The news boy., 1896-04-18

Ex-CIrY TREAsuRER BoLrN OF OsnA-
ha, Neb>, on the 9Th, pleaded notguilty
In the district court TO y charge Of eus-
bezzling $50. 900 from ths city SfOmaha.
Tho tria, will Probably continue sew.
esal weeks, and some sensational de-
velopments, indicating the disposition
of the missing funds, are expected,
FIRE which broke oat Ia the mold
ing-roons Of the Wallace h Graves
machine.works, at Lafayette, Ind, on
the night of the 9Th, totally destroyed
that structure, together With the val
uable machinery and finished product,
entailihg a loss Of $4,000, which is
partially covered by $4,000 insurance.
REPRESENTATIVE SMITB's anti-lynch-
ing bill has hccoime law in the state
IF Ohio. 1t provides that the heirs of
any person suffering death at the hands
of mob may have an action for dam
ages against the county where the
lyuching occurs and may fecover $4,000.
Tns Armstrong bicycle baggage bill
was passed by the New York state as
sembly and senate, on the sth, by large
aiorities. The bill, as passed, pro-
vides for the carrying of bicycles as
baggage.
THE Westinghouse club house at
Wilmerding, Pa, was totally destroyed
by fire. on the sth, causing a loss of
$4,000; fully insured. The club house
was one of the finest in the country.
Mrs. CoRNELIA MORSE, aged 30years,
wife of Edwin L. Morse. senior tt1eniA
Der of the firm of Morse, Williams &
Co., met an appalling death at Phila-
| delphia on the sth. While riding her
bicycle she collided with a runaway
and was impaled on one of the shafts
of the wagon.
WIrn the approval of the secretary
of war, the major and two troops of
cavalry stationed at Fort Sheridan,
Ill.,. have been transferred to the de-
partment of the Colorado One of the
troops will be sent to Fort Huashuca
and the other to Fort Grant, both in
| Arizona,
AssAssINATIoNs of Japanese continue
throughout the Corean provinces. Ru-
mors have been circulated that par
ties of Russians are travelling through
out the peninsula tanning the anti
Japanese feeling.
The British ship Blairmore was cap
sized by squall while at anchor in
| Mission bay, Cal, on the 9th, and sank
in five minutes. Six of her crew were
carried down with the vessel and
drowned.
THE shortest divorce suit on record
was decided at Wichita, Kas., on the
9th, when Judge Dale granted Jennie
Henderson decree of separation from
Nelson Henderson in exactly As sec
onds after the case was presented to
him. There were just 90 words
spoken. and but two questions were
propounded.
THE house committee on territories,
on the 9th. by n vote of six to four or
lcred favorably reported the bill ad-
mitting the territory OF New Mexico
to the Union as state.
A DISPATCH from Havana, on the
10th, said that it was definitely known
that the rebel leader. Comes, was alive,
despite the many recent reports of his
death.
An explosion of fire damp occurred
in coal mine at Wallaneuva. near
Madrid, on the 10th, by which four
persons were killed and number in
jured.
S. b. MINsHALL, an attorney of Pent-
water, Mich. ON the 10th, shot and ia
tally wounded William o. B Sands,
president of the Sands Il Maxwell Lum-
ber Co. He then went to his own
home and after killing his wife, his
l6-year-old daughter and two infant
children, finished his bloody work
by cutting his own throat. Mr.. Sands
died of his wounds few hours later.
THE Italian government was in
formed, on the 10th, that the Dcrvishes
were retreating to Osobrio, on the
: Nubian side of the Atbara river,
abandoning their mules, their wounded
and their stores.
GEN. WEYLER declared, on the 10th
, that Spain had rca ffirmed the impossi-
! biity of even thinking of reform until
the Cubans should be pacified by force
of arms.
Tile village of Lyons, O., was almost
entirely destroyed by an incendiary
ire on the 10th. The business portion
of the town was completely wiped out