The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-16

{ r z the House of Commons Some hot cross firing was iu9ulged in by Irish members.
 ON the 10th Captain zalinski delivered a lecture in the War Department library at Washington on his invention of the pneu- matic torpedo gun, it's shells and fuses.
 IT is said that Dr. McGl ynn, the excon- municated Catholic priest has withdrawn from the Henry George land movement. His withdrawal, it is claimed, will great ly strengthen the George party.
 OK the 10th the English police captured Mr. Pyne in London. Mr. Pyne is the Irish commoner who fortified himself in his castle and then dared the police to come and take him.
 HERR KRUPP, the rrent German found- CT, has received orders from Austria for 150 heavy guns, to cost 3,500, 900 horins. The guns ordered by Turkey and notpaid for will be utilized to fill the first install- nent of the order.
 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
 OS the 6.h five men were buried in the debris of falling blaming mill at Pitts burgh, Pa. One of the victims, Patrick Conroy, will die
 BRAVE Miss Louise Royce, a Nebraska school-teachef. three of whose pupils died in her arms during the recent blizzard, will loose both feet and portion of one arm as the result of exposure.
 ON the 9th Mrs. Hill and two children perished in the flames, and her husband, Geo. D. Hill, was badly injured, by the burning of their home in Bolivia. N. G. It is thought the fire was caused by nat ural gas by which the house was heated.
 oN the 9th the second trial of Mrs. Rob- inson, the alleged wholesale poisoner, commenced in Boston. fi vs3s@ i DR. STEPHEN and his wife, and MT. Robertson, Americans, were being driven to the Central depot to catch q train at Glasgow, Scotland, on the 9th, when the horses attached to their car riage bolted and threw the occupants ont. All three were injured. h.sa
 s. .fS. . oTMAN a prisoner in the Medina County (O.) jail, awaiting transpor tation to the penitentiary to serve a sentence of seven years for shooting with intent to kill committed suicide in peculiar man. ner on the 9th. He tore his handkerchief in two, rolled the pieces into balls, and pushed them down his throat choking himself to death.
 ON the 7th Feuton C. Rogers was killed and Mrs. T. NJ. Morgan critically burned in a natural gas explosion at the residence of the latter in Anderson, Ind.
 ON the 7th Jake Fulter, farmer of Bolivar County, Miss, shot and killed his son for attempting to interfere when he was beating his wife.
 ON the 7th an unknown man, about fifty-five years old, committed suicide at the. Forty -second Street station of the Third Avenue .(N. Y.) Elevated road. Just as n train was approaching he jumped on the track and placad his head on rail and was instantly killed. The engine aud two cars passed 3over his neck, and his blood was sprinkled over dozens of people passing on the sidewalk below.
 ON the 7th James Dodson. notorious counterfeiter, was arrested in Cumber- land County, Tenn, and committed to jail. The evidence against him is very strong.
 IN Southern California an Indiana fug tive from justice ran into a cactus thicket while suffering from delirium, re- centlv, and met with horrible death.
 ON the Sth John Weisser, a wealthy farmer near Pittsburgh, Pa. committed suicide by hanging. The deceased was worth at east S100, 000 and the verdict of the coroner's jury was that his mind be- came impaired on account of his having too much money.
 AT Woodbury, N. J., George Durham, who was convicted on the 9th, of the murder of his mother-in- law. Barbara Kand e, has been sentenced to be hanged on Thursday, March %.
 IT is learned from later news of the wreck of the Abercorn near the month of Columbia river, Washington Territory, on the night of the h, the number of the lost is placeed at twentv-two.
 A FEW days ago Charles Stewart, alias Tate, a Kentucky murderer, was sent to the penitentiary from Greensboro, Ky, for stealing hogs,
 ON the 9th John Hopp, his daughter, aged fifteen, and son aged nine years, were burned to death in the destruction of their home at Kutztown. Pa.
 ON the 9th the wife of Clarence s. D.. Bowers. worthless character living near Greenfield, N. H., died of starvation and exposure. On hearing of the death of his wife, Bowers went off and hanged himself ke8 .GAs8s w
 ON the 10th Morris B. Congden was con victed of n1ansIaughter at Courtland, N. Y., for killing his daughter's child.
 ON April next Edward A. Deacons will be hang for the murder ofMrs. Ada A. Stone, at Rochester, NY, last August.
 ON the 10th the north bound freight from Evansville, Ind. picked up an un- known man near St. James. He was senseless when found and was taken to Evansville, where his injuries wsre pro- nounced fatal The cause of bis injuries is unknown. It is supposed, however, that he fell off the midnight train.
 ON the 10th the powder mills at Wap- wallopen, a few miles from Wlkesbarre, Pa, blew up with terrible force, killing four persons and injuripg forty, others, many of whom will die. The concussion was felt for forty miles.
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 ON the Tth convention of delegates