Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-10-19

by swallowing grain of coffee, which
lodged in its windpipe.
-Ezekial Miles, a Sheffield, VT,
farmer, aged 40, fell on circular saw
recently, and he was so badly mangled
that he died soon after.
AT Davenport, Iowa, while care
lessly handling a revolver, Henry Watt
shot his wife, the ball striking her
breast and infiicting an ugly and dan
gerous wound.
Two children were playing with a
loaded revolver at the residence of Mr..
George Rice, at Fall River, Wis, when
it was discharged, killing one of the
children, a son of Mr.. Rice.
"A little son of DIR. Gillespie, who
lives near Fayetteville, Tenn, fell into
a heap of hot embers and Goals that had
been thrown out of the furnace of
sorghum boiler, and was burned to
death.
Frank Reilly, news agent on the
Marietta and Cincinnati Road, swung
himself out of the door of the baggage
car as the train was crossing Bridge
Street at Chilicothe, and was struck by
telegraph pole, which knocked him to
the ground aud fractured mis- SKULL.
Foreign Notes.
The Auglo-French tunnel scheme
lags from the lack-Of financial support.
London has been gradually making
all her bridges free. Last month Wa
terloo bridge was put on the free list.
After repeated failures by one court
or another to secure the condemnation
of the Socialist Hasselmann, in Ger
many, he has been set at liberty.
Inviting President MacMahon to re-
tire on the score that "every one has
had enough of him." has cost the Pays
S400, and the Imprisonment of two of
those connected with it.
The engagement is announced of
Countess Bismarck, only daughter of
the Prince, and Count Rautzau, of the
ancient Schleswig- -Holstein family of the
same name.
There are 100000 Armenians in
Constantinople. They have more than
forty schools, of which the " Nubarian," 3"
founded by Nubar Pasha, now once
more Premier of Egypt, very able
man, is chief.
There is so much fear of the Mill
lists in Odessa that the Czar, in passing
through the town recently, had it Civ
en- out that he would 90 by a certain
route, but instead of doing so galloped
at full speed through other streets, sur
rounded by numerous escort of Cos
sacks, who cut with their whips at
chance spectators who yentured to stand
still and look.
1t will be remembered that several
months ago the Earl of Leitrim was
murdered in Donegal, Ireland. One of
the causes of the crime is said to have
been his eviction of the widow Algoe
and her sons from a farm. A few weeks
ago the Algoes forcibly took possession
of this farm, and the present Lord
Leitrim determined to eject them. Ac-
companied by several bailiffs his agent
broke in the door, when the Algoes made
a desperate resistance, but were over
powered and arrested.
The Russian papers have lately con-
tanned reports about band of robbers
which has appeared in the district OF
Paulovsk, in Southern Russia, and has
spread terror through all the neighbor-
ing region 1t is said to be over 200
strong. The captain is reported TO be a
peasant woman of singular beauty,
who was previously connected with a
gang of forgers of rouble-notes. The
Russian Government is so desirous OF
procuring the arrest of this female chief
that it has set price of 81 1850 upon
her head.
Five noble and wealthy English
girls are about to take the veil, all hav'
ing considerable fortunes in their own
rights. They are Lady Edith Noel
daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough
the Hon. Constance Howard, sister OF
the Marchioness of Butte; two daughters
of the Hon. Maxwell Stuart, oi
Traquhar, Peebleshire, and the youngest
daughter of Mr.. Blount, of Napledur
ham, the representative of the staunch
est Catholic family among commoner;
in England.
"A young Italian surgeon, of higf
reputation, committed suicide two week:
ago in fit of professional pique. HI
was delegate to the Italian Medica
Congress, sitting at Pisa. He ha'
worked hard as one of the organizing
committee, and was the responsible su
perintendent of the exhibition of medico
chirurgical instruments. He had jus
been worsted in an animated discussion
in one of the sections, after which h
leaped into a cab, purchased a revolver
and made way with himself. Hi
father committed suicide in an equal
unaccountable way.