The National tribune., 1882-12-07


per venders, BARRIERS, &c. They were nearly all
discharged with repriInand. Hebrew store
keepers who were arrested claimed that as they
observed Saturday as their Sabbath, they could
keep open on Sunday, but they were informed
they were mistaken. The law was enforced in
Brooklyn also.
There have been six suicides in Baltimore
within four days. Several of these have been
attended with peculiarly horrible features.
The first was that of Nicholas Heibeck, who,
on Saturday, hung himself in a fit of despond-
ency from the loss Of his wife and son and from
his inability to get work. William Scharf ran
away from his fellow workmen on Sunday, in
South Baltimore, and before they could fully
realize what he was doing threw himself into
the water and was drowned. He was suffering
from temporary alteration of mind. This sui
eide was followed, on Monday, by those of John
W. Dorsey who was driven to the act by dis
appointment in love, and of Warwick w. But
Ter, who was respondent over the past life he
had led and his fathers displeasure. To this
terrible record two names were added Tuesday,
those of John McGarigle, once a prominent
journalist in Baltimore, and Lazarus Herzberg,
an old man past fOur-score.
At the Coliseum Theatre, Cincinnati Ohio,
on Thanksgiving day, the well-known actor
and rife-shot, Frank Frayne, while in the act
of shooting an apple off the head of Lucy SIocum,
personated by Miss Annie Won Behren, missed
the apple and shot Miss Won Bchrcn in the
head. She died in fifteen minutes. The cur
tain fell and the play was stopped. The audi
ence supposed the victim was only slightly
hurt. Frayne used a Stevens rifle No %
Calibre, and was executing his backward shot.
The catch-snap of the rife was imperfect, and
slipped just as tho hammer fell, blowing the
cartridge shell out backward. FraYne's wife
died two years ago, and he was engaged to marry
Miss Won Behren. He says he will never
fire another shot. The coroners jury rendered
a verdict of accidental shooting.
A man named Fox, employed at the Scoville
Car-Wheel Works, Buffalo. on the 1st inst, at
tempted to commit suicide by pluncing his
head into large pail of molten metal. His
fellow-emplOyees saw him kneel to commit the
act and rescued him as quickly as possible but
not until both of his eyes were burned out and
his scalp cooked to the skull, while his hands
and face were also terribly burned.
The first case under the new penal code of
New Norl, whereby woud-b suicide is guilty
of felony punishable by Imprisonment for
term not to exceed two years or a fine of not
moro than $4,000, or both was up in the Essex
Market Police Court on Tuesday, when Chas
Flick, German tinsmith was charged with
attempting to end his life by inhaling charcoal
fumes in his rooms at 70 Allen street. Flick
was held for examination
An exciting encounter took place in Moberly,
Mo, on Monday, between the sheriff with
posse of citizens and three desperadoes named
Nicholas, John, and Richard Cook. Richard
was shot dead and Nicholas badly wounded.
John was only slightly injured.
The steamer Excelsior, plying between Wash
ingtOn and Norfolk, was run into by the United
States tug Fortune, on Monday evening and
sunk off Hampton Roads. Fortunately, no lives
were lost.
The steam barge r. G. Peters caught fire on
Lake Michigan, On Friday evening last, and
sank with all on board. Thirteen lives were
lost.
POLITICAL.
VIM. E. English, of Indiana, is going to con-
Congress.
General NJ. c. Butler, of South Carolina, was
on Tuesday reelected United States Senator |
from that State.
General Morgan has been reelected United |
States Senator by the two houses of the Ala |
bama Legislature in joint convention.
Senator Windom's friends claim that 50 of .
the l05 Republican members of the Minnesota .
Legislature will vote for his reelection to the .
Senate 1t requires only 76 to elect.
Hon. J. T. Updegratf, the Republican Con-
from the Seventeenth district |
Of Ohio, died Thursday evening at Mount .
Pleasant, near Stcubenville Ohio. He was
sixty years of age.
The majority for Tom Ochiltree, Republican,
for Congress in the Seventh Tex district over
Finley, Democrat, is about 1890. The majority
for Ireland, Democrat, for Governor, over
Jones' Independent, will exceed 10000.
Ex-senator Dorsey has published a card, in
which he explains his connection with star
route contracts and accuses ex-Attorney- Gen
aral MacNcaqh and ex Postmaster General
James of duplicity and bad faith in their treat
ment of him. Mr.. MacVeagh denies the truth
Of his statements.
The Virginia State board of canvaSsers has
awarded the certificate for Congressmau-at-
arge to John s. Wise, coalitioniSt The total
vote of the State for Congrcssmait-at large was
u follows Wise, 99,992; Massey, Democrat.
}i164; Dawson (colorcd,) Republican, 1872
Wise's majority over Massey, 5,SOS; his plu-
,ality over Massey and Dawson, l,466
PERSONAL.
Rev. DR.. Manning, pastor of the Old South
1hurch, Boston, is dead
Ex-senator Hannibal Hamlin, Minister to
spain, arrived in New York on Monday.
Jay Cooke has now considerable railroad
md iron interest in the Cumberland Valley, Pa
Ex-Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, is now
Lble to sit up and read the papers
The young Duke of New Castle is making
our of this country. He spent week in
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