The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-05-14
NEWS OF The WEEK.
The News from All Parts of the
World.
ABROAD.

| the land i'll the Nile Delta to point at present
beyond Rosetta. Cattle are perishing from the
effects of salt water drunk by them in desper-
ate thirst, and the human inhabitants OF the
| invaded regions are suffering terribly from
| want of fresh water which has to be sent to
| them from long distances by railway.-A
bust of Coleridge, the poet, was unvailed at
| Westminster Abbey, London, by Mr.. James
| Russell Lowell on the 9TH Nashville the
/ French steamer Villede Marseile was on her
| way to Buenos Ayres the emigrant5 on board
| mutinied, owing to the badness of the food fur
nished to them. They were finally overpowered
after desperate fight. in which the Captain
/ and several of the crew were badly wounded.
! Ten of the passengers were killed or wounded.
| The vessel put into st. Vincent, where she is
| guarded by French cruiser.-Joseph Smith,
| the informer, who testified against the men who
were hanged for the assassination OF Lord
| Frederick Cavendish and Under-Secretary
| Burke, in Phoenix Park, Dublin, and who had
! ever since the execution been an exile from
| Ireland and supposed to be living incognito
somewhere in India. has just died in London.
The steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, which
| arrived at San Francisco on the 9th inst. from
| Hong Kong, brought news of a collision, March
| 2s, on the Huantups River, between the Chi
nese ferry steamer Lin Van, plying between
| Woo-Sung and Shanghai, and the Ocean Steam
| ship COmpany's steamer Orestes The Chinese
steamer, which carried about 100 passengers
and a crew of IL, was cut in two, and all except
| 80 passengers and seven of the crew are be-
| lieved to have periShed.-0n Sunday night
| of last week fracas occurred between some
| Jamaicans and national soldiers at Culebra,
| near Panama. The latter were disarmed and
| afterward retired. After procuring REINFORCE
ments they returned and broke into the bar
/ racks where the Jamaicans were sleeping, and
! in the most barbarous manner killed % OF
| them and wounded 20 others. Only one CO.
| lombian was killed and none wounded. The
Jamaicans are leaving in great numbers. Their
| departure will delay work on the canal
| Advices from Honolulu state that Queen Dowa-
! ger Emma, of the Sandwich Islands, died April
25. Her death was sudden, and less than an
| hour elapsed from the time the physician was
| called till she breathed her last.-H Hon. Rob-
| ert NJ. McLane, Of Baltimare Nd, United
States Minister to France, has arrived at Paris.
Col. Maiendic, Chief Inspector of Explos-
ives, reports that the recent explosion at the
Admiralty Office, London, was caused by II
pounds Of gunpowder inclosed in a metal pot.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
| A difficulty occurred in Prince George County,
Va, Monday night, between Dallas Graves and
| VIM. Evans during which the former was
struck on the head by the latter with hickory
stick and killed. Evans eseaped.-At Charles
| ton, w. Va, on the Sth inst. a shot was fired
| through the window of the United States Mar
shal's office at Deputy Marshal Atkinson. 1t is
| thought the shot was fired by moonshiner,
Atkinson having been very active in prosecuting
| violators of the internal revenue laws-ieO
| Draper, colored, of Wilmington, Del, sentenced
| in 1873 to Imprisonment for life for the murder
| of Isaac Hopkins, has been pardoned by Gov.
| Stockley-Marcella Ryan, the colOred woman
| who was sentenced to death by the court in
Roanoke City, Va, ayear ago ON an Indictment
for causing the death of her husband, has been
released from Jail on decision in her favor of
the Court of Appeals of Virginia.-John l..
