The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-10-25

planted q pine tree near an oak planted
by General Grant In 1884.
WRIGHT SANFORD died on the 10th at
the Gilsey House, New York, of con-
sumption. He was q well-known club
and sporting man.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE report OF the grand jury on the
condition OF Howard County Qnd.) In
firmary, made public on the 10th, says
that the keeper has neglected his duty and
that the institution is in shamefully
filthy condition. The rooms are reeking
with dirt and fairly alive with vermin,
while the foodis totally unfit for human
beings. ~
Ar wayerly, Ia, Mrs. NJ z. Billings
was arrested, on the 18th, for alleged per-
jured testimony given by her in the trial
of her husband for the murder Of County
Attorney Kingsley last December She
is now in Jail.
On the 18th Mike Frederichs, dis
charged bartender, was arrested on sus-
picion of having fired the saloon and
dwelling of his former employer, J ohm
Barkenhagen, near Milwaukee, Wis, on
the morning of the 14uh. A bridge cross
ing the river near by was also burned.
HIRAM VIcKERY made q break for liber-
ty from the Folsom (Cal.) prison, on the
14th, where he was serving a forty years.
sentence for burglary, and was riddled
with bullets by the guards.
In Glasgow, Scotland, block OF bull d.
ings adjoining the one on Buchanan
street which was destroyed by fire, on
the 14th, collapsed the following morning
and was totally ruined. The loss on this
block is 100000
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France, on the 10th, the channel steamer
Vile de CALAIS, exploded her boilers.
The vessel was torn in two aud the for
ward part sank Immediately. 1t is feared
that several lives were lost.
WHILE passing through Wellesley,
Mass, on the 18th, passenger train on
the Boston 81 Albany railroad had mar
row escape from serious disaster by COM
ing in contact with a huge bowlder which
had fallen on the road-bed.
THE story that three deserters fro m the
German gun boat Moewe were killed nd
eaten by natives of Zanzibar, is declared
to be unfounded. The bodies of the
sailors were probably mutilated in ac-
cordance with native fetishism.
ANOTHER accident occurred on the
Lehigh Valley railroad, on the 10th, at
Tamand station, ON the Pottsville branch,
by which seven persons were killed and
twenty-six injured. A fast freight
plunged into construction train unload
ing ties.
NEAR Vevay, Ind, Mr.. Armstrong;
barn, with horses aud tobacco burned on
the 10th Loss, 10000.
Two BURGLARS, under the guise of white
washers, on the nth, gained entrance to
the jewelry brokerage office of w. w.
Maynard, of Boston, and secured watches
and diamonds valued at over 81, 200.
FoRrUNE-TELLER known as "Jeau-
nette" was burned to death in Denver,
Col, on the 10th, in the flames of her
clothing. ignited from q bursting kero-
sene lamp which she attempted to fill
while intoxicated. The house was also
consumed.
CHARLES r. MATTHEW'S, q city employe
of Springfield, Mass, was found in West
field, on the 18th, uffering from thirty
stab wounds in the breast, supposed to
have been self -inhtcte The physicians
gave no hope of his recovery.
CoUNT PREMIo REAL, the Spanish Con-
sui General for Canada, committed sui
eide by shooting, at Que bee, on the 18th.
He had been depressed in spirits, owing
to financial difficulties.
years, killed his nephew, aged four years,
at Albany, n. Y, by crushing his skull in
with shotgun, ON the 18th. The murder
or, who is thought to be insane, was ar
rested.
Boy burglars raided the bank at Rave ns-
wood, w. Va, on the night Of the 18th,
and got away with $500 or 800.
On the 18th four Galway Qreland)
moonliehters were sentenced at Wicklow.
Cahill got one years imprisonment at
hard labor, and Noon, Reilly aud Bran
nally nine months each.
WHILE attempting to board the propeller
ST. Louis, with mail and papers, +. X.
Stimson, aged forty two, postmaster at
Mackinaw City, Mich, was drowned by
the capsizing Of his boat, on the 18th.
A REAR END collision between two
frei ght trains occurred at Riverton, Ia,
on the 18th, in which several cars and an
engine were wrecked.
A GANG OF juvenile burglars has been
discovered at Saratoga, n. Y, having an
IRON clad oath, words, etc, in regu-
lar bandit style. A number of mysteri-
Gus robberies at that place are thus ac-
counted for.
THE coroner's jury Investigating the
Mud Run (Pa.) catastrophe, was in ses-
sion on the 10Th, but could not agree on
verdict.
on the 10th J. d. Mcclure, paymaster
for Contractor McFadden, who is build
ing q branch road for the Lehigh Valley
Company, and his body guard, one Flanni-
gan, were shot and killed by three
masked men in a strip Of woods on the
mountain near Wilkesb barre, Pa, and
robbed of $4,000.
AT Rochester, n Y, the business COM
munity was agitated, on the 10th, by the
announcement that II. s. Briggs, the safe
manufacturer, had mysteriously left the
city; that he was charged with forgery,
and that the sheriff had levied on his
property. The extent Of the forgeries is
unknown, but they will amount to at least
$l5, 600.
MISCELLANEOUS.
NEGOTIATIONS are complete by which
an Eastern syndicate viii, on the 1st Of
December, assume control of the street
railway lines Of the Milwaukee City Rail-