The National tribune., 1885-12-24
NEWS OF The WEEK,
The News from all Parts of the
World.
ABROAD.


fusing to marry him, shot her, and she died in
great agony the following day. Alvaredo fed.
Fhe body of de Ollas was found near his horse,
which, tied to a tree, died from starvation.-
Prince Bismarck was painfully injured on the
18th by the stumbling of his horse. In the
effort to save himself from falling the muscles
of his legs were so severely strained as TO IN
terfere with his walking, and he is confined to
d sofa at his residence.-M. Adolf Deucher
at present Vice President of Switzerland, has
been elected President for the year 1856. He
is Radical.-Prince Ferdinand, of SAKE
Coburg, father of the King of Portugal, died
OF cancer in Lisbon on the 18th inst.-The
College of the Propaganda at Rome announces
that up to Nov. J. in the vicariate of Cochin
China, nine missionaries, seven native priests,
90 catechsts, 210 members of religious orders
and 24000 Christians were massacred; 200
parishes, IL orphan asylums, and 10 converts
were destroyed, and 225 churches were burned
Eleven Europeans, who were working for
the Bombay and Burmah Trading Company,
and employed in the Chindwin forest on learn
ing of the rupture between Burmah and the
Indian Government, tried to reach Manipoor.
On the goth of November they were overtaken
and murdered by Burmese troops, in steamer
belonging to the King and commanded by
palace official named Thandawmoung. 1t is
alleged that Tynedah, the Burmese Prime
Minister, was implicated in the massacre
terrible storm visited Colon, Panama, COM
mencing on the I'd inst and continuing three
days. A great many buildings were destroyed
snd 10 vessels with their crews sunk i'll the
harbor.-The Chamber of Deputies of Greece
on the 18th by acclamation voted in favor OF
raising loan of $20,OO0.O00 for the army and
navy.-A man and woman have been arrested
in London for attempting to blackmal the
Prince of Wales. They threatened his life I'M
less a certain sum of money was sent them. The
woman confessed that herself and husband be-
longed to secret society, which had for its
object the destruction of royalty.-Ihe
steamer Oceanic, from Yokohama and Hong
Kong, which arrived at San Francisco Saturday
last, brought the news that typhoon swept over
the Philippine Islands on Nov. z, destroying
over 400 buildings including 13 churches and
l0convents. Eighteen human lives were lost and
500 head of cattle perished. This report only
comprises the destruction in 10 of the "a dis
tricts OF the islands, the remaining 15 not hav
ing been heard frcm.-A terrible ynamite eX-
plosion Occurred last week in the Pleijuchin
Mine III Siberia. The accounts are conflicting
as regards the number of persons killed, some
placing it at 400 and others as high as 1000.
No new outbreaks have occurred during
the past week between Servia and Bulgaria,
although the subjects of the former country are
urging their King TO prosecute the war to the
utmost Bulgaria has accepted the proposal of
the powers for an international commission of
demarcation for the Bulgaria<Servian frontier
under certain reservations, and the commission
is expected to meet at Belgrade shortly.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Mrs. Theresa Stock, wife of Police Sergeant
Stock, of st. Louis, seized her husbands re-
volver on Monday night of last week and shot
herself through the brain, killing herself in
stantly. She was handsome woman, 33 years
of age. The couple had violent quarrel just
before the shooting. "You are happy now"
she gasped, as she fell dying at her husbands
feet.-Edward Fairburn, Milwaukee Wis,
went home intoxicated and had quarrel with
his wife on the 10th and threw their six
months-Ol child on the kitchen stove. 1twas so
badly burned that it will die.-A terrible
collision occurred on the Georgia Poetic Rail-
road about 15 miles from Atlanta on the 18th
inst, in which ii lives were lost and three per-
sons probably fatally injured.-Jas. c. Nc
Shane, an employe of the New York Post
Office was arrested on the 18th on an indict-
ment charging him with being an accessory to
the murder of James A. Brown in saloon on
Dec. Ii, 1SS2.-Wm. III. Lessing, prominent
lawyer of San Angels, Tex, shot and killed
Michael Quinn, bartender, at Big Spring,
Tex, on the 18th. A disagreement at gam
bling table was the cause of the shooting.-
Mrs. Jessie Clark of Mckenzie, Tenn, was shot
and killed OH the 18th by Edward McGhee of
Concordia. Mass. He claims and it is generally
believed the killing was accidental, but the
girls father protests it was intentional.-At
Westfeld, Hamilton Co., Ind, on the 18th, Jno.
Carver and Harry Steed, each 16 years old,
ouarreled, and Carver struck Steed on the head
with stone, killing him.-A $450,000 fire
occurred at jacksonville Fla, on the 10TH
Geo. S. Walsh, who on the night of March %,
1884, shot Mrs. Laura NJ. Thorpe in her rooms
in New York, wounding her so that her life
was despaired of for time, was arraigned on
the 18th and pleaded guilty of assault in the
second degree. The court fined him 81, 900, to
toran tod 6or al
lar.-Richard Neale, of Parkersburg, w. Va,
was struck on the head with poker last week
by his 16-year-old son. The boy was not ar
rested, as he was acting in selfdefense-
Capt. Beach, of the Salvation Army. was ar
rested at Port Jervis, n. Y, for burglary last
week. He confesses the crime-During a
family row at Louisville, KY, on the 10Th inst
Louis Rentz and his wife Rosa assaulted
and fatally cut and beat William Teloden. The
woman pounded the victim with a club and
the man stabbed him about the body and neck
-Mollie johnson, the reputed wife of Saml
johnson (colored), who is under arrest in Phil
adelphia, charged with the murder of John
Sharpless, near Chester, Pa, Sunday, Nov 90,
has made affidavit that johnson told her he
killed old Dir. Sharpless, and threatened to kill
her if she repeated what he said. The Phil
sdelphia police attach much weight to the
woman's statement, and are confident they
have the right man. Johnson il is said worked
for some time on the farm of the late James
Frazer, in Cecil CO.. Md.-David Lewis, who
was released from the workhouse at Pittsburg
Pa, Saturday last, quarreled with his wife
Saturday night, and beat and kicked her. She
crawled into James 0'Hara's restaurant and
died.
INDUSTRIAL
new iron steamer has just been lanched at
Cramp & Sons shipyard, Philadelphia. 1t
is called the Mascotte, and will run between
New York and Havana.-The PRINCIPAL
barbed wire manufacturers of the United
States met at Chicago, H., Dec. 16 and agreed
10 ayance the price on all grades of their pro-
duct half cent pound, such schedule of
prices TO take effect at once and continue in
force until Jan. H. 1t is probable that on that
date another advance will be made to meet an
ticipated advance in the price of plain wire-
The Singer Sewing Machine Factory, at Eliza
bethport, n. j., shut down on the 18th until
further notice because of the tax levy of the
city. Twenty-one hundred operatives are
thrown out of work.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Pluero pneumonia has made its appearance in
the herd of Henry g. Resh, of West Willow.
Pa.-Rev. ID. ID. Gillespie, of Marlborough,
n. Y, is the possessor of an Alderney COW that
since April up to Nov ], 1885, made 3O2
pounds Of butter. This remarkable As near
as can be ascertained ii is the largest amount of
butter made by any one cow, for the same
period of time, on record.-Paul Hendricks,
son of ex Coy Wn Hendricks and cousin