The Russellville Democrat., 1888-11-22


Mr. EDWARD HARRINGToN, NJ p, for
West Kerry, Ireland, has been summoned
for melting to boycottng. His trial Is
set for the 26th Of November
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
LAWYER JOHN F. KAvANAeH. Of New
York, has disappeared. He is under
charges of forgery in connection with APP
plications for rebate OF tax assess ments
on city property belonging to his clients.
IT is shown by the details Of the COLI
sion between the Cuuard steamer Nantes
and the German bark Theodore Rugar,
off the coast Of Cornwall, that twenty FIVE
of the Nantes crew and twelve of the lat
ter vessels occupants were drowned.
DISAPPOINTMENT over the election and
financial losses caused by it led Thomas
L. Bolts, an insurance broker at New
York, TO commit suicide on the 18th. He
died within an hour.
AN accident occurred on the Baltimore
s. Ohio railroad, on the 18th, ten miles
west of Grafton, w. Va, freight train
being derailed and a passenger train run :
ming into the wreck on account OF no flag
being displayed.
The houses of the Peoples Ice Com
pany of Dedham, Mass, collapsed on the
14th. Nearly dozen people were buried
in the ruins, all of whom sus stained seri-
Gus, and some perhaps fatal injuries.
ENGINEER VANKoRFF, OF the burned
Steam Gauge and Lantern Works at
Rochester, N. Y, has been arrested,
charged with setting fire to the premises.
AT West Superior, Wis, on the 18th, in
q quarrel on moving train, pistols were
drawn, and promiscuous fusilade fol-
lowed, in which four non combatants
were wounded, but none fatally.
MRs. FRANCES KNEcHT's residence at
Plymouth. Pa, was burned on the 14th.
Her two children persisted in the flames.
Upon learning of her loss the bereaved
mother became maniac.
UP to the 18th nineteen bodies have
been exhumed from tho ruins of the Lam
tern works burned ut Rochester, NJ Y, on
the 9th.
d. w. VAUGHN, a blacksmith of Dem
yer, Col, who acted as peace maker in a
sal oon fight in that city, on the morning
of the 14th, was followed by one of the
combatants and shot dead.
The French Government works at
Chatellerault for the manufacture of
small arms were destroyed by fire, on the
18th, causing a suspension in the manu-
facture of the Lebel rifle, the new French
arm.
PETER SHELLEY, well-known farmer
living near Lordstown, o., on the 18th,
deliberately shot and killed his aged
wife. They had been married sixty
years.
On the night of the 14th James Leroy
Cortelyan, proprietor of the Nassau en-.
W Hotel, was burned to death by the
exDlosion of a kerosene lamp
EON the 10Th Solon G. jenkins, of Wall :
ington, Conn, shot and killed Stephen
Anthony, his fatherin-la law, ag ed sixty,
and then attempted suicide, shooting off
his right ear.
DURING a fri endly wrestling match at
Atlanta, Ga, on the 15th between James
Hunt, recently -elected member of the
Georgia Legislature and II. S. Moore, q
railway mail agent, the latter became
angry and drew a penknife and Stable d
the former in the stomach, causing death
in a few minutes.
VIOLENT gales prevailed along the west
coast of Great Britain on the 14th and
18TH Numerous wrecks occurred, among
them the Norwegian bark Hypatia, which
went ashore near Holyhead. No lives
were lost.
VESSEL which sailed from Clutch, In
dia, bound for Bombay, with 900 natives
on board, is long overdue. 1t is supposed
that she foundered with all on board.
LOUIS HEMQUE ST, deckhand on the
barge s. C. Baldwin, was drowned as the
vessel was entering the canal at 5 ault
Ste. Marie, Mich, on the 10Th, and the
engineer Of the barge was scalded to
death on the down trip.
THE dome of the Glasgow (Scotland)
Exposition building was demolished and
the Ladies' Industrial department in the
structure completely wrecked during q
gale which prevailed on the 10Th.
SEVERAL days ago Herman Anderson
and young lady friend left ices Point,
Wis, in skiff, intending to go to West
Superior to attend dance. Nothing has
since been heard Of them, and it is sup
posed that they were drowned.
ON the 14th Captain John Miller, of
Jimtown, l. r., was killed by Jim Ables.
Captain Miller was seventy-two years old,
and is said to have killed thirty men dur
ing his life.
AT Circleville, O., on the 18th, three
young women were run down by pas
senger train on the canal bridge OF the
Cincinnati & Miami Valley railroad.
Emma Nickens jumped upon a striuger Of
the bridge and saved her life; Mamie
Tam lost leg and died from the shock,
and Allie Redman was instantly killed
and horribly mutilated.