The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-05-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The News from All Parts Of the
World.
ABROAD.

United States Minister Lowell will unvail
The bust OF Samuel Taylor Coleridge in West
minister Abbey on May IA dispatch from
Shanghai states that the Chinese Generals in
the Tonquin District have refused to evacuate
or retire from the positions recently captured
BY them, and serious trouble is feared in car
rying out the provisions of the recent treaty Of
peace which provides for the evacuation OF that
Province by the Chinese forces.-Dr Koch,
the famous cholera expert has leen appointed
professor in the University of Bcrlin.-Ihe
hostile Arabs are again becoming troublesome
to the British. Scouting parties of these Arabs
now make constant attempts to destroy the
sections of the Suakim- BeTber Railway already
constructed, and they cut the telegraph lines
wherever they can. Every night now III
Eahdi's men fire upon and into the British
ferts.-A cable message received by the Gov
ernor General Of Canada from London an
nounccs the death there by smallpox OF Col
Kennedy, of the Nile voyageurs.-Nesuvius
is again in state of eruption. A copious
stream of lava is issuing from the principal
crater aud flowing toward Tore del Greco and
Pompeii.-The family of the late Edward
Pierrepont, Acting United States Minister TO
Italy have arrived at Rome. The body of the
deceased will be shipped to the United States
during the present wcek.-Firc has destroyed
50 houses in the town of Skanocr, Sweden, rem
dering homeless 100 families.-Nubar Pasha,
the Egyptian Prime Minister. has formally
apoloEizod TO NJ. Tailandicr, the French Charge
d'Afares, and the BOspkore E9gptiaa incident
Is considered at an end.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
Henry Harris, of Ocsanville, Town of Hemp
stead, Long Island, died almost instantly on
the Both nit. He drank & third Of q glassfUl of
aconite in mistake for whisky.--Thomas
Hculihsn, Of New Britain, Conn, so years Of
age, on the 30th uit took a dose Of nitrate Of
potash By mistake for Epson salts, and died
after suffering great agony.--Horacc Terrell,
eoicred, the murderer OF Mary Foster, is to be
hanged eft Charlottesville Va, Thursday, June
Is. ice Barbour, the murderer Of Randall
Jackson, will probably he hanged on the same
day and on the same gallows.-FredeTick
Senmers, ostcnsbly gardener, was arrested
IN jersey City, Y. J., last week, and q search of
his premises disclosed an entire cOunter!citing
eutft.-Murphy & Debods planning mill IN
Pittstgrg Pa. was destroyed by fire on the Goth
nit. The loss is $4,000, and the insurance
SS0.000.-A well-dressed man, aheut 80 years
cid. named Elijah Pierce with 4 ticket from
Buffalo, \. Y, TO Live Oak Fla, committed
suicide on a south-bound Louisville and Nash
vile train on the 29th ult., by shooting himself
through the head with pistol.-An east
bound freight train on the Pennsylvania Rail
road was standing on siding near hinZerso,
on the 29th ult., when Fireman Brown and
Brakeman Fisher alighted and stood on the
west track. On account of the high wind they
failed 10 hear an approaching train and were
both struck and instantly kiiled.-Masked
burglars on the 29th nit. entered the house of
Samuel Davis a farmer, near BowmaGsyille,
Pa, bound and gagged Davis and his wife,
and, with drawn reyolvers, terrified the
ether members of the family. They then
raGsacked the house, and carried off several
hundred dollars which they found in a chest.
-Bunco men. supposed to be from Chicago,
swindled Josiah BeardSley, real estate agent,
Is IN D,,N. In &c loc+
week.-Inteiligenc has been received from
Isle of Wight County, Va, to the effect that
there was heavy white frost in that section
on Wednesday night of last week, and it is
feared that considerable damage has been done
TO fruit and vegetation.-JameS Crockett,
painter, of Cooperstown, n. Y, attempted sui
eide Oh the Both ult. by taking poison and cut
ting his throat, but viii recover. His father,
grandfather and uncle committed suicide-
George Mack, who murdered Richard Parker.
his employer, at Great Bend, Kan, on Sunday
of last week, was arrested at Kansas City, No,
on the Both ult. On reaching Great Bend be
was taken from the train and hanged by
mOb-Riley Brown, an ex-conyict, shot and
killed John Shatfer ut Columbus, o., on the lst
inst. on account of Skaters intimacy with Mrs.
Brown.--Foster w. Wyatt. a wealthy resident
of Islip. L. J., went on the 1st inst 10 his sons
drug store. took down bottle Of morphine
from shelf, drank wineglassful, and died
be intended TO commit suicide or made mis-
take-The passenger train on the Reading e.
Columbia Railroad was thrown from the track
on the LIST inst near Columbia. Pa. John Houck,
fireman was killed; Henry Rightsell was fatally
and two other employees seriously injured.
The passengers were badly shaken up but not
injured.-W. Ii. Jones, locomotive engineer,
o. Macon. Ga, shot his wife on the lst inst and
then killed himself His wife cannot possibly
recover. Jones died instantly. Domestic trou-
hlcs were the cause of the deed.-Isaac n.
Goodwin has been arrested III Spartanburg,
S. C., upon a charge of numbering his father.
farmer, OF SprIngdale, Lafayette Co, Miss, in
December, ls60.-A sailboat containing four
men upset in the Delaware River opposite Pen
nypack Greek. near Hoimcsburg, Nd on Sun
day last, and two of the occupants are sup
posed 10 have been drOwned-0n Saturday
night last Daniel Clever living near Leesjurg,
10 miles from Carlisle, Pa, shot a young man
named William Martin, for paying attention TO
the formers wife. Clever suspected an i'm
proper intimacy between the two, and on the
night Of tic tragedy learned OF a meeting the
two had agreed upon at the house Of friend.
He followed them, found his suspicious well
founded, and shot Martini employing four or
five barrels of his revolver into his body
Clever surrendered himself TO the authorities.
Martin. it is thought is fatally injured. -
Eight persons persisted in FIRE which occurred
on Saturday night last in a tenement in New
fCfk cIty.--Georg0 Miller OF PottSViIle. Pa
committed suicide in philadelphia Saturday
last By severing artery in his arm and then
hanging himself to a hat-racls. lie was an
opium eater.
INDUSTRIAL
The business failures throughout the country
during the seven days ending May 2 number
for the United States l59 and for Canada 49, or
g total OF z08 compared with total of 240
last week aud 222 the week previous.-The
windowglass trade is reported duller than for
many years. A number Of factories throughout
the country have closed down, and the manu-
faciurers in Pittsburg, Pa, say that unless
there is an Improvement il the demand Others
will be forced to suspend observation-disclosures
has built more miles Of railroad during the
past year than any other Southern State
In former years. at Astoria, Oregon, men were
paid III cents q fathom for knitting nets: this
year II is done mostly by Cinnamon at cents
g fathOm.-It win require I2G00 boxes or
more 20 move the orange crop Of Columbia
County, Fla. this year.-The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company began Oh the I'd inst. the
construction of a new road between Holidays
burg and Cresson, Pa. The read viii be 81
miles long, and will cost 100000. II will
open up some rich coal and lumber tracts
The threatened strike among the coal miners
of the Tuscarawas and Cannolton (Ohio) Val
leys. which. il is feared viii involve all the
miners IN the districts nearly G,000 in number
was inaugurated Saturday last-The sales of
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