Mackey, a brakeman on the Hemfeld Division
of the Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad fell from his
train last Thursday and was run over and
| killed.-Henrietta Van Buren,, who was COM
| mitted from College Point, l.. l., to Barnum's
Island, was found dead in her cell on the Sth
| inst. having committed suicide by hanging.
| Mrs Ellen V. Libby, whose husband disap-
| peared few days ago, committed suicide in
| Chicago on the Sth inst by taking carbolic
| acid Information has been received in
Wheeling to the effect that in Wayne County,
w. Va, Tuesday night Of last week, a colored
| desperate shot and killed a white man named
Chester Hornaker, and seriously wounded Pc
ter Canterbury aud David Stewart, also white
Ned billiard, a colored Virginia convict
who recently escaped while working near Pc
tersburg, was recaptured few nights ago in
Henry County. Va. by Deputy Sheriff L. II.
Bowsman. BOwsman entered at midnight the
| cabin where billiard WAS hiding. and was at
| tackled by both billiard and his wife. Bowsman
| fired four shots, seriously wounding the woman,
and finally overpowered the convict, who has
| been taken back to Petersburg. Bowsman was
stabbed twice by billiard and bitten by the
| woman during the encounter.-Fred. Watson
| has been arrested in Cincinnati charged with
| stealing s., 800 worth OF diamonds from the car
| riage of Mr.. Briggs Swift, two weeks ago. DR..
S. w. Craig, formerly Jail physician, and Mrs
/ Lizzie Davis, were also arrested in connection
with the theft, in which John J. Kelly, ward
| politician, is also said to be implicated.-At
Bath, Me-, Mrs. Ira Hodgson, aged GO years.
was shot twice while in bed by her son James,
| who was delirious from drinking. She will
1 probably die.-County Judge Brooks, of Camp
County, Tex, was convicted of bribery on the
9Th inst and sentenced to two years in the PEN
itentiary. He asked the Sheriff to take him to
| his law Office, that he might write letter be-
fore going to Jail. The request was granted,
/ and while he and the Shcrif were in the Office,
after the letter had been written, Brooks drew
| q pistol from his table drawer and shot himself
| dead. The letter was addressed to his friends,
| and declared his innocence of tho crime.-At
place called Six-Mile Ferry, on the Mononga-
hela River, between Lakewood and Hays Sta
ton, Pa, Saturday night last, skifi, In which
there were six persons, was capsized, drowning
three of the passengers, Mrs Oriella Jubenel
and her eight year-oid son, and man named
August Rust.-H. a. w. Walkemeyer, one of
| the most prominent business men of Harris
| burg, Pa, committed suicide by shooting in
| that city Saturday. Business embarrassments
caused the act.-Amandon KaIbach, q we'll
| known citizen Of Reading, Pa, died Saturday
with symptoms resembling poisoning 1t is
| thought he committed suicide. He was fnan-
cially mbarrassed.-Lesher Bergenstock of
| Camden, N. j.. threw himself into the river at
Philadelphia Friday night last He was twice
| caught with boat hooks. but savagely fought
himself loose, held his head under water and
| was drowned.-Ignatz Deutsch committed
| suicide in Philadelphia Saturday, by hanging
| himself-Lorenzo Bosco, an Italian rag
picker in Jersey City. invited a number of his
| countrymen to visit him Saturday night last.
During a game of cards Luigi Ippolito, one of
the guests accused BOsco Of cheating, and the
latter stabbed Ippolito fatally with pair of
| compasseS
INDUSTRIAL
The business failures throughout the country
during the seven days ending on the 9th inst,
number for the United States 225, and for Can
ada %, or total of 24S as compared with 2O3
last week and 240 the week previous to the last.
Tho Osborn Mill, Fall River, Mass, has shut
| down for a week. Stove Mill, No. /, and Ne
chanics Mill will stop next week.-The crop
| prospects in the Memphis district, which in
cludes West Tennessee, North Arkansas, North
Mississippi and North Alabama, are reported
as very favorable. The acreage of cotton is al
per cent. and of corn II larger than last year.
| Labor is plenty and is working we'll The Spring
was backward but the planting was completed
in good season.
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