The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-08-30

1 Cartain Hevdt was sitting in chair on the
pavement when Rosborough suddenly started
/ up ard beat him on the head, from the effect
Of which he died the next day. The assault
was entirely unprovoked. Wilson Post, q. A.
r., took charge of Captain Heydt's body and
inferred it with military bonors in London
Park.
| Henry Hcrtel and wife, German shopkeep-
ers. of Savannah. Ga. were found murdered
recently Ia their store. Hertel was living on
the floor, a handkerchief tied over his eyes and
his skull crushed in. His wife was lying on
the sofa III the parlor with her throat cut and
one arm nearly severed. Two colored men were
arrested on suspicion. Hertel was supposed to
have a large sum Of money in his possession.
Saturday night party of masked men at
Park City, Utah, compelled Engineer Thomas
and two other employees of the Utah Eastern
Railroad Company 10 carry them on an engine
and cabo0se 10 COalville, twenty miles distant,
where they took from the jail Jack Murphy,
charged with shooting a man named Brennan
August 18th. They took Murphy back to
Park City, where they hung him to telegraph
/ pole.
Two passenger coaches and the bagge-car of
train on the Memphis and Little Rock Rail
road were thrown from the track by a broken
rail and broke through n trestle near Forest
City, Ark, August 2lst, killing j. B. Salinger
and Harry Foidberg, of Cotton Plant, Ark, and
John Adair. James White had his leg broken,
and several other passengers were slightly
injured.
At Sparrowbush August 23d, on the Pennsyl-
wanna State line, a strange man was seen to run
in front Of an approaching engine and raise his
/ hands in prayer. The engine ran over him,
severing his head completely from his body.
/ From papers found on his body it is supposed
that the man is w. Z. Murty, of Bergen, N. j.
Dollarville, Mich, town of about 800 in
/ habitants, and the headquarters of the Ameri-
can Lumber Company, was nearly destroyed by
/ fire on the 23d inst, twenty of the principal
/ buildings being burned. Two children are re-
ported to have been burned to death. The
/ loss is S120,000
At Punxsutawney, Jefferson county, Pa dur
ing the payment of the railroad hands on the
Dist inst. dispute arose about the wages, cul-
lainating in a riot. A Hungarian named Peter
| Yeder was killed, two fellow workmen, John
1 Shernetz and John Dalo, were shot, and an
Irishman named Tom Kearney was beaten.
Freebooter John J. Hall, of New Brunswick,
| n. j., is reported missing. He was the section
official Of the Pennsylvania Railroad He took
with him, it is said, $4,000 borrowed money.
| 1t is charged that forged notes aggregating be-
! tween $4,000 and $4,000 have been discov-
cred.
The immense wheat elevator of Trow s Co.,
at Madison, Ind, containing 100000 bushels of
wheat was totally destroyed by fire August 23d.
| The loss is Sl25,000. Insurance is $4,000.
Harry Packard, of Hartford, Conn, On en-
ployee of BIr Barnum, was crushed Monday
morning by one of the elephants, and afterward
died at the Cincinnati hospital.
PERSONAL.
The funeral Of Judge Black, at York, Pa,
August 2lst, was the largest ever known in
| that community. Never before has so many
distinguished visitors been assent led in York at
one time. The funeral services at Brockie, the
/ late residence of the deceased, were very i'm
| pressive, though brief, and were conducted by
| Rev. Frederick d. Power, pastor of Vermont
Avenue Christian Church. Washington, and
| Chaplain of the House of Representatives, Rev
J. .. Miller, ID. D., of the Reformed Church
| York, aud Rev. Arthur Powell, of the p. E.
| Church, or York. The remains We're inferred
at Prospect Hill Cemetery, and were followed
20 the grave by d funeral, procession more than
| a mile il length. The pall-bearers were Gen.
eral Hancock, Judge Gibson Judge Wickes,
George Small, General S. w. Crawford Chief
Justice Mercur, 4. B. Farguhar, George H.
| Sprigg, Judge Bear, and ". L. Small. Among
the many notable persons present were the fol-
lowing: General w. S. Hancock, u. S. A; Gen
eral s. W. Crawford, q. s. A.; G. w. H Koontz,
| Governor Pattis0n, Ex-Governor Hoyt, Colonel
| J. K. Longwel, and Hon. William P Maulsby,
| of Maryland; Chief Justice Mercur of Penn
sylyania; Judge w. j. Bear, of Somerset; State
Senators Gordon, Grady, Miles, Stewart, Ross,
| Cooper, Mylln, and Stehman, Representatives
| Bigser, Mcdonald, Colbun, Wayne, and Walker,
ex-senator Charles Z. Buckalew, Judge j. B.
Livingston and w. U. Hensel, of Lancaster;
| Hon. w. E. Grosbeek, ex-Minister to Austria
Watts Hon. w. III. Welsh, of Baltimore Sec
| rotary of Commonwealth Stronger and B. +.
Myers. Of Harrisburg.
Captain Richard B. Locke, who was once
quartermaster OF the Ninetieth New York vol
| unteers, but was afterward appointed by Presi-
dent Lincoln for marked ability to be quarter
master of the Department of New Orleans
died at Sailors Snug Harbor, Staten Island, N
Y, August 23d, from paralysis. Captain Locke
| was the eldest son Of Richard Adams Locke
author Of the Moon Hoax Captain Locke pub
lished the first Union paper IN the South dur
| ing the Rebellion-the Key Vest Neses Era.
Before the war he held commission in the
United States revenue service.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, of England,
arrived in New York August oath on the
steamar Celtic. He is accompanied by his son,
| Gilbert Coleridge, Sir James Hannen NJ p
and Hon. Charles Russell, NJ. P. Lord Cole
ridge is the guest Of Eliot Z. Shepard. din
ner was given the party in the evening by Mr..
Shepard, at which were present Chief Justice
Waite, Chief Justice William G.. Ruger, of the
| New York Court OF appeals; Acknowledgement
Brewster, Justice Swayne, Judge Noah Davis,
MhitelaW Reid, and others.
The Hon. William Window, ex-Secretary of
the Treasury of the United States, was enter
tanned at banquet in London August 2lst.
Among the gentlemen present were Messrs.
Courtney, Reed, PuleSton, and Lewis members
OF Parliament; United States Senator Hawley,
of Connecticut; Representative Reed, of Maine:
Alr. j. III. Francis, United States Minister to
Potngal; Dir. William J. Hoppin Secretary of
the United States Legation at London and Gen
eral L. a. Merritt, United States Consul Gen
eral at London.
The Knights Templar at San Francisco
elected the following officers: Grand Master.
Robert i. Withers, OF Virginia; Deputy Grand
Master, Charles Roome, of New York; Gener-
alissimo, John 2. S. Goblin, of Pennsylvania
Captain General, MUCH McCuddy, of Michigan
Senior Warden, J. Larue Thomas, of Kentucky
Junior Warden, George G. Perkins, of Califor-
Ma The Treasurer and Recorder were re-
elected.
reception was rendered to Mrs. Sarah z.
Fuller, Secretary ofthe National Soldiers Relief
Corps, by the Army and Navy Veteran Associa-
ton of East Boston, Mass, at their ball on the
evening Of Augusta. Meridian hail was beau
tifully and iaviShly decorated for the occasion
The walls were covered with beautiful banners
and glories of flags. Among the decorations
was beautiful set of Army Corps banners
which added greatly to the military effect.
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