The National tribune., 1884-11-20

The News from All Parts of the
World.
ABROAD.


ton, however, is tr!fing compared with the
ravages of the disease in Toulon, TO equal
which il would be necessary 10 have death
rate of 2 500 a day. The epidemic shows little
ifany effect upon the pleasure-seeking procliv-
tiles of the people The theaters and other
places of amusement are well hiied every night
The west end is still healthy, but is COMPARE
tiycly deserted Most of the residents of that
quarter have preferred TO place themselves at
safe distance from possible infection. The
disease has also again made Its appearance III
TouiOn. but not 10 an extent Suilclent 10 cause
any uHeasiness. 1t is also reported that seNcral
fatal cases have occurred at Brussels but TINS
is denied by the Board of Health Of that city.
Reports still continue TO the effect that
Gen. 6osdon was killed while passing from
Khaltoum TO Berber, but they are altogether
uneonhrmed. messenger arrived from mar
tou,n on the 18th who stated that Gen. Cor
don has made frequent attacks upon the Maldl ;
forces and created fearful havoc among them
The Mahdi, ne said, has ordered his troops not
to kill Gen Gordon il they have the oppo!tu-
nifty, but TO take him prisoner that he may be
used As a hostage to secure the surrender OF
Arab Pasha deserter from the Mahdis
army, who escaped TO Cairo, reports that both
ammunition and provisions are very scarce at
Berber. The Governor of Bcrbcr Is very much
disliked by the inhabitants, who are only
awaiting the arrival of the British troops to
tender their submission. situation OF
the French in Tonquin is by no means com
Portable The Chinese are still besettimg ke-
lung. The situation of the French III Ionquln
is daily becoming mere perilous. The outpc,ts
arc subject 10 constant attacks, ana great DIM
Guilty is experienced in procuring provisions IN
the territory between Hanoi and Sontay, and
daily skirmishes take place. The health of the
troops at Bac-Ninh is bad, and numbers of the
men are unfit for service.-The Right Hon.
George J. Shaw Lefevre has been appointed TO
succeed the late Right Hon. Henry Fawcett as
Postmaster-General of EngIand.-M. Victor
Guichard, the oldest member of the French
Chamber of Deputies, died suddenly on the 18th
inst. at PariS.-A severe shock of earthquake
occurred at Clitheroe, about % miles from Man
chester, England, on the 14th inst, throwing
down horses in the streets and creating the great
est CONSERVATION Patti, the famous
singer, has at length obtained divorce from
her husband, the Marquis de Caux.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
On the 18th inst. August Trufhorn, farmer
of Mcpherson Co., Kan, set fire 10 his house.
barn and granary, and then blew his brains
out. He destroyed property valued at $1,000
No reason can be assigned for the act, except
that he was a man of most ungovernable tenn
per.-Rev. Henry Williamson, rector OF St
Paul's church, of Trenton, N j., committed
suicide by shooting himself through the head
on the 18th, without apparent cause.-Two
quarreed on board the schooner Bogue Hona
near Pennington, Miss, on the 18th. They
clinched, and in the struggle that followed
both fell overheard into Lake POnchartrain
and were drowned.-A fire at Millcrsburg
KY, on the 18th inst, destroyed $4,000 worth
of property.-Charles L.. Parker, one Of the
cashiers of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York,
shot and killed himself on the llth inst with
out apparent cause.--On the 9Th inst two
saw mills and 20,G00,000 feet of lumber were
burned at Duluth, Mimi. Loss S19I 000.-
During the absence from home, one day last
week, of George Houser, who resides near Day
ton, Pa, his 4-year-old boy stripped his
younger sister and placed her on red-hot
stove, burning her so severely that her life is
despaired of.-Maggie Eckert, domestic
aged Is, was shot and instantly killed at La
Crosse Wis, on the 12,h inst, by lawyer, c.
W. Bum, who mistook her for a burglar
Gov. Cleveland has parIoned Robert w. Bat
ting who was sentenced to prison for life in
April, 1879, for murder in the second degree
the pardon to remain valid only as long as Bat
ting keeps sober.-The decapitated body of
Benjamin Sbortens was found on the railway
near Berea, o., on the 14th inst He had been
murdered, robbed, and his body placed on the
track.-During Democratic celebration at
Wellington, Kan, on the 18th, Mrs. John
Schnarr was struck in the eye with a sky
rocket and instantly killed. Another rocket
shot into the Office of the Phillips House,
struck the night clerk in the mouth and came
out behind the ear. His condition is precarious.
W. II. Hood, of Pittsburg, Pa, guest of the
motel, was also seriously wounded in the face.
INDUSTRIAL.
The Pioneer Lumber Co., Of Eau Claire,
Wis, made an assignment on the 18th LA
bilities, S250,0O0-The extensive cooper shops
of the Standard Oil Co., at Cleveland, o., closed
indefinitely on Monday last on account of the
scarcity of orders.-A general cut down i'll
the wages OF the operators was agreed upon at a
meeting of mill agents on the 18th ult. at Man
chester, y. H.--The business failures through
out the country, occurring in the seven days
ending on the 1ith as reported to r. q. Dunn
* Co., of the Mercantile Agency, number Tor
the United States 211, and for Canada p, or
total OF 1886 This is an increase Of 90 as
compared with last week. when the total was
2l6. The previous week the total was 267.
More than half these failures occurred in the
Western and Southern States.-The report of
the Committee appointed by the National Bu-
reau of Animal Industry TO gather statistics in
regard to the cattle business of the West shows
that there are 23O00009 head of cattle in the
States west of the Mississippi River being an
average gain of 80 per cent. since 1880. Texas
leads with gain of 20 per cent, and Kansas
is second, showing an increase Of 81 per cent
MISCELLANEOUS.
Carl J. Carlson, Captain of the top Of the
steamer Bear, OF the freely relief expedition
died at the United States Marine Hospital, at
Louisville, on the 18th inst, of typhoid fever.
Miss Nancy Gould, of Portland Me-, who
died a short time ago, has bequeathed her
property, amounting 10 about $1,000, to the
Government to be used in paying off the ma
tional debt.-An earthquake shock was felt
in various parts of New Hampshire on the 18th
inst.-Miss Pearl Tyler, daughter of the
late ex-President Tyler, was married in Rich
mond on the 18th inst. to WIN. Mumford Ellis
a member of the Virginia House of Delegates
by reason of the outbreak of cholera in
Paris, the city Board of Health of Boston ON
the 18th inst issued more stringent orders to
the port physician in regard to the eXamina-
ton OF passengers and baggage which may ar
rive here from foreign ports especially on the
French Chicago is suffering from a
slight diphtheria scare, that disease having
broken our, with fatal effect, in one OF the pub
lie schoos.-MrS. Victoria Schlling inee
Morosni), who created so much comment a
short time ago by marrying her fathers coach
man, has just concluded an engagement with
the manager Of the Thalia Theater TO appear
In concerts for six months. She is said 10 have
good voice and 10 be a real artist.
We call the attention of our readers TO the
Enterprise Meat Choppers advertised in our
present Issue The demand for these Choppers
has attained such immense proportions that the
manufacturers have been compelled to largely
increase their facilities for making them, and
we ara assured that they now hai,tg I'm rnad