The National tribune., 1885-06-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The News from All Parts of the
World.
ABROAD.

fbG QlSfrlcT OF oltpS diC cc-
ing taken to organize volunteer torpedo corps
at every seaport in Great Britain Tor coast de-
fense.-A sunken dredge has entirely blocked
navigation in the Suez Canal, aud it will take
eome time to remove it, Not less than hun
dred steamers are at anchor Off the entrance 10
the canal awaiting passage. The loss entalied
upoD shipping by the accidental sinking OF the
dredge is said to be enormous.-Hon. James
Russell Lowell, ex- Minister to England, reached
Boston on the steamship Scytha on Saturday
lsst.-The native African Prince Allagogha,
of the Brass River territory, Upper Guinea,
Africa, while trading at a native village, was
shot at and wounded in the shoulder by ma
tive, who escaped. The Prince took nine viii
layers rs hostages, and, failing TO produce the
would-be assassin, he had them cooked and
eaten. Missionaries say the Prince processes
10 be a Christian.-An explosion took place
In the Pendlebury colliery, near Manchester,
England on 18th inst 1t is reported that out
of over $50 miners at work at the time proba-
bly 100 were killed.-Emperor William in
the presence of Count Herbert Bismarck, I'm
der Secretary of the Imperial Foreign Office,
on the 21st received Mr.. Pendleton, the new
United States Minister, who presented his ere
dentials Mr.. kasson afterward presented his
letters of recall.-Field Marshal Baron Won
Manteuffel, the distinguished German COM
mander and Governor of Alsace Lorraine, died
suddenly at Carlsbad, Germany. last week, of
pulmonary COUSSSllOU ' OH
was born in lS09.-An American who had
lost all his money at Monte Carlo committed
suicide by taking morphine at Nice, France, Oh
the ed inst.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A large powder magazine containing $1,000
pounds of powder, belonging to the Colorado
Coal and Iron Company, in suburb of Pueblo,
Col, blew up on Wednesday of last week. Jno.
Weaver, an employee, was killed, aud Chas.
EaIcnp fatally :niurad The aytanSivp ard
and pork packing establishment of Washington
Butchers Sons in Philadelphia was burned
last week Several neighboring dwellings
were damaged, and several firemen injured.
The loss was S150,000 The fire is thought TO
have been caused by ightning.--Further de-
tails of the recent cyclone in Iowa show that
16 persons were killed in Cherokee County and
many others fatally or seriously injured-0n
Thursday of last week the boiler in the saw
mill of j. T. Deal, near Wakefield Station, on
the Norfolk & Western Railroad, exploded, kill
ing Jno. Tucker and injuring three other men,
one of whom cannot recOver.-Alfred Smith,
aged is years, was instantly killed at Batavia,
n. Y, on the 18th by the accidental discharge
of gun in the hands of Walter Buxton.-An
engine attached to freight train standing on
q Side-track at Mines Va, on the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad, was struck by lightning on
Tuesday of last week The engineer was serious
ly hurt and the fireman slightly injured. The
engine was badly damaged.-The severest
thunderstorm of the season visited Northum-
berland County, Pa, Monday night of last week.
The streets of Easton were flooded by rain, and
number of houses were struck by lightning
and badly damaged. The barn of Chas ROsten-
bader was struck by lightning and burned
Philip Haller was struck the head with
paving stone in New York, Tuesday last, by
Peter kock. because he refused to treat him to
beer.-Wm. Freeman, aged Is, living on
Chincoteasue Island Va, shot Timothy Hills,
his wife and daughter, and then killed himself,
on the 18th. He had courted the daughter of
Hills, and she, it is supposed at the instance of
her mother, declined his suit. 1t is feared that
ali three will die. Mr. Hills is one of the most
influential citizens on the island.-o. NJ.
