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A QUADRUPLE EXECUTION.
Four Murderers Suffer the
Death Penalty in New York.
LATER NEWS.
PACKESHAM.
All Four Were Legally Strangled
for Killing Women.
TERN justice has over
taken four women mur
derers in New York.
Charles Carolin, Pat
rick Packenham, John
Lewis (colored), and
James Nolan were
hanged at the Tomls
prison on two gallows
errly in the morning.
A large ciowd had
gathered in the sur
rounding streets, but
order was preserved by
numerous policemen,
and inside the noted
prison only those duly
authorized by law and
the press representa
tives were permitted to
witness the quadruple
execution.
carolin. Packenham and No-
ran were executed at eleven minutes to 7
o'clock and Carolin and Lewis at three min
utes past 7 o'clock.
All died without Uincning, as lutsiu uiey
would.
From the hangman's
standpoint, it was a
"beautiful job." It
took only a remarka
bly short time to send
the four murderers
from life to eternity.
The only approach to a
blunder was in the case
of Lewis, the colored
man, whose death, al
though instantaneous,
was caused by asphyx.
ation instead of dislo
cation of the vertebrae.
He struggled frightful
ly, but the end came as
quickly with him as
with the rest.
The quartet of mur
derers walked onward
to meet their Maker as
if they were to witness the execution of some
one else and not that they wero the ones to
swing at the Sheriffs ominous signal. Not
one of them trembled, and one Lewis, the
black man even smiled
as he came in view of
the forbidding looking
instrument of death.
Carolin, went to his
death with curses on
his lips and a scowl on
his face. Only a min
ute before he was taken
from his cell he kissed
the crucifix and knelt
in prayer. Yet he died,
blasphemy on his lips
and a felon's glare in
his eyes. Lewis's in
junctions to him to
"die like a man" seemed
to enrage him even
more, and his curses
were stopped only by
the falling of the weight
at the end of the hang
man's rope.
Packenham and Nolan dl?d quietly. They
both confessed just beff " were SWU?S
off that they were gui of the crimes for
which they were about to cUe-
The bodies were cut
down, placed in hearses
and carried away for
burial. Justice was
satisfied, and the Tombs
resumes its wonted air
of gloom and misery.
Two other condemned
murderers are still
within its walls. One
of them, Henry Carl
ton, who murdered a
policeman, is awaiting
the result of an appeal
for a new trial, and
the other, Charles Gib
lin. who shot Mrs.
Madeline Goetz, while
trying to pass a coun
terfeit bill in her hus
band's store, has been
respited bv the Gov
ernor for sixty days. Ho was refused a new
trial by the courts.
NOLAN.
LEWIS.
A Rolling Mill at Towanda, Ponn.,
Blows Up.
The rolling mill and nail factory at To
wanda, Bradford County, Penn., operated by
Bostley. Godcharles& Co., has been partially
wrecked by the explosion of a boiler, the dis
aster resulting in the instant death of five
men, the fatal injury of two others and slight
injury of a dozen other workmen.
The force of the explosioon was terrific,
lifting the entire roof off the southern por
tion of the mill, tearing away the rafters and
girders and allowing the "whole mass to
crush into the mill and upon the terri
fied force of workmen, who were scat
tering in every direction and crouch
ing behind all kinds of obstacles to escape the
fury of the hissing steam, which was filling
the structure from the nest of boilers that
were displaced and broken in their steam
connections by the exploding boilers, pieces
of which were hurled through the mill
The larger portion of the bursted boiler
was carried through the side of the mill,
landing in a mass of scrap iron fully 150 feet
away. The explosion's awfal sound was
heard all through the town and great crowds
of the inhabitants rushed to the mill to learn
its effect.
Ferdinand Carolin murdered his wife,
Bridget, on March 16, 1888, at 47 Stanton
street, by strking her on the head with an
axe while intoxicated.
