The news boy., 1896-04-25

bANDSbIDE Occurfeu ~ IruDOacmS
Switzerland, on the 10th, as the re.
suit OF continuous rains. The damage
TO property is very heavy.
CAPT. JOHN CAtHouN SHEPHERD, h
veteran Of the Mexican war, Califor-
mia forty-niner, and one Of the most
noted characters In Montana, died in
the county poor house at Butte on the
18th.
Rev. GEORGE P. KNAPP, the Ameri.
can missionary who was recently ex-
PEELED from Bitlis by the Turkish au-
thorities, arrived at A,eppo in good
health on the 10th.
A pIsrArcH from Havana to the
Madrid fmparcial, on the 10th, said
that the insurgents had hanged 20
Spaniards in the Sagua district.
A WARRANT for the surrender to tho
Dominion authorities of Charles Ryan,
under arrest at Easton, Pa, charged
| with robbery, was issued by the presi-
dent on the 18th.
DURING fire in the Clifton house. a
Chicago hotel, On the night of the 10th,
while the employees were opening the
rooms to be sure that no one was
asleep in them, they discovered a would
be suicide unconscious 'on the bed in
one of the rooms, the windows closed
and the gas turned on. He was res
cued and may recover.
| IN consequence of the great satis-
faction given by street-car mail service
in st. Louis, the pioneer city, New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washing
ton. Baltimore, Chicago and Cincin-
natl. it is said that at the beginning of
the next fiscal year similar service will
be inaugurated in number of cities
having rapid transit.
IN a tenement-house fire at Turner's
Falls. Mass, early on the morning of
the 18th, five French children were suf-
focated. The property loss was small.
| UroN the order of Gov. Morrill, the
Kansas state penitentiary has been
quarantined against Shawnee and
| Wyandotte counties, cases of small
pox having been reported in both
counties.
THE Corean envoy to Japan has gone
to Russia, under the authority of the
king Of Ccrca. to negotiate loan of
5000, 900, giving the Corean province
of llamgying as security.
Ed PARpRlDGE, the Chicago wheat
spcculator, who had been i'll for sew
cral weeks with Bright's disease, died,
on the 18th, leaving a fortune of at
least million dollars.
a DISPATCH from Toledo. O., states
that n gigantic bicycle trust is being
organized, with headquarters in that
city.
TIE output of gold in California dur.
ing ls95 was SIS, ,33i, ,317.69, as compared
with Sl3, SB3, PSI. 50 in 1891.
BECAUSE Postmaster General Stephen
of Germany has ordered statues for the
Magdeburg post Office from an Amer.
lean sculptrcss, German sculptors in,
sist that the postmaster general has
10 right to employ foreigners while
native artists are starving.
4 STORM which swept the western
part of Vernon county, Wis. on the
nth. was the worst in 20 years. Farms
were washed into ridges and valleys
} and barns, granaries and other out
buildings were swept away A great
many cattle, hogs and sheep are re.
ported lost in the Bad AK valley.
THE receipts from internal revenue
during March aggregated Sll.a91. .704
an increase of 81. .s35.O47 over last year.
For the nine months of the fiscal year
the aggregate internal revenue re
ceipts have been Sll0.179.O75, as com
: pared with SlO9,99 III for the same
period of last year.
AN ll-ycar-old boy WAS murdered al
Pozos, Mex, recently. by three men,
: and robbed of a peck of corn.
The remains of the late Walter @
Gresham will he removed from Chicago
to Arlington cemetery. Washington.
JAMES, the nine-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Gregerson, of near
Olga. Mimi, on the 18th, saved his
bal by sister from the clutches of a bear
and then, with his fathers rifle, killed
the animal.
MONROE JOHNSTON, colored, on the
nth, was found guilty of robbing a
house and attempting to kill A. c.
Shields, appointment farmer at Char
lotte, n. c. Burglary Is a capital of
fonse in North Carolina, and Johnston
must hang.