The Russellville Democrat., 1888-07-19
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

from III treatment received in Tullamore jaili
 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. WHILE carrying lighted lamp in her rounds to secure the windows before re-
 tiring, on the 9th, Mrs. Frederick 5pittle-
 house ef Elizabeth, N. J., was seized with
 an apopiectic fit and fell to the floor. The lamp exploded, scattering the burning fluid over her clothing. She was burned to death.
 ON the 10th, as the tow-boat Dauntless having two barges of coal in tow, was
 passing under the Smithfeld Street bridge
 to her landing at the Pittsburgh tPa.j
 wharf, she struck the wharf boat, at which
 the packets Adam Jacobs and Scotia were
 lying The wharf boat and one barge of coal were wrecked and sunk, and the
 Jacobs and Scotia were considerably
 damaged
 AT Rochester, N r., on the 10th, Ed.
 ward Alonzo Deacons was hanged for the
 murder of Mrs. Ada Stone, on August 1d,
 1881.
 ON the 10th john Stone, a prominent
 citizen of Gibson County, Ind, and s
 member of the gun club, Was mortally
 wounded by discharge from his gun, he having dropped the weapon while carry ing il.
 IY livery stable fire in Buffalo, N. Y.,
 on the 11th, forty horses and two men were cremated.
 CHARLES H. WIGHT, assistant superin-
 tendent in the mailing department of the Detroit (Mich.) post-office, was arrested by Post. Office Inspector Smith, on the 10th, on the charge of stealing letters. ON the 10th Josiah Wilder, aged sixty.
 three, dealer in agricultural implements,
 at No. t61 West Sixth street. Cincinnati,
 committed suicide, by shooting himself
 through the temple with revolver, at his
 home in the village of College Hill. He
 leaves widow and six children.
 Ar Oakland, L T., on the 10th, Dick, the
 seven year. old son of Jas. Sacre, fell off
 fence at his brothers ranch, and broke his neck.
 A STAY of proceedings has been granted by the Supreme Court of Minnesota in the
 case of Tim and Pete Barrett, sentenced to hang on the 18th, at St. Paul, for the
 murder of the street car driver Toleffson. ON the 11th, Goldenson, the young Cali fornian who murdered his sweetheart, furnished a long statement to the press.
 in which he ascribes his crime to drink. DURING gale, on the 18th, large schooner boat and two large lobster sloops went ashore and broke up in Salem | (Mass.) harbor.
 AT Ashtabula, O.. the Lake Shore round- | house was burned on the night of the 1lth. Eight locomotives were totally destroyed. | The origin of the fire is unknown. Ar Alpena Mich, fourteen blocks were | destroyed by fire, on the 18th, the six teenth anniversary of the great confiagra- | tion which laid that place in ashes in 1872. NEAR Orange Court House, Va, on the l 18th, the south bound express on the Vir- | ginia Midland road ran through trestle, | preoipitating the train into the rayine be- | low, distance of more than twenty feet, | and killing seven and wounding forty | persons.
 | ON the 18th the powder-mill of Lafin x
 Rand, located at Cressona, near Reading, | Pa, blew up, killing three men and demolishing portion of the works. The
 victims were George Belman, Edward
 Reed and Henry D. Revich. The explo-
 sion shook the buildings for miles around. ACCORDING to the report of the coro-
 ner's jury the disaster at Orange Court
 House, on the Virginia Midland railway,
 on the 18th was caused by rotten timbers l in the trestle.
 | AT Trinidad, Col, Fred Remington, a young man representing himself as an | artist on Harper's Weekly, who had passed some days in sketching mountain scenery, committed suicide, on the 12th. THE application of Mrs. Louis c. Ham,
 mersley. now Duchess of Marlborough,
 for an allowance of Sl00, 900 for her pres ent support and maintenance out of the income of the estate left by her first hus- band, was granted by Surrogate Ransom, of New York, on the 18th.
 Ar Kimberly, Cape Colony, the fire in the De Beers diamond mine has been ex-
 tinguished, and the exploring party who
 descended the mine, on the 18th, report
 that twenty -four whites and POO natives had been burned to death.
 MISCELLANEOUS. THE Agricultural Department reports
 that a preliminary investigation of the area of manufacturing leaf tobacco in cultivation makes an increase ot Is per
 cent. over the greatly reduced crop of last year.
 AT Goshen, Ind, the Barbers' Union have declared a boycott against the pub
 fisher of the Duly Times and other busi-
 ness firms, and il is quite probable that the matter will be investigated by the | grand jury at the next sftting. THE Department of Agriculture July report makes the general average of con
 dition as follows: Cotton, S67; winter
 wheat 75.6; spring wheat, 95.9; corn, 93;
 oats, 95.2; barley, 91 winter rye, 95.5; | spring rye, 96.S; tobacco, manufacturing | leaf, g2.
 A REDUCTION in rates on iron from Pitts burgh to Philadelphia to thirteen cents a hundred weight for carload lots, and six | teen cents for less than that quantity, was
 announced by the Pennsylvania Railroad l Company on the 10th This is cut of
 nearly thirty per cent.
 AN increase of four per cent. is reported
 over last year in the area of potatoes
 planted in the United States the present year.
 MR. DANA says the New York iSap is for
 sale, for the sum of S5,O00,000. ON the 10th reports of settlement of | the cable war were received in the New | York Stock Exchange, and several houses | having London connections received dis | patches from there stating that an agree | ment had been signed, on the 9th, by the
 managers there to advance rates to twen- | ty-fve cents per word. | Is every State cotton is later this year l than usual. The plant is generally in a | vigorous condition and growing rapidly. RECEIVER DIVER has compromised in | the matter of the Mormon Church prop
 erty, papers having been filed in the Ter ritorial Supreme Court The receiver
 keeps what property he has seized and is | paid $I57, ,88s.
 Ar Shamokin, Pa., the Buck Ridge Coll l fiery, owned by the Reading company, | which has been idle since the disaster of
 1883, at which time seven men were
 smothered by fire damp, resumed opera
 tions on the 11th.
 i lT is reported that the half breed resi- l dents of Batoche, Man, the scene of the former rebellion, have issued 6 manifesto,
 acknowledging Dumont as their leader,
 and threatening the government if they
 do not get their rights. Those who took l part in the former rebellion demand that