The Charlotte Democrat., 1897-06-10
Brief GIimpses of
the General News.

ceed Consul General Lee In Cuba.
The coffee crop of Brazil is for
this year estimated to be 100000 |
bags.
kentucky toll gate raiders defy |
State militia and continue the dep |
relations.
A mysterious fall of the floor of
the great Yerkes Observatory came |
near injuring the famous lens of the |
telescope.
Governor Johnston, of Alabama,
charges that the former executives
shielded Probate Judge Randolph IN
his embezzling.
The statue of John Harvard at
Cambridge, Mass, was daubed with
crimson paint by Harvard students,
wi defeated Princeton at baseball.
I 70 Texas men fought duel to
death with pistols Monday. Nine
shots were fired in all, and every one
hit its mark. Both were dead before
their friends got to them.
Nine smallpox patients were sent
to North Brothers Island, New
York, yesterday.
RovilIo Shearer, boy pupil of
indianapolis, is the youngest teacher
ever qualified in Indiana
DIR. Charles II. Parkhurst, of New
York city, is recovering his health,
and will soon sail for Europe
Bishop Edward z. Allen, of the
Diocese of Mobile, was installed at
the Cathedral in that city on Sun
day last.
Martin 2. Riley employed as mo
torman in Wichita, Kan. is runa-
way from England, his father being
an earl.
Michigan legislators at their clos
ing night session amused themselves
by destroying pictures, furniture,
etc, in the State House at Lansing.
Horsford B. Miles, 70 years old,
president of the Equitable Mercan-
tile Company and Collecting Agen
cy, of New ! ork, committed suicide
by inhaling gas.
Yung Yung and Yung Sing,
Chinaman, arrested at Buffalo, N.
Y, for entering the United States
illegally, confessed their guilt, and
will be deported.
Five persons were killed and many
injured by Long Island train
crashing into coach drawn by six
horses bearing picnic party from a
Brooklyn church.
Howard Mynn, an outsider, won
the Brooklyn handicap, The track
was heavy but the time fast.
Turkey has agreed to extend the
armistice fourteen days from May
20.
The statue in memory of Col
Robert Gould Shaw on Bos ton Com.
mon was unveiled A feature in the
ceremonies was a parade in which
the Seventh Regiment of New York
took part.
In New York Austin Stewart shot
Edward Roam in quarrel over a
game of craps and instantly killed
Virginia johnson, who tried to pre-
vent Stewards escape.
John Flanagan in the New Jer
sey athletic games broke the ham
mer throwing record 4 feet 8 inches
His throw was $50 feet 8 inches.
: A Yale crew for the first time in
the history of the college lost race
at the Harlem regatta to an athletic
club crew.
Schraeder, the self styled "Divine
} healer" has been chased out of St
Louis, Mo-, by mob it will be
remembered that he spent one Sun,
} day in Charlotte last fall.
A sharp frost was experienced
throughout Wisconsin Monday night
and fruits and vegetables suffered
severely.
Jealousy prompted Samuel A
Jervis to stab his wife to death a
New Orleans, La, and then he killed
| himself.
The body of Lawyer Leopold
Turk, of New York, who disappeared
mysteriously, has been found in Cen
trail Park lake.
: The Board of Inquiry to pry int
Ensign Stones love affair with Mis-.
Conde have wisely concluded t.
abandon the hopeless task.
: The temperance of John Motley
) who was thought to be dead 80 years
ago, at Macon, Ca, reopens litigation
over 100000 estate.
,, Farmer George Craig, of Harper
Field, N. Y, wanted to buy blood
ed bull, but the beast pitched hin
g over a fence, and he changed hi
. mind.
After having been declared legal
ty dead by a Detroit, Mich, cour
Charles Ell. Smith has returned tt
this country after years of wander
ing abroad.
Mrs. Samson, the leper in John
! Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, viii
be sent back to Allegheny City
t Pa, where she had long been undel
: treatment.
/ A package of $4,000, stolen from
the Pacific Express Company, ha
| been recovered through the thief
, confession at Omaha, Neb Just be
fore he killed himself
: Civil Engineer Angus Mcclellan
of Plctou, N. S., died of yellow feve:
on the steamer Alliance, from Colon
and the passengers have been quar-
D antined ut New York.
2 President Mckinley made an ad
dress a. the opening Of the Interna
tional Congress in Philadelphia yes
terday.
4 The American Medical Associa-
5 ton began the celebration of it
| nnldon In uhiloo II. DL.llll.