Patrick Packenham, who was formerly a
New Orleans policeman, cut the throat of his
wife, Margaret, March 13, 1888, at No. 212
West Twenty-seventh street, because she re
fused him money with which to buy liquor.
Twice he was threatened with arrest for
beating the woman and attempting to throw
his son out of a window, and an hour later he
committed the crime for which he suffered.
James Nolan shot Mrs. Emma Bueh on
November 20, 1888, at No. 0 Second avenue,
because she announced her intention of
leaving him.
Jack Lewis, colored, deliberately killed
Alice Jackson, a mulatto woman, on July
17. 1888, at 84 West Third street, because she
refused to live with him any longer, he hav
ing previously shot her and made her a
cripple.
FIVE MEN KILLED.
At the grand review of the Knights of
iPythias at Eagle Lake, Ind., two large
rattlesnakes obstructed the lin-i of march and
Srepared to spring. They were speedily cut
own by the swords of the Knights.
At Paradise. Penn., a German farmer
named Philip Hemickle deliberately set his
own barn on fir3 and perished in the flames.
A combination of Eastern capitalists has
been formed to purchase all the coal prop
erty along the Monongahela River in Penn
iyh ania. and control the river coal business.
It has been decided that it will require $13,
0.000 to complete the deal, including the
Aggregate of stock the sellers are willing to
take.
Genep.al Isaac F. Shepard died at
Bellingham. Mass., aged seventy-three. He
was a poet, statesman. journalist and
soldier.
A valuable vein of ochre, a rich yellow
metal extensively employed in the manufac
ture of paints, has been discovered on the
south side of Neversink Mountain, near the
Black Bear Inn, three miles east of Reading,
Penn.
Mary Ann Donnelly, a nurse-maid, was
stabbed and fatally wounded at Atlantic
City, N. J., by Mrs. Hamilton, wife of
Robert H. Hamilton, in the Noll Cottage.
The water in the rivers at Johnstown,
Penn., is getting very low, and as a conse
quence a reat (ltx of pestilence-breeding
matter is being exposed. The stench along
the river bank is becoming unbearable. The
body of a child was recently taken out of the
sand near the stone bridge.
The T. J. Mahler Carriage Company, of
St. Paul, Minn., has made a voluntary
assignment to ex-Congressman John L. Mc
Donald. The liabilities are placed at $400,-
wo.
The trial of the six men indicted for the
murder of Dr. Patrick Cronin has com
menced at Chicago.
Jacob Thompson, of Port Tobacco, Mo.,
hanged himself to a cherry tree because of a
loss of $1800, winch he had hoarded for many
years.
The Union Furniture Company at Rock
ford, 111., has been burned. Loss, $127,000;
half insured. Ralph Emerson, Wiliiam
Ward and Fireman Cavanaugh were knocked
from a building by a hose, and fell forty feet.
Emerson was killed.
Four tramps arrested at Moberly, Mo.,
for vagrancy, wero put up at auction and
sold, the highest price brought being $2.
At San Francisco, Cal., the new United
States cruiser Charleston had a satisfactory
official trial.
Fifty persons were injured in a railroad
wreck at Kingman, 111.
The wife of William R. Lewis, United
States Consul to Tangiers, Morocco, died a
few days ago at that place.
A severe earthquake shock has been felt
throughout Greece. Serious damage was
done in several towns.
The owners of Canadian sealers have,
through the Dominion Government, formal
ly demanded the protection of Great Britain.
William O'Brien and Mr. James Gil
hooly, members of the British Parliament,
have been sentenced to two months and six
weeks imprisonment without labor respec
tively, for holding a Nationalist meeting
which had been proclaimed.
The crops have turned out very badly in
Russian Poland and a famine is predicted
there and in Galicia.
mrs. john aston, ot Taylorsville, Fenn.
poured kerosene on the kitchen fire. The oil
blazed up and enveloped the woman and her
babe in flames, the child being in a cradle
near the stove. Both were burned to death.
