The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-02


 dler, who made arran gements for the ap- pearance of Patti in the City of Mexico, and then absconded with the money. Bourton is now in New York awaiting a hearing before a United States commits sioner.
 ON the 2Tth the steamer City of New York, from China and Japan, entered the harbor of San Francisco flying a yell low flag. Three cases of small-p pox were found on board The purser contracted the disease before the steamer started and was left at Hong Kong. A lady cabin passenger died on the passage. The steamer has been placed in quEr. antine.
 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
 GREAT sensation has been created throughout the State by Governor Lowry's veto of the Mississippi Consti- tuition bill.
 ON the night of the 24th fire broke out in o. G. Kings shoe store at Newark, O., and it was completely gutted The loss on building and stock is estimated at $150,0
 ON the night of the 23d another crime was committed in the streets of Brooklyn. Mrs. Jennie Geary, thirty years of age, was assaulted by her hus band, from whom she was separated, and her throat cut from ear to ear.
 ON the 24th, by an explosion of gum powder at Brest Ltovski, in Russian Po- land, eleven persons were killed and thirty injured.
 ON the night of tue 23d the wine cellars al Put in Bay island, Lake Erie, were de stroyed by fire, causing loss of about $75, 900, on which there is an insurance of S50,000. The cellars were erected in 1871, and had capacity of 175, 900 gallons.
 EARLY on the morning of the 24th the house of Israel Evans, Q license inspector at Chatham, Ont, was shattered by dynamite. No one was hurt but the house was badly damaged. The police have arrested man who had loaded revolver and fuse and caps for dynamite cartridges in his possession. Three other persons are also detained on suspicion.
 ON the night of the 25th a fire at s. 95 and 97 William street, New York, re- suited in the destruction of property of the value of $f00,000.
 IY the Wellington collery explosion, which occurred at Victoria. B. O., on the 24th, it is bel eved that nearly ninety lives were lost. Three-fourths of the men yet in the mine are Chinamen. How the explosion took place is mystery
 ON the night of the 24th. during the great storm in Nova Scotia, the post office at Annapolis was burglafzed of S10,000. A dwelling house at Boulanders was burned and three persons lost their lives by the fire.
 ON the 25th Isaac N. Stanley, who, as paying-teller of the Natl onal Bank of Commerce. Of Cleveland, O., embedded Sl00,000 of the banks funds in 1886, and lost the money in wheat speculations, was sentenced to five years in the Ohio peniten tiary by Judge Welker of the United States District Court. The prison CT confessed his crime.
 Ar Newark, O., the fire that broke out on the night of the 24th, was got under control at three o'clock the next morning, and was entirely subdued by daylight. Besides the complete de struction Of O. C.. Kings hat and shoe store, considerable damage was done to Sprague's jewelry store, D. L. Jones, hardware, and Crane Bros, millinery. The total loss is esti- mated at $200, 900.
 THE young Nebraska school teacher, Miss Shattuck, who was so badly frozen during the recent blizzard, has had both of her lower linn bs amputated.
 IT is reported that nearly one hundred bodies have been taken from the Yelling ton (B C.) mine, where the explosion oc- curre ed on the 24th.
 DURING the night of the 25th the schooner J. Kennedy arrived at Newport, R. 1. Her captain reported that there were about fifty vessels in the ice on the shoals It is feared that they all went ashore.
 Ar n. m. on the 26th the Now York Central station at Niagara Falls, N. Y., containing the American express, bag gage, carriage offices and the train house, caught fire and was burned to the ground, involving loss of S50,OO0.
 ON the 27th pictures valued at Sl5O, 00l, in transit in a close van, were destroy ed by fire in London.
 ON the 27th cable car got away from the gripman on down. grade on Sel by avenue, St Paul, Minn.. ran off the track and was smashed to pieces Two or three persons were fatally injured and fourteen badly,
 ON the 27th Charles Foster, of Jim. town, I. T., committed suicide by tying one end of rope around his neck and the other to rafter extending from the end of a barn, and jumping of,
 ON the 27th fatal boiler explosion oc. cured at Downs mill, Marion County, Ga. Brit Down and Charles Brown were instantly killed. and Andrew Smelling had his thigh broken. All were negroes.
 AT the work house in Kansas City. Mo, Charles Ward, confined on heavy fine, has been identified by J. H. Orloif as one of two men who robbed him on the street on the night of December 23.