The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-09

ON fhe 31 Callau and Harkins, the Irish l Americans, were convicted at London IS l dvnamiters, and each was sentenced to l fifteen years imprisonment.
 ON the 3d Mgr. Adam, of California, presented to the Pope a photograph oi 1 Gabriel, an Indian Catholic, ono hundred
 and forty years of age, for whom he asked
 a special blessing.
 ON the 3i Captain Ritchie of the State Line steamer State of Indiana was pre-
 sented, on behalf of President Cleveland,
 with gold watch and chain, and Camp
 bell, the first officer, with q binocular glass, for saving the crew of the ship
 Triumphant, of Bost abandoned at sea. l ON the 3d Prof Charles Linden, the naturalist, died in the Buffalo (N. Y.)
 Insane Asylum, aged fifty-six. He was
 prostrated by brain trouble while on a vacation trip to Carlton, Quebec, last
 summer, and never regained his mental 1 faculties.
 ON the 3d Herman E Harmon, an uncle
 of Mrs. President Cleveland Cher moth-
 er's brother) died at Charlestown, Mass. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. | ON the 30th two COW boys, named Ar thur and Potts, attempted t. run tie
 town of Buffalo Gap. a station on the
 Elkhorn road, in Dakota, when the citi
 gems turned out in full force and killed
 both of them. Who fired the fatal shots
 no one knows, nor wants to know. 1 Os the 30th John Welsh. Edward Will
 jams and Edward Kimberly were arrest ed
 at Baltimore, Md, on the charge of hav- | ing cut the throat of Rose Chaney, house.
 keeper for Welch. All the accused are
 known to have spent the night of the 2ath | t,.N tba mo al
 the 30th the woman was found dead in
 bed with her throat cut.
 Two German farmers, of Campbell
 County, Dak., named Fred and George l Cornell, while walking from Lagrace to
 Mound City, lost their way, Became ex-
 hausted, lay down to sleep and perished. ! The bodies were found the next day. ] ON the 30th Jacob and David Campbell, l father and son, of Jersey City, N. J.,
 while engaged shoveling snow for the 1 Erie railway at Hampton, N. J., were 1 struck by an express train. David was 1 instantly killed and his father sbockingly
 and fatally injured.
 AT Urbana, O.. on the 3lst. the limited express, west -bound on the Pan- Handle 1 railroad, ran into an open switch and col | lided with a switch engine. Both engines | were badly wrecked. Frank Brown, en gineer, and Charles M. Alhand of the pas 1 senger locomotive were fatally injured, l and Frank Shade, roadmaster, was killed. l The passengers all escaped.
 AT Richmond the buildings of the Vir- ginia penitentiary, leased by the Davis | Shoe Company of Boston, and operated
 as shoe factory, were discovered on fire on the morning of the 3lst. The flames spread rapidly, and despite the efforts of the fire department the buildings occu- pied by the shoe company were totally destroyed, together with the valuable
 machinery and stock; loss, 5000 IS connection with q recent bank break,
 a number of Toronto lOnt.1 bankers have been arrested on charges of felony. OS the 1st fire destroyed the mammoth dry goods establishment of Barnes, Hen- gerer & Go, at Buffalo, N. Y., and serious 1 ly damaged adjoining property, the loss being placed at S1 100000
 l ON the night of the 3lst Pat Burke, sen
 fenced for a term of three years for grand
 larceny, from Sioux City, hung himself
 in his cell at the Anamosa Qa.) peni
 tentiary. He used his suspenders for |. moose. .r ON the 2d two men were killed and sey eral injured by boiler explosion in l. 1 portable saw-mill at Gainesville, 0.
 ON the 2d two miners were overcome by l gas while descending the Geruania shaft 1 at Hurley, Wis, and fell to the bottom. l They were instantly killed.
 Ar London, on the 2d, the five Ameri-
 cans recently arrested for attempting a l big forgery scheme on the Bank of En- 1 gland, were examined and remanded for l trial.
 ON the 2d Robert c. Howell, general | superintendent of the general delivery department of the Philadelphia post-office, was taken into custody on warrant ! charging him with embezZlement in talk l ing necktie from package before the l same was delivered to parties to whom it ] was addressed"
 NEAR Cleveland, O., powdet-mill was
 blown to atoms on the 3d, nothing being | left but big hole in the ground
 On the Sd eight persons were found l dead in a house at Manchester, England. | It is believed they were poisoned.
 ON the evening of the 3d serious rioting 1 was reported from Shenandoah, Pa, 1 started by an attack of mob of men l and boys on the non-union miners as they
 were leaving their work. Several persons
 were wounded, and more trouble was ex- l pected.
 | ON the Sd farmer from near Dixon | Ill.,, q jed from drinking a liquid com | pound from fusil oil and alcohol, which
 was sold to him as whisky by a Chicago | drummer.
 l Ar Titusville Pa, the Elm Street ! schoolhouse, the largest in the city. built 1 in 1878. was completely eutted by fire on
 the morning of the Sd. The loss is about Sl5.000, mostly covered by insur- ! ance.
 ON the 3d Judge Woods. in the Federal | Court at Indianapolis, Ind, overruled the
 motion for a new trial in the case of Coy | and Bernhamer, the convicted tally-sheet ! conspirators. Coy vas then sentenced
 Co the penitentiary for eighteen months | and to pay fine of ff0Q. Bernhamer to
 one year and 10 pay fine of Sl000.
 Ar St. Joseph, Mo. female child, about one week old. was found dead in afl out
 house of the St. Lonis Rnelling bottiine
 works. by some employees of the hou'e. ] Bruises on the child's head and body show l that it was murdered.
 MISCELLANEOUS. l ON the 3lst the ice gorge at st. Louis | broke and did great damage to shipping l interests. The main boey of iee pas sed
 down the river during the night | Ar Toronto, Ont q society recently y 1 formed, styled The Lsagi of the Rose," | threatens toinstitute presentations against 1 all parties whom they can prove guilty of having contributed money to the "Plcn of the Campatgn," or ss ditious fluids,
 which, they claim, is illegal in any part 1 of the empire.
 Ar St Andrews bay the Dominion flsh'' cry cruiser Dream Is frozen in, and Aaino 1 fishermen are taking advantage of her l misfortune to fish inside the three mile 1 limit Reports from the bay state that Q large fleet of American vessels are fishing 1 in Canadian waters and that there k an
 abundance of fish. The local fishermen
 complain that through the severity of the cruisers Captain in carrying out his in-
 structions, they have suffered great loss,
 and that they would much rather Amori'
 cans fish in their waters than that the