The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-04-19

and II is stated that the crew OF the LehlgR
Valley locomotive abandoned it after revers-
ing the engine. Some passengers declare that
the locomotive and train raced all the way
from Bound Brook TO the crossing.
The situation at the rolling mill in Spring
field, H., is becoming very serious. The mill
has been filing up with nOn-union men quite
rapidly of late. and the members of the Anal
gamated Association seem to be getting des-
perate. A party of workmen on the evening
of the 10Th inst. was leaving the mill and had
hardly got outside the Enclosure when gang
Of the strikers opened fire on them with rifles,
shotguns and pistols, and it is said that quite
fifty shots were fired John Waldr0n, young
man, who recently arrived from Pittsburg, fell
dead, and il was subsequently found that thirty
four buczshot had penetrated his side, breast,
throat and face. Brainard Mulkurn was shot
in the chest and arm. His wounds are serious,
but it is thought he win survive. Samuel
Britain received slight wound in the lip.
A cave-in occurred at the Keelridge mine,
between Quinnessee and Iron Mountain, Mich,
on the 10th inst, carrying down the engine
house and also eight men, as follows: Patrick
Egan, VIM. Norris Richard Williams. VIM.
Pollard, VIM. jeffrey, Thomas James, ". Hen
derson and Edward Wicks. These men were
on the surface None were at work in the
mine. The cave-in embraced a space of sew
enty-fve by fifty feet, and besides the men en-
3
ending four large boilers, falling distance of
100 or 200 feet.
Charles Smith, a well-do-farmer living four
miles north Of Earlville, Iowa, went to his barn
on the morning OF the 18th inst, where histwo
sons, aged nine and thirteen years, were at
work and killed them with an axe. Return
ing to the house, he killed his wife with the
same weapon as she stood by the stove pTepar-
ing breakfast. He then attempted to kill his
two daughters, the only remaining members of
the family, but they reached q neighbours
house in safety and gave the alarm. When
they returned, Smith had killed himself by
cutting his threat with a butcher knife.
Mrs Rose Howard, the nineteen-year-old-
wife of Vim. Howard young engineer, living
IN the West Side. killed her first-born child.
aged three weeks, on the 10th inst, under pain
full circumstances. The mother is now an in
mate of hospital, raving mad. Mrs. Howard
had been III since the birth of her child, and
was frequently deliri0us from fever. When
left temporarily alone she jumped from her
bed, demolished the furniture and killed her
child. presumably from dashing it against the
stove.
Olney Burgess, Of Foster, r. J., while making
social call upon Daniel and Henry Burlin-
game, at Killingly, Conn, on Saturday last
suddenly drew a revolver and shot Daniel
slightly injuring him. In q struggle for pos
session OF the pistol Henry was dangerously
wounded, bail entering his nostril. Burgess
returned to Rhode Island, where he was ar
rested. He was locked up but died In few
hours from self-administered poison. Three
years ago he shot a man, binding him for life.
Thieves entered the Metropolitan Bank, cor
ner of Canal and ChartTes streets, New Orleans,
on Sunday night, by cutting through the wall
I from an adjoining building seized and gagged
| the Waterman and blew open the bank vault.
Every bank box in the vault was broken open
and the vaiuables taken. A safe inside the
vault was undisturbed. Cashier Van Horne
says the amount obtained by the crackSnen
viii not exceed $1,000.
Major Ellis P Phipps, ex-Superintendent of
the Philadelphia almshouse, who is charged
4 with forging the names OF dealers 10 fictitious
bills for alnabouse supplies, and who has for
/ some time been fugitive from justice at
I Hamilton, Ont, was brought TO Philadelphia
T by officers on the 18th inst. He was taken at
! once to the Court of Quarter Sessions, where
he was committee to prison by Judge Allison.
| On Sunday last the bodies of Mrs. II. Bic
! pnecht, wife Of druggist of Dubuque Iowa,
and her thTee-year-old son, were found at the
/ bottom Of a wei fifty feet deep. Mother and
child were alone in the house during the fore
noon. It is supposed the woman threw the
child into the well and then jumping in her
/ SELF
The jury in the casepf ex-Afayor De Bevoise,
Of Long Island City, n. Y, who was tried~for
j wrongful conversion of city bonds, on the 18th
/ inst. found a verdict against the defendant for
/ 100000. motion by the defendants counsel
/ for new trial was denied, as was also motion
for stay OF proceedings.
/ Charles Rhoades and Beach Tinsley, on the
llth- inst, started from Muncie, Ind, for the
/ country, carrying a can of Hercules powder.
! When they had reached point half mile
| from town the can exploded, tearing Rhoades
to pieces and fatally injuring Tinsley.
At the investigation into the management of
/ the Tewkesbury Mass aln2shouse, on Monday,
pieces Of the skin of colored man who had
died at that institution were exhibited to the
| committee. The skin had been taken by a
Harvard student to tannery.
At Danville, Pa, on the 10th inst, Perry
/ GaskIns, eleven years Of age, stabbed and badly
| wounded Thomas Trainer. eight years old.
Gaskins told Trainer 10 get out Of his way, and
the latter failing TO do SO, Gaskins pulled out a
knife and stabbed him.
t The pos-ofice at Boonton, n. J., of which E.
/ b. Dawson, an ex-soldier, is postmaster, was
/ robbed by burglars Of over S400 in stamps and
! money, on the 9TH inst. Access was gained
through a window.
David II. Crockett, who was awaiting trial
1A W tlAEA4Lies n, INC Elli1E joseph
i. Hurt, was taken from jail and hanged BY a
mob OF the Ilth inst
PERSONAL.
Colonel John c. Mcconnell, a Mexican vet
eran and active recruiting officer in Baltimore
for the Union armies during the late war, died
on Saturday at his residence in Howard county,
Nd, in the seyenty-second year of his age
Colonel Mcconnell was native Of Georgia and
served IN the Mexican war as a private in the
Kennesaw Rangers Of that State. At the close
Of the Mexican war he settled in Baltimore
When the late war broke out he cspoused the
Union cause, aud under orders Of General Win.
field Scott, opened a recruiting Office in Balti-
more. BE raised the First, Second, and Third
Maryland regiments. He conducted General
Butler from Annapolis to Baltimore and par
ticipated IN the establishment Of Fort Federal
Hin. After the war he was superintendent o.
the typographical bureau for a short time.
The Hon. Henry D. Mcdaniel, the Demo
cratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, wa.
born IN Walton county, that State forty-siz
years ago. lie was graduated at Mercer Uni
yeTsity, Georgia, and began the practice Of Law
at Monroe IN 1857. He was a delegate to III.
Secession Convention, and went with tht
Eleventh Georgia TO the army as first Eenten
ant He became a major in 1863, was S,
severely wounded at Gettsburg that his If
was despaired Of, and until the end of the wa
he laid IN the hospital. He was a member o
| the constitutional convention in 1865 VheY