The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-04-12
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


of the Austrian Ambassador at London,
was killed in a duel with Count Gyherky,
Governor of Neogrod.
OK the Sd Patrick Holihan, ex-alder-
man and present chairman of the Demo-
cratic city committee of Auburn, N. Y,
was arrested and lodged in police head
quarters Holihan went home intoxi-
Gated and brutally beat his wife and chill
dren. He has the reputation of being q
chronic wife, beater.
IT has been ascertained that the report
that Count Thor Karolyi, of Austria, was
killed in duel is erroneous. On the con
trary he committed suicide. 1t is sup
posed that he was mentally depressed by
the unfavorable turn of a love affair
In the Delaware Iron Works, New York
on the 5th, seven men were fatally OF
severely scalded by molten iron, with
which they were running casting.
At Emlenton, Pa, an oil tank contain
ing seven thousand barrels Of oil, was
struck by lightning, ON the I'd, took fire
and boiled over, the burning fluid flowing
down the hill and threatening the destruc-
ton of the town.
In collision on the Chicago & North
western railroad, near marry, Ia, on the
I'd, four men and many head of stock were
injured, and ten cars and two engines de-
molished.
Ar Key West, Fla on the Goth, the
United States man-of-war Richmond,
flagship of Rear Admiral Luce, was con-
siderably damaged in collision with the
Swedish BARK Lima.
In various parts of Tyrol, Austria, ava
lanches have done much damage to prop
erty within the last few days. A house
was'buried at Weissenbach, on the 4th,
and the occupants, four women, were
killed.
Ar Shamokin. Pa, ON the 4th. an explo-
sion of gas in the Nelson shaft. by which
two men We're horribly burned and 9th
erwise injured; the premature explosion
of blast at the Garfield colliery, by which
one man was fatally injured, and an ex-
plosion of boilers, WITH casualties, at the
Cameron colliery, were the days Incl
dents. E..ai.
AT Monte Carlo, Italy, IL Is estimated
that the suicides committed there during
the past three months will number fifty.
OK the 18th John I. Stone the dndirtvd
embezzling manager of the Pennsylvania
School Supply Com papy of Philadelphia,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to, two
years in the penitentiarS ''7
On the 9TH Frank Pittman, of New York
was found guilty of murder.in the second
degree, for the murder Of his daughter
Rachael.
AT Southport, N. c., on the 9TH, the sig
nal corps observer reported the American
schooner Douglas Hoover, with cargo OF
railroad iron, five days from New York, on
Frying pan shoals. The vessel and cargo
are a total loss.
OK the 9th White and Cross, the Raleigh
IN. CO bank forgers, offered to return &c
Raleigh on the charge of forgery, without
extradition, but not on the charge OF
carrying stolen money into Canada
Counsel for the Norfolk Bank refused tc
withdraw this charge.
IT was reported, on the 9th, that fighting
had occurred between the Spanish garri-
son at zooloo and the natives of the Zooloc
islands, in which the Spaniards lost tel
killed and seventy wounded, and the
natives two hundred killed.
IT is stated that Frank l., Wilson, q
freight clerk of the Boston & Providence
railroad, has absconded from Boston, an6
is 5000 or $4,000 short in his accounts.
On the night of the 9th Komedy Porter
son of ex Governor Porter of Tennessee
was probably fatally shot at Nashville
by win Edmunds, The origin of the diff.
ficulty is supposed to have been the at
tention of young Porter to Edmunds' sis.
ter.