The National tribune., 1886-03-04

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ernment dock-yards This action has been
taken because of the disclosures in the case of
Capt. Sarauw, recently convicted of having
sold plans and information of German fortifca-
tions to Maj. Grzot, of the French General
staff. Capt. Sarauw is Dane, and no man of
German birth has yet been arrested for his
ofense. 1t is thought that no persons of foreign
birth will be permitted 10 remain in the service
of the German War Department.-It is said
that the Pope does not favor the separation of
England and Ireland, on the ground that such
separation would be inimical to the Catholic
religion.-In all the Roman Catholic churches
in Ottawa, Canada on Sunday of last week, a
mandament was read from the Bishop of OF
tawa denouncng the knights Of Labor, Tele-
graph Operators Union and all secret societies.
1t is reported that the Immediate release
of Poundmaker and the alf-breed prisoners at
Sydney Mountain Penitentiary, Canada, has
been decided upon.-An Express train on
the Northern Railroad at Toronto, Canada, was
wrecked by running into team of horses. Two
of the trainmen were killed and number of
passengers badly iured.-The Car of Russia
has caught the amateur photograph craze,
and goes about taking negatives of every friend
he meets.-M. DeLcsseps was welcomed last
week at Panama by great crowds of people, who
turned out to witness his entry into the city.
1t is reported that England is attempting
to buy from Turkey the Island of Crete for the
sum of E3. .000,00l and that also in consideration
for the sale she offers to prevent Greece TAX
ing any aggressive measures against Turkey.
Lord Dutferin, the Governor General of
India, on Saturday last received a number of
Chinese merchants at Rangoop, India, and said
that although the United States Government
restricted Chinese immigration, the Chinese
were free to enter Canada as they were thrifty
and industrious citizens, and increased the
wealth aud welfare Of the people among whom
they dwelt. He hoped that large numbers of
the Chinese would settle in Burmah.-The
banking house of the Rothschilds has issued a
Brazilian loan of 100000. The interest is
placed at 5 per cent, and the price at 95-
Servia refuses to accept the treaty of peace
drafted by Bulgaria. The treaty has, therefore,
not yet been signed.-The marriage cf the
Arehduchess Maria of Tuscany to the Arch
duke Carl Stephen, brother of the Queen regent
of Spain, was solemniZed on Sunday last at Vi
enna.-Mr. Henry Stevens, the American
photographer, died at his home in London
Sunday last after long and painful illness.
Mr. Stevens was born in Vermont in 1919; was
graduated at Yale College III 1913 and at the
Cambridge law school in 1874, and had resided
in London since 1915, acting as agent in the
purchase of books for the Smithsonian Institu-
ton and the Congressional and other libraries.
He was the author of several photographed
treatise and catalogs.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Abbott Lawrence, assistant cashier of the
National Exchange Bank, Milwaukee, Wis,
was shot and dangerously wounded, Wednes-
day Of last week, by George A. Wardner, form
erly boohkeeper of the same bank. Wardner's
mind is thought to be affected.-Mrs. Wall,
colored woman, of East Carondelet. ILL.,, left
her children alone in the house on Monday of
last week. and during her absence the older
children lit pieces Of paper to amuse the six-
months-old baby. Its clothes caught fire and
the house and baby were burned As the
charred remains of the baby were taken from
the ruins the mother became insane.-The
quarters occupied by the Surgeon at the Navy
Yard, Pensacola, Fla, were destroyed by fire
on the 25th ult-Edward Farrs barn. at Sa-
lem, n. H., was burned or Wednesday morn
ing last. 1Ir. Farr succeeded in getting out
one horse and went back for another. Both
he and the horse were burned to death.-A
number of bankers were hunting last week at
Fort Worth, Tex, and during the chase the
horse OF Cyrus w. Lambert, of the Fort Worth
Nationsl Bank, stumbled, and rolling upon his
rider killed him.-James K. Winters a we'll
known young man, of Reading Pa. was found
dead in bed last week. He had committed sui
eide by fastening a rubber hose to the gas
burner, firmly fixing the other end in his mouth
and then turning the gas on.-Dr. Edward
III. Coates shot and killed DR.. A. B. Keith in
St Louis last week. Coates charged Keith
with alternating the affections of his wife,
Burglars, OH Thursday last, entered the house
OF DIR. Goucher, of Cleveland o.. and COM
menced operations by attempting TO chloroform
Mrs. Goucher. Her screams brought her
husband into the room and the robbers
fed. They succeeded in getting only $25-
John Schlesslnan, of Hamburg, Pa, committed
suicide by severing the artery in his wrist last
Friday. He had just returned from the funeral
of his only son.-Hastings It. Carneth, the
Detroit (Mich.) wife poisoner, was sentenced
last Friday 10 Is years in the penitentiary.-
The trial Of James c. Brown, in San Francisco.
for killing B. J. Shay on Oct % last, while the
latter was sitting at dinner in the Nevada
Restaurant with Mrs Brown and a friend was
concluded last week by the jury returning a
verdict of not guilty.-Dr. Gleason, of Cleve-
land, O., last week swallowed an ounce of car
bolic acid in mistake for whisky. lie died in
10 0ninutes.-Near Columbus Ark. last week
three negro boys got into an alteration over
the possession Of an ak. One of them, who was
armed with gun. started towards the other
two, but before he reached them tripped and
fell. The gun was discharged and one of the
boys instantly killed and the other probably
fatally wounded.-The Indian boys and girls
asylum near Steamburg n Y was burned on
Friday morning last. The AZ pupils and their
preceptors barely escaped with their lives-
d young man named Geo. Ellsworth, aged 90
years, jumped from the high railroad bridge at
White Oak Bayou, near Houston, Tex Efforts
were made by some workmen who were in the
ReighborhoOd to save him, but without avail
"Roblnson Kent was sentenced III the United
States Court, Ft. Smith Ark, to be hanged for
the murder OF Henry Rich, near Ft Washeita
Indian Ter, in May, 1884 Rich was the Post
master at Ft. Washeita whittier he was driving
the truck carrying the mail; he was fred upon
and Killed by some person in ambush and the
Jury have fixed the crime upon Kent, but upon
purely circumstantial evidence-The Su-
preme Court of Tennessee has sentenced James
Baxter, colored, TO be hanged at Lebanon on
April fer the lnurdcr Of Mrs. Margaret Lane
wealthy widow, on the 10Th of Sept. last
poor Hungarian woman went to the cinder
banks at the Reading Iron works on the 27th to
pick coal. Some hot ashes had just been dumped
on the bank, from which her dress caught fire.
The wretched woman was burned to DEATH
Gottlieb Lentz, well-to-do German, of Phila-
delphia, cut his wife's throat with a razor on
Sunday last, and then shot himself with re-
yolver, both dying almost instantly. The
tragedy was the result of jealousy on the part
of the husband. Lentz was So years of age,
and his wife 50.-R. J. Fitzgibbon, official
stenographer, committed suicide at Macon Ga
Saturday last. He WAS despondent because he
owed 81 ,000.-Frank Burgel killed his wife
at hassilOn, o., on the 9th ult, snd ESCAPED.
On the following morning, while the police
were looking for him, they found his lifeIess
body lying in the road near his home. He had
cut his throat.-The0dore T. Rich, Of New
York State, arrived in St. Paul, Minn Satur-
day last, and obtained an interview with his
wife Fannie who WIS living with A 7. Gala