The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-07-30
NEWS OF The WEEK.
The News from All Parts Of the
World.
ABROAD.

ABROAD.
Two houses at Cologne. France, tenanted by
is families, collapsed on the gath. Three dead
bodies and IL persons more or less injured have
been recovered from the ruins. Fifty more re-
main beneath the debris.-A lifeboat which
started from Yarmouth, England, to the aid oil
q sinking vessel, on the 22d, struck sunken
wreck and went down, drowning out of its
Is standardization is again stirred up
by the dynamiters, who are supposed to be pre-
pairing to blow up the law courts.-Iwenty-
i've men, charged with betting at Manchester,
Eng, have been fined from Els to GlOO each
The King of Dahomey, West Africa with many
followers, on May 10 made raid on the viii
lagos under French protection, near Porto
Novo. His troops INDUCED in wholesale mas
sscres of the inhabitants and burned all their
dwellings One thousand youths and women
were captured and carried back into Dahomey
to be sacrificed at the cannibalistic feasts.-
The health of the Emperor William of Ger
many is in an extremely precarious condition.
1t is rumored that firm in Texas has Of
fered to Gen. Komareff the services of 100 cow
boys in the event of war between Russia and
England.-A man was arrested IN London
on the 2lth on the charge of threatening the
life of Princess Beatrice.-There was ter
rife storm at Tore Cajetani, in Italy, last
week. Thirteen persons were killed and ~
injured by lightning.-The Russian Gov
eminent meditates imposing poll-tax of 100
to 200 roubles upon every foreigner residing
longer than a fortnight in that country.-It
has been decided to add so torpedo boats to the
Russian feet in the Black Sea.-Lord Ions
dale and Sir George Chetwynd had fisticutf
In London, England, last week, about Lille
Langtry, the alleged actress.-A fire in Car
denas, Cuba, on Wednesday of last week, de-
royed seven sugar houses; loss, s2,0OO,OoO.
The weather has been fearfully hot in
England during the past few days Children
are reported to be dying by the hundreds. and
scores of men are Frustrated each day. A great
many horses have dropped dead in the streets
of London. The streets are said to be abso-
lutely unsafe, owing to the large number of
mad dogs running about.-On Sunday last,
while an excursion steamer was loading with
passengers, at Chatham England, the pier col
lapsed, throwing into the water so persons,
most of whom were women and children. A
great many were injured and partially
drowned, but no deaths occurred.-El Mahdi
is reported to have died of smallpox on the
22d.-English laborers are in trouble over
low wages. A very severe struggle is antici-
pated in the cotton trades. The iron workers
have demanded 5 per cent. advance. The
members of the building trades are fully en-
ployed and well paid The coal miners are
quiet The mines of the United Kingdom en-
ploy sos persons. There were 99S deaths
in the mines last year-The Oxford boat
crew rowed from Dover to Calais, across the
English channel, a distance Of 81 miles, on Sat
urday last.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Two freight trains were in collision on Thurs
day night last on the Illinois Central Road near
Loda, wrecking both engines and dozen cars,
and killing tramp who was stealing a ride.
The loss to the company is 5,000.-Last
week a three-year old daughter of Mr.. Howe,
of South Sutton, Mass, took some pills her
father was using for rheumatism, dissolved
them in water, and drank the mixture, dying
soon afterward in great agony.-The mutt
lated remains of a woman were found floating
in the Charles River, near Boston, Mass, on
the 23d inst An autopsy revealed the fact
that she had been strangled.-A mob of
armed men went into the Jail at Minden, La,
at II o'clock Tuesday night of last week, and
shot Cicero Green and John Figures, two noto-
rious colored desperadoes, accused of murder
Their bodies were filled with buckshot.-A
ferocious bulldog attacked the three-months-
old child of Mrs. Beining, Of Allentown, Pa,
Tuesday last, biting off the right foot and
otherwise mutilating the child. 1t will die.
Annie Lenhart has been arrested at Read
ing, Pa, on charge of deliberately setting on
fire and burning to death Katie, a two year-old
child of George K. Sewars of Birdsboro in
whose family she was employed as a servant.
Miss Ida Kimball, aged 10 years, daughter
Oh dtIdu hliDDali, banker, Oh bedford, 1nQ.,
on Monday of last week, shot and killed her
betrayer, T. Nj. Giles, music dealer of that
city.-Sarah Cox has been arrested in Ches-
terfeld County, Va, on the charge of murder
ing her stepdaughter, Fanny Cox, with rat
poison.-John Woods who was being con-
veyed to Jail for burning the barn of Samuel
Williams, near Chattanooga, Tenn, jumped
from moving train on the 23d and was killed.
Abraham Deuser, the farmer who burned
his barn and stock, near Bloomington, ILL.,, last
week, because his wife applied for divorce,
and who was thought to have persisted in the
flames, was found alive subsequently and put
in Jail, where he hanged himself to the frame
of his cell closet.-John Daniels married
daughter of Mr.. Murkens, of Mound Junction,
Ill, on the 22d: Murkens, who opposed the
marriage, met Daniels at o'clock the same
evening and killed him. The murderer was
arrested.-Lyman Gibson's l0-year-old boy
Homer was playing soldier" at his home in
Addison, n. Y. on Tuesday of last week, with
other children. He used small stove poker
for sword. He tripped and fell. The sharp
end of the poker entered his eye and penetrat-
ed the brain two inches, causing almost instant
death.-Charles Koening, draughtsmau,
and Frederick Rich, a machinist, fought duel
in Marshalfs Hollow, near Pittsburg, Pa. on
the 22d. Two shots were exchanged. At the
first fire neither party was hit. At the second
shot Koening received a ball in the right side,
inhicting probably fatal wound.-Edward
MOTT was shot and instantly killed by VIM.
Battersby in Philadelphia, on the 23d. Bat
tersby had $500 in his stable to pay his en-
ployces. Motz tried to steal the money,
and in the struggle was shot.-Fred-
erick Greiner, sentenced to be hanged in
Columbus o., last week for the murder of Mar
garet Selling, has been respited by Gov. Hoadly
to Oct. I7.-Near Walhall, s. c., on the Odd,
Isaac James shot and killed Boney Williams, a
colored man. The murderer was admitted to
bail on his plea that the shooting was done in
self-defense the 23d David Campbell, a
prominent citizen of Bowling Green, KY. shot
and fatally wounded a tramp named G. w.
Steinger, who had threatened his life-Dan
Carpenter, of Toledo, O., shot and killed his
young wife on the oath inst, then tried to kill
himself-Jas. Moncrief was arrested in New
York city on the oath on the charge of pouring
coal oil on dog and setting fire to the animal.
john OBrien, so years old, resident of
Ansonia, Conn, threw himself into the reser-
voir at that place on Saturday last, and bis
body was found an hour afterwards. Despond-
ency and poverty drove him to do it.-Near
Hampton, Va, on Sunday last, Chas Crandall
shot and killed a man who was assaulting his
father.-On Sunday last John Hosier, of
Norfolk, Va, together with companion,
sought shelter from the rain under tree The
tree was struck by lightning, and Hosicr was
instantly killed and his companion badly
stunned. Near the same city on the same day
two men were riding in buggy, when light
ming struck the vehicle, killing one of them
and slightly injuring the other Several build
ings in Norfolk and Portsmouth were also
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