The National tribune., 1885-02-26
NEWS OF The WEEK.
The News from All Parts of the
World.
ABROAD.

Abu Klea, Gubat, aud kaAabish. Large num-
bcrs OF the rebels are deserving and going 10
the British camp at Gubat. There appears no
indication on the part of Gen. WolSeiey TO move
To the front and it is not known when the adj
vance will be made. The colony OF Victoria,
In Australia has offered the Home Govern
ment naval brigade and mounted infantry
corps, both comprising 200 picked men, for
service in the Soudan. The different British
colonies in the South Pacific are arranging to
take federal action towards the formation OF an
Australian contingent for Egyptian service
Gen. Lord Woiseley has telegraphed the Gov
ernment of New South Wales from hOrti that
be looks forward with pride and pleasure to
the time when he shall have colonial soldiers
serving under his command. lie thinks II
England accepts a regiment from New South
Wales for service in Egypt that il would only
be fair 10 allow a Canadian regiment to enter
the same Geld also 1t IS reported that the
Mahdi promised Farag l40,0J9 thalcrs to be-
tray Khartoum, but gave him only Ge,000, and
when Farag complained the Mahdi hanged
Nm. 1t is said that the Malldi captured 15,-
20 Remington rifles At khaTtoum. war
between France and China still drags along
without anything of importance taking place.
Last week the city Of Langson was captured
by the French. The losses OF the Chinese are
reported to have b sen very large, while that of
the French, OF course, amounted 10 nothing.
A dispatch from Shcipos, on the 18th inst.
says that two of BayaTd's torpedo boats have
sunk she Chinese figate Iuqucn. carrying 20
guns and zoo men. and the Chinese corvette
Tchengkiag, carrying guns and $50 men,
Mile. Thercse Granger, cousin OF NJ Clovis
Hughes, whose wife recently shot N. NORM,
on the 18th inst. at MarscilleS, attempted 10
murder her paramount NJ. Souchon, with a re-
volver bullet lodged in the mans lungs,
and it is believed he will die. Therese
wanted Souchon to marry her. but ne refused
II A -,
resident of Bloomington, H., who was on a
visit to Germany has been seized hy the police
= at Magdeburg and is about TO be forced into
the German army. Herman went to Bloom
ington when 10 years of age. - The
steamer Newcastle City, which left Hall
fax n S, week ago for London, has been
forced TO return to Halifax, having had 100
cattle swept away in Storm and had her boats
destroyed and matches injured.-The Matan-
zas & Sahanilla Railroad Company, of Cuba,
has just granted freedom to all the blacks, SO
in number, il still hello in servitude.-Mrs.
James Russell Lowell wife of the United States
Minister to the Court OF st. James, died on the
18th inst at LondOn.-It is probable that
Japan will declare war against China on
count of the attack made by Chinese soldiers
on the Japanese Minister at the Seoul Palace
Corea, on Dec. 6.-Granada was alarmed last
week by fresh shocks of earthquake. Several
land slips have occurred and rayines appeared
at Alhoma. portion of the famous bathing
establishment there has fallen in.--Several
towns which were destroyed by the recent
earthquake shocks in Spain are being rebuild
ed the cost being betrayed by the municipal
authorities of Barcelona, Bilboa and Lenares.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A freight aud passenger train colided on
the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad between
Washington and Alexandria the 18th inst,
killing six persons and injurng several others.
At Ashtabula, O., on the Goth, while four
men, named Fratus, Foster Jackson and Paine,
were drilling gas well fearful explosion took
place, caused by one of the men lighting a
match. Fraius was killed and the others fatally
injured. Elizabeth Bony. aged 90. living
alone near Falmouth. KY, barred the door and
windows of her house Monday OF last week, set
fire to the building, and persisted III the flames.
On the 18th inst, at Marshall, H., half The
business portion of the town was destroyed by
fire; loss, $4,000. On the same day, in New
York cotton lighters at the foot of Christopher
street; loss about $4,000; and at Lynn, Mass,
the shoe factory Of Chas. A. Coffin was de-
stroyed and other property damaged: loss over
S70000-.James Reynold, of Hawkins CO.,
Tenn, last week poured kerosene on the heads
of three OF his children for the purpose of de-
stroying yermin. Two of the children died.
Amos Smith, a wealthy farmer, living near
Erie, Pa, went out on the evening of the 18th
prayers anu udll-cu nIlnScAi iii tIS DdIH
The family minister, who was Mr.. and Mrs.
Smiths guest, found Smith in time to cut him
down before he was dead, but in doing so let
him fall quite distance, breaking one of the
would-be suicides legs-Deputy Postmaster
Horace B. Ferrin. of Batavia, y. Y, retired to
a shed back of his residence on Sunday last
and killed himself. The discovery of short
ages in his accounts is regarded rs the cause of
the act.
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The property of the Ohio Central Coal Com
pany, consisting Of II 900 acres of land was sold
at Columbus, o., on the 18th by order of the U.
S. Court. The purchase was made By the first
mortgage bOndholders in New York city Tor
000.-The Robesonia furnace plant near
Reading Pa, has been sold to VIM. r. White
and Mrs. Henry Borie, both of Philadelphia,
for $4,000.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. Chas Andrix and her stepson, aged 12
years, both suffering from trichinosis at
Columbus, o. No hope is entertained Of their
reeovery.-The New York Medical Record
states, on the authority of Gen. Grants attend
ing physician, that the alterations Oh Gen.
Grants throat and tongue are much better and
that all fear of grave complications are for the
present at an end.-The bill to punish wife
beaters by whipping was defeated in the Penn
sylyania Senate on the 10Th inst.-The relief
party sent TO Alta, Utah, where the recent
snov-slides occurred, has returned TO Salt Lake
with y bodies dashed upon sleds. The dead
included four children Of Mr. Edward Ballou
Several persons were rescued after having been
buried under the snow for IL hours. Another
snow-side near Alta is reported to have killed
three men last Saturday. In three snow slides
in Alta and vicinity on the 18th 80 persons
were Killed. train dashed through Read
ing, Pa, at high rate of speed, and the fire.
man did not discover the cause until he had
crawled down from the tender and entered the
cab, when he discovered the engineer. J. ID.
James, lying unconscious at his post. lie had
been struck on the head by an obstruction at a
water-tank and fatally injured.-At burial
ground attached TO Pisgah Church, five miles
from Point Pleasant, w Va, the sexton, on
Tuesday of last week found half dozen bodies
taken from the graves and strewn about the
ground.-0D Donovan Rosa. who WAS recently
shot by crazy Engiishwoman, was discharged
from st. Nincent's Hospital, New York city, on
the 18th inst.--Miss Mary Count, of Ashland
Pa, was married last week to Spotted Wolf a
sub-chef Of the Warm Spring Indian tribe a
number of whom have been travelling on exhi-
bition through the State. - Jonathan j.
Wright, ex-Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of South Carolina from 1870 to 1917 and
the only colored man who ever held that office
in that State died the 18th inst, aged Al
years He was native of Pennsylvania
Two desperate Prisoners.
Col. Hal. Costing, o. S. Marshal and DEPUTY
Marshal Manning were shot and killed near
New Braunfels Tex, Saturday night last, by
twodesperad0es named Ieager and Pitts, whom
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