The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-09

and consider tariff bill at this session.
 Ar Saratoga, N. Y., on the 3d, Gaudaur and Mckay won the double -scull race against Teemer and Hamm by four lengths. Time, 19:56
 GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
 OS the 30th Michael Weiss was found near the Hancock & Calumet depot, in Redjacket, Mich, with his head blown completely off, the brains and skull be- ing scattered for hundred feet around. It is supposed he committed suicide with Hercules powder.
 GARRETT RoAcH, keeper of q sailors boarding house, his little son and a young nephew, named Wells, were drowned by the capsizing of boat in the harbor at Halifax, N. S., in squall, on the 3oth.
 Ar New York the Mutual Benefit Ice Company's stable, at 425 West Thirteenth street, was burned, on the 31st. Thirty horses were in cinerated. Total loss, $10,- 000
 NEAR Barnesville, O., Baltimore & Ohio freight train was wrecked. on the 1st. Ten cars were demolished, and three tramps, who were stealing ride, were badly hurt one fatally. The rail- road companyts loss is heavy.
 
 gently escaped from jail at .Blackfoot, Idaho. where he was to have been hanged for wife e-murder on July ?, was recapt- ured and returned to Idaho. He will be hanged on August IT.
 NEAR Silver Creek, N. Y., an east-bound Nickel-P Plate freight crashed through trestle shortly after midnight of the 31st. Eight cars fell twenty-five feet, smashing them into splinters and scattering their contents in all directions. Brakeman William Phillips, of Conneaut, O., sus- tained serious injuries and is in critical condition.
 BURGLARS entered the post-office at Atlantic City, N. l., on the night of the 3lst- The safe was blown open, and $l, 200 in two-cent stamps and 800 in cash stolen.
 IN the vicinity of St Cloud and Sauk Rapids, Minn., most terrible thunder storm occurred on the night of the 1st Many houses were struck by lightning, but no loss of life is reported. Great damage was done to growing crops and other property.
 Ar Lake Monegan, near Peekskill, N. Y., Henry Haight, aged eighty five, and very infirm, was burned to death in the destruction of the residence of his son-in- law, Richard H. Horn, on the 2d.
 Ar Seville, Spain, pillar of the cathe- dral fell, on the 2d, causing the collapse of portion of the nave and the destruc- ton of the organ, besides doing other damage.
 ON the 2d couple of boys named Gold en, aged ten and twelve years, living in East Des Moines, la, went out on the Rock Island railroad, about seven miles west of that place, and tried to wreck a ,v.ut,. thxa track.
 FIRE nearly destroyed the entire busi- ness portion of the city of Suffolk, Va, on the 1st.
 AFTER clinging to the wreck, which was most of the time under water, all night Captain Rickaby, his son and two sailors of the schooner-yacht Rambler. which was capsized in storm about fifteen miles out from Chicago, on the 2d, were picked up and saved next morning.
 AT Dudley, Mass, a tramp calling him. self Michael Keenan, but who is believed to be John T. Shevlin, was arrested, on the 3d. tor the murder, seven years ago. in Pennsylvania town, of a man who was acting as a peace- maker between Shevlin and man with whom he was fighting.
 ON the 3d, in the Criminal Court in Chi cago, before Judge Hawes, the cases against the alleged dyuamiters, Sevic, Hronek, Chapex and Chleboun, were con- tinued, by agreement of counsel, until the September term
 Ar Stockton, Cal, on the 2d Prof. F. A. Parker, principal of the high school of Dubuque, Ia., one of tho party of teach CTS visiting the Yosemite valley, shot himself, while suffering from an attack of intermittent fever. His remains were sent East.
 ON the 2d Captain Wagner and crew of the ship Don Leon, which foundered in the South Pacific last May, arrived at San Francisco from Tahiti. All hands escaped, but endured great hardships.
 Ar an early hour on the morning of the 3d the paper mill owned by George Friend, at Lockland, O., was totally de- stroyed by fire. Loss, S40,000. The origin of the fire is unknown.
 TERRIBLE forest fires were raging in the country about Ottawa, Ont, on the 3d, which it was impossible 10 check, owing to the dryness of every thing combustible. Villages and farm property in the vicinity were in imminent danger of destruction.
 ON the Sd a quarrel between the fami- lies of Thomas McNamara, Cincinnati tea merchant, and William Prout livery stable keeper, terminated in the death, by shooting, of Prout
 ON the night of the 2d Policeman Hans Hanson, of St. Paul, Minu., was shot and killed by parties unknown. It is sup posed he was taken for "foot- pad" as his uniform was concealed by rubber coat.
 ON the 3d an explosion in an English fire- works manufacturing establishment at Wandsworth partly destroyed the structure, and killed several female em- ployes.
 Ar Terre Haute, Ind, on the 2l, Mrs. Junkins was found guilty of the murder of her sisters daughter, Hattie Debaun. Her son is under indictment as an ac- cessory.
 THE only causes assigned for the sui eide of w Walter Brad haw. of Washin gton, on the 2d, are liquor and quarrel with his father.
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 Ar Kiel, Germany, a promin ent French LA h.