The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-06-11
NEWS OF The WEEK.
The News from All Parts of the
World.
ABROAD.

| the streets shouting Down with the Vatican
| Pope, and Priests" The paraders created a
disturbance, and the procession was dispersed
by the police, who arrested 90 participants
! A village in northern Hungary, containing 40C
houses, was nearly destroyed by an incendiary
fire last week, and 1000 persons rendered dcs-
| titute. The enraged populacc discovered the
culprit and roasted him to death over bon
| fire-A terrible earthquake occurred at Sc.
| rinagur India on the 31st ult., by which over
| so people were killed and several hundred in
| jured.- Minister Phelps has received n most
cordial welcome in London.--The GILLIAN
| Navy has been greatly improved and the ships
put in a state of repair,--A bill prepared by
Prince Bismarck, proposing to connect the
| Baltic and North Seas by canal was presented
in the Bundesrath on the Sd inst.--A Nor
wegian named Johnson, started from Queens
town, Ireland, on Friday last for New York,
| in small, canyas-decked boat.-The press
of Paris make violent attack upon the Alder
men of London for refusing vote of condo
lence upon the death of Victor Hugo M.
Rochefort calls the Aldermen band of "igno-
| rant, jealous turtle-SOup eaters. The Bum
| desrath, at the suggestion of the Swiss Police
| Department has decided to expel 81 anarch-
lists from Switzerland.-Sir Julius Benedict
the famous musician and composer, died in
London on the 4th inst.--Fire broke ont on
the Sd inst in the Philadelphia ColIiory, near
| Durham, England. Three hundred miners
| were in the pit at the time of the catastrophe,
and all escaped with the exception of ID
| The German dispatch boat Pommerania. while
| cruising near Norderney in the North Sea,
| seized an English fishing vessel which was
| operating in prohibited waterS.-A bad feeling
| exists between the French and Italians at
| Tuns. French officers openly incite their
men to use their swords 20 resent the insults of
the Italians.-lt is reported that the Black
Flags are ravaging the Provinces of Sontay,
Honghoa and Tnyenquan, although those Prov
inces are occupied by French troops The in
habtants, fleeing from massacre, have taken
| refuge in the French garrisons. Thirty Chris
| tian villages have been de5troycd-The Eng
lish still keep up weak and ineffective war in
the Soudan. Last week some hostile Arabs
made an attempt to wreck the Suakin-B arber
Railway, but were dispersed by few shells. A
! small body of troops surprised party of Osman
Digna's men at Adise, killing about 20 of them
and taking number of prisoners. One hun
dred and fifty camels and a thousand sheep fell
into the hands Of the victors. United States
Senator Edmunds and Mr.. Cyrus w. Field of
New York, arrived in London on Sunday last.
The object of Senator Edmunds's visit is to give
evidence before the Committee on Privileges of
! the House of Lords regarding American law in
O case involving the succession to the title and
estates of the Earl of Lauderdale.-A mass
meeting of 10000 persons in London on Sunday
last protested against increasing the duty on
beer and spirits.--Germany is increasing her
army very largely. The infantry peace effective
will be raised from 41S,000 to 100000, and the
artillery will be increased go per cent-Three
hundred houses, SO shops and three mosques
were destroyed by fire at Constantinople on
Sunday. One person was killed and many were
injured.-The Turkish Government has sent
LOO troops to SaiOnica on account of the
threatening attitude of Russia on the Bulgarian
frontier.-The French man-of-war Renard,
with crew of 81 souls, is believed to have
foundered in the Red Sea-A terrible acct
dent occurred on the railway between KosoF
and RostotT in Russia, by which 20 persons
were killed and INJURED The wrecking was
caused by robbers, who placed distractions on
the track aud plundered the train during the
excitement.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A 150-foot span of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids q Northern Railway bridge over Cedar
River, Iowa, was blown down Oh the Sd during
a terrific storm of wind and hail. Several cars
were blown from the track. BY the explo-
sion of the soda fountain in StuckeyS drug
store at Pttsburg on the Sd James Mcconnell,
the clerk, was fatally injured. Two of six
fishermen were drowned by the swapping of
skitf on the Monongahela River, near Pitts
burg, last week.-Cluverius the alleged muir
derer of Lillian Madison, who has been Oh
trial in Richmond. Va, for 26 days, was con-
degree.-Talbert Scarborough, of Oakdale,
Tenn, went home drunk Wednesday night
of last week and attacked his ro!her Sam with
an AK, threatening to kill him. Sam thercupon
shot and instantly killed Talbert. Sam is in
jail.-Mr. Mckinley and his son were both
instantly killed by lightning in Mendoza, H.,
last week, while standing in the doorway Of
their house-John bearing an inmate of the
lunatic asylum at Anchorage, KY, jumped into
a scalding bath and died almost Instant y.-
In New York on the Sd inst. Benjamin Helm
ken, saloon keeper, returned from the saloon
to his room at 400 Fourth avenue and shot his
wife, who was standing near dressing case.
She ran into a neighboring room calling for
help, and Helmken shot himself three times,
killing himself instantly. The woman was shot
over the left eye, but was not dangerously
wounded. 1t is thought that jealousy was the
cause of the shooting Gong Seng, Chyo
Pock and several other Cinnamon have been ar
rested in st. Louis, charged with the murder of
another Chinaman named Lou Johnson, who
had given information about Chinese gambling
houses to the police. Cong Seng confesses that
he, with Chyo Pock and two other Cinnamon
were hired by half a dozen Chinese laundry
men, who raised fund of 5000 to pay the
murderers to kill Johnson, and were willing to
pay 5000 more to have Alex. Baptiste, a Chinese
interpreter, put out of the way.--W. III. Kim
brough, professor in the Bolivar Academy at
Thursday last by shooting himself with shot
gun Disappointment in a love affair was the
cause of the act.-Mrs. Smith, while walking
with her husband at ST. Mary's, w. Va, on the
5th was struck by stone thrown by a stran-
ger and almost instantly kilod.-On the 5th
Fred Grotegout and family, living near Ed
wardsport, Ind, were found murdered. Mrs.
Grotegcut had her throat cut from ear to car
and evidently died instantly. Mr.. Grotcgout
whose throat was also cut, died shortly after
being found. 1t is reported that the daughter
was also murdered in the same manner The
two women were heard screaming on the previ-
Gus evening by ncighbors but no attention was
paid to it. 1t is believed that Mr.. GrOtegout
did the killing in a fit of insanty.-Mss
Emma Weber. young lady of Chicago, died
from a dose of medicine on the 9Th which
druggist made up and which was not in accord
ance with the physicians prescription
Nicholas Cook and Philip Weiss, of Trenton
N. j.. were drowned in the Delaware on the
18th. The high wind snapped the mast of their
boat, and the falling piece struck Weiss and
knocked him ont of the boat Cook jumped
into the water to rescue him, but the drowning
man chung so closely to him that he could not
swim.--Iohn Manning was shot and instantly
killed at Troy City. Tenn, on Sunday last by
desperate named Frank Taylor, while playing
cards. Taylor then fed, but was pursued by the
Sheriff and a posse. He resisted arrest, and was
shot dead in a running fre.--At New Bed
ford, Mass. Saturday last, Chas. Foss, a seaman
shot aud killed Phillip ID. Socumb in tho latter's
store, and then killed himself. Slocumb had
engaged to procure Foss a position on vessel
but Foss who had been drinking orc,y NINA