The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-05-21

viously given to the police in dying condi
ton, saying it had been lett on her door STEP
Ii was found that Mrs. Hunting had received
az infants TO care for since last July, besides IL
that she claimed had been left on her door step
and which she had given to the police. The
woman says that DIR. Shipman has sent her the
infants whenever the Foundlings' Home was
too crowded to take them in.-An elderly
man named Rosine, who had been employed by
ex-Alderman A. B. Cook, Of Chicago, to take
care of his Summer residence at Libertyyille,
ILL., disappeared Monday of last week, and on
Wednesday his dead body was found in a lake
near the house. Blood stains in the house in
dictate that he was murdered for his money.
The steamer Lake Huron, from Liver
pool, reports at Quebec the disappearance
during the voyage of Mrs. II. E. Sponsor and
her two-year -old child. She is supposed to
have committed suicide, taking her child with
herr l.. Jones, late Postmaster at Lake
Providence, La, recently convicted of con-
spiracy to rob and of robbing the mails of over
$4,000, has been sentenced to five years inn
prisonment at hard labor.-On the 18th inst.
an elevator at Utica, Mimi, caught fire, the
flames rapidly spreading to the village, which
was nearly burned to the ground The only
business buildings left standing are one store,
one warehouse, and the railroad depot. Loss
$4,000 to S30.000.-At Liberty, Va, on the
10th inst. III. w. Terry, of Richmond, shot and
naming dog after Terry sister The murderer
was lynched Monday morning last.-The burn
ing of a lnmber-yard at Lakeside, Muskegon,
Mich. on Sunday last, eau ed loss of several
million feet of lumber, amounting in value to
about S70,000.-J. b. Rnssell, of Cuthbert,
Ga, killed his two sons on the 18th inst, and
then shot himself three times. The trouble
was caused by financial difficulties.-Mrs. Ira
Hodgdon, who was shot on the 9th inst by her
drunken son, died on the 18th at Portland,
Me-, from the effects of the wound.-Jennie
Farnell, young lady of 49, committed suicide
at Shenandoah, Pa, on Sunday last by shooting
herself through the heart. The cause assigned
for the act is that her father had been drinking
heavily, and to avoid the disgrace which she
imagined it brought upon her she decided to
take her own life
INDUSTRIAL.
The business failures throughout the country
during the seven days ending on the 10th num-
Der for the United States 203, and for Canada
g. or total OF 229, against PAS last week and
EOS the week previous.-About 100 stone
masons employed at various points along the
Baltimore & Philadelphia Railroad are out on
a strike for an advance from $3.50 to So per
day.-lt is charged in Chicago that the West
Shore aud the Wabash Railroads are making a
15-cent rate on grain from ST. Louis and Mis-
sissippi River points to New York, the same
now charged from Chicago, and fertilizers at a
rate OF 10 cents from Mississippi points.
MISCELLANEOUS
The session OF the International Convention
Of the Young Mems Christian Association was
concluded in Atlanta, Ga. on the 14th. San
Francisco was selected as the place for holding
the next convention in 1887 if reasonable rail
way rates can be secured and if not, Philadel-
phia.-An unknown disease is prevailing in
some of the upper Counties of Virginia among
Of oil In Ia
and sheep have died. The loss to farmers is
ncacuable.-Tbe American Anti-Vivisec-
tion Society will apply in Philadelphia for per-
mission TO change its name to The Society for
the Restriction of Vivisection," the society be-
ing in favor of the encouragement of skillful
and wel-direCted vivisection.-The bill pro-
viding for the burial of INDECENT soldiers was
passed over the Governors veto by both Houses
of the Pennsylvania Legislature on the. 18th.
-Bartow Fla, has succeeded in defeating all
attempts TO open liquor saloon in that rap
idly growing town.-Twenty-t years ago a
citizen of Epson, Ga, buried 5000 half dollars
in silver, where it remained until a few days
ago, when it was exhumed and put into circu-
lation.-From all over Georgia comes the re-
ports that the peach trees are loaded with
young fulton the 18th DIR. J. o. Polhe-
mus, a well-known physician of Nyack, N. Y,
was smoking a cigar, when suddenly it eX-
ploded, badly iniuring his face and eyes. 1t
was ascertained that the cigar contained a
pistol cartridge, which had been put in by
some unknown person.-Tbe Supreme Lodge
of the Knights of Honor, at their meeting in
st. Louis on the 14th, discussed the question of
paying benefits in eases of suicide. Thea.odge
fayors the paying of insurance in cases where
the suicide is clearly insane, but not otherwise.
The Cd battalion of marines from the Brook
Ign navy yard, which was sent some time ago
to the lsthmus of Panama TO protect American
interests. returned to New York Saturday last.
The men had little or no work to do on the
Isthmus.-The graves of the Confederate
dead in Elmwood, Tenn, and other cemeteries
were decorated on Sunday last. The exercises
were Of the usual order.