The National tribune., 1883-08-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Crimes and CaSuaItieS---PersOnal and
POlitical--Capital Topics.

navy-vagd at that place The medical officer
at New Orleans was instructed Saturday to
ship TO Pensacola six hospital tents, six barrels
of birthstone and two barrels of eopperas.
President Gilman, of the Pensacola Board of
Health was also advised to commence another
inspection Immediately. Private adYlces IN
this city are 10 the effect that there arc five
cases of yellow fever in the Pensacola navy
yard and three outside, and that there IS dam
ger Of The spreading Of the disease. Gu the
other hand. an Associated Press dispatch from
Pensacola states that a Gordon has been estab-
Eshed around the nayy-yard by land and
water. and that the citizens Of Pensacola feel
perfectly secure. Surgeon Owens, his son, and
q marine are sick at the navy-yard, which is
seven miles from Pensacola.
Mr. Henry F. jerks, well-known Grand
Army man. Of Pawtuckct r. l., has presented
the District OF Columbia with q new drinking
fountain OF his own manufacture. Around the
base Of the fountain runs basin for the use OF
dogs and other small animals At the height
of four feet three inches above the street grade
IS the basin for horses This extends completely
around column containing the supply water
and gas pipes and as twelve inches deep, three
feet five inches in diameter and holds forty
gallons. The water comes in through the
mouths of four dOphins and the waste water
runs into the basin below for d0Zs before rum
ming of into the sewer. Surrounding the
post extending from the basin Is q lantern at
the same height as the ordinary street gas
light. The fountain has been placed at the
corner OF Seventh street and New York avenue,
and is a decided ornament TO the locality.
The new postal notes viii be ready for circu-
lation on September 3 next They are now
being received in books Of five hundred each
from the Homer Lee Bank Note Company, and
are being distributed through the registration
division Of the New York post Office to the
postmasters OF the country.
By reason of the vigorous action of the Gov
eminent IN prosecuting opium sInugglers on
the Pacific coast the duties collected at the port
of San Francisco on opium during the last
fiscal year were more than a million dollars in
excess Of the collections from that source the
previous year.
1t has been asceTtained at the Post-ofice
Department that by the postal agreement be-
tween the United States and Canada the rate of
postage between the two countries after October
LIST viii be two cents to send letter TO Canada
from this country, and three cents from that
country TO the United States.
The Navy Department was advised, August
10th, that the yellow fever had broken out at
the Pensacola navy-yard. One member of the
marine guard was taken sick, and the rest of
the men have been removed 10 Cape Anson. six
miles distant from the navy-yard.
The acting Secretary Of the Interior issued an
order disbarring from practice before the In
terror Department jenkins A. Fitzgerald,
pension agent Of this city, he having failed TO
disprove the charges Of fraudulent practices
preferred against him.
Orders were issued at the Treasury Depart
ment august 18th, for the opening of all the
life-saving stations on the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts on the LIST OF September next.
After September 1st the navy-yard at Wash
ington VIII be turned into a naval arsenal, and
q large number OF workmen VIII be employed.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
At Cincinnati, Ohio on Monday morning,
Burt Scheible shot and killed Josie Stubs, q
fast woman, IN her room at Airs. Kinks, No.
Ia George street. and then shot himself IN
the face, dying instantly. The discovery was
Tot made until noon when a servant went Up
TO the room aud found both dead. The girl
was undressed and IN bed with hands uplifted,
and Scheible was on the floor. ScheibIe slept
ID the house last night but the girl did not get
home until 4 O'Clock this morning. The occu-
pants Of the house heard quarreling, but the
pistol Shots were So faint that no notice was
taken OF them. Scheibls had been jealous of
the woman for seine time and had frequently
threatened 10 kill her. Schei5ie was the son
OF a hotel proprietor OF Dayton. he was
charged with embezzling an insurance compa-
nys funds there lie haa been employed here
as bookkeepar IN Hugh Nekenzie's shoe fac
tory, but lost the place through dissipation.
The girls father also lives in Dayton. Sebeible
Jeff letter 70 the coroner, directing that both
bodies shDaid be sent 10 Dayton, and saying
that he regretted killing the girl, bat coald not
dc without her.
The body Of Nicholas skerrett, wealthy
real estate dealer Of San Francisco, was found
Saturday IN a vacant house belonging 10 him.
Monday last he entered the house with three
men, who proposed TO purchase it, lie was
never seen alive again, and is supposed TO have
been murdered Wright Lowry, an ex-convict,
his been arrested as one of the murderers. BE
was formerly a well-read attorney of Oakland.
Cal, but was convicted Of forgery. he con-
fessed to the chief Of police that he was impli-
Gated witn two men, named John ID. Townsend
and William Miller, ia scheme to get posses
SION OF SkeETett's money, but denied having
anything TO dc with the murder. Townsend
and Miller, On the plea Of accompanying Skier
rett TO see some empty houses, were to choke
Skeirett until he signed checks on his banker.
Skerrett accompanied the two men TO the house
where the body was found. 1t is thought the
murder was unintentional and that the victim
refusing TO sign the checks his assailants
choked him, and, when they found he was
dead, ran Of.
Five masked burglars entered the house Of
w z. ELL. 1T Fairfield, Conn, august 10 hand
cuffed Mr. Hill and his hired man, tied Miss
Bill with ropes, and ransacked the house.
Mrs. Efll escaped and ran down the road but
was captured and brought back and securely
tied. Dir. Hil usually has large amount of
money n the house, but had made deposit
that day. The robbers secured q small amount
Of property, and subsequently, drove to Bridge
port in Hills carriage, which was found this
morning
passenger train on the Kentucky Central
Railroad ran into the rear car OF a freight
train, at Winchester crossing, August II, ex-
ploaing 900 kegs Of giant powder. The deRot
was wrecked and the engine blown 10 atoms
Engineer Schuler was not found, Yardmaster
Randall was killed and Conductor MeMichael
fatally injured. Several others are supposed
70 be killed.
Edmund Woods, aged sixty, a well-to-do
farmer, was shot by an unknown man, Monday
night. while driving to his home in Deering,
n. H. He was found lying in the bottom of
lbs wagon with terrible wound in his head.
lis death is expected momentaTily. he has
had trouble with neighbor, and il is said the
latter threatened 10 shoot him. The suspected
person is under surveillance.
The engine and tender of passenger train
on the Mobile and Montgomery Division Of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad went through
an open drawbridee near Mobile Saturday. and
the engineer, Edward Brown, was drowned.
lie could have escaped, but be stuck 10 his post
and succeeded ia preventing the train from fol-
lowing tie engine through the draw.
Joseph N. Hemcuway, Of Troy, n Y. was