The house of Robert King, residing in Jef
ferson Township, Penn., was burned, and
Mrs. King perished in the flames.
J. K. Tooee has been nominated for Gov
ernor, H. Conrad for Lieutenant-Governor,
and Martin Maginnis for Congress by the
Montana Democratic State Convention.
An oil tank exploded in the penitentiary at
Columbus, Ohio, which did damage to the
extent of $150,000.
Ten thousand visitors and exhibitors
from all parts of the country were present at
the formal opening of the Grangers' National
Exhibition grounds at Carlisle, Penn.
Reports from the Indian Territory state
that cattle are dying by hundreds of Texas
fever in that section.
Trainmen on the Alabama Great Southern
Railroads' train, report that they saw two
dead colored men swinging to limbs of trees
a few miles from Meridian, Miss. They were
told in Meridian that two of the editors of
the Independent, who were run out of Selma,
Ala., were caught there and were lynched.
The official report on the Boston shows
the accident to that vessel to have been even
more serious than was at first supposed. It
is thought that $100,000 will hardly be
sufficient to put the vessel in condition for
sea service again.
The earthquake shocks caused a panic in
many Grecian towns, and the inhabitants
passed the night in the open air. fearing that
their dwellings were unsafe. The damage
was done at Etalicon, where nearly half the
houses were so much shaken up that they are
no longer habitable.
Half of the city of Dubno on the Ireva
in Russia, has been destroyed by fire. The
losses are enormous, and many persons are
homeless. Dubno is in Volhynia, thirty- two
miles west of Ostrog, and has a population of
over 8000 people.
An earthquake was experienced on the
Russian frontier. In the village of Khen
zorik 129 persons were buried alive.
Four boys in Matanioras, Mexico, were
struck by lightning and all killed.
FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Statistician of the Department of
Agriculture estimates the total value of xen
and other cattle as contrasted with dairy
stock in the United States to be-414,513,706
less than the value of the same stock at the
time of closing his report last year. Dairy
stock has maintained its value.
Tnusual Occurrences in Various
Parts of the Country.
The President Lays the Corner
Stone of a Veteran'3 Monument.
A dispatch from Indianapolis, Ind., says:
a. crowd of 50,000 visitors surged into the
Hoosier capital, the occasion being the dedi
cation of the Soldiers and Sailors' Monument
of Indiana. Such a jam of curious, pushing
tnd hungry people had never been known be
fore in this quiet city.
Gav bunting, flags and streamers lent a
aue holiday aspect to the scene. The pub
lic buildings and the downtown business
olocks were arrayed from roof to sidewalk
tn fantastic colors.
The parade was the finest ever witnessed
tn the city. The column began to move at
one o'clock and was composed of members of
the Grand Army of the Republic and local
military organizations. About five thousand
men were in line. One of the most imposing
features was the cavalry escort of 1000 men.
The procession was very compact, taking
just forty-five minutes in passing.
Thousands thronged the line of march.
They waited patiently, however, until the
hacks bearing the Presidential party and
State officials came in sight.
In the carriage was seated the Chief Ex
ecutive, accompanied by Governor Hovey
and Mayor Denny. The President occupied
the rear neat alone.
Behind the President came a carriage bear
ing Secretary Rusk, Attorney-General Mil
ler, Private Secretary Halford and Mr.
William B. Roberts, the Governor's private
secretary.
It was nearly three o'clock whm the head
of the procession readied the monument.
After addresses by the President of the Monu
ment Association and others, several volumes
of war history and reports and divers medals
were deposited in the corner-stone, and pat
riotic hymns were sung.
Governor Hovey, as presiding officer of the
ccasion, made a brief address, and he wat
followed by General M. D. Manson. of
3raw "ordsville, and General John Coburn.of
Indianapolis. At the conclusion of the
tatter's address President Harrison was in-a-oduced
to the assemblage, and after the
ipplause which greeted him had ended he
made a brief response.
