The Russellville Democrat., 1888-10-04
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

 Opera House in Pesth, Hungary, was to- tally destroyed by fire. There was no performance, and consequently no cas- ualties.
 A BAGGAGE-MAsTER on the Pittsburgh & Ft Wayne railroad, named William Syms, committed suicide by shooting on his car. east bound, between Salem and Alliance, O., on the 24th.
 THE officials at Marlborough House deny the report of the Princess of Wales' narrow escape in Austria from being run over by railroad train.
 As THE through train from Albany, N. F., was passing tanesville, Mass, on the 94th pistol shots were fired into 1t Two windows were smashed, and the bullets were imbedded in the car seats on which people were sitting
 Ar Dubois, Pa., on the 25th, a keeper in Forepaugh's nenagerie was killed by his elephant
 AT Allegheny City, Pa, John K Lemon, aged sixty five, fell into the hands of two bunco men, or the 18th, Iwho robbed him of Si5 900, and left him locked up in a room.
 Ar Portland, Me-, on the 18th, Edward A. Chase pleaded guilty of the murder, last fall, of Mrs. Ida E. Stevens, whom he shot on the street. Sentence was de- f5rred.
 IN Jamestown, NY, two- story dwell- ing occupied by two families, was to- tally demolished, on the 18th, by an ex- plosion of natural gas in the cellar. All the occupants escaped with slight injuries except one. who was badly burned.
 A eoNFLAaRATIoN occurred at Canton. Dak., on tho night of the 18th. One of the principal blocks of the town was de- stroyed.
 Two AUSTRIAN officers, while ascend ing Mangart mountain, lost their path in the fog and fell over precipice. One of them escaped with slight injuries, but the other was killed.
 PORTIONS Of Dakota have recently been devastated by prairie fires, many farmers losing all their perishable possessions.
 MRS. BECKER, counter in the registry division Of the treasury, has been found to be S944 short in her cash and dismissed from the service. There are rumors of other Irregularities, and strict investi- gatioa will be made.
 ON the 27th the British ship Resperida- gera, al-laden, from Newcastle, N. s. w., for San Francisco, went ashore off Point Fermin, Cal, and would, it was thought, be total wreck
 NEAR Hamilton, la, on the 26th, car- load of live hogs were burned in the fire following a serious wreck on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad.
 On the 2Sth three men were burned to death in a fire at Nos. 15 and IT Lake street, Chicago, occupied by s. c. Will. kins & Co.,. manufacturers of fine furpis ture.
 GOVERNOR JACKSON of Maryland, on the 2fth, respited Henry J. Spe lcsr, who was to have been hanged at Cumberland, on the 2Sth, for the murder of Scott Dawson. The execution is uspended until October 20
 THE Ashtabula (O) Milling Comrany's Touring mill was destroyed by fire, on the Ssth, with large stock of flour and grain.
 STRIP of territory fifty miles wide, between Jamestown and Lamourne Dak., was burned over by the recent prairie fires.
 THE schooner Wm. D. Cargill sprung 8 leak and bilged at sea, on the 2Ith. The crew was rescued by the steamer novelty and safely landed at Vineyard Haven, Mass, on the 2Sth.
 WHILE searching with lighted lamp for leak in the pipes in his fathers house, on the 3Sth, Frank Bertru nd, of Rockford, 1ll., was badly injured by the explosion which followed the discovery of the leak.
 THE Ohio Falls Oak Leather Company s annery at Louisville, Ky, was destroyed by fire on the morning Of the 2Sth Loss, $105, 900; insurance, Sl31, 900.
 TIE little town of Romeo, Wis, was, on the 2sth, for the second time in two years, destroyed by fire, by a conf agration of incendiary origin.