The news boy., 1896-05-09

A prsPArcH from Cape Town, South
Africa, on the morning of the Goth,
said IL was reported from Johannes
burg, on good authority, that John
Hays Hammond had died from excites
ment and the shpck, on an official mes
sage being received OF the death sen.
tence being committed.
LOUISE ADAMS, aged 81 years, und
Annie Shimp, aged IA, were drowned
In the Delaware river at Philadelphia,
on the soth, by the capsizing Of row.
boat.
On the 3oth Cleveland, O., was visited
by the heaviest rain storm ever known
there, and much damage was done, the
sewers being unable to carry of the
surplus water. Many Easements were
flooded. Girls at work in the base
mcnt of the store Of Levy & Stern, toy
manufacturers, were caught unawares
and narrowly escaped with their lives.
Shade and fruit trees were uprooted
all over the city.
EDWIN BETHEL, the Boston actor who
fred four shots at his wife, known as
Miss Dallas Tyler, at the Hotel Heu.
blan in Hartford, Conn, on the 10th,
was arraigned in the police court, on
| the 3oth, charged with assault with in
tent to kill, and held in 5000 bail for
trial.
BouRKE COCHRAN, the ex-congress-
man, while riding his bicycle in New
York city, on the 3oth, fell over an
other rider, who had met with mis-
hap, and was painfully but not dam
gerously injured.
A DISPATCH from Havana, on the 1st,
said: Zone of the the men captured in
the Competitor flibustering expedi.
ton is an American citizen named
Onna Milton. He WILL with the others,
be summarily tried, which means swift
punishment if found guilty"
THE public debt statement issued on
the lst, showed a net increase in the
debt, less cash in the treasury, during
April. of SIS, ,9i5.4l6 Total cash in the
treasury. ss6s, ,7o9,55e.
SEBASTIAN GEABESHACEB. of Mar
shalltown. Ia, committed suicide, on
the lst. by lea ping overheard from the
inward-bound steamer Spree near Fire
island.
JENNIE, the daughter of Lorenzo O.
Powell. of Centerviile, y. Y, was
burned to death, on the 1st, her cloth
ing catching from a bonfire. Mrs.
Powell. in trying to save the life OF
her daughter. was so badly burned
about the arms and chest that great
pieces OF flesh dropped from the bones,
!, 4 rea1 T.
ical
THE Swiss national exhibition was
formally opened in Geneva, on the ist,
by DR.. Adolphe Duecher, vice-presi-
dent of the Swiss confederation.
THE third and pr obably fnal at
tempt to tie up the lines of the Union
Traction Co. of Philadelphia ended in
failure on the ls..
MAYOR ALLEN of Columbus. O.. has
issued an order that all gambling
places in the city be closed.
THERE was uprestrained jubilatior
in New Haven. Conn, on the night o.
lst. over the victory won by the son:
of Ii in the annual debating contes,
between Harvard and Yale.
THE quadriennial conference of tas
!, Methodist Episcopal church began it!
sessions at Cleveland, O.. on the 1st
with representatives from all parts O.
the world in attendance.
BILL DooLIS, chief among western
outlaws. was indicted at saltwater
, Okla. on the 1st, for the murder o
, Deputy United States Marshals Laf'
Shadley, Richard 5. Head and Thoma
. Poston in September, 1925.
A MAN who gave the name of Johl
Lewis. and who said he was an iro,
: molder. was arrested in San Francisco
on the lst, while attempting t.
strangle an abandoned woman in al
: alley.
PRINCESS BEATRICE, youngest daugh
!. ter of Queen Victoria, and widow 0
: Prince Henry Of Battenberg, has beer
appointed governor of the Isle o
: Wight, the Office previously held b.
e her husband.
PROF. GEFFIEKES. the well-kn owl
0 authority on international law and ed
D itor Of the diary of Emperor Fredericls
was suffocated in fire caused by tn
o explosion of a lamp at Munich. Bava
: ria, on the lst.