The National tribune., 1882-10-12

! session at indianapolis, Indiana, beginning
Tuesday, October H. and ending Friday Octo-
Der 20. The Sanitary Council of the Missis-
| sippi Valley has issued call for meeting at
the same time and place.
The ST. Louis exposition was complete Sue
cess. The procession of the Yelled Prophets
October was viewed by over 10000 visitors
to the city.
| The Tariff Commission has been holding
sessions at Pittsburg the past week, and to-
morrow will begin its sittings in Philadelphia.
Telegraphic communication has been estab-
lished between Callao, Peru, and the United
States.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A special dispatch from Waupaca, Wis, says:
"a daring murder and bank robbery occurred
here Sunday night, the victim being II. c.
Mead, a wealthy banker, who had been in bust
ness here for thirty years. He was an eccen-
trio bachelor of 60, who slept in the bank, and
boarded at hotel. On Monday he failed TO
appear at breakfast or dinner. A messenger
was sent to the bank and found it locked.
Going to a back window he discovered the wire
screen cut, the window let down from the top,
and Mead lying in pool of blood on the floor.
Investigation showed the head and face horri-
bly, manged with shot, as if both barrels of
uble-barreed shotgun had been discharged
at him at short range. 1t is supposed the as
sassins shot him from the window while he was
sitting at a table writing. The safe was I'M
locked and the RssaSsins had carried Of several
thousand dollars in currency, gold, and bonds.
The exact amount is not known. There is no
clue to the murderers. Mead was worth over
100000.
At New York on the 4th inst James 8. Tain
tiers, Iineman in the employ of the Brush
Electric Light Company, accidently received a
shock from a line which he was adjusting, and
was almost instantly killed. He was at work
at the top Of pole making new connection
for the wire. When he received the shock he
did not fall to the ground, being caught in the
line. He was taken down, but died shortly
after, being carried to the station house. The
skin on the palms of both hands was hanging in
strips, as though it had been scared off with
hot iron, and the mans face In death bore
look of intense agony. He was a married man
The steamer Herder, of the Hamburg Amer
lean line, ran ashore at the eastward head of
Long Beach, about three miles west of Cape
Race, at two o'clock Monday morning, during
dense fog. All the passengers and crew were
landed without accident The Herder was of
about $500 tons burden. 1t is believed that
the ship and cargo will be a total loss. The
Herder, Captain Fischbein, left New York on
the Sd inst. for Hamburg, via Plymouth and
Cherbourg, with thirty-nine cabin and ninety
four steerage passengers, and q crew of about
one hundred men. The cabin passengers were
mostly Germans from New York and Western
cities.
4 demented Frenchman, named Earnest Du-
bourgne, ran muck through Fourteenth street,
n. Y, Monday, stabbing right and left with a
pair of carpenters compasses. The sidewalks
were crowded with women, and number
severely injured. Among those who received
wounds are Mrs. Stoltzenberg, Miss Louisa
Checker, Miss NJ L. King, Miss Pauline Fielder,
Mrs. Thomas Worth, and Mrs. Mary Hanley.
The last-named lady is the wife of the police
man who caught and disarmed the mailman.
1t is feared that she is fatally wounded.
The coroner's jury that investigated the recent
tunnel disaster in New York reported a verdict
October 5, finding the conductor and brakeman
of the train, the telegrapher and the railroad
companies guilty of gross and criminal negH-
gence. They urged the Legislature to enact
laws that would insure greater safety of tray
elers, and recommended the use of black sig
mails on the track where the accident occurred,
and more perfect system of lighting and
ventilation.
At the Soldiers Home at Dayton, Ohio, on
Monday afternoon, an ARRAY between two of
the inmates, named August Benecker and Cor
nelius w. Raely, resulted in the former stab
bling the latter to death. He was placed under
arrest.
Arthur W. Ross, one of the Commissioners of
the Cincinnati Exposition, was brutally muir
dered last Saturday night while on his way to
his home at Glendale, fifteen miles from Gin
cinnati
At baptism near Canton, Ga, on Sunday, a
bridge fell into river and precipitated 200
spectators into the water. No lives were lost,
but quite number of legs and arms were
broken.
Mary Morris, girl of fourteen, was sem
fenced to two years in the House of Correction,
Chicago October 5th. Eight hundred indict-
ments could have been brought against her.
CAPITAL TOPICS.
The Supreme Court Of the United States re-
assembled for the October term of 1882 at noon
Monday. All Of the justices were present, ex-
cept Justices Field and Bradley, who have not
yet returned to the city. After number of
candidates for admission to the bar had been
introduced TO the Court and duly sworn,
Solicitor General Phillips presented the com
mission of Mr.. w. A. Maury as Assistant At
torney-General, and it was fled. In the
political assessment case of Newton NJ. Curtis
leave was given to fIe a petition for habeas
corpus, and the case was set for argument on
the 23d instant at the foot of the days call.
The commission for selecting site for the
new pension building have abandoned the Gov
eminent square between Tenth and Twelfth
streets-the testing Of the foundation by driv-
ing piles having developed the fact that suit
able foundation could not be secured The
majority Of the commission, which consists of
Secretary Of the Interior Teller, Secretary of
War Lincoln, and General N. c. Meigs are in
favor of erecting the building on judiciary
Square.
There was received at the Treasury Depart
ment Monday the sum of $0JG,0O0 in United
States bonds bcqueathed to the United States
by an eccentric millionaire Of Hoboken, n. j.,
named Lewis. The will of Lewis was cor
! Ill l. 1.