The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-06-04
irving to make enragements with him.

| trying to make engagements with him.
| While Gus Williams and Herman Lenhein
| were wrestling at Lanterman's Falls, neal
| Youngstown O., the latter went too near the
brink of a deep ravne and fell headlOng, max
! ing several revolutions TO the bottom, distance
of 80 feet He was found horribly bruised and
unconscious. He tore off Williams's shirt collar
| in attempting TO save himself.-Nine skulls
were found by workmen engaged in digging
| out sub-cellar in Pine street, New York, last
| week. There is no clue as to how they came
| there.-The schooner Sarah c. Pyle recently
| hooked up the Mackay- Bennett Commercial
Cable, near Gloucester, Mass, and, cutting heI
hawser to save the telegraph cable from dam
age, lost 80 fathoms of rope and an anchor. The
damage was made known to the company, and
| George G. Ward, General Manager, sent check
| for $14, the amount Claimed.-Gen. Grants
| house, 2009 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, was
sold on the Goth ult. by w. II. Vanderbilt for
S22, $50 to Frank X. Hess. The house was
given to Gen. Grant at the close of the war by
a committee of Philadelphia citizens, who paid
$4,000 for it in 1S65-Gov. Pattison has
| signed the bill prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of imitation butter in Pennsylvania.
| 1t is made punishable oifense for any one to
have the article in his possession in any shape
after July 1. Extensive interests are affected
by the bill in Philadelphia number of
| persons have been poisoned recently at Banton,
canned corned beef.-Col. William Kent, of
Concord, n. H., claims to be the only living
man who heard Daniel Webster's first public
address at the Old North Church, Concord,
July 4, 1S06.-Miss Dora Miller, the heiress
and only child of Senator Miller, Of California,
is shortly to marry Lieut.. Richard Clover U.
5. N.--The body of Jas. II. Mills, who died
recently from an over dose of laudanum at
Elmira \. V, was cremated at Lancaster, Pa,
on the 2Sth ult.--M;ss Estelle Garrison
daugher of the late w. X. Garrison, was mar
ried on the 2Sth ult at Elberon, \. j., to Chas
X. Maule Ramsey, brother of the Earl of Dali
hoGsie-The prospect for a large peach crop
in Delaware is plendid.-The wife of John l..
Sullivan, the prize fighter, is suing for divorce
in Boston The official Illinois crop report for
the month Of May estimates the yield OF Winter
wheat in the whole State az hardly half the aver
age crop-Ihe report that the Asiatic cholera
is prevalent in Quebec is entirely false.-Near
Pueblo. Colo. the grasshoppers are reported to
be making great havOc.-Much complaint is
heard from the farmers in Howard County, Nd,
on account of the damage done TO young corn
by the cut worms-A fire broke out in ten
ement-house in New York City on the 9th
ult., which rendered 90 families homeless
The Convention OF the Protestant Episcopal
Diocese of Maryland convened on the 9th ult
Bishop Burgess, of the Quincy CID Epis-
copal Diocese in his address on the Goth ult,
made some rather severe remarks in regard to
Dean Irbiue, who promptly commenced suit
against the Bishop for libel.-A three-story
tenement house in Jersey City, n. j., collapsed
on the morning of the 9th ult. Four persons
were killed and IL persons injured Joseph
Pankuch q Sing Sing convict, escaped from
prison on the Goth ult. by jumping into the
river and swimming around the edge OF the
wall. He was not captured at last accounts.
Geo. Caldwell, 1l-year-oid boy charged
!, he ,r,,l, ofN ,11a ana
eight years, in Philadelphia, was acquitted in
that city on the 26th ult.-B w. Perry, ed
itor of the Democrat Enterprise, and o. l. New
ton, proprietor of the Sparta Mills at Sparta,
Wis, engaged in fight on the Goth ult., in
which both men fell from the second story of
the mill TO the ground, a distance of IA feet,
receiving severe inj uries.-Crazy Bill, we'll
known negro Of Jessup, Ga, jumped upon the
freight train bound from that place to Macon
on the Goth ult., and jerking open the throttle
valve, run the train until it was stalled at the
foot of hill for the want of water. No harA
was done beyond frightening the railroad
officials.-United States Senator ingalls,, of the
committee appointed by Congress to investigate
the manner in which the treaties made with
the Indians of the Indian Territory are OBJ
served, in an interview at Kansas City, Mo-,
speaks of the results of the investigation. The
Indians of the Territory. he says, are notonly
law-abiding but prosperous and happy. There
is not single pauper in the nation aud many
of the Indians are really wealthy. The Indians
of the Territory are in favor of forming an
Indian State to be admitted as member of the
Union.-Jas. Tracey, of the st. Louis detect
i've force. started Saturday night last for Auck-
land, New Zealand, where he will receive the
murderer Maxwell, who is charged with killing
c. Arthur Preller, at the Southern Hotel in st.
Louis, and bring him back for trial.-Geo. NJ.
Hendcc, in a bicycle exhibition half-mile trial
at Hampden Park, Springfield, Mass. Saturday
last, covered the distance in / minute II %
seconds, beating the worlds best bicycle record
that Of Sanders Sellers at Hartford, Septem
Der 9, 1881 of lis 10.