The National tribune., 1885-07-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The News, from All Parts Of the
World.
ABROAD.

tile was brilliantly celebrated IN Paris last
week.-Mrs. Fannie Lawrence, daughter of
Mr.. Francis Lawrence, of New York, was mar
ried last week in London to Lord Vernon
Earthquake shocks of great force occurred on
the 18th at Smyrna and at Chesme, in Asia
Minor-In the Canadian Parliament last
week vote OF thanks to the officers and men
engaged in SURPRISING the Northwest rebellion
and ayote OF $4,000 to Gen Middleton were
unanimously adopted-The marriage of the
Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen
Victoria, to PRINCE Henry, of Battenberg. will
take place shortly. The Prince of Wales will
give his sister away. A most elaborate trousseau
has been prepared for the bride.-There is
some indication of renewal of the Anglo Rus
sian ernbroglio./ 1t is rumored that the Rus
slams have occupied Zulfcar Pass. and intend
pushing on to Herat. The Afghans are deter
mined to resist any attempt to seize their terri
tory, and England has promised to assist the
ANGER if he calls upon her. 1t is believed that
Gen. Alikhanoff, the commander of the Russian
advance, is determined to force on a war, and
that he is deceiving the Car In regard to has
real intentions. --Two hundred persons were
poisoned last week by ice-cream at Riposto,
Sicily, during a public holiday. crowd Sc
verely punished the vender, who narrowly
escaped with his life.-A mailman has been
arrested at San Dona, near Venice, on the
charge of kidnapping. He confeSses that he has
stolen and eaten number of children because
he was starvjng.-The French campaign in
Tonquin cost 470, 600, 600 francs.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Albert Ross, a well-known German, shot and
probably fatally wounded his wife this morn
ing and then killed himself at his home in
Jacksonville, Ind.--Augustus Erwin, gam
bier, shot his wife and himself at the Aleman
House. New York, on the 18th. He will prob
ably die. The deed is supposed to have been
prompted by Erwin's rage at not getting posses
sion of his wifes fortune.-Near Salisbury,
N. c.. few Nights since Jno. keene was waylaid
by Henderson Surratt. Keene defended himself
with a knife, and inflicted wounds in Surratts
breast which proved fatal-Mrs. Jones' of
Buffalo, while gazing at the rushing waters of
Niagara the 18th fell into the stream, and
was carried over the American falls.-Albert
and Robert RoutZahan brothers, while fishing
under a tree at Oregon, ILL.,, last week. were
struck by lightning and killed.-At Marion,
Ind, few days ago, colored man named Wal
lace assaulted the 14-year-oid daughter of a
well-known citizen named Vinsou, and a mob
made an assault upon the Jail TO lynch the
brute. The Sheriff warned the mob. and then
fred a volley, Instantly killing JAS Kelley and
wounding three four others.-In duel
Sunday morning, near Kemp. Tex, between
JOS Holt and Jas. Pryor the latter was killed,
having received four shots from a Colts re-
Edward Withers. of Halifax, n. S..
Shot and killed his daughter, aged Is years.
and then himself, on the 18th. He was prob
ably insane-Enoch Cook and Jas. Pruitt of
Louisville, Ky, quarreled about a dog. Cook
Knocked Prultt down and kicked him under
the ear, killing him instantly--Lewis Nor
vile, Logan Co., o., farmer, sued for divorce
frem his young wife Ella, charging intimacy
with neighboring farmer, who was also sued
for $4,000 damages. Last week Mrs. Nor
vile committed suicide by hanging.
