The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-11-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The News from All Parts Of the
World.
ABROAD.

ABROAD.
The war cloud in the Balkan Provinces
is more lowering than ever this week,
and there is likelihood any day of the con-
fict being precipitated by some overt act
either by Servia or Bulgaria. Russia IS
showing Servia as much frlendliness as she
dare at present, while England will use her
influence to maintain Prince Alexander, Of
Bulgaria. on his throne. The Gar has de-
prived that Prince Of the Colonelcy of rifle
battalion which he has held for some time and
in view Of the present state of affairs that &C
tion is looked upon as significant. King Milan
continues actively to prepare for war, and is
making arrangements in the event OF hostlll-
ties breaking out to advance from Prot to Sofia,
the capital of Bulgaria. The Servian Premier,
NJ. Garachanini, is preparing to cross the IL
mok River, which divides Bulgaria and Scrvla,
and TO enter the Widdin district with strong
force. The first conflict between the Servians
and Bulgarians will probably be brought on by
an attempt to prevent the advance of Kirg Mi
Ian and his force on the road to Sofia. Widdin
will be attacked by the force under Nj. Cara
chanini only in case King Milan defeats Prince
Alexander Russia expects that the Servians
will be victorious.-The Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland has declined to interfere with the SEN
tence of the IL men charged with conspiracy to
murder VIM. Z. Smythe, an obnoxious landlord
of Barbaville, ireland. They were convicted
after three trials. Five were sentenced to seven
years and the remainder to six and II months
imprisonment. The crime for which they were
convicted was the attempt to murder MIR.
Smythe while he was returning from church.
The party hid behind hedge and fired upon
him as he rode along in his carriage. They
missed the object of their vengeance, but killed
the sister of his wife, who sat beside him.
A number of unknown robbers on the 5th inst.
boarded train on the railway between Naples
and Benvento, Italy, shot down the guard,
secured II, 000francs, and safely jumped from the
train while it was going at full speed.-Eleven
Indians concerned in Riel's rebellion have been
sentenced to be hanged on Nov. 81, and % have
been sent TO the penitentiary for terms ranging
from two to 90 years. Riel has been reprieved
until the 10th inst.-The Norwegian bark
Aquila has foundered off Gothenburg, Sweden.
Twenty-Five persons were drowned.-The
dean and faculty of Trinity Medical School, at
Toronto, Canada, have offered reward Of 500
for the detection of the students who stole and
suspended human subject at a butchers stall.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
J. W. Crabill, brakeman, fell from a freight
train near Winchester, Va, on the 9th inst,
and was caught on the wheels. His remains
were scattered along the track for some dis
tance.-A verdict of wilful wife murder has
been rendered against Charles Herman, the
butcher who cut his wifes throat, at Buff
falo, n. Y, last week. Herman has made full
confession that he murdered his wife because
she insisted on going out, and would not tell
him where she was going.-John Fitzsim-
mons was arrested in Newark, n. J., for at
tempting to shoot Miss Maggie Madden, to
whom he had been engaged 10 years ago, before
he was convicted and sent to prison for high
way robbery. On his release he sought to re-
new the engagement but she refused to have
anything to do with him, whereupon he threat
ened to kill her.-James Dana, brother of
Chas. A. Dana, of the New York Sum- while
out hunting with E. Van Trott, near Thorpe,
Wis, last Thursday, mistook him for a deer
and fired. Van Trott was seriously injured,
but will probably recover.-Eleven men were
injured. two dangerously, and the factory of
W. NJ. Akin & Co., at Evansville, Ind, destroy
ed by the explosion of boiler last week.
On the 9th inst. negro man shot negro girl
with whom he was in love, because she would
not consent to marry him, at Montgomery,
Ala he then turned the pistol on himself and
fired four shots, one of which, in the neck, is
probably fatal.-Mrs. Elizabeth Burns, aged
30 years, in a fit of dependency, committed
suicide on the 9th inst. at Albany, n. Y, in her
bedroom by hanging.-A fire occurred at the
Farwell building, Chicago, which entailed
loss of S200000-John Bunch, the negro
jockey who shot and killed James Riley, the
driver of Richball, at Homewood Park last
July, has been convicted of murder in the sec
ond degree at Plttsburg.-David Augsburg,
feeble convict aged n years, while being car
ried TO the prison hospital at Auburn n. Y,
dislOdgea his false teeth and died Of strangula-
ton. he was serving seven-years' sentence
for an attempt 20 kill.-Miss Katie Tabb a
well-known and popular young lady of Louis
vile, KY, was fatally burned last week. She
was kneeling before the CRATE saying her
prayers when her clothing caught fire.
Cyrus Iandes, whose father, James w. Yandes,
formerly of Indianapolis, died few days ago
at St Paul, Mimi, leaving a colossal fortune
was found dead on his fathers grave on We'd
nesday Of last week. He had blown the side
OF his head of with a shotgun. Grief for his
father and the responsibility of settling mil
ion-dOllar estate for himself and sister, in the
absence of a will, is believed to have unsettled
the young mans mind.-Antonio Soloa a
Chlnaman, who kept restaurant in New York
city, was murdered last week in broad daylight
In his kitchen. No clew to the murderers-
John II. Weber, formerly an officer in the Eng
fish army stationed at Gibraltar, during a
drunken frenzy at Cleveland ON the 9Th broke
two Of his wifes ribs and then swallowed
dessertspoonful of arsenic. He will die
The jury in the Walkup murder trial at En-
pOria, Kan, rendered a verdict of not guilty
last week. Mrs. Walkup had been indicted for
causing the death of her husband, former
Mayor OF Emporia by poison.-A band of
Indians on Saturday last sacked and burned
the Missouri Florida Cattle Company's ranch
near Deming, n. NJ. The Indians shot and
killed the wife and 11-year-od son of John T.
Shy, the principal member of the company
United States troops and militia started in pur-
suit of the Indians.-At Wakefield, Mass,
last week, the headless body of an unknown
man was found in a bag of sawdust.
INDUSTRIAL
strike among the coal miners in the Brazil
lind coal district is threatened--A strike of
considerable magnitude was begun at Calves
ton, Tex, last week, by the knights of Labor
The trouble arose from the refusal of the agent
OF the Mallory Line of steamers to withdraw
the colored longshoremen from the Mallory
wharf. where they have been working for the
past two weeks, having been put on to replace
striking lOngshOremen. All the knights of
Labor employed by the Gulf, Colorado & Santa
Fe Railroad and by the Missouri Pacific line in
Galveston and in the Associated Cotton presses
in that city have struck, and four great cotton
presses are idle. The handling of freight by
the railroads is for the time being paralyzed.
David keenan,, w. p. Sears T. s. Burns, n.