The National tribune., 1886-09-23

sailboat-At Hebron, Pa, IN a collision be-
tween two teams at midnight, Katie Slime and
Maggie Arnold were fatally injured, and Danl
Light, John Lehman and Miss Mary Schaefier
very seriously hurt.-lncendiaries visited
the Johanna flights Methodist camp meeting
grounds, near Reading, Pa, and set FIRE TO the
frame cottages of which there are $50 in the
grove. About dozen cottages were destroyed
and a large space in the grove was burned
Two masked burglars entered the house Of John
Park, in Kerrtown, near Pittsburg, and after
terribly abusing the inmates succeeded in
carrying of ST. 500 in cash secreted in the house.
Near Little Rock, Ark, the l2-year old son
of Joseph Morse was bathing in q pond near
the house, when he was taken with cramps,
aud called 10 his brother Henry 20 save
him. Henry sprang into the water, but both
were drowned. Mrs Morse witnessed the death
Of her two sons. She tainted at the sight, and
when restored 20 consciousness il WAS found
that she had become a raving maniac.-
At Lebanon, Pa, while William Narna was
taking load Of furniture 10 a purchaser a slack
telephone wire caught the top of bedstead.
Varna in releasing il, was caught by the wire,
which, in it's recol, threw him into the road,
a distance of nearly 20 feet He was picked up
unconscious, suffering from fractured skull,
and soon died.-Wm J. Clingen, ex-Clerk Of
the Armory Police Court of Chicago was re-
ported by his family TO have died suddenly on
the 9Th inst. He had been under indictment
for deficit in his accounts and il was claimed
by some persons that the report of his death
was a ruse TO enable him TO escape punishment.
Rev. Father Bonergau declares that he was
with Clingen in his last moments, and the story
IL without oundatiOn-John Schyrock, a
wealthy farmer living near 0lney, ILL.,, was
murdered by unknown men, who secured
$4,000 hidden in the farmers house. They
then burned the house.-P. ID. Spencer, who
wrote the card which led TO the Martinsville
street fight between the Terrys and Spencers,
was tried AT Danvile Va, for killing j. h.
Terry aud acquitted. -Four participants in the
fight have now been tried, and all acquitted.
The feeling in the County against Spencers
party is very strong.-The bodies of a woman
of 80 and a child of six months were found in
the lake at the foot of Division street Chicago,
on Sunday.-Mrs Mary Godfrey, wife of a
wealthy farmer of Erie. Pa, committed suicide
by throwing herself over a precipice $50 feet
high.-Private Mallon, of Co. &, 9th u. 5.
Inf, at Fort Robinson, Neb. was found muir
dered at his post.-Three brothers named
Morgan, aged "a, 81 and Is, were drowned
while bathing in the Cha ;tanooga River near
Chattanooga Saturday. The youngest one was
seized with cramps and sank. The two broth
ers tried 10 rescue him.-David Heron of
Shelbyville, H., exploded dynamite in the
Okaw River aud seriously injured several men
who were swimming in the vicinity. lie has
been arrested.-John Wyatt and Demps
Loftin, were neighbors in Marshall County,
Ky. who had not spoken for years. Lottin
spoke TO Wyatt at a funeral, and the latter
knocked him down with a rock. Loltin then
drew knife and killed Wyatt, stabbng him
seven times.-Ex-C Controller Jas. s. White, OF
Milwaukee, Wis, was sentenced 10 two years
and six months at hard labor for embezzlement
dexter p. Wager, farmer at Cropseyyille,
n. Y, while insane drove his wife and mother
in-law from the house and cut the throat of his
three-y ear-Old daughter. The Marvine Shaft
COlliery of the Delaware e. Hudson Canal Co.,
near Scranton, Pa, was the scene OF an exten-
siye cave-in last week, by which nine men lost
their lives.