The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-05-03

| shot and killed Walter Davis, on the 9th ult.,
| as he was stepping from the smokipg-car on the
| Cincinnati and Southern Railroad, near Har-
| rodsburg XIV The cause alleged for the deed
was an undue intimacy of Davis with Thomp-
sons wife Thompson and Davis had taken
| the train for Cincinnati but did not meet till
| they came to Harrodsburg junction, where
! both got into the smoking-car. Thompson i'm
mediately began an assault on Davis, who tried
80 escape. As he reached the platform Thomp-
son drew revolver, and saying, You'll not
take my wife TO Cincinnati again F" fired, and
Davis fell dead. Davis was grocer, had sold
his stock, and was about to go 10 Chicago.
Thompson got off the train and walked away.
Near Olivet, Mich, last Friday, the air brakes
to a passenger train on the Grand Trunk and
Chicago Railroad did not work properly, and
the train stopped at the foot of a slight grade
near Oiivet A signal was sent back TO heavy
freight train which was following, For some
reason the freight train paid no attention to
the signal, but Numbered on into the rear of
the passenger train, shivering two Pullman
cans into fragments. Three persons were killed
outright-Conductor p. J. Wall, of Montreal;
II. Frye, of Engleweod, n. J., and John w.
Higgins, travelling agent for Detroit firm.
Ten more persons are reported injured, some
fatally. Mr.. Frye was superintendent Of mo-
tive power of the New York, West Shore and
Buffalo Railway.
BEETHOVEN, N c., at noon on the 9th Ult., for
the murder Of his wife last summer. He arose
at O'Clock in the morning and dressed HIM
self IN a suit Of new Clothes bought with
the money received FOR his body, which
he sold TO a doctor. During the morning
he wrote his autograph for several persons.
| After smoking cigar he assembled the steps Of
the galloWs to examine it. Taking hold of the
rope, he said 10 the sheriff: . l am afraid III
break that rope; you ought to have soap on
/ It." he did not seem TO like the appearance
of the trap. Father Reddington visited him
during the morning.
| A dispatch of the 9Th nit. from Benton, Tex,
SAYS: AT A o'clock this afternoon terrific
storm swept over the country four miles north
of this place, tearing down houses and demol-
ishing everything in its path. Four persons
are reported to have been killed at Emery's
farm. OF seven persons who took refuge in a
church two were killed and four cannot be
found. 1t is feared that the loss of life is
| greater than Is known at present. The damage
to property is very great 4 schoolhouse con-
! tanning seventy children was overturned, but
only one was seriously hurt
Albert II. Bials, of the firm of Bials & Trick
EFT, spice Dealers of Boston, shot and killed his
/ partner A. Perley Tricl1ett on the Fall River
steamer. Bristol on Saturday night The two
occupied a state-room together. Trickett got
out of his berth and went TO the window. Bials
was awakened by the rafting of the blinds,
I and thinking some one was trying to enter the
room, drew a revolver and fred bullet, which
/ entered Trickett's forehead and passed out at
| the back of his head. Bials delivered himself
to the police on the arrival of the boat at Fall
River.
A special from Albuquerque, N NJ, says that
information received there states that on the
18th inst. Geronimo, one of the chiefs of Juh's
| Apaches, captured Prof. 4. T. Bandelier, of the
! American Archaeological Institute, S. f. Balder,
| of Tucson, and a Mexican, near the village of
San Cristobal, in the State of Sonora The
I Apaches took the prisoners into the mountains,
and it is nearly certain that they have been
/ murdered. Prof. BaEdelier has been investi-
eating the Indian quarries in New Mexico and
! Arizona for several years His father and
family reside at Highland, Ill.
At the Tewksbury almshouse investigation,
on the 18th ult., Christian Mueller testified TO
1 tanning human skins received from various
1 doctors and students, and pair Of uppers for
4 slippers made from woman's skin were shown.
1 Frank q. Hayerlin testified that he Temenn-
/ bered a patient who had received extreme
! JUNCTION from i priest being taken by the back
Of the neck and forced screaming into q bath
tub. he died thirty-s hours afterwards.
A. D. Clark. wealthy real estate man of
4 Battle Creek, Mich, came to Lansing Mich.
| some days ago in company with young woman
! known IN theatrical circles as frankie Carr
The supposed wife Of Clark appeared on the
scene and shot Miss Carr probably fatally
Clark says that he is not married to the woman
/ who claims to be his WIFE She was accom-
panied by two young children.
An explosion of gas took place at the Key
4 stone eoliieTy, about one mile from Ashland, Pa.
Monday, killing August Weleher, Patrick Rea-
/ gan, and Andrew Jones, and seriously wound
! ing Charles Tyler and Cooney Walters. The
/ explosion was caused by the sliding Of pillar,
which pushed large body Of gas in contact
with the lamps of the miners.
In the United States Circuit Court at St
Louis, recently, in the case of the United States
against Charles Ferguson, charged with eoun-
teT3eiting, Judge Hoffman decided that gliding
4 the new five-cent nickel is counterfeiting and
the jury convicted the prisoner.
Anton Urbaclz. while awaiting an inquisition
for insanity IN the county court at Chicago on
| the Goth ult.. dashed through an open window
IN the second story, falling TO the stone side
walk. He was picked UP IN dying condition.
Near Leavittsburg, Ohio on the 25th ult.,
I John Delong shot and killed a widow, named
j Griswold, because she persisted in refusing TO
! marry him. he then shot himself falling dead
near mis- victims body.
Charles and Fred Ward, nephews of c. B..
Farweli, of Chicago, we're found dead recently
IN their shanty near Cree City, Dakota. They
were killed By a man named Bell, who claimed
TO Own the shanty.
George T. Dalton, the actor, was stabbed at
1 Taunton, Mass, Thursday night last by Fred
erick Padding, in the duel scene of Romeo
and Juliet. Unless peritoaitis sets in he viii
/ recover.
AT the farm Of joel Plat, IN Sabetha, Kan,
deaf and dumb son OF Platt set fire to a barn
aud was burned TO death. His mother, in
attempting 70 rescue him, was fatally burned.
PERSONAL.
Gen. VIM. Browne, Of the Georgia State Uni
| gersity, died at his home in Athens, Ga, Sat
| friday. He was born in ireland and was elu-
Gated in the University of Dublin His father
was q member Of Parliament and the son was
one Of the pages at the coronation Of Queen
Victoria. lie had position in the British
diplomatic corps, but when thirty years old he
came to America and became a journalist in
New York city. President Buchanan and
Howell Cobb sent him TO Washington to edit
the Union, the organ of the administration.
When the Southern members withdrew Gen.
Browne went South, and was selected to
notify jefferson Davis of his nomination He
was Assistant Secretary of State OF the Con-
federate government under Robert Toombs and
afJerward went ON Davis staff as general of
Georgia's conscript forces. For years General
Browne had been one of Jefferson Davis most
intimate frie nds, and he assisted in the prepa-
ration of Dir. Davis book. Gen. Browne filed
the prOfessoTship of natl onal history in the