The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-04-19

! pal hotel with his colleagues. Inc guests
of the hotel, learning Of his presence, APP
pointed a committee to wait upon the pro-
prietor and demand Wilson's expulsion.
The proprietor refused to comply with the
demand, whereupon the guests withdrew
from the hotel.
on the 18th the Maryland Republican
League met in Baltimore. 1t is said to
have been in the hands of Mr.. Blaine's
friends.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
BY an explosion in a coal mine at Los
Cerrilos, thirty miles north of Albe-
querque, N NJ, on the 9th, John Coglan
; and another miner, name unknown, were
killed.
An extra freight train on the Erie rail-
road was wrecked one mile east of Car
rolton, N. Y, on the 9th, by which a brake
man named Powell was instantly killed,
and many other trainmen were hurt.
On the 9th, United States Marshal w. H.
Chapman was wounded in the arm in q
fight with moonshiners in Lauderdale
County, Ga. Eight of the lawbreakers
were captured, and the distillery de-
| stroyed.
On the 11th two men were killed by q
falling building in New York.
Baltimore e. Ohio railroad, near Grafton,
w. Va, with heavy loss of life, was re-
ported.
In Writ County, w. Va, the Banks Mon
roe feud broke out afresh on the 10th, three
of the Monroe brothers-Eben, George and
Lemuel--falling before the unerring VIM
chester of Silas Banks, who in return re-
ceiyed four revolver wounds, none of them,
however, fatal.
On the 18th Miss Minnie Rose Parsons,
of Pittsburgh, Pa, who was abducted and
abandoned by Lieutenant Ryan, of the
navy, was found by the police in New
York, and returned to her homa. She
| will assist in prosecuting Ryan.
| DISTRICT ATTORNEY FELLOWS, in the
| Court of Oyer and Terminer New York
| City, on the 18th, moved that the trial of
Thomas B. Kerr, for bribery, be set for
the 20th, and the motion was granted
| Ar Charlottetown, p. E. L., VIM. Mill
mann was hanged in the yard of the Jail,
Tuesday, for the murder of Mary Tuplin
| on July 2, last.
JAMES B. MILLS (colored), of Stamford
Conn, reported to the police, on the night
of the 18th, that party of oystermen had
killed his wife and brutally beaten him,
| and was promptly arrested on sus-
picion of having done the murder him
self.
Two locomotives and 100 freight cars on
the Erie railroad were piled up in mass
of ruins by collision, on the 18th. No one
was hurt.
WIN. H. BARR, of Philadelphia, called at
the New York City coroner's office, on the
18th, and identified the effects of the young
man who suicided at the Continental
a1 ng
James H. Barr.
WILLIAM ANsoN's Mower and Reaper
Works at Youngstown, o., were destroyed
by fire, entailing q loss of S250,000, on the
18th.
GEO. II. AVER, called upon the superin-
tendent of police of Buffalo, N. Y, on the
18th, confessed to a robbery of his en-
ployers, Browning, King a. Co., of Phila-
delphia, of the sum of 1900, and surren-
dered himself.
Mrs. HICKMAN, aged thirty five, was
fatally injured by jumping from win
dow of burning building in Philadel-
phia on the 1lth.
VIRGIL JACKSON was found guilty of the
murder of Morton Metcalf in Rome, N.
Y, on the 18th, and was sentenced to be
hanged on June 10.
SEVERAL persons were killed by the ex-
plosion of powder factory on the line of
the st. Petersburg & Moscow railroad, in
Russia. on the 18TH
On the 18th the California House and
twenty other buildings in Depre, Wis,
were destroyed by fire.
On the Kansas City, Memphis & Bir-
mingham railroad, sixty miles west of
Birmingham, Ala, on the 18th, four men
were killed and several injured by the
wrecking of construction train.
OK the night of the 18th the First Ma
tional Bank of st. townsville, N. Y, was
robbed of $4,000
AT Ozark, Mo-, on the 18th, David
Walker, the Bald knobber chief, was
found guilty and sentenced TO be hanged.
AT Pasadena, Cal, the Hotel Marengo
was burned ON the 18th.
In fit of jealousy, on the 18th, Henry
Wilhelm, of near Davenport, Ia, sent a
heavy charge of buckshot crashing through
his head.
On the 18th a mob OF farmers took negro
named jerry Smith out of the Memphis
(Tenn.) Jail, and lynched him. He was
charged with attempted assault ON a white
girl.
AT her home in Washington, on the
18th, Mrs. Degrassie Bulkley, the young
woman who, while engaged to w. l..
Trenholm, son of the Comptroller OF the
Currency, eloped with and was mar
ried to young Bulkley, ended her existence
with poison.
AT Topeka, Kas., on the 18th, John r.
Logan tcoloredl pleaded guilty to false
ly impersonating Government official,
and was sentenced to two years. irrpris-
onment.
On the 18th a forest fire which started
near Falmouth, Mass, threatened to lay
that town in ashes, and caused great con-
sternatiOn among the inhabitants, who
FASTENED to the scene to fight the flames.
8 Ar Rolla, Mo-, Charlie, the seven-year-
old son Of Joseph Campbell, while try
ing to effect an entrance TO an outbuilding
in the yard of his fathers residence, fell,
and his head and neck being caught in
partly -opened door, fastened by stout
cord, he was strangled to death before as
sistance could be rendered.
On the 18th fire in Nanticoke, Pa, do
stroyed a number Of buildings, and at one
time threatened the existence of the town.
MISCELLANEOUS.
FIVE new cases OF smallpox were re-
ported in New York ON the 9th.
RECORDER SMYTH, in denying the motion
to again submit the case Of Gould and
Sage to the grand jury, said such prac-
tice would lead TO "a disgraceful scramble
between the enemies and friends Of ac-
cused persons which would be fatal to
firm, steady and impartial administration
of criminal justice.
OK the 1lth the Woman,s Board Of For
eign Missions met in New York.
On the 1lth Tyler Bros, manufacturers
OF steel tubing, New York and Boston,
with mills at South Boston. and half own
ers of the Christiana Rolling Mill at viii