The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1882-11-16

/ New York recently and have quarters IN a deer
! hut at Central Park They have been imported
as an experiment. to see if it will pay to raise
them in this country for their feathers.
Two million dollars IS to be expended in the
erection of hotels in the Yellowstone Park.
A Philadelphia court has decided that jews
harps are not toys, but musical instruments.
Thursday the 9th inst, was Canada's Thanks
giving day.
School savings banks have been introduced
in Iowa.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A Picking newspaper tells of the sale of
| Chinese wife by her husband. She had fallen
in love with the purchaser, and the husband,
wishing to realize some advantage out of this
state of affairs, agreed to sell her To the gallant
for $3.50. But when he came to get his property
he failed to bring the money with him, and
4 the husband declared the bargain off. But the
lovers were not to be baked. They drugged
| the husband, seized all his property and cioped
| They were afterwards arrested and put into
| dungeons, when both committed suicide.
Father J. B. ODonohue, pastor of the Nor
row Ohio Catholic Church, died Nov. 10th,
from the effects of a blow by monkey wrench
administered by Timothy Green. Green says
Father O'Donohue publicly denounced Mrs.
/ Green as a thief last Sunday before the con-
gregation, and that when he saw the priest on
| Tuesday he resented the insult, and in an en-
counter which followed the blow was struck.
Four tons of powder exploded at the Keenan,
lime works, Smiths Basin, n. Y, Nov. 10th.
/
| Cameron, who had charge of the powder-house
were blown to atoms. Some parts of their
| bodies were found half mile distant 1t is sup
posed they were smoking and thus caused the
accident. The damage to the works is about
| $1,000.
The trial of Elmer Palmer for the murder of
his grandfather, Frank Palmer, began at Can
| ton on Nov. 1, and ended in verdict of muir
! der in the second degree. Elmer is sixteen years
! old. He and his mother lived with his grand
! father on farm. Elmer was charged with
poisoning some rum, which his grandfather
! drank.
Henry Hageman, German tailor, threw
| himself in front of the locomotive Of the pas
senger train near the Arlington cut, on the
| Derby Railroad, Nov. 10th, and was torn to
pieces, four cars passing over him. He leaves
wife and four children.
Two masked men set fire to the stables of
Mr.. Brandenbury, near Erin, Ga, last Friday
night. While Mr.. Brandenbury was at the
fire the men entered the house, shot at Mrs
| Brandenbury and niece and seized trunk con-
tanning 81 900 in money and $4,000 in Govern
ment bonds.
! Fifty pounds of dynamite were found in va
riOus parts of the international Distillery at Des
Moines, Iowa, Nov. 18th. They had been placed
there with evident intentions Of destroying
the building Had the attempt succeeded there
would have been a fearful loss of life.
The wire mill of Mr.. Oliver, of the Tariff
| Commission, was burned at Pittsburgh, Pa,
Nov. 9TH. The fire was caused by workman
| placing lighted lamp near barrel of oil,
thereby causing an explosion. The loss is
| 100000, insurance $4,000.
| A terrible ARRAY took place sometime on Sat
| urday night between two farm hands in the
employ of Mrs Barnum, at Hampstead, L. I.
One was shot through the body and the other
was horribly stabbed.
The residence and outbuildings of Mr.. Al
at Irvington, n. Y, caught fire last Friday.
The loss, so far as known, will probably exceed
! 100000.
The explosion of boiler in the Forest
| City Mills, Cleveland, Ohio, caused the death
Of five men and injured large number of the
employees more or less seriously.
| A fire in the works of the Remington Manu-
featuring Company at Providence, r. l.. Nov.
| 18th, caused loss of over $4,000, insured for
| $4,000.
| A warehouse at Toronto, Ont, belonging to
the Northern and Hamilton and Northwestern
Railway, and its contents, were burned last
Thursday. Loss, 100000.
A railroad train ran into a street-car, in
Philadelphia, November 9TH, killing and hor-
ribly mangling a woman, who was the only
passenger.
The iron bridge of the Georgia Railroad over
the Oconee River, at Athens, Ga, fell Friday,
killing one workman and seriously wounding
six others
Three men engaged on the Macon and Ran
dolph railroad, Georgia, were killed by the
caving in of an embankment November Sth.
Ten of the principal business houses at Nicola,
Iowa, were destroyed by fire, November 9Th.
The loss is $4,000, covered by insurance
Arsenic in a pumpkin-pie caused the death
of two residents of Norristown, Pa.
CAPITAL TOPICS.
The ladies connected with the Garfield Monu-
ment Fair Association are labOring with most
commendabe assiduity. Already contributions
have begun coming, and promises are made
the fulillment Of which will ensure the gor-
geous Establishment Of the booths now in
course n construction. While the sole object
of the sale Of the articles contributed is to obtain
funds for the monument, the ladies desire to
offer such articles as Will not only tempt pur-
chasers, but will be treasured as souvenirs. The
Illinois ladies particularly are making strenu-
GUS efforts TO render their booth attractive.
They will make a speciality Of perfumes in all
conceivable forms. They also invite the ladies
of America, and particularly Of Illinois, to
make and send some article of utility, orna-
ment, or both cOmbined-any of the thousand
and one little articles that the dextrous hand
of woman can weave. If any of those making
contributions SO desire, they may attach their
name and address to the article sent, thus graft
flying the justifable curiosity of the purchaser.
1t is earnestly hoped that the patriotic ladies
of America-and they are all patriotic-will
cheerfulIy respond to this very reasonable re-
quest, and by furnishing some salable tri1e,
4 +barcbv contribute their mite to that very