The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-02-08

VIII TIE uttNbih bl t'lt3Id'li WINS SuIlOhiiN
ing the hotel.
The pier Of the Inmau Steamship Company,
No. .i6, at the foot of Charlton street, North
River New York city. was burned on the morn
ing OF the lst inst. The National Line steam
ship Egypt and several other vessels narrowly
/ escaped destruction. SO far as Is known no
lives were lost. though many were endangered,
The pier, which was he finest covered pier IN
the city. was full Of valuable merchandise, none
OF which was saved. The loss on pier, goods,
and vessels is put at about rojO,0OO, most OF
which is covered by insurance.
Young Cobb who shot and mortaIly wounded
Sheriff Shenncman some days ago. was taken
out Of Jail nj Winfield, Kansas. ON the LIST inst,
by n party of masked men and hanged to a rail-
road bridge on the outskirts of the town. lie
confessed to Mrs. Shcnncman. the widow Of the
dead sheriff. that he was Charles Cobb, and
gave her his revolver. subsequently he stated
II Sheriff Mcintyre that he had been influenced
by reading of the exploits of Jesse James ana
other desperadOes
The Century Company have undertaken 4 re-
vision of the Imperial Dictionary, which will
be under the charge Of Professor William ID.
Whitney, OF Yale College. aided by Il corps of
assistants The title Of the work Will be The
Century Dictionary" and il will not be ready
for publication for several years. Meanwhile,
the century Company have made arrangements
TO issue the Imperial Dictionary in its present
form III the American market An edition is
/ announced for publication on March LIST.
y firm known rs Matthews, Corley & Stalcy,
who have been doing Il letter and package de
livery business in st. Louis for the past month
in direct competition with the PoSt-otiice De-
pertinent, closed up on Saturday receiving
/ a notification from the United States District
, Attorney that they would be prosecuted if they
continued. 1t is estimated that they dimin-
ishcd the revenue of the post-OtiiCe fully $4,000
during the period covered by their operations.
At 3 o'clock on Sunday morning fire, origi-
mating in stable on Front street. Nashville,
Tenn. spread to the adjoining buildings, until
nearly the entire block bounded by Front.
Broad. Market, and Wharf streets was in ruins.
\ falling wall seriously injured two fircmen.
Over forty horses were burned in a livery sta
bic. The Capitol warehouse was full of cotton
and tobacco all of which was destroyed. The
loss is 100000.
Franklin Pierce, claiming to be physician,
has been held in $1,000 bail at Worcester, Mas
sachusetts. for manSaughtcr in causing the
death of Mrs. Bama Bcrnis, of Oalldale. He
treated her for internal crysipelas by bathing
her III kerosene and rolling her up in band
ages saturated with that oil. The woman was
literally bliStcred and skinned alive, and died
after week of suffering.
Two ll3lItllS, tlulIbNtu OH lUe SEliIlnUtOu
and New England Railroad, roOmcd together
in a building near Triechlers Station. Pa. On
Saturday one of them was murdered by his
companion. His head was split OPEN and q
bloody Ratchet was found in the ROOM The
murderer has been arrested
Two Mexicans, near SorOcCo, n. NJ, had been
paying attention to the same girl, and to settle
their claims to her, they locked themselves in
a room and went at each other with axes. One
man chopped his rival in terrible manner
seycring his head from his body, while he him
self is terribly cut and cannot live
John Carroll went to his home in Scranton,
Pa, on Saturday morning, barred the DOORS
broke up the furniture and fatally beat his
wife. A three months old babe was knocked
from its mothers arms and severely hurt. Car
roll was arrested.
An unknown young woman threw her in
FAINT from a car window last Monday, between
Macon and Atlanta, near Frankville, Ga, while
the train ran at full speed. The child was
picked up by road hands badly bruised, but it
may live.
In a drunken row between miners at OOlte
wah, Tenn. on the 1st inst, miner named
Bennett was stabbed by Mike Drillard. a few
moments alterward Drllard was run over by a
train and instantly killed
Mrs Martha Ordway, of London, n. H., was
shot and instantly killed by her step-son, four
teen years Of age, on Friday. He had prcvi-
ously dropped bullet into the gun and pointed
it at the woman, suppOsing it to be unlOadcd.
POLITICAL.
The lower House of the New Jersey Legisla-
ture has passed bill making four men out of
a jury of six and nine men out of II jury Of
twelve competent to render a verdict \ bill
was also passed repeating the statute which
makes labor strikes unlawful
After twenty-three ballots. Dwight NJ. Sabin,
of saltwater, was elected United States Senator
from Minnesota on the 1st inst. TO succeed
William Window. The SenatOr-clect is
native of Connecticut, and is but thirty-nine
years OF age. When child he went West first
stopping III Illinois, but about fifteen years ago
settled at saltwater. Minnesota, where he built
up a great car-building industry, which, by a
recent reorganization, Is called the North
Western Car Factory. He has been a control
ling power in State Legislature for some time.
While Il confessed Window man during the
canvass, he worked for his own interests and it
is said voted for himself as long as the result
was trembling iii the balance. He is distinct
lively business man of the Western type. of
resistless energy and phenomenal executive
ability.
The Senatorial contest in Nebraska has re-
suited in the election of Gen. Chas. +. Mander-
SOu nc WAS 'DOEA III where TIC
received an excellent education. IN 1876 he
moved 10 Canton, Ohio, where he studied law
for three years, and was then admitted to prac-
tice and was elected city solicitor. In 1861 he
entered the Union Army as captain in the
Nineteenth Ohio regiment and served through
out the war with great gallantry, coming out a
brigadier- general He fought under Mcclellan,
ROsecrans, and other generals, and was in cam
paigns in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and
Kentucky, taking part in all the principal en-
gagements. During President Hayes Admin
istration Gen. Henderson WIGS strongly urged
for Secretary of War by the congressional dele
cations from Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Colorado,
and Ohio, his Endorsement being unsought. At
the close of the war he returned to Canton and
resumed the practice Of law. IN 1866 Gen.
Henderson ran for the nomination to Congress,
but was beaten by one vote i'll the seventeenth
Ohio district The youth of Gen. Henderson
was the only thing that then defeated him. In
1869 he moved to Omaha, where he has de-
voted himself ever since to his profession, in
which he has met with great success.
PERSONAL.
Senator-elect Bowen, of Colorado, is esti-
mated TO be worth $4,000, 600.
The retirement of Rear Admiral g. B. Balch
and Rear Admiral Andrew Bryson has pro-
NOTED Commodore Charles III. Baldwin to the
grade of rear admiral.
In st. Agnes's Roman Catholic Church, New
York on the 1st inst, Bijou Heron, the actress,
was married to Henry John Miller, late of the
Union Square Theatre Company.