The National tribune., 1883-03-15

secured and hurr1ed TO the county jail. III is
supposed that Casey was in a state Of insanity
when he shot Comisky. On the way to the
| Jail he manifested great fear, labOring under
! the impression that every one wanted to kill
him. Comisl1y is a brother of the chief of the
| Hunters Point fire department.
| A dispatch. from Memphis, Tenn, ofthe 10Th
inst. says that the water has fallen nine inches
| since the decline set in, and will fall more
rapidly as soon as the river gets within its
banks. Two negroes, Tom Brown and Aaron
Smith. were drowned last week near Austin
Miss, by the capsizing of their dug-out. The
break into Totton levee, thirty-fve miles below
Frar's Point flooded all the country as far
down rs Austr ralia. This break is Just above the
line of the second Mississippi levee district
which remains intact, and planters within the
district do not fear an overflow. Two men,
names unknown, were drowned Friday ten
miles north of Marion, Arkansas. AT Helena,
Arkansas, there are between 500 and 700 col
oTed refugees wholly unpTovided for and pow
erless 10 help themselves The levees around
Helena were never more secure.
On the night of the 9TH inst an east-bound
passenger train on the Little Rock and Fort
Smith Railroad was boarded by forty men two
miles west Of Mulberry Station, Crawford
county, and 40 miles from Little Rock, Ark.
The robbers ordered the passengers to throw
up their hands, and began firing pistols. The
conductor, John Cain, who was in the rear car,
was fatally shot Before the robbers could
reach the engine Engineer Rogers started the
train and prevented the robbery. The high
waymen jumped off while the cars were in
motion. Superintendent Hartman offers $4,000
reward for the capture of the robbers, one of
whom has since been taken. He was wounded
in the face and arm and, being unable to keep
up with his companions. took refuge in a FARM
| house. where he was traced by the officers
A terrible explosion of dynamite, which re-
suited in the instant death of one man and
serious injuries to three others, occurred on
the 9th inst. at Flcming's stone quarry, in
Dead Mans Hollow, near McKeesport, Pa. 1t
appears that Daniel and George Heminger,
Noble Giiky, and an unknown colOred man
were at work i'll the quarry, and one of them
attempted to thaw out a can of dynamite used
for blasting purposes which had frozen. An
explosion followed with a loud report, scatter
ing rocks and earth in every direction. Daniel
Heminger was killed outright, and George
Heminger and the colored man were so badly
injured that they will die. Noble Gilky was
also hurt, but his wounds were slight.
dispatch from Helena, Ark, says the first
loss of human life by the flood in that region
occurred Sunday by the upsetting of house
twelve miles south Of Helena, in which were
six adults and four children. The children
were drowned. The former were rescued by
party of hunters, who took them off the roof
after they had ciung to it three days. The st.
Francis swamp contains hundreds of horses,
mules and cattle standing up to Their thrOats in
the water, their owners being unable to rescue
them. Many carcaSSes are floating about. The
legislative committee is examining into the
condition of the people of the Overfowed dis
trict and will report in favor of giving State aid
to the actual sufferers.
James Templin went into the police court
at New Haven, Conn, on the 9TH inst, and
complained that somebody had shot him in the
head. The man appeared to be insane, and
acted so wildly that the judge sent for
surgeon. A flattened bullet was found pressing
against the base of his skull, and when it was
removed the man instantly recovered his rea-
son, and charged a man named VIM. COwles
with shooting him.
In Cleveland on the eth inst VIM. Lyon,
fifty-five years old, went to dwelling occupied
by a woman who was divorced from him five
years ago, and asked for bowl of soup.
While she was preparing to comply with the
request, he drew a revolver and shot her in the
face, inflicting a severe wound. Then he put
the pistol to his own head and fred killing
himself instantly.
A fire broke out on the 18th inst. in the Cam
bridge fats, a large building in East Sixty
fourth street, New York. Mrs. Wakeman,
aged 56, and her daughter Rose, who occupied
the fourth floor of the building, were sufOcated
by the dense smoke. The loss is estimated at
$4,000. Mrs. Wakeman was the wife of Abram
Wakeman, who was 0urVoyor of the port during
Lincolns administration.
Gov. Crittenden has pardoned Clarence Hite,
a noted member Of the James gang, who pleaded
guilty to the charge of train robbery in Febru-
airy, 1882, and was sentenced to twenty-five
years Imprisonment in the Missouri peniten-
tiary. The pardon was issued on the recon-
mendation Of the penitentiary physician and
the board of inspectors. Hite is in the last
stages Of consumption.
On Monday last, in Philadelphia, John S.
Syren shot his brothers wife, Lizzie Syren, in
the breast and then shot himself through the
temple. Both are in a critical condition. Mr.
Syren, the husband of the injured woman,
keeps bakery. His brother John, who came
here from Germany about year ago, is believed
to be demented.
A. l.. Johnson, young man. was shot dead
on the 18th inst. in the court room of the Miller
county court house, Texas, in presence of the
judge, jurors attorneys and spectators, by G.
E. Dixon sheriff of that county. The trouble
arose from Dixon making war on gambling in
stitutions in which Johnson was silently in
terested.
Pasquale Malone and Michael McGIoin were
hanged in New York on the 9th inst. Robert
Cochran, colOred, was hanged at Clayton, Ala,
for the murder Of NJ. L. Drew. The prisoner
took drink of whisky lighted cigar, seated
himself on his coffin and was driven half mile
to the gallOws. He confessed his crime before
the drop fell.
On the 9th inst. a scow, while being sculled
across the basin Of the Morris Canal, jersey
City, was capsized and thirty passengers thrown
into the water. Its occupants were laborers on
their way TO the jersey Central Railroad yards
Three were drowned, and four among the res
cued are SO badly injured that their recovery is
doubtful.
The residence Of Mr.. Simon CrOnise, near
New Market, Nd, was destroyed by fire on the
night Of the 7th inst. While Mrs. CrOnise was
in the act Of rescuing her daughter, aged five
years, the floor which she was standing
gave way and both perished in the flames. Mr..
Cronise and several children were saved.
A life convict named Samuel UIum has Just
been pardoned out of the Michigan State prison,
where he has been confined twenty-nne years
for the murder Of man named EstabroOk, in
st. Joseph county, in 1853. There is little doubt
that Ulum is entirely innocent Of any connec-
tion with the murder.
The jury in the ease of Col. Theodore Hyatt,
president Of the Pennsylvania Military Acad,
envy, tried recently at Media, Pa, for cowhid-
ing Ihaddeus Lowe, a cadet, returned q verdict
OF acquittal, the defendant to pay the costs
They were out fifteen hours.
Robert V. Dodd, formerly prominent citi-
zen of Petersburg, Va, was shot and killed at
Hunnewell Kan, on the 6th inst, during a