The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-03-29

expected to be soon restored to his post.
ONE Of the most popular engineers on
pne Dakota Central railroad, Billy Edger-
ton. has fallen heir to thirty thousa and
dollars in England.
ON the 231 Henry Bergh, a nephew of
the late phil anthropist of that name, was
chosen President of the Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals, the
position which the elder Bergh keld from
the organization of the society.
on the 23d Jay Gould and party arrived
In New York.
OK the 23d a sudden fall in Bell Tele-
phone stock occurred, caused by the death
of Chief-Justice Waite.
On the oath x-Mayor Grace of New
York sailed for Europe.
On the morning of the 23d Chef-Justice
Waite of the Supreme Court of the United
States died suddenly at his home in Wash
ington.
THE frien Is of Jacob Sharp, the con-
victed New Y ork boodler, are making an
effort TO secure another trial.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ON the Goth, in New York City court,
Joseph II. Whipple. alias S. I. Mather,
the absconding president of the Pembroke
Knitting Mill Company, of Battle Creek,
Mich, was arraigned and held to await
the arrival of extradition papers. Mrs.
A. Tunney, a widow of Battle Creek,
was with the prisoner when he was ar
rested.
KENTUCKY is excited over the fact th at
"Honest Dick Tate" for twenty years
State Treasurer is an absconding de-
faulter A partial examination of his ac-
counts up to the Goth showed deficit of
$150,000, and it may reach 800 900.
THOMAS FLOWER, fifty nine years old,
an actor was found dead in his room at
No. 242 East Seventy fourth street. New
York, on the morning of the 20th The
gas was found turned on. and the police
believe it is a case of suicide.
OK the goth Allen o. Meyers, the de-
faulting witness in the Ohio tally sheet
cases, who was taken back from New York
and put under bonds to appear for con-
tempt of court, jumped his bond.
On the Goth man, who registered at
the Corcoran Hotel in Rockville, Md, as
William A. Bulto phi, of Atlanta, Ca, was
arrested on suspicion of being the muir
derer of Millionaire Amos J. Smell, of Chi
cago.
ANDREW ROBERTS, a rejected lover,
living near Henry's Crossroads, Tenn.
shot himself in the head with pistol,
on the 20th.
On the 2lst a coke train on the Pit ts-
burgh, Virginia & Charleston rail road,
ran into rock near Green Springs, ten
miles from Pitts burgh, Pa, and the entire
train was precipitated over an embank-
ment into the river, a distance of fifteen
feet. Several train hands were severely
injured
On the goth a devastating cyclone
pass ed over portions of the State of
Georgia, spreading death and destruction
in a II direct ions.
OK the 22d Ebenezer Stany ard, twice
convicted of the murder of Alice Han
cox, was sentenced by Judge Johnston, of
Youngstown, o., to be hanged, on July
13
On the 22d four men were killed and
three seriously injured in an accident on
the Northern railway near Severn, Ont.
OK the 22d it was stated that the short T.
age of State Treasurer Tate of Kentucky
would amount to $3.50, 900.
On the 21st Eagle Head, a well-known
Indian scout, and John Warden, white
hunter, were drowned under the ice while
crossing the Missouri river few miles
below Bismarck, Oak.
IT is reported that the list of deaths
caused by the burning of the Banquet
Theater in Oporto, Portugal, will reach
over one hundred.
OK the 23d John Mccoy, of Gibson
County, Tenn, killed his father by cut
ting his throat.
On the 23d Link Hunt pleaded guilty at
Mars hall, Mo-, to stealing twenty three
head of cattle.
On the 23d ]. w. Kirwin, a Wichita
(Kas.) policeman, accidentally killed
himself with his own pisto.-
On the 23d the body of Michael Dunn,
an inmate of the Soldiers Home, was
found under the steps of Jack Danlen's
saloon on National avenue, Milwaukee,
Wis. He was frozen to death while
drunk. He was about sixty years of age
and leaves family in that city.
AT Springfield, Mass, Judge Gideon
Weles, in his verdict in the case of the
eight persons killed in the fire at the
Union office, March Z, found that the
deaths were not the result of the unlaw-
full act of any person, and were therefore
Gcci dental.
AT New York w. L. Ellsworth, formerly
United States Consul to Egypt, was ar
raigned on charge of selling coupons
of the North Atlantic Steam Transporta.
tion Comp any, which Is said TO have no
existence.
OK the 23d James W. Sykes, the Chi
cago x-warehouseman, convicted of
issuing fraudulent warehouse re ceipts,
was refused new trial and sentenced to
three years in the peniteutiary.
On the 23d VIM. A. Norman, Nash
vile (Tenn.) gambler, was fatal y
wounded by shot intended for another
man.
AT New York the schooner 2. S. Wal
lingford, overdue, is supposed to be lost.
She was commanded by Captain b. f.
Nealy, aud had crew of five men.
DISTRICT. ATTORNEY FELLOWS of New
York City is reported as saying that one
of the indicted boodlers win be tried in
April, and ex- Alderman Cieary is thought
to be the man.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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