Valetine Wautz. Postmaster at Melrose Nd
committed suicide by hanging last week, be-
cause he was accused of being an offensive par
tisan.-Albert Ross of Jacksonville, Ind,
shot and probably fatally wounded his wife
last week and then killed himself. Jealousy
the cause.-A S200000 fire occurred at Martin
d Sons bleaching works, Philadelphia, Oh the
15th.-1r aquarrel at the Homework Driving
Park, near Pittsburg, Pa on the 18TH James
Kelly, of Toledo, o., the driver of Rchball,
was shot and killed by John Bunch, colored
hostler, OF Louisville, KY, in fight in Rich
balls stable Bunch was hurried to Jail to
avoid lynching--An unknown old man COM
United suicide near Leominster. Mass, on the
18th by taking concoction of whisky and
laudanum. He cooled the mixture with ice
before swallowing it.--As passenger train
was teiug made up in the yards OF the Denver
& Rio Grande Railroad at Denver, Col, ON the
10th, an empty chair car ran over package of
dynamite, which exploded wrecking the car
aud slightly woundiug s~itchman. 1t is be-
Leved that the dynamite was intended for the
regular passenger tiain.-One child of j. N
Lynch, farmer, Of Gibson County. Ind. died,
and two Others are in a precarjous condition
from eating pie into which arsenic had been
put. Lynch had not been on good terms with
his family. He has disappeared. The poison
was evidently intended for Mrs. Lynch, who
ate nene of the pie.-At De Briska RANCH
Colo, Wednesday OF last week, II out of 10
horses in pasture were killed by lightning.-
Joseph Taylor, who Oh May 81, 1884, murdered
Keeper Michael +. Doran at the Eastern peni-
tertiary OF Pennsylvania by beating in his
brains with wooden bobbin and a bar of iron,
was hanged in the corridor of the County prison
at Philadelphia the I6th.-Juan Lopez
found the dead body of his wife in field near
Evansville, Cal, Wednesday of last week, with
four bullet holes in her head and one arm cut
off at the elbow. Later, Ramon Martinez an
old friend Of Lopez, was found dead in the
same field, with wound in his temple. 1t is
thought he killed Mrs, Lopez, with whom he
Was infatuated, and then committed suicide.
On the 18th inst. Tom Hanlon aged 81,
confined in the Louisville Ky Jail with de-
hrium tremens, broke window pane, aud
with triangular piece OF glass stabbed himself
III the left lung. Turning the glass round and
round, be made horrible aperture, i'm which
he thrust bis hand and pulled out portion of
the lung. He will die.-0n the 10th the
residence OF Josiah NJ. Evans, small two
story log Lat, three miles from Gray hampton,
Cicarheid Co., Pa, WAS destroyed by fire. and
six of his children. ranging in age from G to Is
years, were burned to death.-A fire in the
main operating room of the Western Union
Telegraph Go. in Philadelphia on Saturday
last did damage to the extent of $1,000
Daniel Keenly, night Waterman on the West
Shore Railroad at Rock Cut, in Little Falls,
was trying TO get stranger off the track Satur-
day night last, when both men were struck by
tie train and killca.--Julius Lux, while in
toxicated. fired into a crowd in Marty, n c.,
saturday last, killing Sam'l Spar and wound
ing three colored men. He and others impli-
Gated had to be put under guard to prevent
lynching.-About 60 men were overcome by
foul air aud smoke from the blasting in the
S0nth Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel at Rox-
bury, Pa, Friday last. Two were dead when
rescued and several others not expected to
Eye.-AD old man named John Tolly was
asleep on the steps of his house, in New York,
on Sunday night last, when some wretches
saturated his clothing with kerosene oil and
set j on fire. He was badly burned about the
lower limbs.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The dreaded web worm has made its appear
ance in-several cotton fields south of Dallas.
Tex. Thus far its rayages nave been confined
to district only few miles square.-Five
murdcrers escaped from the Jail at Ashevlle n.
C., one night last week.-Ella Wheeler Will
cox has sued the Church Musical Company of
Cincinnati for publishing poem of hers under
Col. Joyce's name.-The Virginia Repuh-
Ecan State Convention at Richmond, last
week, nominated John S. Wise, of Richmond,
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