At the conclusion of the President's speech
General Rusk, Attorney-General Miller, and
Private Secretary Halford spoke briefly.
The monument will be built of light gray
folitic limestone from the Stinesville, Ind.,
quarries. When completed it will be 268 feet
aigh. On the north and south sides will be
wide steps of stone, seventy feet in length,
leading to the platform of the terrace, from
which the interior is reached by big bronze
ioors. Above these doors large tablets will
be placed, bearing inscriptions commemora
ave of the part borne in the war by the dif
ferent counties.
The monument is being erected in Circle
Park, in the exact geographical centre of the
:ity, and when completed is expected to be
the most magnificent and imposing structure
of the kind in America.
The President held a reception at the Deni
son Hotel next morning, and shook hands
with fully 5000 people.
The Presidential party left for Deer Park
on the next afternoon at 3 o'clock. Harrison's
old regiment, the Seventh Indiana, gave him
a. reception in the morning.
Met Death in a Tunnel.
A terrible accident was reported from Buck
ley's Mills, Russell County, Va. A railroad
tunnel is being carried through a big hill at
that point and a large number of men are
employed. On this fatal day a blast con
taining eighty pounds of giant powder wai
fired, but the charge failed to explode.
A gang of men went back to the blasl
and started to drill the tamping out.
In order to insert a new fuse. While
thus engaged the charge exploded and
an eighteen-foot drill was hurled through tht
skull of one of the men, killing him instantly.
The dead were : Michael Dance, head blown
off; Joseph Moore, right side and shouldei
torn away by rock.
The injured, two of whom were likely tc
lie, are: William Kunz. terribly lacerated
by flying rocks; Andrew Martin, "leg broker
off at the knee; John Ramsey, lost bott
hands.
Opening the Chippewa Reservation.
It is learned upon inquiry at the Interior
Department in Washington that the success
of the Chippewa Indian Commission, which
has just been announced, will result iu the
opening to settlement of about three million
acres of land in Minnesota. The Indians hav
ing signed the agreement accepting the terms
of the act of January 14, 1889, cede to the
United States all the lands comprised with
in the following-named reservations, contain
ing in all 734M acres: Leech Lake, 94,440
acres; Lake Winnibagosish, 320,000 acres;
Mille Lac, 61,014 acres; Fond du Lac, 100.121
acres; Grand Portage, 51,840 acres, and Bois
Fort, 107,509 acres.
In addition to the reservations named, the
commission is empowered to secure relin
quishment of such parts of Red Lake and
White Earth reservations as may not be
needed in apportioning to the Indians
their several allotments estimated at
2,350,000 acres. The agreement as signed
by the Indians must first be approved by the
President before it becomes operative, and
when so approved the lands may be opened
to settlement by Executive proclamation
under such terms and conditions as are pre
scribed in the act of January 14, 1889.
Death Pilots the First Train.
Tho rear coach of the special excursion
train, the first run over the road, conveying
the city officials and invited guests
over the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap
and Louisville Railroad, jumped the track
during the moraine at Flat Gap Creek,
Tenn., causing an accident in which thret
persons were killed, two fatally and several j
others seriously injured. The coach went
over a trestle twenty-five feet in height.
Those killed were: George Andrews, ex-
Judge supreme Court- S. T. Powers, mer
chant; Alexander Reeder, ex-sheriff.
The rear coach jumped the track on a
road crossing fifty yards from the tressle and
ran over the ties to the middle, where it
turned over and fell to the bottom of the
creek, twenty-five feet.
The scene was horrible. Country people
and physicians did all they could to "alleviate
the suffering, as well as those of the party
who were not injured.
The dead and wounded arrived in Knox
ville, Tenn., at seven p. m., and were con
veyed to their respective homes.
Mrs. 31 aybrick's Sentence Commuted.
