GENERAL SUMMARY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11952, 31 March 1894, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

LonTye, the negro guilty of kidnapping 1 , Musing, and murdering white girls in Kentucky, Buffered a horrible death on March 2nd. He had secreted a farmer's daughter in the woods, where some hunters came upon him, proceeded to Bkin him alive, and befor6 he ceassd to breathe the girl built a fire on his head (after the Apache Indian manner of torture), and so the miserable wretch was slowly roasted to death. A sensation has been caused in New York by the discovery of a gambling club located in Coleman House, a leading hotel, the chief " steerer " for which was Mr 3 AllieClemishere, belonging to a very respectable family. The Provisional Government of Hawaii will g-ve the Queen Lilinoqualane a psnsion, providing sha behaves herself, and she will not be Bent into exile, as the leaders of the Provisional Government do not regard her as worthy of martyrdom. The idea of annexation has not been abandoned by the Provisional Government, but will be made the object of a fight in the futnre. A special to the St. Louis Republican of February 12th from Guthrie, Oklahama Territory, gives the following particulars of a storm in that region :— Snow is 2ft deep, and reports cf suffering and death come from til parts of the territory. Mrs Fannie Spencer, of Homesteader, near Cross, was found frozen stiff. Many are living in tents, and their condition is awful. J. Mulligan, War Ferry, was found frozen ti death, and hie partner, Harvey Newcombe, died from exposure. At Ponoa, Mr Cremer and two children were found frozen stiff in coyote burrows, 10 yards from their abode: Colonel Henry Milton, the cowboy who was with Buffalo Bill at the World's Pair.Jwas discovered by party of hunters, early on the 12th irst., dead under his horse at Onderdick. Two Indian pupils were found on the 4th instant buried under the snow banks. Upon being taken to a house one of the children died, A family named Searso, near Woodword, was found frozen to death. It is thought that after the snow melts hundreds of dead settlers will be found, along with the remains of thousands of cattle. The storm extended generally over the Eastern and Western States, while Lownes and Texas were ravaged by a cyclone. The San Franc'ißco Chronicle of Feb. ruary 16th publishes the following nnder the heading of " Tied on the Deep." An elopement and marriage at sea occurred on the Oceanic Company's steamer Alameda, which arrived yesterday from the Antipodes. The contracting parties were James William Trivatie, an Auckland drummer, about 28 years of age, and Miss Jane Graham KeH, of Dunedin, New Zealand, who is just 18. The marriage ceremony was performed in Captain Morse's cabin by the Rev. J. G; Tatham, of Sydney, who was a passenger on board the steamer. The groom confidentially told some passengers on the Australian liner the romantic incidents of his courtship and elopement. It seems that the mother of the bride was very much set against young Trivatie. She selected another young man for her future son-in-law, and wished to have her daughter marry according to her wishes. The young lady, however, was as set in her way as her mother, and outwitted the family by eloping with Trivatie, who had been a school-mate, A brother of the bride gave her her trousseau at Sydney, she having left her home with no baggage. The bride's father is an engineer on one of the Union Co.'c steamers. On the steamer, the lovers were most discreet. Before the boat left Auckland, the groom spoke to the a^ent, Mr Tom Henderson, of the Union Steamship Company, and it was agreed that the pair should be married at sea. This matrimonial affair was quite an event on the steamer. Mr and Mrs Trivatie will take up. their residence in one of the coast towns. They make a fine-looking pair, and have some means.