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Hastings Standard, Issue 401, 17 August 1897, Page 3

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The arrest has been made at New York of a young English girl, who had a penchant for dressing in male attire. Her parents, who live in London, are wealthy. They assert that their daughter has from her childhood refused to wear the orthodox clrsss of her sex. A cablegram gave one of the banks authority to give her a round sum of money, and the girl returned by the out-going steamer, still dressed as a boy. A heavy wind and rain storm struck St. Louis on Jane 2ith, doing much damage. The wind struck the lunatic asylum, and one of the poorhouse buildings in which were sheltered seventy-Jive inmates, all cripples, was partly demolished. Much damage was done to others. Forest Park, one of the largest in the country, suffered a great deal. A story has reached Chicago from Paris to the effect that the terrible calamity that occurred there on May 4th, in which over 100 lives were lost, was the work of Anarchists, thirsting for revenge on the upper classes of France. A member of the French Legation at Washington is said to be the authority for the story. Why Mr Musgrove should have gone to the expense of bringing over his Australian team of baseball players to America, cannot be explained (says an American exchange). It was a terrible start a team of very mediocre them in their first game. At the dinner given to the poor crippled children at the People's Palace, 4000 of whom were regaled, many had to be carried in, the scene was such that few spectators could help the tears starting to their eyes, and the Prince of Wales did not attempt to hide his emotion at the collection of poor, helpless children gathered together for the first time. Many of the mites were breathless, some burst S^" > ioKgetfal fyz the

time of their aches and pains bur.-,!, into cheers, and the. Prince with his jolly l.fjgh ami pleasant jokos to the children as he passed aloug the tables will be a remombrance to bo cherished ail their lives, and for the Princess one lift!- girl, with large round blue eye:-, voiced the sentiment of all with, " She i a booful lady," when bv wny of op: uing the proceedings -he took up a trumbler and drank their heaith in ginger ale. A sad and disgraceful story of ruin was reveal- d in Pari* recently by the arest of Vioiati-ste Eugenie do_ F< rville, who was reeling about intoxicated on the Place de la Pastille and singing objectionai ditties. She was placed in a ceil at. the police station, but hardly had the door been closed when she m; de a det- effort- to hang h rif with a cord made from her bootlaces and other strings. The attendants heard the noise made by the intones:':* kicking away the stool on which she stood to attach her cord to "the window bars, and they arrived in time to save her life. She had, however, to be conveyed to the hospital. The case of a man being swallowed by quicksand is reported from New York, on the 6th July. He sank by inches, until only his head remained above the earth. The quicksand was struck at a tenement being cinstructed at 27, Henry-street. A crowd of people congregated, and every effort made to rescue the man. The police formed a line above the pit, and the crowd kept back for fear the earth would become overloaded, and cause a slide which would put the man beyond the reach of assistance. A rope was placed above the man's neck, while his shoulders were yet above tlio quivering sauds, but it became necessary to remove it for fear of choking him. Every step near the edge of th<» excavation caused the earth to crumble and fall in upon the man. The Rev. Father Spellman was 011 hand prepared to give the man extreme unction. Gread crowds thronged the streets, and with great difficulty were kept at a sufficient distance to prevent disturbing those heroic-ally digging to save the man's life. Eventually the sufferer was released.