MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4637, 14 November 1883, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

A Warsaw despatch says the Lady Superior and seven ladies attached to the Maria Institute, under the direct patronage of the Czarina, have been arrested on a charge of Nihilism. Mr Edwin Bobbins, superintendent of the Electric Light Company, at Dayton, Ohio, was killed by an electric shock, on October 13, while fixing a lamp that bad broken from the cable. Benjamin Schardt, his assistant, testified, " I carried the lamp in from the street, and pulled it up the pole. Bobbins said to cut it out. This I was doing as requested. The lamp slipped, and Bobbins grabbed hold of one of the wires. I heard him cry out, and saw him fall. Jumping from the ladder, I took hold of him, and said, « What is the matter, Ed ?' He replied,' lam burned to death!'"

It now appears, according to recent de« spatches, that the Russian Emperor's famous ride through, the streets of Moscow, when entering the city on the occasion of the coronation, was a sham, and that he was personated by an officer of the Imperial Guard made up to resemble him. The fears for his safety entertained by the secret police were too much for him, and he consented to the deception so skilfully and successfully carried out. The secret is said to hare been discovered by the officials attached to the British Embassy, and they have not wholly maintained the silence which was enjoined on them. An attempt was made to assassinate the British Consul, General Booker/ at New York, on September 26. The assailant is a man named James F. Feeney, ajjd it was said be came from Canada fornthe purpose of killing Booker. An examination after his arrest showed that he was afflicted with 'melancholia and severe nervous depression. He was sent to an asylum for the insane.