The news boy., 1896-05-30
Personal AND GENERAL,

IHE duke and duchess OF Connaught
arrived at Moscow from st. Peters
burg on the 10th, The duke vii! rep
resent his mother, queen Victoria, at
the coronation ceremonies.
ARcuDuKE CHARLES LOUIS, of Aus
tria, brother of Emperor Francis Jo-
seph, died III Vienna on the 10th.
The announcement of his death cre-
ated a feeling of sorrow throughout
Hungary, where the archduke waa
very popular.
AS FAST freight No. o3 on the Lake
Shore railroad was pulling out of Air
Line Junction, o., on the 10Th, the air
hose broke, setting the front brakes.
An empty stock car in the middle of
the train was crushed like a paper box,
and of the seven tralnps who were rid
ing in it, one, Edward Haven, of
Washington, Ga, was killed, and five
were more or less severely injured.
THE steam schooner Albion from
Cooks Inlet arrived at Port Townsend,
Wash, on the 18th, bringing no It'd
ings of the brig Blakeley, which left
Port Townsend for Six Mile weeks
ago, carrying passengers, stock and
loaded.
LIErr. PEARY is going north again,
nnd steamer is being fitted out at St.
Johns, \. F., for that purpose. The
object ,of the expedition is to secure
for the Philadelphia Academy of Sci
| ence the Acton meteorite near Cape
York which Lieut.. Peary discovered
last year.
| The executive council at Pretoria,
! Transvaal, on the 18th, decided that
the punishment Of Col. Francis Rhodes,
Lionel Phillips, George Farrar and
John Hays Hammond (the leaders OF
| the reformers who were sentenced to
DEATH shall be II years Imprisonment.
TwESTY-EIGHT killed outright, so o,
more injured, some of them fatally
and property loss aggregating about
81, ,O0O, 600 is given as the estimated
damage done by the cyclone in Mar
shall, Nemaha and Brown counties
Kas.
On the Goth the president recognized
P. L. Hudson as consul of the Argen
tine Republic at Chicago, and A. j
Ballot as consul of Salvador at Seat
tie, Wash.
FIRE, the result of spontaneous com
bustion, broke out in one of the Goa
buukers of the battle-ship Indiana, il
the Brooklyn navy yard, on the 10th
right next to one of the magazines '1
was extinguished before any seriou
damage was done.
On the Goth, Coroner Dobbs of New
York county, n. Y, gave, and ex-Con
gressman Ralph Hill, of Indianapolis
Ind, took possession of the body o
his daughter-in-law, Mrs. e. f. Hill
who committed suicide, on the stl
|. inst, at the Colonnade hotel IN New
! York city. Mr.. Hill said he woul'
J have the body or emated at once.
In fire at boarding house II
Providence, r. l., on the Goth, Vim
cenzo Rizzi was suffocated. Severa
other men were taken out of tn,
building in an unconscious condition
, one of whom will probably die.
The Southern Presbyterian genera
, assembly met at Memphis. Tenn, ol
! the 2lst.
EIGHT miners, who were at wor
, BOO feet below the surface on the thir
ley yel of No. shaft of the Ashlan
mine at Ironwood, Mich, on the 21s'
were entombed by the sudden fallin
of body of ore. They were all res
, cued alive and but little the worse fol
their terrible experience by q part,
, who dug through to the shaft froI
, the Norrie mine.
III THE Canadian Association of Ams
! teur Oarsmen will hold its yearly n
gstta at Rrcckyille, pnt., On Augpl
esad Z.