The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-20
GRIMES AM, CAsUALTEs.


 GRIMES AND CAsUALTTEa. ON the 11th J. Colby Drew, the self confessed forger, was arraigned at Lynn,
 Mass, and pleaded Not guilty" He was held in 5000 bail for tho grand jury. BY the collapse of wall of the old hospital building at the Soldiers Home in Dayton, O., which workmen were en gagged in tearing down, two men were killed and several severely injured, on the 11th.
 FIRE destroyed tho entire business por- ton of the town of Harper, Ia, with the exception of one store and an implement house, on the 12th.
 INFORMATION has been received that the
 steamer Laurania, while entering the
 harbor of Port Luz. Canary islands, came into collision with the Italian steamer Sud America, from Montevideo, which
 was lying at anchor. The latter, which had on board 216 passengers and crew of sixty-seven, sank almost immediately. One hundred and eighty of the passen- gers and sixty three of the crew were rescued and safely landed. Only nine bodies were recovered.
 FIRE destroyed the Grand Opera House block in Syracuse, N. r., on the 18th. THE man who was run over and killed by Rapid Transit train on the Long Island road was identified, on the 18th, as John Ogden, retired hotel-keeper of Norristown, Pa Engineer Edward Locke
 has been held on charge of homicide. NEAR Tigerton, Wis, on the 18th pas- senger train on the Milwaukee, Lake
 Shore & Western railroad was wrecked
 by a broken wheel.
 THE steamer Nepaul, bound for China from London, went ashore, on the night
 of 18th, near Marseilles, France. All
 hands were saved. The captain, however,
 died shortly after from a stroke of apo plexy, which resulted from the severe
 shock the accident to his vessel caused him.
 NEAR Wichita, Kas., the body of J. C.. Treboul who disappeared two months ago, was found in thicket, on the 18th,
 with bullet hole in the head. It is
 thought that Treboul was murdered, as he
 was known to have money when last cen,
 and none was found on the body. THE losses sustained by the recent cyclone in Cuba foot up fully $10,000,000.
 Eight hundred lives were lost and 10000
 people are left homeless.
 FIRE destroyed the St James Hotel at
 Point Pleasant N. J., on the 18th The
 wife of Rev. H. R. Nye is supposed to
 have perished in the flames. Many guests
 narrowly escaped with their lives. FIRE destroyed two hundred buildings
 at Washburn, Wis, on the 14th. PETER RAMENsoN, of Racine, Wis.,, boat
 his daughter so badly, on the 18th, that it was thought she would not recover. FOR attempting to blackmail Rev.
 Dominick Shunk, Catholic priest at San TpI nA1 al fo P. Meyers, an ex-convict was sentenced. on the 14th, to three years in the peniten- tiary.
 Ar Fort Wayne, Ind, Charles Klein attempted, on the 14th, to shoot his wife, and failing in this, beat her head into a jelly with the butt end of his revolver.
 He then went into the yard and shot him. self through the temple. ExTELLER CHARLES A. PITCHER of the Union Bank of Providence, R. l., was
 convicted at Montreal, on the 14th, on a charge of taking stolen goods into Can. ada.
 Ar Dubuque, Ia., J. Below and l.. Mar tin, eighteen and twenty-two years of age, respectively, were arraigned, on the 18th, before the United States Commis- . | sioner, for robbing the post-ofice al Hazleton. They were unable to furnish
 bail, and were committed to jail. Below claims to be the son of Colorado judge. NEAR Hastings, N. Y., on the 18th, five persons were drowned in the Hudson river, while out in sail- boat which was
 swamped half mile from shore. A PARTY of four, composed of young
 men and women, were carried over Fair.
 mount dam in the Schuylkill river, al Philadelphia, on the night of the 18th, and
 two of them, Frank Caffrey and Minnie Luffty, were drowned
 ON the 14th one of the two men struck by Lackawanna train in Buffalo, on the 9th, recovered consciousness and gave his
 name as Thomas Hughes, and said that his companion, who was killed outright
 was Charles Fully, of Providence, R. l. ON the 14th Alex. J. Goldensen, the young murderer of his betrothed, was
 hanged in San Francisco. He was too | drunk to know what as going on at tho time.