The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-11-15
Pnrmrn GnrrswAr moved in the Mani


commission to investigate the charges Of
corruption which have been freely made
against him and the Manitoban Govern
ment
On the 9th Henri DeBamberger, the
noted Austrian physician, died at Vienna
A MAJORITY for Harrison in the Elec-
toral College of seventy-seven is in
dicated by the latest returns.
The explorer Nansen has accomplished
his perilous journey across Greenland
ON the inland ice, and has arrived safely
at Godthaab, on the west coast OF Green
land. The journey was made on snow
shoes and was for the purpose Of explor :
ing the unknown interior OF Greenl and.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the night OF the 4th an incendiary
fire wiped out three Of the largest busi-
ness blocks in Gary, Oak.
AT Tacoma, w. T., on the 4th, sixteen
sailors of the ship Hecla, which arrived
loaded with wheat for Great Britain, en-
tered suit in the District Court against
Captain Snow Of that vessel for cruelty,
Their allegations of ill-treatment and
starvation are blood-curdling.
On the morning of the 9th an explosion
of gas occurred in the Starkville (Col.)
coal mine wrecking the mine and killing
two men. Had it occurred an hour
later fifty men would doubtless have per-
ished.
On the 5th, while Mrs. Stuysanka, Of
Abbeville, S. c., was out driving. the
horse became frightened and backed the
buggy off bridge, and Mrs. Stuysanka
was killed by the fall.
AN express on the North & West Branch
railroad ran into wildcat engine at Nes-
copec, Pa, on the 5th. Engineer Samuel
Dietrich and his fireman, George Steulitz,
of the passenger train, were probably
fatally injured. The baggagemaster also
sustained serious injuries.
WIN. PARKEs, regis ter Of deeds Of Nell
son County, OAK, is reported to have alb
seconded on the 5th, with $40, 1000, which he
had secured by mortgaging his property
two or three times over, escaping detec-
ton by neglecting to index the mort
cages.
On the 9th Henry Lindeman, of Albany,
N. Y, laborer, aged forty, shot and
killed his fourteen-year-o old son, Willies
for quarreling with his brother.
A TELEGRAM from London of the 9Th
said: 'Severe gales are prevailing on the
coast of Great Britain. Many wrecks of
NesS6lS arc TcpOEbcu, put uo ifoo al .
known to be lost as yet"
On the 7th the fishing schooner Gold
smith Maid, with 80, 900 pounds OF fresh
fish, was run into and sunk in Boston
harbor Peter Landry and Howard Mon
roe, of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, who were
asleep in the forecastle, went dowE with
her. The rest of the crew escaped.
ON the 7th reports were received at St
pafa hur Of fayr anpidant
on the Southern Russia line near KoveL
1t is stated that many were killed.
NEWS has been received from Calcutta
of the sinking of ferry boat in col
lision. Sixty persons were drowned.
On the 7th reservoir at Montreaux, on
the Lake of Geneva, used to work an
electric railway, burst, destroying nu-
merous houses and drowning many per-
sons. Seven bodies have been recovered.
AS result OF the election excitement,
a serious riot occurred, on the Sth, be-
tween the negroes and whites at Ports
mouth, Va Several persons were wound
ed and much bad blood engendered-
A MAN named Jules Leese and an un-
known boy were crushed to death by
fall of slate at the Willow Grove Coal
Mines, near McDonalds, Pa, on the 9th.
OK the 9Th, in freight collision on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad a little west
Of GAINESVILLE, o., Engineer Dennison of
the west bound train was killed, and the
engineer of the east bound train is re-
ported fatally injured. One fireman was
also badly injured. The loss to the COM
pany is heavy.
NEAR White Bear, Mimi, on the 9th,
south bound st Paul 81 Duluth freight
train broke in two. and the rear section
crashed into the forward portion. The
shock overturned the caboose stove, and
the car caught fire. Conductor Burke, Of
Minneapolis, was pinned in the wreck,
and burned to death.
THE recent accident TO the Cars tr ain,
1t is stated, was the work of Nihilists in
an attempt to assassinate their ruler. The
many arrests which have taken place
since discredit the carefully promulgat-
ed theory of accident.
A srEERAGE passenger named Caroline
Rose, on the National Line steamer
Egypt, committed suicide by jumping
overheard at sea on the 9th ult
ON the 9th an unknown man jumped
into the river from Prospect Park at
Niagara Falls, and was carried over the
falls and lost.
Four men were thrown to the ground,
two being killed and the others severely
injured, by the falling of a mason's scat
fold in the Weed building, at Stamford,
Conn, on the 9th.
On the 9th Michael Klonn, the second
victim OF the recent boiler explosion at
the Lancaster (Pa.) Chemical Works,
died from his injuries.
On the night of the sth another atrocious
woman murder, with the usual disgusting
butchery of the remains, was perpetrated
in Spitalfelds, London. AS before the
police are impotent.
A FIRE, with loss of life which may
reach between fifty and sixty, occurred
in the Rochester IN " Steam Guage and
Lantern Works on the 9th.