The Russellville Democrat., 1888-03-22

On the 10th special requiem services
were held in the London churches and In
the Chapel of St. George at Windsor for
the late Emperor of Germany. The Queen
and many members of the royal family
attended at the latter service. Minute
guns were fired at the garrison towns.
In Paris, on the 10Th, requiem service
for the dead Emperor was held In the
English church.
On the 10Th the funeral Of the late EN-
peror OF Germany was solemnzed in
the presence of large concourse of titled
mourners and of the populace of Berlin.
THE Illinois Supreme Court, on the 18th,
in the case Of Edward Mcdonald, one of
the Cook County (ll.) boodlers, who was
tried with McGarigle, granted a super
sedeas, suspendng the execution of the
three years sentence until arguments Tor
new trial can be heard. Bail was re-
fused.
GENERAL mourning was observed on
the 10th for the late Emperor William Of
Germany at Malta, Madrid and Mel
bourne, Australia.
On the 10Th the municipality Of San
Reno Italy, unanimously conferred hon.
orary citizenship upon DIR. Mackenzie.
On the 10th the Chinese immigration
treaty was laid before the Senate. 1t
excludes all Chinese laborers from our
shores except those now here, and makes
exceptions of certain privileged classes.
ON the 10th bill was introduced in the
Senate to provide for the admission Of
Utah into the Union.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND, on the
18th, sent to the House of Representa-.
tiyes an answer to a resolution calling
for information as to the amount Of money
expended for the apprehension of Illicit
distillers and yiolaters of the internal
revenue laws. He said that these ex.
pen ditures were in payment Of local dep
uties employed as guides to officers in
in making arrests, but failed to state the
amount paid out
On the 10th the passage Of a bill to pre-
vent food adulteration was urged before
the House committee on commerce by Mr..
Emory, of Philadelphia, president of the
Society for the Prevention Of the Adulter-
a ton of Food, and Mr.. c. B. Thurber.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ON the night of the 18th terrible
tragedy was enacted at the John Lowell
House, Chattanooga, Tenn. Levi Brown,
a boarder, requested Mrs. Lizzie Davis,
the landlady. to read letter for him.
After she had complied, Brown drew a re-
volver and shot her dead.
A DAsTARDLY assault was made by un-
known parties upon an aged couple named
Buff, keeper of the Broad River Is. C.)
bridge, on the night of the 18th. The de-
fen seless pair were brutally beaten and
robbed Of fifty dollars, all the money in
the house. The place was then saturated
with kerosene and fired. A timely rescue
saved them from an awful death.
On the 14th intelligence was received at
Victoria, b. c., of the drowning in the
Skirna river, Alaska, on February 90 Of
Rev. Mr.. Sheldon, Mrs. r. Cunning CHAM
and two Indians. 1t is thought that the
Sheldon referred to is Rev. Sheldon Jack
son, the noted Indian missionary in
charge of the Indian schools in Alaska
under the direction of the Government.
On the 14th Reading railroad passen-
ger train ran off the track near Middle
port, Pa, killing one passenger and in
juring number of others.
On the 14th John Fl, Skinner, alias Cox,
an outlawed and ostracised wretch. who,
on the night of November Is, 1887, wan
tonly shot down b. F.. Torque an, an in
offensive gentleman residing near Hop
kinsville, KY, was taken from the Jail in
that place by an armed mob, to the scene
of his crime aud hanged to wild cherry
tree.
On the 18th Gilbert Burrows, of Day
ton, O., was shocked into insensibility
from the phone of telephone which he
had taken hold of to answer ring at the
instrument. Investigation showed that
the telephone wire was crossed with
large incandescent light wires.
OK the 14th an Italian named Onarto
was instantly killed and two others were
seriously hurt by the explosion of dyn-
amite blast in a cut near Burgetts town,
Pa A number of others received slight
injuries.
On the 10Th the stem tug Mary Clinton
sprung a leak off the Battery, in New
York harbor. and went to the bottom Her
crew escaped in small boat, and were
afterward picked up.
On the 18th two engineers and con-
ductor were killed ard nine other persons
were injured on the Lehigh railroad near
Pennington, N. j., by derailed and collid-
ing locomotives employed in forcing a
passenger train through the snow.
On the 10Th Frederick Carolin, a carpen'
ter, murdered his mistress in n most bru.
tai manner with a hatchet, In New YORK.
The woman's name is unknown, but she
was {. widow with three children.
on the morning of the 10Th Daniel
Bowman, wealthy farmer of Allen
County, o., was found in his corn field,
with deep cut in his forehead. He is
supposed to have been murdered.
On the 10Th an immense natural-gas
explosion occurred at Toledo, o., entail
ing a loss of several thousand dollars. A
travelling man named fireman was fatal
ly burned.
On the 18th, at Bellevil ille, o., John Dean,
farmer, aged seventy years, attacked
his wife with knife and then went to an
outhouse, where he cut his own throat
Mrs. Dean will probably not recover. 1t
is thought that Dean committed the crime
while temporarily insane.
On the 18th sixteen persons were
drowned off Bairi, Naples, by the capsiz.
ing of Trieste pleasure boat
On the 10th, while James Scarlett was on
trial at Bonham, Tex, for the murder Of
Andy Lacefeld, in 1885, the latter came
into court and protested that he was not
corpse.
On the 10th A. d. Rather and r. Mundy
of Temple, Tex, were held up and robbed
near the Santa Fe railroad bridge on Red
river, nine miles from Gainesville. e. Rather
gave up $500 and gold watch, and Mundy
contributed the modest sum OF fifteen dol
lars.
uSCELLANEOUS.
ON the 18th the hearing of the Stewart
will case was commenced in the New
York courts.
THE burning OF Suakim m by the Soudan
ese is not confirmed.
DURING the terrible snow storm Of the
13th sleigh containing John Ridden
and wife, of New York, ON their way to
Calvary Cemetery to bury the body Of
daughter, was overturned at Borden and
West avenues and the corpse and oc-
cupants thrown into a snow drift The
sleigh was righted and the funeral party
succeeded in getting within a quarter
of a mile Of the cemetery. From there
the driver carried the corpse to the
grave, followed by the mourners on foot.
On the 18th the negroes of Georgia
asked the Railroad Commission TO settle
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