The National tribune., 1885-10-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The News from All Parts of the
World.
ABROAD.


ct Tarafat, Madagascar, between the French
troops under Admiral Mot and the Hovas, in
which the former were defeated. The Hovas
occupied strongly-intrenched position, which
Admiral Mot attempted TO capture. Alter very
severe fighting, lasting fully two hours, the
French were compelled to fall back on lama
tave which they did in an orderly manner,
with loss of 80 men killed and wounded.-
Floods. covering an area of 1900 square miles,
have recently occurred in Bengal, India. A
great amount of property has been destroyed
and numbers of lives lost. Many families have
been made destitute. Houses, crops cattle and
goods of every description have been carried
away by the floods. The Government authori-
ties are distributing provisions and clothing
and doing all they can to relieve the sufferers.
Mr. Stanley. the African explorer, has fit
ted M a coZy home in London, a couple of doors
from Mr. Henry lrvings. He has made the
rooms look like museum with trophies of his
travels and adventureS.-ln the northeast
portion of Lancashire, England, there are now
idle 900, 900 spndles and $4,000 looms. Fifteen
thousand operatives are unemployed. -
band of MusSulman and Christian brigands
near Smyrna have captured young English
man named Fred Chamaud, and demand t9,OO0
ransom.-Forty Nihilists. including num-
Der Of professors and Others well known have
been arrested at Warsaw on a charge of con-
.spiring to murder the Gar of Russia. The ar
rests have caused great sensation.-A report,
which is believed to be without foundation, is
in circulation that the English have taken en-
tire possession of Herat and have ordered the
inhabitants to quit the town Immediately. The
inhabitants, angered by the action of the Eng
lish, have thrown up earthworks opposite the
eitadel.-The Roumelian difficulty has-not
yet reached crisis, and the success of the revou-
tionists who have seized the Government of
Roumelia and declared their independence of
Turkey will depend not so much upon Turkey
as upon the conference of the great Western
Powers which viii shortly be held. At present
the aspect of affairs threatens war and general
uprising in Bulgaria and Roumelia. Troops
are being rapidly modified in both places 1t
is thought that Russia is secretly formenting
the trouble with a view of Gripping Turkey.
Donate VergeZ the last survivor of Lin
bano Sanchezs rebel band in Cuba, has been
captured.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A train on the New York & New England
Railroad struck an omnibus at crossing in
New Britain, Conn, Thursday last. Charles
Dyson, aged 10, and his sisters Minnie and
Lottie aged Is and 10, on their way TO school,
were so badly hurt that they subsequently, died.
Mrs. Eliza S. Steele, widow, nearly 20
wears of age who resided on farm near Fort
Recovery, o., went to the barn, Wednesday of
last week, and climbed a ladder to point 80
feet above the thrashing floor and threw her
self down, causing instant death. In her hand
was note TO her children saying that her act
was observation-disclosures Brown, who killed
Policeman Arnold, of Nashville, Tenn on
Wednesday of last week, shot and fatally
wounded w. B. Easley, an important witness
against him, during quarrel about tie trial.
VIM. PEBBLES and Tom Ahart, two boys of
Louisville, KY, had fight on Tuesday of last
week, when, after few words, Ahart plunged
a large knife into Peebles's back cutting cash
six inches long and an inch and half deep.
The assailant fled, pursued by the wounded
boy. who overlook and felled him with heavy
rock, making serious scalp wound and crack
ing his skull.-Charles Broadwell, 4 cutter in
the employ of Hutton q Son, manufacturers OF
fianuels, Philadelphia was arrested last week
Oh the charge OF stealing flannel from the store.
Broadwelfs thefts are said to have extended
over four years. and to amount to $l5,000 worth
OF goods-John DeyereauX, aged % years, was
arrested in Philadelphia, Monday of last week,
for attempting TO destroy the saloon of John
Rodgers at = a. IN. on Aug. "a, by means of an
internal machine which had been charged
with dynamite. The prisoner, while intoXi-
Gated, is said 10 have been heard TO admit
placing the Internal device i'll the window, and
to justify his action OF the ground that Rodgers
had estranged the affections of his wiie.-A
negro man, Bud Mebane. outraged Mrs. Hugh
Walker near Milton, \. G., beat her with piece
of fence-rail and afterwards shot and killed her
in the presence of her children last week. Her
husband was at work in tobacco barn.
Joseph Martin, an old farm hand, near Sulphur
Grove, o., was fatally gored by an angry bull
as he was driving cattle from pasture Monday
OF last week.-Erankln j. Moses, ex-GOv-
ern0r of South Carolina, was sentenced in BoS-
ton Thursday last to three years Imprisonment
IN the States prison fox obtaining money under
false pretenses.-The case Of Jasper T. Sweet
who shot and killed DIR. Waugh on Sept. II at
Chicago for alleged improper intimacy with the
formers wife. has been entirely ignored by the
grand jury. During the progress of the nves-
tigatioa a number of witnesses We're examined
and the ante mortem statement of the muir
G9rcd man was read. IL Is said that owing 10
the character Of The admissions made the jury
refused TO act.-David EintOu, aged SIS years
a farmer living near SOuthbrdge, Mass, was
killed Thursday by a cart stick in the hands of
his son David, aged 30 years, who lived with
him. The father had been drinking a good
deal Of Iate and while drunk attacked the son.
lie threw him down and was choking him.
when the sOn seized cart stick and struck his
father on the left side of the head, splitting his
skull open.-The Sherman House. at Fargo
OAK, was consumed by fire On tse I'd loss
$4,000, insurance $4,000. The guests had mar
row escapes, many of them getting out with
nothing but their underciothing on.--Dr. 4.
y. Belingcr shot and killed Stepney Reilly,
well-kEown colored Democrat Of Charleston,
S. C., On the I'd. Beilingcr claimed it was done
III SeiI-QGISllSS.--l1OulSt FRANCOIS, the L rcllcu-
man charged with strangling his wife early on
the morning Of May 20, and then attempting
10 throw her body into the river, was found
guilty in New York Of murder in the second
deGree.-Amelia Williams, aged ii years,
employed at Mayer, Strouse & Co.'s corset fac
tory, New Haven, Conn, got her hair caught in
whriing shaft on the Cd and her scalp left
ear and eyebrows were torn OF. The scalp was
quickly replaced, and it is thought may grow
on her head again.-Early on the morning
of the I'd six boilers at the Solar Iron Works
Pittsbarg, Pa, exploded, scalding II men, sew
eTal OF them fataliy.-Mrs. Maria Koch, wife
OF Dr. Edward Koch. proprietor Of the New
Jersey Freie PTesse and Geo. Bessendorf COM
postor, employed in that Office, committed sui
eide together in Central Park, New York,
Saturday last The woman shot herself and
then handed the weapon to the man.--Mrs.
Ezra Herring, Of Martinsburg w. Va, was
fatally burned on the Sd inst while attempting
10 kindle fire with coal ol.-Jos. b. Coch-
ran. old farmer, killed his son-in- law Jas.
H. Morcum, at Greensburg, KY, Saturday last.
Cochran claims that he surrendered all his
property to Morcum on consideration that he
should be taken care Of In his Old age and that
he was abused and mistrcated by his son-in-
law. Before Morcum arose from bed his father
in-law went into the room and hacked his head
10 pieces with an ax.-Mrs. Pauline Palsch-
sky, aged 40 years of New York, cut arteries at
her wrist aud neck On Sunday last and died
She had suffered for years with an incurable
trouble. She aroused her husband from sleep
after making the incisioBs and conveTsed
rationaliv and feuHerlv will, hin. until bar