The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-06
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. NEAR Fort Buford, Dak., an east-bound stock train ran into herd of cattle, on the 26th ditching seventeen cars and kill | ing thirty-five head of cattle.
 l ON the 27th Representative John | Mccullough prominent Republican 1 politician of Philadelphia, committed sui- 1 eide by shooting himself through the head at his residence in that city.
 Domestic trouble is thought to have led
 MT. Mccullough to commit the deed. CUSTOMS officers in San Francisco, on the 27th, arrested an officer of the China steamer City of Sydney and two employees
 of the Pacific Mail Company for attempt- ed smuggling, and seized Si0,000 worth of 1 contraband opium.
 l THE southern portion of Indiana was
 recently visited by much the severest l rains of the year. All the creeks and rivers became great and destructive tor | rents, flooding corn fields, sweeping | away fences, stacks of wheat and hay, and 1 carrying away great deal of valuable
 hard wood timber. The fruit crop also l suffered.
 | FLOAT and eight cars belonging to l the Pennsylvania Railroad Company sunk l in the New York harbor on tho 2Tth. GENERAL RrGuELME, of Barcelona, Is
 reported to have died from wounds TO- l ceived in duel with member of the | Spanish Chamber of Deputies. The civilian was also wounded.
 | AN incendiary fire, on the 27th. destroy
 ed the agricultural works of Honck x 1 Comstock, at Mechauicsburg, Pa. | ON the 2Sth Miss Efis Williamson, of | Fairfax County, Va, was killed by 1 train on the Alexandria & Frederick ks- | burg railroad, near Long Branch station, | twelve miles from Alexandria.
 | ON the 2Sth an electric motor attached | to a car on the St. Clair Electric road in | Pittsburgh, Pa., ran away down a heavy 1 grade, jumping the track and rolling over several times where q sharp curve oc- cured at the foot of the hill. Several passengers were severely, though none | fatally. injured
 | NEAR Lima, O., on the 2sth, collision occurred between freight train on the l Dayton x Michigan railroad and special
 carrying militia to Columbus. Two cars
 and both engines were wrecked, but mo-
 body was seriously hurt A hagman's | negligence caused the accident. l ONE HUNDRED hands were thrown out of employment by the burning of Herman | 1 cinnati on the 2Sth.
 JOSEPH BREED. cashier of the Hartford l (Conn.) National Bank, committed suicide 0
 on the morning of the 2Sth in the bank | building by cutting his throat.
 | ON the 29th porter at the German Elm bassy in Paris was shot at by crazy | Frenchman named Garnier, who claimed | to have been ruined by the Franco-Ger-
 man war. The porter was unhurt. | ON the 29th three Italian workmen who
 were engaged in clearing up debris in a | quarry at South Bethlehem, N. T., were l literally blown to pieces by a dynamite | cartridge which was accidentally exploded | by one of their number.
 | Two Russian ex-offl cers were arrested | at Sofia, on the 3lst, on the charge of | comp plicity in recent acts of brigandage. 1 CHAs. L DEBAUM, who stole Sl10, 900 be- ! longing to the Park National Bank of | New York and absconded to Canada, has been arrested and indicted for forgery,
 and will be extradited at once. l ON the 31st trouble broke out in Camp | Phil Sheridan, at Columbus, O., where | 5000 State militia were encamped. All 1 the officers of the Eighth regiment from l the Colonel down to the Captains, ten-
 dered their resignatIons.
 AT NeW IiSDon, O,,. MrS. thompson, | crazed by the unnatural treatment of her
 husband in going to saloon and getting l drunk instead of hasteniug to her side when sent for, few evenings ago, took 1 her new born infant to 6 small stream near by, and lying dow in three feet of 1 water, drowned herself and child. | IT is estimated that the losses by the | forest fires around Ishpeming, Mich, will aggregate S60 900 to $75, 0o0 The home-
 less people are being sheltered and fed | by those who saved their houses. They | will require assistance to rebuild. 1 ON the 3lst NJ. Vechard, the Socialist, | with five of his companions, was arrested 1 at Amiens, France, for melting the work
 men to strike.
 ] IT was reported on the 3lst that dis astrous prairie fire was raging in the 1 ranges in Northern Montana, extending | from the Marias river to Sweet Grass hills, distance of fifty miles. The win l ter range Of the Benton & St. Louis Cat l tic Company has been destroyed. IT is reported that the young bride of
 Allie Throckmorton, who shielded at Denver, Col, on the 30th, attempted to
 kill herself on the 3lst but was prevented. AT Hampton, Ia., on the 3lst, in an &C., cident to Barnum & Bailey's circus train,
 q car containing five lions was demolish- ed and tho animals liberated, but they
 were all captured after an exciting chase. A GREAT conhagI ation in Tarnabol, Galicia, on the 3ist, rendered two hun dred families homeless. It destroyed i50 bouseg eutailin q n loss of S250 0OO