Baker was arrested Saturday last at 0swego. N
Y, charged with administering poison TO his
wife, who is in precarious condition from its
efiects.-Rev. w. T. Morrison, of San Fran
cisco, Grand Councillor of the Order of Chosen
Friends, who was convicted of grand larceny,
was sentenced to 10 years in the State prison.
The body of Chas Sache, a pea-picker, was
found mangled on the railroad near Camden,
N. j., Saturday morning last. Foul play is
suspected.--At Shousetown. Pa, Saturday
last, John r. Mckee, river pilot, shot his wife
dead and then fatally shot himself. Jealousy is
supposed to have been the cause.--At Mt.
Carmel, Pa, on Sunday last, during n quarrel
with Michael Kline and his brother, Nicholas,
". ~. EHotH1A WIS StdDDeu Dy Michael.
Both brothers were arrested. Three men
engaged in repairing the track on the Pennsy-
vania Railroad at North Bend, Pa. were run
into by mud train and instantly killed
Frank Pyers received ID lashes in Baltimore on
Friday last for wife-beating. August Mods,
farm hand, working for Crist Shroeder near
Bridgeton. in St. Louis County, Mo-, was stab
bed and killed Sunday light last, it is charged,
by Jacob WiGkelman, with whom he had GUAR
reled-At Grindstone City, Mich, Sunday
last, Maggie Morgan, aged 20, was alone at home,
when a strange man entered the house, stopped
her.cries with handkerchief and then slashed
her horribly about the face, neck and breast
She is still alive but her condition is critical
Representative Thomas James of Ran
dolph County, ILL.,, aged Ga years, is charged
with attempted outrage upon Mamie James,
IL year-old girl, page in the Illinois Legisla-
ture.-Every building in the town of Sher-
brooke, OAK. was blown over Saturday fast,
except the County building, which was held
down by the safe. No one was hurt.
MISCELLANEOUS
The new iron steamship Comal, built for the
c. III. Mallory line to ply between New York
and Galveston, was lanched last week. The
boat is $40 feet over all, 40 feet beam, q feet
deep, and has three decks. She will be fitted
up for passenger and freight purposes.-Prof
Spencer L. Baird Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, ID. c., has written
ietIer III winch he calls attention TO the bene-
fetal effects of boiling drinking water. 1t is
especially important, he says, that water should
be boiled during the prevalence of cholera
The water should be boiled actively for half an
hour.-The law forbidding the manufacture
and sale of oleomargarine in New York has
been declared unconstitutional by the Court of
Appeals.-The schooner Austin d. knight
sailed from Philadelphia on the 18th for Vipo.
Spain. where she is TO be engaged in raising
the Spanish treasure galleons sunk in Vigo
Bay in 1702. The schooner is chartered by the
Figo Bay Treasure Company, Philadelphia
enterprise, TO which the Spanish Government
has granted a concession on condition that the
latter receive one-quarter of the treasure re-
coyered.-The steamship Guyandotte, of the
Old Dominion line which was laying at her
pier in the North River, New York, was sunk
on the 18th inst. by the carelessness of two
fremen, Emil Frank and Samuel Iaflin.-
ThirtysiX out of the 132 applicants for admis-
sion TO West Point Academy have been found
deficient. Among the successful ones is An
drews, the colored applicant from South Caro-
lima. The son OF Quartermaster SpurdeOns, Of
West Point. is a successful alternate in place of
the candidate from the Fifteenth District New
York.-The will of the late Henry Singmas-
ter, of Stroudsburg, Pa, after the death of his
wife, divides his estate Of between 100000 aud
$2oO,OO0 into two parts, one of which is to go
to the Lutheran Theological Seminary of Phila-
delphia, and the other to the Lutheran Theo-
logical Seminary at Gettysburg. - Three
dwellings and several stables were DESTROYED
by an incendiary fire at Pottsvlle, Pa, on the
18th inst. Loss about $7000.-Denis Kear-
aUn0uncQs his intention tn 7,,n for 4.