The Springdale news., 1888-08-10

THOSE who were with General Sheridan when he breathed his last were Doctors O'Reilly and Matthews, Sisters Justiaua and Urban, Mrs. General Sher idan and the devoted servant Klein.
 CARL NoN DooNER, of Vienna, Austria, has accepted command of an expedition to go in search of Henry Nj. Stanley.
 THE one feeling throughout army circles respecting the death of General Sheridan IS of deep sorrow at the loss of re- spected commander and beloy d friend
 As THE next highest in rank to General Sheridan, General Schoield assumed command of the army without being directed to do so by the President.
 LARGE delegation of North Stafford shire Liberals will be received by Mr. Gladstone at Hdwarden, Wales, on the 18th, when the Burslem Liberals will present the ex-Premier with handsome vase as specimen of the product of the district Special trains will be run for the occasion from the potteries.
 PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, on the 9th, as mark of respect to the memory of Gen eral Sheridan directed that the National flag should be displayed at half-mast over all the buildings of the executive de- partments in the city of Washington until after the funeral.
 ON the Gjh the Dublin Court of Appeals refused to grant wIit of habeas corpus for Mir. Dillon's release from prison, and confirmed his conviction.
 SPECIAL meetings of the Board of AL dermen were called by Mayor O'BfieH of Boston to take action on the death of General Sheridan.
 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
 EIpF nearly dPStrnua1 hs,ai l. ness portion of the city of Suffolk, Va, on the lst
 TERRIBLE forest fires were raging in the country about Ottawa, Ont, on the 3d, which it was impossible to check owing to the dryness of every thing combustible. Villages and farm property in the vicinity were in imminent danger of destruction.
 Os the Sd a quarrel between the fami- lies of Thomas McNamara, a Cincinnati tea merchant and William Prout, livery stable keeper, terminated in the death, by shooting, of Prout.
 Os the night of the 2d Policeman Hans Hanson, of St Paul, Minn., was shot and killed by parties unknown. It is sup posed he was taken for a "foot- pad, " as his uniform was concealed by rubber coat.
 OS the 3d an explosion in an English fire works manufacturing establishment at Wandsworth partly destroyed the structure, and killed several female en- ployes.
 AT Terre Haute, Ind, on the 2d, Mrs. Junkins was found guilty of the murder of her sisters daughter, Hattie Debaun. Her son is under indictment AS an &C., cessery.
 THE only causes assigned for the sui eide of Walter Brad shaw. of Washin gton, on the 2d, are liquor and quarrel with his father.
 UNITED STATES MARSHAL MCDONALD, on the arrival of the steamer Bothnia in Boston, on the 5th, arrested Felix Bruno, passenger, for robbing the Hamburg fGermany) post office O. S6, 0)9 on July 23.
 Ar io:20, on the evening of the 9th, General Philip II. Sheridan died suddenly of heart failure, It Nonquitt, Mass.
 Ar North Brooktield. Mass, Walter NJ. Leeds, alias John Bonney, one of old "Shang'' Draper's Boston gang of safe- blowers, was arrested, on the fth, for a safe robbery.
 ON the night of tho 4th the schooner Queddy, coal l-laden, from Lubec for Bos : ton, went on Handkerchief shoals Tn a gale. The crew were rescued
 NEAR Birmingham, Conn.,, on the 5th, John Boy Ian, aged ffty-six. was drowned while attempting to swim across the Heusatonic river.
 lSarack-eut near BirminSham Conn.,, on the 9th, twenty five pound can of blast ing powder exploded ill the arms of An tonio Devilts. Dennis Sullivan was blown down an embankment fifty feet high, landing on broken rocks at the bottom His eyes were blown out, and his throat was so burned by inhaling the fire that he could scarcely breathe.
 GENERAL EUDEs. formerly prominent member of the French Commune, wnlle addressing a meeting of strikers in Paris, on th5 9th, was stricken with apoplexy, and died almost instantly.
 Ar Baltimore, Md, on the 25th, John Schemmel, a German tailor, aged fifty five jumped into Jones' Falls, with suicidal intent, and firmly imbedded his head and shoulders in the mud at the bot tom of the stream
 AT Omaha, Neb., on the 4th, soldier named Hanson committed suicide because of unreauitted love. Just before taklug the fatal dose he attempted to shoot a young woman who had broken an engage ment with him.
 NEAR Omaha, Neb.. Olaf Preis, owner of summer resort called Preis' Lake. was shot and dangerously wounded by his brother Fritz, who was cleaning rife that he suppose to be empty, on the 5th
 WHILE going up Boston hal bor, on the night of the 9th. the steamer Gate City went ashore on Castle Rock, Castle Island.