The Springdale news., 1888-09-28
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
 THE body of German gen0arme, with a bullet-hole in the head, was found on French territory on the 18th. It is thought that the man committed suicide, but an investigation will be made.
 THE First Presbyterian Church at New Brun swick, N. J., was destroyed by fire, on the 10th. Loss, B, 5,000; Insurance, S3l, 500.
 NEAR Berlin. Wis, the cranberry ware house on Mackett's marsh, containing 2500 barrels of berries, was burned on the night of the 18th.
 A wANToN attack on an incoming passenger train on the Chicago & Alton road was made by Chicago hoodiums on the night Of the 21st. A shower of Jumps of coals and stones was thrown through the cur windows, and many passengers were seriously injured.
 JUDGE FArRALL, of Iowa City, la, sen- fenced Wm Orcu,t to ten years in the penitentiary, on the 20th, for atte mpting to wreck train for purposes of robbery on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway near that city a year ago.
 Two coLoRED men assaulted wen- dressed stranger on the streets of h. dianapolis, Ind, on the night of the 20th, fatally injuriag Him with blows with a piece of iron. A slip of paper, with civilian McGin. New York, ," written on it, was found in his pocket
 Ar Newark, N. J., during political meeting in the Bellevue Avenue Rink, on the night of the 20th, the music gallery fell, injuring eleven men and boys, some of them seriously.
 CONRAD SroRz, a prominent business J,ac J,.l I dead in his room at hotel in Scottsburg, on the 20th. His throat was cGt from ear to ear his pockets turned inside out, and his money gone. The officials are ln doubt whether it is a case of suicide or murder.
 TIE ferry boat Jay Gould upset a row boat in the North river, on the 23d. and Mathilda Hay, aged sixteen, and Jules Glaugande, aged twenty -four, both of New York, were drowned
 THE stables of the Consolidated Street Railway Company, of Columbus, O., were destroyed by fire on tue 23d. \ large number O. cars were destroyed, and thir- ty-one horses and mules were cremated.
 ON the morning of the g the body of a young woman, evidently another victim of the mysterious Whitech chapel butcher was found lying outside the doors at Gateshead. London.
 WHILE walking with his wife aud child on the Pennsylvania railroad track near Benvenue Station, Pa. on the 22I, Martin Grouse, being suddenly overtaken by 0 train, pushed his wiae from the track and threw the child into a ditch, which fell uuinjured, just as lie was struck and ground into shapeless mass by the loco- motive.
 ON the evening of the 24th the Royal Opera House in Pesth, Hungary, was to- tally destroyed by fire. There was no performance. and consequently no cas- ualties.
 A BAGGAGE-aAsTER on the Pittsburgh & Ft. Wayne railroad. named William Syms, committed suicide by shooting on his car, east bound, between Salem and Alliance, O., on the 24th.
 As THE through train from Albany, Y. Y., was passing Jauesyille, Mass, oa the 2fth, pistol shots were fired into it. Two windows were smashed, and the bullets were imbedded in the ear seats on which people were sitting.
 THE officials ct Marlborough House deny the report of the Princess of Wales narrow escape in Austria from being run over by railroad train.
 NEAR Brockville, Ont, on the o3l, five men were drowned by the sinking Of a sailing yacht in mid channel :,
 GEORGE FULL AYES, the pugilist died at Grand Forks, Dak., on the 23d, death resulting from a blow over the heart re- ceived ia recent prize fight with an ua : known.