The news boy., 1896-06-13

fHk body Of the late Hon. J&shcS d.
Blaine will bc taken from Oak Hilt
cemetefy, Washington, to Augusta, Me.
Mrs. Blaine has decided to have both
the body Of her husband and her son
Walker buried there.
ALExANDER II. McGuFFEY, d prorni.
nent attorney Of Cincinnati, and au.
thor of the series of school books bear.
ing his name, which have been used by
children of several generations, died,
at his late home on Mt. Auburn, . sub
urb of Cincinnati, on the Sd.
The Kansas Democratic state con.
vention at Topeka, on the Sd, elected a
solid silver delegation to the Chicago
convention.
The passenger elevator of the Frei.
denwald Printing Co., of Baltimore,
Nd, fell from the fourth floor to the
basement, on the Sd, with nh awful
crash. Fourteen men and women
were In the car. The elevator conduc.
tor had miraculous escape, coming
out uninjured. The other 13 persons
were terribly injured, broken legs and
arms being the fate of many.
HERR RoHLFs, the African explorer,
died at his residence at Ruengsdorf-on
Rhine, on the Sd.
Miss LUCILLE CALDWELL and Rev. j.
p. Halsell eloped from Danville, Ky,
to Cincinnati, on the Sd, and were mar.
ried. The bride is the youngest daugh.
ter of Judge Logan w. Caldwell and
the groom a young minister of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church.
THr Indian widow OF Peter Seyeres,
Who died at Caughnawaga, Can, re-
Gently, was, according to the Indians,
born in t77s, and was a pure-blooded
Iroquois. Her great age of lis years
gave her great prestige among her peo.
pie.
PERsIMMoN, the prince of Wales colt
at to against, won the Derby. Leo
pold de Rothschild's st. Frusquin wa.
second, and II. E. Beddington's Earwig
third. Persimmon's was the best Derby
time since 1867.
RESIDENTS of Eastwoods Heights, q
suburb of Syracuse, n. V, are wildly
excited over the finding of gold in pay
ing quantities. The ore was discov-
cred by j. f. Batter, while digging a
well. at depth or Az feet
AtsTtS CoRBIS, the railroad mag.
nate, was thrown from his carriage in
front of his farm house near Newport,
\. H., on the 4th, and so badly injured
that he died few hours later. His
coachman, John Stokes, met like
fate; and Corbin Edgell, a nephew, and
Paul Kunzier, who, with Mr.. Corbin,
VIC, - ct. .l,..t n,a c1, f,.ttN
were also thrown out and very seri-
ously injured.
IN the United States district court
at st. Louis, on the 4th, Judge Adams
sentenced Horace r. Coudy to Is
months in the Randolph county Jail
at hard labor. Coudy was clerk in
the money-order division of the st.
Louis post Office, and pleaded guilty
to embezzling lnoney-order funds.
DETECTIVES MCCAULEY AND EVAN.
HOE. with their prisoners, VIM. Dun.
lop and VIM. Turner, arrived at New
York from Liverpool on the 4th. Dun.
lop and Turner declined to make any
statement in relation to the robbery
of the Burden family diamonds.
OK the 4th the senate passed. with.
out amendment. the house filled-cheese
bill. by vote of 81 to IL.
THE festivities attending the Hun
garian millennial cele bration, the in.
augural ceremonies of which began al
Buda.Pesth, on the Cd, were resumed
on the 5th The principal feature of
the ceremonies was the public exhibi-
tion of the emblems of royalty.
AT the mornings session of the an.
nual congress of the Scotch-Irish So
ciety of America, at Harrisburg, Pa.
on the 5th, Robert Bonner, of New
York, was reelected president for an
other year, Notwithstanding his eX
pressed desire to retire.
DUNLOP and Turner, the Burden
jewelry robbers, were arraigned in
the general sessions court in New
York city on the 9Th. Dunlop pleaded
guilty and was remanded for sentence
Turner pleaded not guilty.
MINISTER to Mexico Matt J. Ransom
| is on a visit to his home in North Caro-.
| lima.
THE senate, on the 5th, confirmed
the nomination of VIM. Churchill, o
New York, to be consul-general a