The Yale expositor., 1896-05-01
NEWS ITEMS IN BRIEF.

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at Hilltop, Md.
| Sickness and famine is said to demon
alize the dervish camps which confront
the British in their Soudan campaign.
A strike of Indiana glass blowers in
volving 10000 men began at Hartford,
City, because one union man was fired.
Edward Barr, of Shelby, o., fatally
shot his mistress, Nettie Steele, at
Martha Smarts house, because of jeal-
ousy.
A Toledo dispatch, from good author
ity, states positively that the Pennsyl-
vania railroad will run into Detroit
over the +. & p. Nj.
The conferrees of the two houses of
congress have agreed that officers of
L. =. courts shall be paid regular sala-
ries instead of fees.
A company of volunteers is being or
ganized in northern Indiana. near La
Porte, for service in Cuba. Sons OF the
best families are active in the move
ment.
Owing TO the illness of Mrs b. Jones.
president of the State Federation of
Women's clubs, the meeting of the
board of directors, to be held at Lam
sing, was postponed until May :.
Simon Ilasselbach, aged 20, and his
son VIM, aged 25, got drunk at Union
City, Pa. and began to quarrel. The
old man shot his son dead and then,
realizing his crime, shot himself.
BY the collapse OF the roof Of the
Vieja silver mine in the Santa Eulalia
district, Mexico, 81 men were buried
alive and AZ were killed and score
seriously injured when recovered.
From present calculations the u. S.
treasury deficiency will. at the end of
the fiscal year June 30, 1896, reach
S25, 100000 for the year; total de-
ficency for the past three years of
| $13l sol, S12.
A serious conflict between Christians
and Turks occurred at Episkopi in the
island of Crete. There were two days
fighting and 80 persons were killed and
wounded. The Crctans have appealed
I to Greece for aid.
| Albert Willis, minister from the L. $.
! to the Hawaiian islands has arrived from
| Honolulu. He says he is in i'll health
and with his family will go to his old
home in Louisville to spend his three
months leave of absence.
The wife of Herman ScharnitzlSa. a
wood carver. of Cleveland. tried to
kindle fire with the aid of coal oil.
The oil can exploded. fatally burning
| her and her two children. five and
three years old, who were clinging to
| her skirts
| While Lady Aberdeen was driving
along the band of the Gatineau river
| ut Ottawa, Ont. the horses plunged
into deep hole filed with water. The
occupants of the carriage were eXtri-
Gated with much difficulty, but the
| horses were drowned.
The French government has granted
permission for the much-talked of Rus
sian Red Cross society to cross the Obol
territory on the way to Abyssinia. 1t
| has been limited that these surgeons are
really Russian army officers of different
ranks, ready to aid actively the Abys-
| sinians.
Linford c. Biles, foreman of the
| Philadelphia jury which convicted III.
| III. Holmes of murder, was killed on
the roof of his house by coming in con-
tact with live telephone wire which
he was endeavoring to remove. His
| son. Geo. c. Biles, was severely shocked
and may also die.
A party of eight young men crossed
the Becancourt river at Lizander falls,
near Quebec, and the boat was headed
down stream through misunderstand-
ing between the men at the oars. and
the swiftly rushing waters carried them
over dam Is feet high. Six OF the oc-
cupants were drowned.
| Capt. Gen. Weyler released Rev. Al
bert Diaz, the Anne rican Baptist mis-
sionary. and his brother Alfred, from
custody on condition that they imme-
diately leave Cuba. dispatch from
Matanzas says two American newspaper
correspondents, Mcssrs. OLeary and
Daily, are detained by the authorities
| there.
| A colossal bronze equestrian statue
of Gen. Grant measuring 1913 feet, on a
pedestal l6 feet high was unveiled in
front of the Union League club, in
Brooklyn. Over 10000 soldiers and
sailors, besides a large representation
of the G.. A. r., participated in a
grand demonstration which was wit
messed by 10000 people. The statue
was presented to the city by the club.
| Minnie Allen, convict in the Wis
consin state prison, has confessed to
the murder of Montgomery Gibbs, a
lawyer, at Buffalo in April, 1894. She
says Gibbs ruined her under promise of
marriage and then refused to make her
/ his wife. Clarence Robinson and wife
are serving life imprisonment for the
murder of Gibbs and the confession is
made so that the innocent may not
suffer.
w. G.. Dygart, the Illinois citizen
who has just been released from a
Spanish prison in Cuba, after hard
work in his behalf by the American
consul, says that prisoners taken by the
Spanish are sha:cefully treated. He
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