The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-12-31
NEWS OF The WEEK.
The News from All Parts of the
World.
ABROAD.


The Colonial Company's ropewalk, at St.
Johns, n. F., the largest in the world, having
. frontage of ], 400 feet, was totally destroyed
by fire last week. Loss $4,000 no insurance
Mr. Cox, United States Minister TO Turkey,
has begun negotiations with the Porte for
naturalization treaty, by which citizens of
Turkey and the United States will have equal
rights in both countries. Two gentlemen of
Montreal, Can, one a leading wholesale dry
goods merchant were sentenced last week to
$50 fine each or IA days Imprisonment for re-
fusal TO be vaccinated.-The Pope gave
Christmas reception on Christmas day to the
Cardinals in Rome. He complained of the
present trying position of the Pope in Rome,
and said it would ever be so until Rome was
given back to the Vatican. His Holiness, in
an encyclical letter, prOclaims 1856 year of
jubilee-It is reported that King John, of
Abyssinia. is preparing to reoccupy Massowah
and is arranging TO make war upon the Italians.
- fearful explosion occurred on the 23d at
the Ferndal Colliery, in Wales, by which II is
thought nearly 300 men lost their lves.-On
the 9th Servian troops made an attack upon
q Bulgarian frontier village and were twice re-
pulsed Three Bulgarian soldiers were wound
ed in the engagement The Bulgarian Govern
ment will send note to the powers protesting
against Servias violation of the treaty ofarmis
tice'-The Pope is suffering from a kidney
clans to take complete rest-M Francois
Jules p. Grevy was reelected President of the
French Republic on the 2Sth inst.-Russia
and Austria are secretly arming, and that both
those countries have sent orders to England
for large quantities of stores for their respect
I've armies.
CRIMES AN CASUALTIES.
Richard Cullen, Chicago police officer, has
been suspended from duty and committed to
Soi1 Vl q Herman
Horenberg, whom he arrested last Friday, and
and who died on Monday oflast week from the
effects of blow on the head by the policeman.
Six masked men rode into Springer, Col,
on the 23d. and took Theodore Parker, charged
with numbering Frank Unruh, a wealthy ranch
man, from the Jail and hung him up. Citizens
cut him down in time to save his life
Messrs H. B. Frisbie and J. X. Luke we'll
known cattle breeders had an alteration on
the road near Cynthiana, KY, on the 22d, ending
In pistol firing. Frisbie was probably fatally
wounded-While testing the boilers at the
Lochiel rolling mill, Harrisburg Pa, on the
23d inst, prior to starting up the works which
have been idle for years, one of them exploded,
injuring six persons, two seriously Thomas
Walsh had his head badly cut and was terribly
scalded about the legs from the waist down.
VIM. Pickens was struck in the stomach with
heavy piece of iron, and Thos. j. Price and
Richard Challon were bruised and slightly cut.
Mrs. Lizzie Brown, a young Chicago
widow, who had been annoyed by the atten-
tions of John Oakley, barber, had him
arrested. While leaving the courtroom last
week, after giving bail, he tried to cut her
throat with a razor and inflicted an ugly cash
over her right temple He cut his own wrist
before he could be secured. The lady is in a
critical condition.-Obed E. Mosher, while
driving from Plainville to Acushnet City,
Mass, last week discovered the dead body of
Richard Nelson Lawton, aged 81 years, of
a1rsI
ran off as Mr. Mosher approached. The skull
of the dead man was fractured, and he
had evidently been murdered in the
wagon. His pocketbook was gone
The steamer Sallie Carney was burned in the
Tallahatchee River last week with 260 bales of
cotton. The boat was valued at $1,000; half
insured. The cotton was valued at $4,000, and
it is believed that it was fully insured.-Se-
nor Fernando Montalbo, editor of the Spanish
paper lie HOFizOate, was shot dead at Laredo,
Tex, last week by Vincente Martinez, a young
Mexican. Six months ago Montalbo's brother
was killed in Nuevo Laredo. Mexico.-A
snowslide filled the S0-foot shaft of the Prodi-
gal Son Nine near Silverton, Colo, last week
and buried Burk Hovey and j. M. Scales, who
were working at the bottom of the shaft A
rescuipg party went to work, and after digging |!
two days found the dead bodies of the two men |
both standing upright in the snow. Scales had |
q candle in his hand and was shading his eyes |
and looking up as though to see what was COM
ing down.-Mrs. Fred. koph, of Vaudeville, |
II miles from Parkersburg w. Va, went out !
one evening last week leaving her 1S-months' !
old baby and girl four years old locked up in |
the house. The house caught fire and both /
were burned to death.-At Flemingville, \. |
Y, Aaron Shaw, a farmer aged o. shot and ia |
tally wounded his wife, aged 4S, and then shot |
himself ON Wednesday last. Jealousy was the |
cause of the crime. Shaw's wife has been liv- |
ing with neighbor named Newmon, since Dc
tober last.-Manuel Ruban, waiter, and Jo- !
seph Lopez, another employe, at the New York |
Hotel Cubano, quarreled last week. Lopez |
who is powerful man, seized a bread knife |
and advanced on Ruban, who drew a revolver |
and shot Lopez in the head, inficting wound |
that will probably prove fatal--Rev. John |
Z. Elmore, of Clayton, Ind, committed suicide |
by drowning last week, cutting a hole in the |
ice to do so. Two months ago his congrega- |
ton expelled him on charges of bigamy. lie |
had shown symptoms ofinsanity for several days |
-ThOmas King, of Chicago, quarreled with his !
wife on Christmas Eve, and beat her brains out !
with chair. He kept her body in the house |
all night, and scrubbed the floor and tried to |
remove all traces of the crime. In the morn
ing he told his wife's sister Of the tragedy, and
she informed the police, who arrested King |
He was married TO his wife in Washington !
three years ago.-The custom Of a Chicago |
hotel of giving 30 cents to every messenger boy |
on Christmas was taken advantage of on Fri |
uniforms TO other boys recruited in an alley |
near tie hotel. The trick was only discovered |
after a large amount had been paid out
Sheriff Eppcrson, of Bradford county, Fla, |
traced a colored murderer named Richard |
Townsend to a farmhouse near Ealdaster, Ga, |
and with posse surrounded the house Fri |
day night last. Epperson entered the house, |
when he was shot dead by Townsend. The |
murderer then emerged from the house, shot |
policeman Cooper through the shoulder and |
made his escape.-A fire broke out in N. n |
Boardman's grocery, in Adams block, George |
town, Mass, Saturday last, destroying the Ma |
sonic block, Equitable Building, Tenuey's shoe |
factory and the private residence of 6. J. Ten !
ney. Loss $4,000, partly insured. Joseph |
Ulsley, fireman and Geo. 4. Chase, a clerk, |
aged % years, were killed by falling walls
Mrs Absalom Jordan, wife Of farmer living
near Vincennes, Ind left her little fve-year-
old daughter, Dot, alone for brief period on
Christmas I've. When the mother returned
she found the child in the road burned to death.
The towboat Jumbo exploded her boiler at
Pensacola, Fla, Saturday night last, fatally
wounding the engineer, VIM. Touart, and the
fireman, J. G. Petersen. A passenger thew
fha ri and hon