The National tribune., 1884-12-25
NEWS OF The WEEK.
TIE News from All Parts of the
World.
ABROAD.

tenpted destruction of London Bridge only
damaged one stone in the second arch, just
above the water line. Thirteen cracks were
discovered, resembling precisely those in a
plate-giass window pane starred by missile.
The German police assert that they have
foand proofs OF an extensive plot TO enroll the
soldiers in socialist societies, and that pam
phlets preaching revolt have been circulated
privately among the soldiers az the garrison at
Berlin. Since the elections for members OF the
Reichstag socialist woIkingmen have been
openly advocating resistance. The police re-
Gently while trying to dissolve a socialist meet
ing were resisted and beaten, and the mob
afterward fought in the street. The police
were re-enforced and succeeded in arresting a
number of the rioters.-The Pal MAJ Gdeette
publishes Z statement 10 the effect that Henry
Ward Beccher VIII succeed James Russell Low
eli as American Minister at the Court of st.
.James-M Madame Hughes, who recently shot
NJ. Merin in Paris, will be tried next month for
gilful murder-The British steamer Oxen
holme from New York for Liverpool arrived
at Queenstowa on the 18th. She experienced
terrific weather, and came into harbor on her
beam ends Heads and legs of dead and. living
cattle could Je seen protruGing through the cat
tle-penS aud hanging over the side OF the vessel.
The upper deck of the steamer was d confused
mass OF dead and living cattle. She was towed
ashore to prevent her sinking. Only five head
of her cargo of cattle were alive.-There is
every probability now that all efforts at media
tion between France and China will stop,
as it is reported that the French Minister at
Shanghai has been ordered TO inform China
that any further negotiations are useless. The
dispute must now be settled by the sword
An attempt was made on the life Of the Car of
Russia upon the occasion of the recent fete of
the ChevalierS OF st. George. The rails on the
Gratzchna line, over which the Cars train
had to pass. were found looSened at a certain
SPOT. The soldier on guard at the place where
the train was expected TO leave the rails was
afterward found murdered. - Gen. Lord
B Wolseley will complete the concentration of his
arlny at korti in the first week in January,
and viii begin his march through the desert
uTon Shenly cn the eth of January. The dis
tance from korti TO Shen6y is 200 miles, and
Gen. Wolseley calculates that it will occupy
16 days unless he meets with opposition on the
route from the enemy. \ simultaneous move
ment viii be made from Suakim against Osman
Digna in order TO secure the flank of the Nile
expedition OF Gen. Wolseley from attack.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On Sunday last two OF the oil tanks ct Pratt's
Astral Oh Works New York city, exploded,
and more than 10000 barrels Of oil and nearly all
the buildings were destroyed. Loss. $780, 900.
jas Nelson, OF Frontier Co., Neb.. who last
week shot and killed Eugene Sherwood, was
taken from the custody o. the Sheriff on Thurs
day night by regulators" who shot him, cut
his throat, and hung his body up TO freeze
Anexpress train on the Vest Shore Railroad ran
into slide Of rocks near Poughkeepsie, y. Y,
on the 10th, and was completely wrecked. The
fireman had leg broken and two passengers
were injured. Loss. S50GU0-Mrs Sealey
Sprague, of Rockville Centre, L. l., shot dead a
tramp who entered her house and demanded
money on the I6th.-Ten tons OF powder in
a storehOGse of the powder works at Secaucus,
y. j.. exploded from some unknown cause
Monday night of last week while the watch
man was absent getting drink.-Benj. I.
Brooks of Brooklyn, was found Tuesday night
Of last week at Cypress Hill Cemetery hanging
head down froma high picket fence upon which
he was caught while attempting TO cross it.
Life was extinct - Marion Mcfarland, a
farmer, of Geneva Ga, was bitten some weeks
ago by dog supposed TO be mad. Sunday of
last week he had commissions. and died on the
following Tuesday Asl;ew, colored, is
IN Jail at Savannah, Ga. en- 4 charge OF hacking
his step-son, Nm. Harris, TO death with an ak
in his house on the night Of the 18th. Askew's
story is that he discovered man named Mack
Loftin in his wifes bedroom, in which Harris
also slept. He knocked Loftin down and began
to hack at the fallen body, but cut his step-son,
who was sleep close 10 where Loftin fell
AlphOase Micheaux, who shot and killed Mat
line Sager and then shct himself in Baltimore
last week, was buried in the same grave with
his victim. - Dunk Groves, a prosperous
farmer living near Falmouth, Rush Co., Ind,
committed suicide on the 10th by hanging in
his barn. Ever since the Presidential election
Groves has imagined that the country would
so TO ruin and That he would lose all his prop
erty. Catholic Orphan Asylum of
Brooklyn was burned on the 18th, and IL
children and two attendants perished in the
flames. Loss, $3.50, ,09G.-On Monday of last
week freight train on the Mexican Cen
tral Railway was wrecked near Silao by armed
bandits. Considerable valuable merchandise
was stolen. The robbers belonged TO the Revo-
lutionary Anti-AmeTican party.
INDUSTRIAL
The cotton factory of the Mattoaca Manu-
featuring Company, at Petersburg, Va, which
stopped work some time ago, throwing out of
employment large number of operatives is
working again with a full force. Four other
cotton factories IN that city and vicinity, which
stopped at the same time, are still idle. The
closing of these factories threw out of employ
melt about 500 operatives.-Eight hundred
men along the line of the Schuylkill Canal
were on Saturday last thrown out of work for
the Winter by the suspension Of navigation.
The canal is solidly frozen from Schuylkill
Haven to Philadelphia - The river coal
miners in Pennsylvania have commenced
strike for higher wages. Four thousand men
are concerned in the strike.-The organiza-
tiOn of 50 new corporations was reported in the
previous week. Ofthe former, six, with an ag-
gregate capital of S246, ,0G0 are for the manufac-
ture of furniture and kindred articles: %, with
ss.965000 are for land and buildings; five,
with S5,57O,G00, are for railways; nine, with
so. 400, ,750 engage in mining; three, with
S390,O00, viii build gas and water works; six,
with SS15,230, are for electrical purposes; 20,
with S2,2S7 900, will build machinery, manu-
acture hardware, ETC.; six, with $4,000, will
engage IN printing, ETC.; four, with $4,000,
are Tor financial purposes, and 17,wth 3 373 500
are for sundry manufacturing and other pur-
poses. The total capital represented is $780,
149,390, against 500, ,464, 800 last week.-The
National Sugar Growers Association met in ST.
Louis on the 18th inst. Pres. Norman j. Cole
man, Of Missouri, in his annual address de-
nounced the Spanish treaty as the destroyer of
American sugars for the benefit OF the foreign
sugar trade Reports showed that 300, 900 gal
Ions Of sirup were raised in Iowa this season,
that the yTeld IN portions Of Wisconsin and
Minnesota has been 80 gallons per acre, and
that as much as thousand pounds of sugar
had been produced from a single acre,
and that 80 acres of cane in Illinois yielded
5000 gallons Of sirup, which brought 80 cents
per Sailou.- Railroads running east from st.
Louis are said to be doing but half the business
they were year ago.-The business failures
throughout the country during the seven days
ending on the goth number for the United
States 361 and for Canada 2S, or total of 395.
Last week the failures numbered 348.
POLITICAL.
The Young Mems Republican Club of New
York, by vote of 5S TO ]. adopted a resolution
faVorng the election Of Hon. VIM M Eyarts
10 the United States Senatorship