-in-law of eX-Consul
Waller, says the latter has been
ibelled by Secretary Olney.
A $4,000 600 fire in Guayaquil. Ecua-
dor, wiped out the Peruvian consulate
and several blocks of buildings
Application of New Mexico and Ari-
iona for Statehood has received a set
back in the House committee on terri
tories.
A Memphis jury gave $50, 900 judg-
ment against insurance companies to
the estate of A. q. Mitchell, who was
killed by falling off the cars in 1894.
Ii. Bean, son of the chief justice of
the British possessions in Africa. has
been sent to the Illinois penitentiary
from Chicago under the habitual GRIM
inal act for forgery.
A small bullet, which could not be
located by ordinary means, was found
by cathode rays in Castor Smiths
hand by Chicago surgeons who then
removed it without drugs.
Coroner's jury at Cincinnati found
that Pearl Bryan's head was cut off
while alive. although cocaine had been
administered and that Scott Jackson
and Alonzo NJ. Walling werelast seen
with her.
The house has adopted the senate
joint resolution appropriating $4,000
for the purpose of making a joiat sur
vey together with Great Britain of the
boundary line between Alaska and
British territory.
Bank OF commerce, Newklrk, Okla,
failed. Assets 5000, and liabilities
ten times that
Senator Cullom proposes $ei per
month pension to all ex-soidiers over
IS years of age.
Pennsylvania will present Quay's
name to the st. Louis convention as .
candidate for President.
A bursted water main on a Cleve-
land hillside washed cottages and sew
eral cars into the river. Mrs. Mary
Ravey, aged 60, was drowned.
Rev. J. II. Hunycutt of Morrillron,
Ark. Baptist, choled his housekeep-
er's baby to death because it cried and
annoyed him when he was preparing
a sermon.
Masked vlgilantes captured Joseph
Ryan and Charles Bigler in Nortn-
western Nebraska. put ropes around
their necks and tried to make them in
criminate themselves concerning cat