The National tribune., 1882-12-28

star route Jury, Is approaching a touClu5LOu
| The testimony is all in.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Merriam A. Montgomery, twenty EIGHT year!
| of age shot his two little children, George ane
! Eva, aged respectively six and four years a
! Packardsvile Mass. Tuesday morning George
was instantly killed and Eva is probably fatally
! wounded. Montgomery had not lived with hi,
! wife for eight months, leaving her through
! jealousy. and she made her home with hel
/ father. Horatio Marsh, a farmer. Montgomery
visited the family Saturday last and stayed
until Tuesday. Tuesday morning he asked his
| wife if she would live with him, and she re-
! fused He went out, found the children play
/ ing outside the door, and shot them with a re-
volver He then tried to shoot his wife and
/ her father but was overpowcred by the latter
( and kept in the house until the sheriff came
and arrested him.
( On Christmas morning. in saloon at Pho
neer. Arizona. Wm. Hartley stepped TO the bar
/ to take a drink. when Th05. Kerr. without
provocatiOn, knocked him down. Kerr then
drew pistol, and saying, Young fellow, now
I've got you" placed the muzEie to Hartley'S
breast and fired, killing him instantly. Kerr
was disarmed, and a jury Of twelve men held
an informal trial. He asked for an hours time
to arrange his business. He sat down, and with
perfect coOlness wrote to his mother at LcXing-
. ton, H., and then called for several drinks.
I The citizens then took him out to a sycamore
tree. lie made few remarks, contesSing the
killing of several men. He was drawn up once
and let down again, then asked permission 10
take of his boots, saying he didnOt want TO die
with his boots on" This request was granted,
and he was swung up
A dispatch from Victoria, B. G., says: Forty
Chinese women arrived at this port by the
steamship Eolmer. Thirty-twO of the number
were sold to Cinnamon who reside III the
United States and the remaining eight We're
reserved for this place. Two Cinnamon who
wanted to secure women brought them before
the chief justice on a writ OF habeaS corpus, al
leging that they were f0rcbly detained. The
women, however. swore that they were free
agents, and the cases were dismissed. In the
course of the investigation 1t was proved that
the thirty-two women who went to the Ameri-
can side were disguised as Indian women.
A Chicago dispatch SAYS: So general is the
complaint of sand -bagging and robbery in the
streets at night, and so fast is the crime grow
ing. that the Lumbermen's Exchange, aroused
by the fact that one of their members had been
attacked, robbed, and left senseess on the
street, offer $500 reward for the perpetrator of
the crime in a document which sharply criti-
cises the city government for its slackness.
Since December lst seventeen cases of this sort
are on record, and probably many have been
missed.
In Prince George co., Va, on Saturday night
Samuel Rives quarreled with his cousin, Wm.
Rives, when a colored man named Parker in
terfered to restore peace between them. Sam
Uel RiveS shot the negro through the lungs,
killing him instantly. Rives then shot him
self, blowing his whole head of. The muir
derer was nephew of DR.. Geo. Rives, an ex-
member of the Virginia Legislature.
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State Treasury, was shot and killed on Sunday
last at the Jennings Hotel, Uniontown, Pa, by
L. n. Dukes, a well-knOwn member Of the
Fayette county bar, during personal alterca-
ton growing out of the latter's alleged init
macy with daughter of the deceased.
JaRss Smyth & Co., manufacturers of ging-
hams and cotton goods and the operators of two
large mills in Philadelphia, have failed. The
extent OF the liabilities are variously estimated
at figures ranging between four and five hun
dred thousand dollars.
A collision occurred on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad early Christmas morning near
MillborO Station, by which five men were
killed and two wounded.
The new office of the Buffalo Commercial i'd
TertiSer and other property to the value of
100000 was destroyed by fire on the 21st inst.
Goldsmith Hall, Philadelphia, with adioin-
ing property, was destroyed by fire last Thurs
day night, involving loss of $4,000.
POLITICAL.
The majority of the House Committee on
Elections have agreed among themselves that
kaine, the Mormon delegate from Utah, should
be admitted, notwithstanding the fact that he
does not have the certificate from the Governor
that he has been elected
Mr.. William S. Stenger of Chambersburg,
has been offered the Office of secretary of the
Commonwealth by Governor elect Pattison.
and has given an unconditional acceptance.
The Democratic committee of the Ninth
Congressional district of Indiana has nomi-
mated Judge Ward, Congressman elect for the
vacancy in the present Congress occasiOned by
the death of Hon. G.. S. Orth.
Colonel J. B. Taylor was nominated by the
Republicans Of the Eighth Ohio district to fill
the vacancy in Congress caused by the death of
Mr.. Updegraff.
The city officers Of Petersburg, Va, appointed
Iy the ReadjusteT council on July J. last who
have been on duty ever since without draw
ing any pay, were paid OFF in full to December
/, the amountrequlrad being $4,000. The city
officers appointed by the Funder council on
June y, and who also have served since July
], will meet to-day TO frame petition asking
the city council to pay them for services rem
dered, as they are IN absolute want.
Personal.
Oscar Wilde sailed from New York yesterday
for Liverpool.
VIM. NJ Evarts has accepted the invitation
Of the joint Congressional committee on the
Newburgh N. y Centennial to deliver the
Grafton of the day at the centennial celebra
tion.
Representative Bayne, of Pennsylvania. has
received from Strong Vincent Post, No. 81, g.
4. T., Erie, a beautifully engrossed copy of
resolutions recently passed by that organiza-
ton commendatory Of his efforts in behalf of
the Soldiers and Sailors Home at Erie.
Benjamin s. Rotch, of Milton, Mass, during
life. was taxed being worth $4,000 Hi, |
death made public the fact that he was worth
The appraisers Of the estate have |
filed their inventory in the Norfolk probate, at
Dedham, from which the value Of the real
estate Is $3O5,050, and personal estate S3,-
209,S5S.52.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie. of Pittsburg, Pa, pro-
poses to give that city $3.50 900 for free library
provided the city Will raise annually $4,000 to .
be expended in support of the library A
special committee Of the councils has been ap-
pointed to prepare the draft of All act accepting
,he gift on the terms proposed.
1t is understood that after visiting some
;iueS in the Southern States, the Princess
Louise viii embark ON a British man of war
md proceed TO Bermuda, where she will remain
turing the most severe portion of the winter,
Is her health suffers from the intense cold 1t
S expected that when the weather becomes .
warmer she Will return to Ottawa, probably .
before the close of the next session.
General Me4de's veteran charga,. OLD Boldly