The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-04-05

to ten years Imprisonment in the penitentiary
McGlew received the same sentence. Mrs
Doris died from the choking, but the court
was not certain that case Of murder could be
made out, and accordingly accepted plea of
guilty Of manslaughter.
A broken rail near Mason, KY, on the Gin
cinnati Southern Railroad on the 30th ult.,
threw the northhound passenger train from the
track. Fifty-three Passengers were injured,
but none killed. The cars rolled down an en-
bankment fifty feet high. Two sleepers were
completely wrecked and one car was burned.
Mayor Mcdonald, of Xenia, Ohio, was seriously
hurt, and J. c. Roberts, Cherry Lane n. c.,
had both legs broken and was injured inter
nally.
There was a slight shock of earthquake at
San Francisco. California, at 7:45 o'clock, on
the morning Of the 30th ult. Further south
! the shock was heavy. st Watsonville, Santa
Cruz county, nine shocks were felt, with the
breaking of croczeryware, plastering &c. At
Hollister, San Bonita county, plate glass Win
dopYs were smashed and brick buildings crack
ed. In the temporary panic the streets were
filed with the inhabitants, many OF them in
undress.
a colored man. giving the name of G. V. S.
Weslv. has been arrested at Salem, Mass on
suspicion Of being the murderer of Mrs. Garlic
ton at Watertown, Mass At first he denied
all knowledge of the murder or that he knew
/ Carleton. Subsequently, however he admitted
I acquaintance with Carleton, and that he had
frequented his saloon in Boston. Wesly is
cook, and was on his way to Gloucester 10 ship
on board a vessel when arrested.
The jury in the case of George J. Rice, for
mer president Of the Utica, Ithaca and Elmira
] Railroad, tried in New York for embezZlement,
! after beinglocked up all nighton Friday night,
We're discharged on Saturday morning being
I unable to agree. They stood ten for conviction
/ and two for acouittal. a motion tosquash the
/ remaining six indictments against Rice was
/ denied. The accused viii again be placed on
/ trial
/ The towboat Polar Star, en- route to st. Louis,
/ exploded her boilers while opposite Belmont,
i Mo, on Saturday afternoon Her upper works
were blown TO atoms and her hull drifted down
1 the river. Captain Adkins was blown about
4 500 yards, and was picked up by skiff. Two
! fremen, two coal paSsers and a Watchman are
/ reported missing.
! Cassius C. Markle, the Ascending member
1 Of the Pittsburg paper manufacturing firm
1 which recently made an assignment by reason
/ Of his Withdrawing a large sum of money from
+ the partnership fund, was arrested at Cincin-
natl on the 30th ult. He registered at the
Burnet House as G. T. 0verholt He had on
| his person SIS, 400.
| Mrs Meaker was hanged at Windsor, Vt,
I Oh The 0uIn ulI.. Tor klillllg an adopted Qaugi-
! ter Oliver BristoY, at Camden, S. c., for the
murder of T. n. Mcdowell. farmer of Ker-
! shaw county, s, c., and Charles w. Beaner
was hanged in Leesburg, Va.
The President has appointed Mr. Z. o. Graves
assistant treasurer of the United States, to fiji
the place of Dir. A. U. Wyman, promoted. Dir.
! Graves has hitherto been superintendent Of the
national bank redemption division of the
/ Treasury Department.
A tramp on the 29tb ult cut his wife's throat
| at Hecktown, Pa, and then with two other
| tramps fed across the fields The woman was
found on the roadside, and physicians say her
/ injuries viii prove fatal.
w w. ellis, q banker Of Clifton Springs, N
/ Y, has failed and fed from the village He is
said TO have put cut $4,000 of forged paper.
| McKechnie & Co, of Canandaigua, N. Y, are
said TO lose $4,000 by the failure.
1 The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has
appointed Captain 7. Y. Burriil, Of New York,
Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Print
1 ing. Captain Burrill is now the purchasing
agent OF that bureau.
POLITICAL.
An act making it felony to keep gambling
establishments in Tennessee, or to rent houses
for such a purpose, has passed the Legislature
of that State. The penalty is imprisonment
for not less than one nor more than three years
il the penitentiary.
A special to the louisville C9urfer-JoaraGE
from Hop5insville Ky, says that letter has
been received there from General 5. B. Buck
.ner announcing that he Is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination of governor Of Ken
lucky. General Buckner surrendered Fort
Donelson TO General Grant.
l. Dukes, who was elected to the Penn
sylvauia house OF representatives from Fay
cite county last fall, but was under arrest for
the murder OF Captain Mutt when the Legisla-
ture net notified the speaker of the house last
week that he had no intention Of taking the
scat TO which he had been elected. The house
declared the seat vacant and ordered adj cleo
ton TO fill the vacancy.
T. J. Jarratt the Readjuster mayor-elect of
Petersburg Va, entered upan tho discharge Of
his duties on the both ait. under the recent de
eision Of the courts He is about fifty years Of
age, aud is a prominent commission merchant.
The citizens subscription for the relief OF the
Democratic officials who served six months
without pay, SO far amounts 10 $3.50, but il VIII
require about $4,000 TO pay them in full.
Ex-senator Gordon gives an emphatic de-
pial to the widely-published statement that
ne contemplated changing his residence to
Florida wIth view to being elected to the
seat IN the United States Senate now filed By
Alr. Cali Gen. Gordon says that he has never
; Thought Tor moment of leaving, nor Is he a
candidate for any mans scat in the United
States Senate. he is deyoting his whole time
to his personal interests and " TO the devel
opment by legitimate means of The resources
OF the South
Hamilton, Ohio, is excited over charges Of
fraud in connection with the recent Demo.
cratic primary elections in that place. There
were several candidates for the mayoraIty
: noIniDation, which was secured by T. B. Put.
hoff, who, contrary to general calculation. car
ried three ont Of the four wards IN the city. II
is now charged by one Of the defeated candi-
; dates that Sir PurhoH, who is the present
mayor, got an Ingenious mechanic 20 make
him the ballot boxes with false sides and bot.
toms, which were stuffed IN advance with Put
hoF tickets. The mechanic is said to have
made tn affidavit 20 this effect, and to have
entered suit against Putheff for $3.50 balance
which he CLAIMS as due for FIVE ballot-boxe.
! furnished. The charges are vigorously denied
I PERSONAL
Hon. Thos. II, Herndon the member-eIect Il
! Congress from the first district of Alabama
died al Mobile on the 18th ult., aged s. years
5 Col James Corley a prominent citizen o
] Norfolk, Va, and during the war commissary
0 general of Lees army, committed suicide a
t Hampton, Va, on the 18th ult.
Gen. ~ B. Buford died at Chicago on TIL
2sth ult BE was born in Kentucky in 1907
q aud graduated at West Point in 1877 He he'll,
the rank of brigadier-general OF volunteer
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