It is officially announced that the sentenc
of Mrs. Maybrick, the American lady whe
was sentenced to be hanged at Liverpool
England, for poisoning her husband, has beer
commuted to penal servitude for life.
The Home Secretary's decision is based od
the conflict of the medical testimony given ai
the trial upon the point whether the quantity
of poison administered bv the Trnoner to no
husband was sufficient to kill.' The lawyer
and the judge whom Mr. Matthews consult
were unanimously of the opinion that it wai
Mrs. Maybrick's intention to commit inur
der.
It is announced from the Home Office thai
this decision is final and that no further ap
peals for the prisoner's release, or for tftt
further mitigation of her punishment will b
entertained.
A Mine Disaster.
A terrible explosion of pas. which had ac
cumulated after a recent cave-in in the Oly
phant mine at Scrantou. Penn.. was heard
early in the morning. General Mine Super
intendent Andrew Niool, Jr., of tho Dela
ware and Hudson Canal Company and four
-u-K.ii it-n. wnose names are laniei W'uhaius,
Richard Mason, John Gavin and John Jones
' ere killed.
Engineer and fireman Killed.
A train on the Missouri. Kansas and Texas
Railway was wrecked nine miles south of
Moberly, Mo., at five o'clock in the morn
ing by running over a steer. Engineer Frank
Ritter, of Hannibal, and Fireman George
Bennares were killed, and their bodies horri
bly mangled.
Killed Himself and Wife.
Emanuel Brooks shot and fatally wounded1
his wife at Shawnee town, 111., and then shot
himself twice in the head. He then ran 100
yards and jumped into the Ohio River and
was drowned.
SHOT BY A MINISTEE.
A CLOUDBURST.
Five Dams Carried Away and Miles
of Railway Track Torn Up.
A cloudburst over Rockingham and vi
cinity, in North Carolina, destroyed the
dams of the following mills at and near that
place: The Pee Dee, the Rober Dee, the
Great Falls, the Midway and the Ledbetters.
The machinery on the first floors of the Pee
Dee and the Great Falls mills were consider
ably damaged as was also the Midway build
ing. The damage was estimated at $100,000.
Five hundred hands were thrown out of em
ployment. The railroad track of the Carolina & Suf
folk Railroad for fifteen miles was more or
less torn up, and there were several wash
outs on the Palmetto road between Cheraw
and Hamlet.
THE MARKETS.
34 SIW YORK.
Beeves 3 57(3 4 60
Milch Cows, com. to good. . .30 00 45 00
Calves, common to prime. . . 2 75 (g 3 50
Sheep 5 45
Lambs 6 25 7 25
Hogs Live 450 4 90
Dressed 8
Flour Citv Mill Extra 4 25 4 40
Patents 4 75 6 00
Wheat No. 2 Red 84 85
Rye State 53 54-
Barley Two-rowed State. . . SO 87
Corn Ungraded Mixed 43 46
Oats No. 1 White 87
Mixed Western 24 29
Hay No. 1 95 1 00
Straw Long Rye 70 8 80
Lard City Steam 6.20c
Butter Elgin Creamery 18 ( 19
Dairy, fair to good. 13 17
West. Im. Creamery 10 14
Factorv 8 123
Cheese State Factory 6(g 8
Skims Light 6 7
Western 6 1
Eggs State and Penn 18 18
BUFFALO.
Steers Western 325 3 90
Sheep Medium to Good 4 25 4 60
Lambs Fair to Good 4 50 5 50
Hogs Good to Choice Yorks 4 70 4 75
Flour Family 5 00 5 25
Wheat No. 2 Northern g 91
Corn No. 3, Yellow 39X
Oats No. 2, White 293
Barley No. 1 Canada 74
BOSTON.
Flour Spring Wheat Pat'a.. 6 00 6 40
Corn Steamer Yellow 49 49'
Oats No. 2 White 38 40
Rye State 65 70
WATERTOWS (MASS., CATTLE MARKET.
