The National tribune., 1886-01-28

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| train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad was thrown down an embankment
near Albany, Mo-, Wednesday night of last
| week, and a man named Miller, from Palmyra,
| Iowa, killed, and Is passengers more or less
| injured.-George +. Tribon, well-known
| contractor, of Portland, Ore, walked in the
streets of that city last week to avoid ice on
the sidewalk. The tongue of a runaway sleigh
struck him in the back of the head, crushing
his skull. He died in two hours-Samuel
| Ford farmer was waylaid Wednesday night
of last week near Rockdale, Tex, by Sidney
Brown colored, beaten and robbed and left
unconscious on a railroad track. He recovered
| consciousness and dragged himself home. The
! colorcd man was caught and hung by a mob.
Fords eye was knocked out and his skull
! fractured.-John Il. Moore, wealthy farmer,
living near Clifford, Mich, in fit of insanity,
removed the cover from large stove and
jumped in head foremost. He was dragged
out instantly, but was terribly burned
Charles 4. Cloves, wealthy young Chlcagoan,
who was married only last year, murdered his
mistress in house of ill-fame in Chicago, on
the 22d. and then committed suicide.--An old
man who has for years led the life of hermit
! in hut on the banks of the Potomac near
Point of Rocks Nd, was found last week
burned to crisp among the ashes oil his
, habitation.-JacOb Christman, young Ger
man, of Wabash, Ind, had his legs caught un-
der a log which he and his brother Henry were
loading upon sled last week. In attempting to
release him Henry rolled the log over Jacobs
abdomen, breast and head, infictng fatal in
juries.-Mrs. Gravener, of Covington, Ky,
was found drowned in the cistern at her home
on Friday last. She had the dead body of her
three-mouths-O old baby clasped in her arms. 1t
is suppose to be a case of sucide.-The
cavalry stables at Fort Custer, Mont, contain
ing IS horses. were burned last weck.--Cal-
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murdered an aged lady near Henderson, Ky.
He claims to have acted under divine direction.
Fatal snow slides have occurred in various
parts of Colorado.-Jesse c. Wickersham, a
prominent farmer, living near ClOverdale, Cal,
was found on Saturday morning last sitting IN
a chair IN the diningroom, murdered, and hls
wife dead in bed up stairs with her hands and
feet bound and :; wound in her breast. All kal
a Chinese cook employed by the couple, has dis
appeared. Michael Browloski, a Bohemian,
living at Cleveland, O., and his wife and six
children are i'll from the effects of eating raw
pork. few days ago they were sick from the
same cause aud were recovering under treat
ment of physician, when they ate more of
the meat, and they are now in 4 critical condi-
tion. The physician undertook to throw the
meat away, when the Bohemians strcnuously
ohjected.-The County poorhouse ct jackson,
Mich, was destroyed by fire on the morning of
the 2ith. There were 40 inmates, and all
escaped but fve.-Charles II. West, SO years
old, a clerk in the Office of the Ames Plow
Company at Boston, has been arrested and
confessed to blowing open the company's safe
with powder and taking a box containing
5000 and hiding it in the attic, where it was
found intact.-George f. Langbein, jr, a New
York stenographer, shot and killed himself
Saturday night last in the presence of Mrs.
Jennie Noll, divorced woman, to whom he
had been paying attention, and with whom he
quarreled because she received attentions OF
other men.-Thomas Giroy was manager of
a ball in New York Saturday night last He
met Robert Browlcy, machinst, in saloon
after the ball, and the machinst criticised his
management unpieasantly. Words led to blows,
and Gilroy was fatally stabbed. Browley was
arrested-The boiler of the tug Ednos ex-
ploded Saturday last OH Lake Charles, Louisiana,
killing Fred. Smith, the cook, a German, aged
II years. Capt. B. 4. Moss was thrown dis
tance of nearly 400 feet and fatally injured.
The engineer, the only other person on the
boat, escaped uniniured. "A we'll dressed
young man recently appeared in Kansas City,
Mo-, and opened Offices as j. Whitney, ostensi
bly, in the cattle business. He opened accounts
in the banks. and deposited drafts signed by
Omaha banks amounting TO $4,000. Two weeks
ago he cashed the drafts and left Kansas City.
The drafts were paid at the Chicago clearing
house, but are pronounced forgeries at Omaha.
INDUSTRIAL.
committee of Wheeling (W. Va nail man.
ufacturers are inspecting a recently invented
automatic nail machine at Boston, which it is
claimed will do away with hand work.--A
One-hundred ton iron furnace is to be erected at
Sheffield, Ala, the necessary capital having
been lbscribed.-The locomotive engineers
on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad were last week
pat on mileage pay, three cents for passenger
and four for freight engines, with allowance for
Chn nala I'M fEnial tnfp
ment of the anthracite coal tonnage for the year
1885 has been issued. 1t shows that in Decem-
Der S46,0 900 tons were mined over the allotment
for the month. and that in the year 81 ,623 900
tons were produced, or about 10000 tons less
than in 1889, when the greatest tonnage in the
history of mining was produced. Besides the
amount mined the stocks at tidewater are less
by 10000 tons than at the beginning of the
year, making the total consumption of anthra-
cite 3l,743,000 tons. - The Knox Wooen
Company at Camden, Me-, whose mill has been
running IL hours per day. began Monday last
on 10-hour time, with no reduction in wages.
The company does this of their own motion,
afording the employees pleasant surprise
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has Gre
ated a new department of the service, to be
known as "The Pennsylvania Railroad Relief
Department" the object of which is n relief
fund for the benefit of its employees in case of
accident or sickness, and their families in case
OF death. The system is very much similar to
that in operation in the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road service for several years.-Work was
commenced at Roach's shipyard, Chester, Pa,
Saturday last ON an iron steamship for the
Brazilian Mail Steamship Line. This is the first
vessel started at the yard for over year.
Nearly 10000 cigar makers are on a strike in
New York cty.-Serous trouble was appre-
hended last week in the coke regions Of Penn
sylvania by the striking workmen, and at one
time the aspect of affairs was so serious that
the State militia were ordered to be in readi-
ness. On one occasion the Sheriff with 60 men
had quite a fight with $50 Hungarian coke
burners near Mt. Pleasant. After several of the
latter were wounded he succeeded in arresting
13. At last accounts everything was quiet, al
though the strike is not ended.
MISCELLANEOUS
Capt. Marsh, of Elizabeth, NY, Dysteriously
disappeared last week during his honeymoon.
No trace of him can DC found.-It is alleged
that the son of Mayor Bowman, of East st.
Louis, who was so mysteriously assassinated a
short time ago. showed an extreme fondness for
his stepmother, who was younger than himself.
The detectives are watching the new phase i'll
the family affairs in the hope that the terrible
murder mystery may be esolved.-The steamer