The news boy., 1896-04-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Col. CHARLES Ii. BuEuLER. of Gettys-
burg, Pa. died, on the o4th. aged -
lie was vice-president of the Gettvs-
burg Battlefield Memorial association
and prominent trustee of Gettysburg
college. lie commanded the One Hun
drcd and Sixty-ffth Pennsylvania vol
unteers during the war for the sup
preston of the rebellion,
A pIsPArcu from Havana, on the
9lth, said: Two political prisoners
who are now confined in the Cabanas
fortress will be shot this week.
THE formal unveiling and transfer
to the city of New York by the Grant
Monument association of the Grant
statue Is set for April -. Gen.
Grants grandson, L. S. Grant. the son
of Col. Fred Grant, will unveil the
statue.
En- UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER
ROBERT CHARI.soN. of Alfalfa, Ala. was
sentenced in the United States court at
birmingham, on the 24th, to three
years at hard labor in the Brooklyn
On. " penitentiary, and to pay fine
of 500 and costs on each Uf - ind;ct-
merits for presenting false accounts.
AT brooklyn. y. y. on the oath. it
was discovered at an autopsy that the
death of Lizzie Southerland, aged nine
years, was due to mineral poisoning,
the result of eating April fuol" candy.
A DISPATCH from Athens to the Lon
don Times, on the oath, reported the
renewal Of the murders of Christians
in the island of Crete, and the exist
chce of panic there.
RoBEBT ANDERSON. vice president of
the Merchants bank of Canada, died
in Montreal, on the c5th, leaving an
estate valued at 81. 100000.
THE New York Repu blican state con-
vention, on the 24th. declared for Levi
p. Morton as the choice of the Empire
state republicans for presidential can
tlidate.
SENATOR DAVIS, of Minnesota, hav-
ing authorized the withdrawal of his
name, the Minnesota republican state
convention unanimously declared for
Mckinley as presidential candidate.
JUDGE WooLsoN, in the federal court
at Council Bluffs, Ia, on the 25th, SEN
fenced o. p. Smith, of Woodbine, a
confirmed bootlegger, to ls months in
the pcnitentiary and to pay fine OF
$3.50.
A SPARK from locomotive caused
the loss of 5000, 900 feet of lumber in
the yard of the n. B. Holway estate at
La Crosse, Wis, on the 2ith.
TIE entire Baltimore & Ohio South.
western railway shops at Washing gton,
Ind, closed down indie finitely, on the
25th, throwing 500 men out of employ
ment.
THE farmers in the southern part OF
Bartholomew county, Ind, report that
flock of golden eagles have recently
settled in that neighborhood. and are
playing havoc with the young pigs
and lambs. One farmer reports the
loss of every lamb from large flock
of sheep; another of II from one flock
AT a meeting of the officers of the
W. G. T. U. IN thi.hgo, on the 25th, i,
was decided TO hold three conferences
on the Pacific coast during the next
winter, at Seattle, Portland and Sar
Francisco.
FREDERICK BENNETT, of Brooklyn, N
Y. awolse from his sleep, on the morn
ing of the 25th, to find his wife uncon
scious by his side. BY the time doc
tor arrived at the house Mrs. Bennett
was dead. 1t is supposed that death
was due to heart disease. The wife
had retired the night before after chat.
ting happily for several hours with
her husband.
The equestrian statue of Gen. Han
cock, which is to be erected in Wash
| ington, was seized by constab BILE, on
the 25th, for debt of $50, which ths
compiler of biographical encyclopedias
claims is due him from Mr.. Henry J.
Elliott. the sculptor.
The Turkish government has issued
an appeal, addressed to France and
Russia, asking them to intervene with
the object OF regulating the affairs o,
Egypt. Germsny, it is added, was also
requested By the porte to exercise he,
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