The Russellville Democrat., 1888-01-26

many years, tsndered his resignation, and was accepted on the 20th, to take ef- e' February l5 John s. Bell, formerly l C f police of Newark, N J., will sue ceea n.
 1 IT is ascertained that the virtual, if not actual, expulsion of ex-Queen Isabella 1 from Spain is due to the discovery of a l plot to place her upon the Spanish throne as regent pending the arrival at the age of majority of her grands on, the baby King Alfonso XIII.
 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. 1 tJN the night of the 18th Hattie Ora : | ham, an inmate of the Knox County (O.) | infirmary, jumped from fourth-story window and was instantly killed It Is l thought she was trying to escape. 1 IN Custer County, Neb., so say dis patches, fifteen persons perished in the | recent storm alone. The loss of stock is said to be enormous.
 | ON the night of the 17th, by the explo- sion of kiln in the japanning room of i W. 6 E. T. Fitch's foundry at New Haven, l Conn.,, the building was set on fire and | damaged to the extent of SIC, 900; fully l insured.
 | ON the 17th a fatal wreck occurred fif- l teen miles east of Lima, O., to west 1 bound passenger train on the Lake Erie l & Western road, caused by broken rail. 1 John O. Gilbert, of Fostoria, was killed and several other passengers were in : 1 jured.
 ON the 18th Edward J. Coffey, convict | ed of the murder of Policeman Evans at | Allegheny City, Pa, was refused a com mutation and committed suicide. 1 A STAY in the case of Daniel Driscoll. l who was sentenced to be hanged on the goth, was refused by the New York Court 1 of Appeals, but Governor Hill granted a respite of three days.
 1 AT Detroit, Mich, W. J. Swan, an em- 1 ploye of Messrs. Smith & Co.,, one of the largest jewelry houses of that city, is said i to have been detected in stealing dia- monds and other jewelry. The firm will l not prosecute, out of regard for his l family.
 l ON the night of the 17th Robert Orme, a farmer of the township of London, Ont, ! while returning home from the city, was waylaid murdered and robbed. There is l no clew to the murderer
 l Ar Albina, Ore, the roundhouse, ma chine and blacksmith shops of the North ern Pacific Terminal Company were burned on the 18th. Loss, 45.000; insur- ance, $25, 900. Seven Oregon Railway and i Nav gation locomotives were damaged and passenger coach burned. AT Rochester, N. Y, on the 18th, James | Grinder attacked his wife with hatchet, inflicting three savage wounds in her head. Thinking he had killed her, he ran to the crossing of the Buffal o, Rochester 1 & Pitt burgh railway, and threw himself in front of rapidly dly-approaching locomo- tive. He was instantly killed He leaves | l,sl Cs,.t,, T
 WHILE being taken from South Russia to the Caucasus, a convoy of prisoners mutinied and attacked the engine driver. 1 The train was stopped, and desperate fight ensued, in which eight soldiers, two gendarmes and thirty one prisoners were killed. Twen ty-one prisoners escaped.
 Is Ireland Mrs. Crooke, cousin of Dr. Cross, who was executed recently, has been arrested on the charge of starving her husband, gentleman of property, aged fifty seven, who died q short time l ago.
 AT Butler, Pa. John Mathio, French men, and Belgian named Aix, fore man at the Standard Plate Glass Works, were almost instantly killed while plac- ing sheet of glass in position on the grinding plate, on the 18th.
 ON the 18th Edward Coffey, the com demned murderer who cut his throat in his cell at the Alleghany County (Pa.) ] jail on the 18th, was still living and may recover. His condition is much improved, but be is not out of danger, and change may come at any time either for better or worse.
 FoUR THOUSAND Chinese workmen, un- der command of several mandarins, were engaged making "A breakwater to stem Hoang Ho floods, and were engulfed by a sudden rush of water and only a few | escaped.
 ON the 18th the house of August Wint. ross, ten miles west of Duluth, Minn., as burned, and the family were obliged to trudge nearly mile barefooted and in their night clothes to neighbor's house. All were badly frozen. Farmer Win tross will probably lose his feet and legs. A school teacher living in the house was also seriously frozen.
 ON the 20th James E. Nowlin was hanged at Cambridge, Mass, for the mur- der of Geo. A. Goldman, his employer, Jan uary 1, 1887.
 ON the 20th the day express on the Pennsylvania railroad struck two men on in Carnies' tunnel near Meensboro, Pa, and killed them instantly. Their remains were mangled beyond recognition, but it is supposed they were tramps.
 ON the 20th Rear Admiral Louis Hutton Verseterme, of the British navy, com mitted suicide at Falmouth in fit of in' sanity. He entered tho service in 1850 and became Rear Admiral in 1886, He was on the retired list.
 ON the 20th Judge J. Z. Kinney, agent of the Santee Indians in Dakota. arrived at Nebraska City, Neb., after being nine days on the road. He reports that loss of life by the late storm has been greatly underestimqted, and believes Dakota's death record will reach 1000.
 ON the morning of the 20th John Palm CT, assistant millwright at Oliver Bros. & Phillips iron mill, at Pittsburgh, Pa, was dragged into the rolls and crushed to death. Palmeriwas oiling the pinion bear ings when his feet slipped and before he could recover himself he was caught In the rolls and drawn through feet fore most.
 AN organization of toughs, who have long been the terror of Crawford County, Ind, known as the White Caps, have committed another outrage. They went to the house of Wesley Meeks, Bap tist minister, dragged him from his bed and whipped him most unmercifully. They told him he was not providing for his family well enough.
 ON the night of the 10th Hattie Olney, of Vanderbilt, Mich, threw her sky year old child from Michigan Central train, near Lapeer. The child was found cut in two Tine woman, who is a cripple and uses a crutch, was arrested shortly after the arrival of the train at Bay City. She claims that the child was dropped acci- dentally.
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 Ar Rochester, N. Y., the long strike of shoemakers, which has continued since November l. has collapsed, the men re- turning to work at the manufacturers terms.
 Ar Berlin several Italian staff officers