The news boy., 1896-05-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,


wealthy, OF Centcrvillc, Ind, tied
rope to door knob, then the rope over
Il door, got on chair. tied the other
end of the rope around his neck and
kicked the chair away. He was dead
when found. His wife died recently.
AT iattimer, Pa, Angelo Dongola
entered the chamber of Mrs. Anna
Annutz. at night, but fed on her rails
ing an alarm. He appeared the next
morning and begged the woman to for
give him or kill him. She did the lat
ter. firing five shots into him.
TIE battle.ship Indiana is paying
her first visit to New York. She is the
biggcs. United states warship, and
naval experts say She can whip any
thing her size attoat.
Not since 1875 has the prospects for
peaches been So iiattcring in Delaware.
The trees are in good shape, and are
filled with buds on every limb and
twig.
WILLIAM MuIIGAE, of Cascade, To-,
veteran of the Mexican war, died on
the Goth, aged s.. lie served under
Gen. Scott and was present at the cap
ture of Mexico City.
ACCORDING to a dispatch from Paris
Pcre Hyacinthe, the distinguished pro-
testing priest, formerly Abbe Charles
Loyson, will marry Laura, daughter
of the late William Bucknell, an Amer
lean. Pere liyacnthc is Go years old.
MADRID dispatches, on the 2lst 4,
stated that the minister of colonies
was preparing to put into effect in
Cuba and Porto Rico the refor ms
which We're passed by the cortes and
promulgated more than year ago.
AT the Baltimore conference of tho
"A. NJ. f. church Bishop Gaines made
| an address which created somewhat of
Il sensation. lie told the ministers
that all who used whisky or were
| guilty Of any immoral acts would not
receive any appointments, so that If
| they were left ont they would know
| the cause.
| FURTHER advices received from Rer-
Der in the Soudnn, on the 2lst, say
that in the recent fight among the
members of the khalifa's bodyguard at
| Omdurman, 500 men were killed in
stead of so, as first reported.
| A SPECIAL passenger train from Hal
fax, on the Canadian Pacific railroad,
carrying $50 European immigrants
! bound for Minnesota, the DalSotas and
! Washington, ran into washout, on
! the 2lst, killing three second-class
passengers and injuring many.
| WHILE sitting at the supper-table,
on the 22d, entertaining friends called
in to celebrate the arrival of his mother
from Denmark, Christian Andersen,
living near Greenwich. Conn, was
struck in the face by thunderbolt,
which entered at an open window, and
instantly killed.
| THE Dominion department of rail-
| ways and canals, on the 22d, sent cut
notifications that efforts were being
made to have the Wclland canal
| opened as soon as possible, but that it
was feared it could not be got ready
before May /.
Hog. FRANCIS JEwTTT, of Lowell,
Mass, died, on the 22i, in his sixty
sixth year. He was member of the
firm of Jewett & Swift, which ships
dressed beef from Chicago 10 the east
ern market.
LOUIS Z. HERMANN and Charles
Pustolka, both wife-murderers from
New York city, were electrocuted at
Sing Sing prison on the ed.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND recently spent
a day at ex-President Harrison's pri-
vate fish-pond near Leesburg, W. Va.
He flshed hard all day, but only sue
ceeded in landing few croppies.
TELEGRAPHIc communication with
rBuluwayo was cut off at Fig Tree, a
small place near Mangwe, southwest
OF Buluwayo, on the 2ad. ard, in view
of the serious condition of affairs, it
caused considerable anxiety in Cape
Town