The Russellville Democrat., 1888-04-05

would sendit acorrect guess as to the three
hottest days In Detroit during the coming
summer, General Greely telegaphed that
they should be July IA, Is and 16.
OK the 39th, by am order of the POST
MASTER General, the mails from New York
City to the City of Mexico we're expedited
from twenty y-fotir to thirty hours. The re-
duced time is six and one-half days.
DIR. MAcKENzrE's diagnosis, and the cor
rectness and wisdom of his treatment of
the Emperor's case, is becoming daily
more apparent.
OK the 30th James Gilhooly, member of
Parliament for West Cork, who was re-
Gently sentenced to two months imprison-
ment, but released on bail pending his
appeal, was sentenced to two weeks addi-
tional Imprisonment for assaulting a
police inspector.
Or the 29th Governor johnson Of Mary
land pardoned the seven judges and clerks
Of election who were found guilty of
frauds at the polls two years ago, and
sentenced in June last.
OK the 30th DR.. Mackenzie, having been
hooted by a mob upon the streets of Ber-
lin, the Emperor promptly gave orders for
his protection in the future, and declared
that an indignity to the great doctor would
be taken as an insult TO himself.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 22d it was stated that the short
age of State Treasurer Tate of Kentucky
would amount to $4,000.
On the 26th an aged woman named Mar
icle was burned to death in her residence
near Dryden, N. Y. 1t is supposed she
overturned the stove and set the house on
fire while suffering from fits, to which she
was subject.
IT is reported that one Of the robbers
who murdered Mine Manager Gribbel of
the Phoenix (Ariz.) silver mine was over
taken by the pursuing posse and killed.
On the 9th Conductor Robin was killed
in the wreck of a freight train on the Kan
sas City, st. Joe & Council Bluffs rail-
road.
Two white men and a negro were killed
and several wounded by an explosion of a
boiler at Luce's saw mill, Cookville, Tenn,
on the 21th.
THE Honan foods in China are over,
leaving two million people destitute. The
starving hordes are invading the surround
ing towns and devouring every thing like
locusts, causing great distress to the poor
inhabitants.
On the 2sth the sugar laden steamer
the "Old Man, off Nantucket, Mass, but
the crew of twenty three men were gall
lantly landed through a perilous surf
by the Life-Saving crew, amid the
applause of large concourse of people on
the shore.
IT is reported that losses from recent
foods in Germany are enormous, aggre-
eating S50,00O,O00.
On the 2Sth three men were maimed for
life by powder explosion in an ore mine
at Rittenhouse Gap, Pa. Several other
workmen were seriously injured.
On the Goth Thomas Fl. Skillman, of
Plainville, N. j., cut his throat in the pres
ence of his parents andother relatives and
instantly expired, He had been driven in
sane by the report that he was suspected
of murder.
In Kikinda, Austria, more than two hun
dred houses were destroyed by fire, ON the
10Th.
AT Detroit, Mich. on the Goth, Simon
O'Neill an old soldier, who entered the
army in 1857, and served through the civil
and three Indian wars, suicided by hang
ing.
On the 29th NJ. II. idebottom, of Somer-
set, KY, was arrested and confessed to
the murder and robbery, on the 2Sth, of
Thomas Wilson, an old soldier who had
gone to that place to collect proof to aid
him in getting pension.
AT Montreal fCan.) detective was, on
the Goth, sentenced to fourteen years. i'm
prisonment in the penitentary for robbing
Grand Trunk railroad offices.
AN aristocratie young counterfeiter of
New York City, Jas. T. Walker, was, on
the Goth, sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary with hard labor.
On the 29th the jury in the famous Pat
terson murder case at Cheyenne, w. T.,
was discharged after being out eighty one
hours without coming to an agreement.
OK the 30th Albert Murrish, an insur-
ance agent living in Center Township,
Neb., shot and killed his wife and fatally
wounded the hired man, because he sus-
pected them of undue intimacy.
On the 30th John r. Decamp, vice-presi-
dent of the defunct Metropolitan Bank,
was rearrested in Cincinnati, having been
surrendered by his bondsmen.
On the 29th Mrs. John Garlich, of Gin
cinnati, was instantly killed by an ele-
vator, while trying TO step off before it had
stopped.
on the 29th the bill granting the ST.
Louis & San Francisco railroad the right
of way through the Indian Territory passed
the Senate.
DEPUTY REVENUE COLLECTOR TAYLOR,
of Raleigh, N. C., reported, on the 30th, the
capture of an Illicit still in Chatham
County, N. G.
In Prussia, by the oyerfowing OF the
Monan river, fifty villages were complete-
ly submerged.
ON the Both Harry Lovett, of Philadel-
phia, was killed at Lynn, Mass, by an
electric shock while experimenting IN an
electric company's works.
On the Both O. J. Coughlin, publisher OF
the Binghamton IN. " Dispatch, was ar
rested on charge of criminal libel in al
leging that Police Officer Donely had led
girls astray.
MISCELLANEOUS.