The National tribune., 1883-02-22

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in the knee by r. NJ Cochrane, Glenn's super
intendent. The only cause yet known for the
shooting is that Miller did not give satisfaction
as bookkeeper, and was discharged.
ST. Louis dispatch of the Goth inst, says
| As the Texas express train on the Iron Mountain
! Railroad was turning sharp curve into Poplar
street last night, the engine left the track and
| dashed into the stove foundry of Bridge, Beach
| & Co. breaking hole fifteen feet square IN the
! building. The baggage car was badly damaged.
| No other car left the track. William Smith, a
fireman, had his arm broken, and Richard
Garvey, a boy, who jumped on one of the cars
! to catch a ride, was fatally wounded. None of
the other passengers were hurt.
An engine on the Genesee Valley Canal
! Railroad fell through bridge, near ScOttsville.
! New York, on Saturday. Charles Hanna, the
| fireman, was killed, and Henry Fuller, the en-
| gineer, had his arm broken and his foot
crushed. A trestle bridge at Raccoon, Georgia,
| on the East Tennessee Virginia, and Georgia
| Railroad fell in on Saturday with a sOuthward
! bound freight train. Charles Walker, colored
| brakeman, and r. Tiddwell, an engineer, were
! killed, and Carl Kemp and John Cox, passen-
gers, were seriously hurt.
On the 18th inst. three children of Charles
w. Smith, living three miles from Cumberland,
| Md, on the Baltimore turnpike, were playing
| with a small revolver, loaded with No car
years, said: "ShO0t mother" whereupOn lit
tie girl, aged five years, pointed the pistol at
! her mother and fired, the ball entering her
mothers left breast. Physicians failed to find
! the ball 1t is thought she will recover. The
children picked up the revolver about the
| house.
The cases of Garrett s. Boice, Edward B.
| Shaw and John n. Beach, defaulting officers of
the defunct City Bank of Jersey City, were
called Monday in the Hudson county IN. j.
| Court. After a long consultation with their
counsel they decided to place themselves at the
mercy of the court and pleaded guilty. Judge
| Garretson sentenced them to terms at hard
labor in the States prison as follows: BOice ten
years, Beach four years, and Shaw six years.
The prisoners were remanded to Jail.
Jacob Vincent, prosperous farmer, was
| found dead in the woods recently, four miles
from his home at Campbellton, Franklin county,
Mo- The body showed that the deceased had
| been shot from his horse and then Drained with
the butt of a rifle. A warrant has been issued
for the arrest of James Vincent, cousin of the
deceased, and step-son and son-in-law.
A heavy wind prevailed east of the Hoosac
mountain in Massachusetts on Sunday. The
depot building at Zoar was torn to pieces, and
| its foundation was moved four feet. The pas
sengers and employees ran out when the Chin
ney fell and escaped uninjured. freight car
! was blown across the Troy and Greenfield rail-
road track.
Two Cinnamon fought on Saturday night in
room on Ridge avenue, Philadelphia, in the
presence of forty spectators who paid S2 each.
The contestants were Loo Hing, a washerman,
and Hi Sing Foon, an ironer in laundry.
After a desperate but unscientifc battle of
eleven rounds Loo Hing gave up.
John Sheffield, dissolute character, living
Madison Wis cuarrelad with his family
and left them about three weeks ago. Subse-
| quently their house was set on fire, and two of
| his daughters, one aged fourteen years and the
other an infant, were burned to death. 1t is
believed that Sheffield set the house on fire.
On the 18th inst. passenger train bound
west on the Grand Trunk Railway struck a
broken rail mile east of Flint Mich, ditch
ing three coaches one a Pullman car. Mrs. ID.
L. Seaman, of st. Vincent, Ont, was killed,
Thomas Lindsay fatally hurt and eighteen
| other passengers more or less injured.
Engineer Baxter, Fireman White and Brake
man Brown were probably fatally injured, on
the 14th inst, by collision, in the southwest
ern suburbs of Chicago, between Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy and Quincy and Milwaukee
and St Paul trains.
The Pacific express collided, on the night of
the 18th inst, with the east bound express on
| the Great Western division of the Grand Trunk
Railway, near Dundas,- Ont. Two persons are
| reported to have been killed and several in
jured.
An explosion of fire-damp occurred in Gin
cinnai On the 18th inst, wreeking house oc-
cupied by four families, numbering seventeen
persons. Six of the inmates were killed and
several severely, if not fatally, injured.
| Collender's seven-story billiard factory, at
Stamford, Conn, was burned on the 18th inst
total sc tad M 0np
| hundred and twenty-five men were employed
in the factory.
| At Detroit, Mich, Francis Wardell, special
pension agent, who was found guilty Of forging
| the name of Pension Agent Post, of Detroit,
was sentenced to four years in the House OF
! Correction.
POLITICAL.
At a meeting of the executive council at
| Boston, Governor Butler sent in the name of n.
A. Plympton, of Worcester, to succeed Mr..
| Clark as insurance commissioner for Massachu-
| setts. He was manager of Governor Buffers
! campaign last fall The Governor also sub
mitted the name of Colonel Roland G. Usher,
of Lynn, for the wardenship of the State prison,
| instead of Earle, removed. The nomination
was confirmed. Colonel Usher was principal
manager of Governor Buffers campaign in
| 1879, and has since been connected with him
| in private enterprises.
Timothy Griffith, formerly private secretary
| to ex-senator Conkling and ex-POstmaster-
General James, has been appointed clerk of the
! United States District Court in New York, in
| place of Commissioner Deuel., forced to resign.
| The appointment was made, it is said, at the
solicitation of Mr.. Conkling
| After an exciting debate the Minnesota
| House, by vote of thirty-eight to forty-nine,
recently decided to indefinitely postpone the
! bill providing for the submission to vote of
/ the people of an amendment to the Constitution
! prohibiting the manufacture or sale in the State
of spirituous or malt liquors.
The joint resolution proposing to submit to
/ the people of Pennsylvania an amendment to
the constitution prohibiting the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors was defeated in the lower house
| of the Legislature on the first reading. Under
the rules, however, it was laid over for a second
reading.
The Alabama Legislature has passed bill
! increasing the public school appropriation
! 100000. A bill has passed the Senate and is
pending in the House appropriating 100000 to
| the University and $4,000 to the Agricultural
college.
By the will Of Boston lady, lately deceased,
Miss Susan b. Anthoney and Mrs. Lucy Stone
| Blackwell viii receive $4,000 each as the
! representative woman suifragists, and it is
said they will use the money in advancing the
cause.
| The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on the
| 18th inst. gave decision affirming the opinion