The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-09-15

Capt. Phillip Bessinger, accompanied by her
three children, two girls and a boy, aged
respectively, nine, six and three years, left
ner nome In Reading Pa, and walked up the
towpath OF the Union canal, and when near
dring's mill, deliberately walked into the canal
and drowned herself and children. The bodies
were recovered. ..... The body Of N. 8. Grim
wood, who ascended with Donaldson in his
ill-fated balloon at Chicago, was found ON che
beach OF Lake Michigan, near Stony creek. by
mr. A. beckwith. The body was fully dressed,
with the exception Of boots or shoes. Letters
belonging to MIR. Grimwood and notes OF his
balloon trip, were found on the body, fully es-
tablishing its identity.
Spanish vessel, which was shipping ma
terial OF war at Barcelona, Spain. suddenly
exploded and sunk. Fifty persons were killed
py the explosion or drowned. Mrs. Hal
dand was struck dead by lightning near Frost
station, Tenn, the electricity burning eyery
shred.of clothing from her body. A steam
yacht, carrying the Queen and the royal family,
while crossing from Osborne to Portsmouth.
England, collided with and sank the schooner
yacht mlstletoe. A party Of ladies and gen.
tlemen were on board the Mistletoe, three of
whom were drowned and one killed None of
the royal party were injured. Reports
have been received OF great floods in Burmah.
The Irrawaddy has overfowed its banks FOR
miles in the district of Prone, doing immense
damage to the rice fields and to propertv
generally. .....A party Of about forty men
made raid within three miles of Colon, Cuba
sacked and burned store, killed nine yolun-
teers, wounded about thirty and made their
escape The towns of Gluchoy, Kizlar
ana harizln, Russia, have been nearly totally
burned. Numerous other destructive fires arc
reportedin Lthuania and elsewhere in Russia.
In springfield, Mass, John j. Kenealey, aged
twenty-four years, was killed by falling about
forty feet from a scafrolding. Graham
Brothers e. Co., wholesale grocers and COM
mission merchants, Baltimore, Md, have sus-
pended, with liabilities Of SO,0OO. -. d. M.
hey, OF Chattanooga, Tenn, has been ap-
pointed by tho governor to fill the vacancy in
the United States Senate caused by tho death
of Andrew johnson.
three hundred houses were burned at Ryeff.
Russia. Milan, prince OF Serbia, has adj
dressed circular note to the great powers
asking their advice as to the Horzegoyina in
surrection A suit has been begun under
tho civil rights law in Washington against the
Pullman palace car company Mrs. Clara
X. Carter, who was taken to the insane asylum
In augusta, Me-, committed suicide by stran-
giing herself with pair Of elastics ......
George W. Pemberton, who was sentenced to
be hanged foI the murder Of Mrs. Bingham in
east Boston, stabbed himself in the neck.
breast and arm. The deed was committed
with the handle of a tablespoon, which he had
sharpered on tho floor of his cell ..... David
Dobbins, in Digby county, N. g., beat out
his wife's brains with a mallet, set fire to her
bed, and then fled to the woods, The murder
WAS evidently premeditated. The wife WAS a
quiet, inoffensive woman .... Latest reports
of the crops in the West are favorable-more
80 than could be expected after the serious
floods.