Beef Dressed weight 53 63
Sheep Live weight 23 43
Lambs 5
Hogs Northern 5 5
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour Penn. family 400 425
Wheat No. 2, Red, Aug.... 82 81
Corn No. 2, Mixed. Aug... 42: 43
Oats Ungraded White 323 33j
Potatoes Early Rose 25 30
Butter Creamery Extra 16) 17
Qh e Fart skims 5 (g 7
THE SUN'S ECLIPSE.
A United States Expedition to be Sent
to Africa.
Captain Phythian, the Superintendent oi
the Naval Observatory at Washington, saya
that the preparations for tho expedition to
Africa to observe the total eclipse of the sun,
which occurs in December next, are being
actively pushed forward. The scientists are
making their advance calculations. Instru
ments are being purchased and regulated, and
everything is being attended to that can t
done in advance. The meagre appropriation
given by Congress for this work, $5000, neces
sitates very careful expenditures, and it will
be impossible to send the expedition to St.
Paul de Loando, where the observations will
take place, except on a Government vessel.
It was at first thought that the new cruiser
Baltimore would be selected f oi this purpose,
but it is now seen that she will not be ready
for sea in time for the expedition, which will
have to sail about October 1. One of th
older vessels will probaoly be sent over with
the scientists, possibly the Alliance, now al
Norfolk.
The Minister Says He was Provoked
by Being Hit With an Egg
The Rev. D. Helmrick, pastor of the
Methodist Church, at Neola, Iowa, shot
Earl Palmer, a popular young man of Coun
cil Bluffs at Neola, during the night. Palmer
was the successful suitor for the hand of Miss
Ella Porter. The preacher objected to the
match, and in his opposition used strong
language against Palmer. The young couple
were married in Council Bluffs, July 8. From
that time the feeling intensified. On Sunday
before the shooting, the minister says, some
one gave him a rovolver, with the suggestion
that he might have use for it. On Monday
evening Helmrick returned home from the
country and saw several men near his barn,
one of whom was standing in the doorway.
He called to them to go away, when he was
struck by an egg. He then drew his revolver
and fired and the man in the doorway, who
proved to be Palmer, fell dead with a ballet
in his head.
LONDON'S LABOR TROUBLES.
Business Paralyzed Because 75,000
Workmen Strike.
A cablegram from Lnd"n gives tho fol
lowing particulars in regard to tho strike
now in progress there :
London is an inland town, and promises to
remain such for srnne time to eome. All
communication with the rest of the
world by water is as complKely
cut off as though the Thames bad dried up.
The great ships lying at thedix-ks can nether
load nor discharge their cargt, and the im
mense traffic of the greatest commercial city
of the world lie at the mercy of men com
mercially rated at $1.00 a day.
The strike and its con.xpienos touch every
man. woman and child in this grmt city.
No meat is arriving in Ix.ndon. The market
in Mark Iane are paralyzed, and maize ad
vanced fl.'io the quarter for immediate use.
The strike which was begun by the d.ck
laborers, and which subsequently sjnread to the
carmen, has now extended to t he Thames in n
workers, and the gas stokers threaten to join
forces with the strikers. There was also
talk of compelling lalnrers iu all the trades
to quit work anil force matters to an issue at
once. The ironworkers' strike adds 7U) to
the number of unemployed. The men were
orderly.
The shipping business is completely wira
lyzed, ana mail iwmw I are leaving without
eargos. The tinplaters at Bennondsey, a
suburb of London, have joined the Ktrikers.
In Rotherhithe, the shipbuilding district of
London. proevsM. ms of strikers are march
ing continually.
Eight thousand sailors and firemen and
2500 dockmen at Isle of IfcN where several
large docks are located, have gone out. The
authorities became appri h- e of trouble,
and held the military in readiness to suppress
an outbreak should it occur. The coal
porters at King's Cross have aim joined in
the strike.
