The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-01-21


Peterson, John Hood, Henry Nommuck, VIM.
Hassely, Alex. Jones and Henry Milliken.-
Jacob Leepcr, an inmate OF the Cincinnati
lunatic asylum, was strangled in bed on Satur-
day night by his maniac room mate.-A
cabin, containing six men, was carried away
near Ouray, Cal, Oh the 18th inst. by snow
slide Two of the occupants were killed and
the others severely hurt.-Henry Fear, aged
76 years, went to his home at Black Ridge, Pa,
Saturday last, kissed his wife, and then drew
dagger and stabbed himself fatally. BE was
suffering from melancholia. a freight train
on the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas
Railroad struck a cow Friday night last and
was ditched. Rudolph Hoefel, engineer, was
killed.
INDUSTRIAL.
A few years ago but little tobacco was raised
in Western North Carolina. In Ashevilie dur
ing the last three months l,032,273 pounds of
leaf were sold in the warehouses for SI07, 2G6,
an average Of S10.39 per 100 pounds. 1t is
thought that 100000 pounds of tobacco will
be sold in Asheville this scason.-The receipts
Of cattle in Chicago on Wednesday OF last week
were Is 400 head, the largest ever KNOWN
The investments made in the manufacture of
silk in Pennsylvania within the last y months
have amounted to nearly 50, 100000. Factories
have have been started at Easton, Bethlehem,
Mauch Chunk, Allentown, and In Monroe
CoGnty.-The miners and coke drawers OF
the Standard Coke Works, in the CoEnelsville
pa Region, demand a ten per cent. advance
in wages. The strike will probably become
genera.-The puddlers and helpers at S. Z.
Seifort's rolling mill at Naomi Station, Pa,
struck last week because the firm furnished
scaiy iron.-There were 301 failures in the
United States and % in Canada last week, a
total of 332, against $50 last week.
MISCELLANEOUS
At LeavenwortL, Iowa, there are 200 saloons
open in defiance Of the prohibitory law. 1t is
said each saloon pays the city $40 month for
the privilege Acknowledgement Bradford has
begun proceedings agiust the County Attorney,
Mayor and other officers, charging them with
collision with the whisky sellers, and asking
that they be removed from office.-A dispatch
from Deming, n. n, states that the Territorial
Government is negotiating with Col. Baylor, of
Texas, the noted Indian fighter, TO raise body
OF rangers to come over to New Mexico and cX-
terminate the numbering Apaches Two
young Arapahoe Indians from the Buffalo
Agency, Wyoming, were incarcerated in the
Joliet Ull.) penitentiary last week to serve
sentence for year for killing beef while they
were suffering for food.-Miss Lillian A. Rise,
the beautiful daughter of Geo. d. Rise, bank
cashier of Lebanon. Pa, has disappeared from
her home VIM. Bell, an iron m0ulder, has also
gone away, and it is rumored they were married
in Camden, n. J. Mr. Rise was recently rob-
bed CT $4,000. 1.-The order introduced in the
San Francisco City Council Oh Monday of last
week, by Supervisor Farwell prohibiting sand
lot meetings, was defeated by vote of eight to
four, on the ground that it was in contra
venticn of the Constitution of the United States
to trench on the rights OF free speech
The Supreme Court of New Mexico, consist
ing of Judges Long, Brinker and Henderson,
on Thursday last unanimously decided to rec
ognize Col. VIM. Breeder as Attorney General.
Two months ago Gov. Ross attempted to re-
move Mr. Breeder, Republican, whose time had
not expired, and appoint n. b. Mclaughlin,
Democrat. Mr.. Breeder contested the case in
court-In New Orleans last week seven of
the aldermen were committed to Jail for ten
days by Judge Brighton for contempt of court.
The offense of the aldermen consisted IN refus-
ing TO vote for an ordinance providing for the
payment of witness fees in the celebrated Ford
and Murphy murder trial. under Judgment of
the Court.-A bill was introduced III the Vir-
ginia Senate last week to allow railroads to en-
ploy convict labor-A ranch owner at River
side, Cal, recently bored an artesian we'll at a
cost of something less than $4,000. He now
has splendid stream of water on his place,
and the profits arising froat his rent will equal
more than 100000 a year-The four Newark
children who went to Paris to be treated for
hyGrophObia by Pasteur have reached home in
excellent health Mrs. Ryan, the mother of one
of the patients, who went in charge OF the chill
dren, gave birth to child on the return voy-
age.-In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
on Friday counsel for Milton Weston, the
Chicago millionaire, convicted of being Access
sorry to murder in Allegany County, made
motion for a further stay Of proceedings,
the defendant having been sentenced to
four years in the penitentiary. Mr.. Wes-
ton was claimant for certain land, and in
order to secure the right of possession he en-
c2mped body Of men upon it, resulting in a
fight III which one man was killed.-At
Jersey City, on Friday last. the jury in the
libel suit brought by Rev. Henry Z. Decker
against the widow Of eX-Congressman Ferndon
damages gave the plaintiff verdict for
$S.0G0.-A shock resembling that of an
earthquake was felt at Bordentown, n. j., on
Friday last, lasting about three seconds.-The
cold spell tn roughout the country has caused
great damage to shipping in the harbors Great
trouble has been occasioned among the shipping
many ships getting to their docks with great
difficulty on account of the ice. In one in
stance a tug-boat Captain Of New York de-
m3nded $1,000 to tow foreign bark from the
Highlands to her wharf at Brooklyn. He finally
accepted 5000, and did the work in two hours
and half-The bill Of Undertaken Stephen
Merritt for the Grant funeral-$I4. 163. 75-has
been paid.-John Kelly, the noted leader of
Tammany, is believed to be dying.-Marie
the age Of 125 years. She was born in Africa,
and brought to Louisiana in her Goth year,
where she was sold as a slaye.-The trustees
OF the Grant monument at Chicago have de-
cided TO erect an equestrian statue in Lincoln
Park instead of a memorial arch, the funds at
hand being considered insufficient to erect
suitable arch.-At Ogden, Utah, Saturday
last, Apostle Lorenzo Snow was sentenced to
six months imprisonment and $500 fine IN each
OF three cases for violation OF the anti pol ygamy
laws. James II. Nelson received similar sen
tence in one case. James Taylor, on promising
to obey the law, was fined $500, but let off
without mprisonment.-Theh historical prop
erty known as "Jackson's Mills" in Lewis Co,
". Va, is advertised to be sold at public auc-
ton. This is the place where Stonewall Jack
son spent the days of his boyhood with his
uncle, Cummings Jackson. lie lived there
when he was appointed constable for Lewis
County, and that was his home when he left
for Washington and obtained his appointment
TO West Point.-A. N. Bowling, the Ken
lucky mountain desperate, who shot and killed
John Gill in February last. mas been sentenced