The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-04-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The News from All Parts Of the
World.
ABROAD.

continues The American Consul protested,
but no notice has so far been taken OF the pro-
test LAWYERS declare the act of the Govern
ment unlawiul.-The British Government
has expended $4,000 in exterminating the
locusts on the Island Of Cyprus. The object
has been accomplished, and the expenditure
has been several times repaid in the value of
thecrops savcd.-Tho top story OF the Toronto
Mai building. occupied by the Bel Telephone
Ccmnauy, was burned on Thursday last; loss
$4,000 storm prevailed at the time. II is
supposed the fire originated through the tele-
phone wires becoming dsarranged.-On Feb
ruary D the roof of a theater 1T Heromal,
japan, fell ia owing &c the weight o! snow upon
it. performance was in progress, and a large
audience had assembled. 4 terrible scene en-
sued One hundred and fifty bodies were taken
out Of the debris. aud several hundred people
were iniured.-Greece still continues to be a
frebrand in Europe She is pushing forward
the war preparations with great activity, and
il IS believed by the aid and encouragement OF
Dussia-Jamcs Gordon Bennett will steam
among the Grecian Islands in his yacht and go
thence to the Iudian Ocean, where he will re-
main several months-By q decree of the
Peruvian Government the third centennial of
the birth of Santa Rosa, of Lima, is to be cele-
brated with great pomp on April 80. This Is
the only American saint that has been canon
lied by the Catholic Church.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A young lady Of Petersburg, n. J., was lately
poisoned by wearing red stockings. Her limbs
swelled and she became insane, and last week
she died after frequent srasms.-ienry W.
Reiter, IS years Of age. an old resident OF South
Brooklyn. committed suicide last week at his
residence by shooting himself in the mouth
with pistol.-Al Bennett was shot and in
stantly killed on the 3lst ult. at Memphis,
Tenn, by woman named Porter, with whom
be had been living.-Near i Youngstown, Tex,
last week, a man named Lawlor shot and killed
Tom Purl. whom Lawlor attacked for seducing
his daughter.-Ramsey Gregory was fatally
shot in Bay City Mich, last week, by a burglar.
Last week three men and woman were
drowned while attempting TO cross the Tuck
sseigee River near Charleston, \. C. The men
all drunk.-W. E. Sinclair, late treasurer
of Barnum's show, has disappeared, and, it is
reported by the New York papers, took with
him S6500 of his employers money.-Capt.
Brown Harrison, prominent citizen of Cook
County, Texas was killed last week near Big
Springs Polk County by negro desperate
named Hamp Butler, whose capture Harrison
was attempting to effect.-Rev. John t.
Stultzfus, of Bareville, Pa, was instantly
killed while standing on the railroad watching
freight train pass. He did not hear an ex-
press train coming in an opposite direction, and
was run over.-William Postell, OF Atlanta,
Ga, while walking in the outskirts of the city
one night last week was seized by masked
men, dragged into wood, tied to tree robbed
and left. He remained there until Thursday
morning, when some negroes fortunately passed
within sound of his cries for help.-Valen-
tine Sanford, boy IA years old, was convicted
OF the LIST inst. of murder in the first degree at
Henrietta, Clay County, Texas The punish
ment was assessed at life imprisonment. The
boy shot his mother.-Bryant b. CraDdall, of
Buffalo, " Y, committed suicide last week by
jumping over Niagara Falls.-JOseph Baker
entered a restaurant at Conneaut, O., Oh Friday
night last and attacked James Wagner, the
night clerk, knocking him down and beating
him almost to death before he could make the
least resistance. After desperate struggle Wag
ner secured a revolver and shot his assailant
through the heart, killing him instantly. The
COrOner'S jury pronounced it a case of JuStlhable
bomicide.-While visiting the ore mine of
the Phoenix Iron Company at Beyertown, Pa,
on Friday last, Eddie Mory was seized with
dizziness and fell forward down the slope, roll
ing 100 feet to the bottom. As soon as possible
the engineer was summoned a Car lowered and
the boy brought to the surface Strange to
say nc was not dead. lie is. however, so badly
cut about the head, bruised about the body and
injured internally that he is not likely to re-
cover.-Three children were playing on a
fatboat on dam at Annville, Pa, on Friday
last, when it broke from its moorings, and the
youngsters fell into the water. Mrs. Showers
saw their peril aud, wading into the dam up to
her neck, succeeded in saving two of the chill
dren. but the third, fve-year-old son OF Thos.
BruR, foated ont into the stream and sank.
The body was recovered after two hours search.
Willie Tweedle of Walton, n. Y, died
last week from lockjaw, caused by puncturing
his wrist with piece of clover stubbe.--A
fire occurred in the laundry of the Planters
Hotel in st. Louis, No, on Sunday last Four
servant girls were burned to death.-Ned
Caldwell had dispute yesterday with James
Benford over a yoke of oxen, at Courtney,
Texas. Caldwell was unarmed, and Benford
shot him twice in the body and put bullet
through his brain as helay PROSTATE He then
made his escape-Edward Nicklin, of Pitts
burg, Pa, fatally assaulted his wife on Saturday
night last while returning from party.
INDUSTRIAL.
The corucob industry has been developed
TO such an extent in portions of Missouri for
smoking-pipe purposes that the annual crop of
corncobs has become more valuable than the
annual corn crop.-Since 1880 the industrial
establishments in Kansas have increased from
200 TO 500, and in capital from 100000 to
$l90J00G0 with an annual product at present
of S3l, 000,000.-A farmer in Florida has 40
acres of cabbsges on the reclaimed land on Lake
Tahopekaiiga, and has been offered 81, 900 for
his crop. He declines, and expects to get nearly
twice as much by shipping. 1t will take $50
cars tomove the crop-The richest silver ore,
in largest bodies ever discovered in the United
States, has been struck in the Iron Hill Mine,
al DGau"OOu, H. L. Mucn OF Ii assays lo,UUU
ounces to the ton. A five-foot breast has been
opened.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr.. 4. Haller Gross delivered lecture in Phil
adeiphia last week the life and services OF the
late Gen. w. ). Hancock. Over $3.50 vas realized
from the lecture for the fund for the relief of Mrs
Hancock.-Mrs Bore, widow Of T. A. Borie
Secretary of the Navy under Gen. Grant, died
in Philadelphia last week.-The steamship
Gulf Of Akaba. from Hueva to New York, is
SO far over due that she is believed TO have gone
down. She had a crew of Sd men. and. to-
gether with cargo, was worth about S2j0,J0
john L. Lurking, noted hotel proprietor
and beer brewer OF Stapleton, S. l., died in the
opcTat!ng-rOoiu Of Dr. Fred. f. Lange's private
hospital in New York last week, under the in
fucnce OF chlorcfOrm administered by DR..
AdOlph Won DueTjng, DR.. Langes assistant,
previous to contemplated surgical operation.
1t is claimed that no blame attaches to the
physician. The Philadelphia Citizens Com
mittee in aid of the Irish parliamentary fund
on Thursday last closed its work by sending to
Rev. Dr. 0Reilly, Treasurer of the National
League OF America, draft for $50 000.-In-
formation has been received at the Department
of State from the nsul-General at Havana of
the reduction Of the duty an American yeilo2;
wrapping paper imported into Cuba TO the lowest
rate of the tariff.-PTof. Foster, meteorolo-
gist, late Of Iowa. predicts that great storms
viii pass over the United States in rapid sue
eession during the last 10 days Of April, and all
shipping interests, especially in the Northern