In consequenee of the strike thousan.ls of
tons of mutton are rotting, it being illipiWii
bio to find men to handle the vtl(k
All classes of workingmen are dissatisfied,
and ther" is no telling where the strike will
not extend to. It is estimated that over
75,000 men are on strike now.
DIPHTHERETIO SCOURGE.
A Reign of Terror in an Ohio Town
The DlaeMe Beyond Control.
The State Board of Health has informa
tion from Moscow, Clermont County, Ohio,
a town of 600 inhabitants, which vividly
describes a reign of terror resulting from
disease at that place.
There existed an epidemic of diphtheria in
the most fatal form. The disease broko out
about two weeks lefore this report was re
ceived and spread so rapidly that when the
State Board of Health was first notified ther
was twenty-six cases and several deaths.
Since that time there have been twenty
more cases and numerous deaths. The town
was in a state of wild evcitement. The citi-i
zenswere building sulphur bonfires in their
yards and sprinkling the public streets with
time.
Dr. McKibben, the Moscow physician,
stated thai the disease had become uncon
trolable, and that medical assistance was
needed. He telegraphed to the State Board
of Health for assistance.
FLOOD VICTIMS.
Terrible Suffering Among Them Pre
dicted Unless Help is Given.
The suffering among the victims of the lata
lisastroui flood in the valleys of Slate, Tuck
er, Tygart, Lee, Sandy and other creek
valleys debouching from Limestone Moun
tain, in West Virginia, the scene of the fatal
cloudburst, still continues, with a prospect of
rtill more suffering as the nights grow colder.
Many families are huddled in extemporized
hute, built of rough boards, along the creeks
and glens of the dismantled territory.
Many are taken care of by the more for
tunate, but poor hill farmers, who have
opened their doors and their hearts
to their ruined neighbors. The
charitable of the neighboring villages and
cities are doing all In their power to reliove
the sufferers, but all the help they can render
will be entirely inadequate to place the hun
dreds in comfortable or even safe condition
for the coming winter. There will be terri
ble suffering among these people when the
cold weather sets in unless outside relief Is extended.
KILLED BY STUDENTS.
A Montreal Lad Dies in the Hands of
Careless Doctors.
George Prendergast, a boy employed by
the Sobiston Lithographing Company at
Montreal, Canada, had two of his fingers
caught in the machinery and badly crushed.
He went to Montreal General Hospital to have
them amputated. The house surgeon being
absent, two young students, both under
twenty years of age, instead of calling in the
consulting physician, who fives only a block
away, undertook to do the job themselves,
and to stop the boy's yelling began giving
him ether.
The lad's mother remonstrated, but was
told to mind her business. They gucwxl
they knew theirs. In fifteen minutes the
patient was taken with a lit of vomiting, and.
within half an hour he was a corpse. The
students were arrested to await the coroner's
inquest. The boy's brother wanted to shoot
them.
A CHILD TO HANG.
Twelve-Vear-OM Henry Winford Sen.
fenced to Death.
Perhaps the youngest criminal to have the
death sentence passed upon hir in North
Carolina is Henry Winford, aged twelve,
just doomed to han in Salisbury
on October 25. Last March Henry went
to the home of Mrs. Barger, an old widow
who lives near Bostain's cross roads in Row
an County. It was about midnight. liaising
the window the boy crawled into th' l-d
chamber, where he soon gathered up a lot of
jewelry. He then mai1 an assault upon the
sleeping woman. He fled but was afterward
captured. It is asserted that nothing but his
extreme youth saved him from the grasp ot
Judge Lynch.
STARVATION IN EGYPT.
Twenty Deaths a Day and the Living
Eating the Dead.
From Khartoum. Kassala, Tokar and other
towns and villages on the Nile in Upper
Egypt come distressing accounts of famine.
There are twenty deaths from starvation
daily in Tokar alone, while in the whole
stricken district the bodies of the dead are
eaten by the living.