The National tribune., 1888-09-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The News from All Parts of the
World.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

J. F. Miller tcolored) fell from the New York
express train on the Cumberland Valley Rail-
road on the night of Aug. %, near Chambers
burg, Pa. He was sitting on the platform OF
one Of the cars and thinks he must have fallen
asleep and been iolted from the car as the train
rushed along at top speed. His left hip and
collar bone were broken, his head badly cut
and he sustained other injuries.-Au extra
freight train on the Burlington Railroad, car
rying coach loaded with passengers for the
Creston Iowa fair. was ditChed by bad rail
near Creston Saturday, and a nagmau went
back to stop following extra. The llagman
failed to reach the train which was running
down grade, in time to prevent collision. The
passengers had barely time to get out when
the engine crashed into the first train
Crowley, the chimpanzee of the New York
Central Park menagerie was thoroughly dis
sccted Saturday at the Museum Of Natural His
tory. The immediate cause of death was found
to be congestion of the right lung. BY the
ravages of consumption it was putrid mass,
caked over with plGuric matter, which fastened
on the chest walls and closed the lung cavity.
The liver was degenerated and the heart I'M
sound. Peritonitis had diseased the kidneys
and covered them with tubercles. Tubercles
were found on all the organs, and the walls of
the chest and abdomen. The climate and the
diet to which the monkey was subjected were
undoubtedly the cause OF his complete decay.
DR.. Joseph Moore, prominent politician,
was struck by train at crossing on the New
Jersey Central Railroad in West BridgetOn, n.
j., Saturday, and died in three hours
DR.. Joseph Parker, a wealthy resident of
Raleigh, N. c.. died in his carriage at the depot
in chat city Saturday, where he had gone to
meet his wife. Asthma is supposed to have
caused his death-Arthur White a youth of
10, who several weeks ago absconded with
$4,000 belonging to the banking house of
Kittredge q Co., Denver, Colo. has been appre-
h.s,g4 Id mt, - = Il,
money has been ered.-Sunday morning
fire destroyed in Baltimore about 81 100000
worth Of property in the block bounded by
Sharp, Lombard, Hanover and Pratt streets,
and seven fremen were crushed to death by a
falling wall.-Thc freight steamer City Of
Lawrence, of the Norwich Comm Transporta-
tiou Co., caught fire Friday night while Off
New Haven, en- route to Norwich. The fire
originated in 200 bales of cotton in the hold.
The crew succeeded in checking the flames
sufficiently for the steamer to reach Norwich
There were between 30 and 10 passengers
aboard, and for time panic reigned.-Eri-
day night a locomotiYe-bOiler exploded at
Sewell Station w. Va, killing john Williams
fireman, and fatally wounding Henry Shoe
man, engineer. Henry Gunther, Joe Jackson
and VIM Bush were seriously injured.-Fri-
| day night Maggie GESTURE, of Campbell's Creek
I w. Va, drank half ounce of laudauum with
! suicidal intent. love affair was the cause of
/ attempt at selfdestruction. Her recovery IS
| doubtful.-A free-for-all fight occurred at a
miners dance near Hawks Nest W. VA coal
mines Friday night Constable Eads, who at
tempted to queIl the riot, was shot; it IS thought
! to be fatal. George Jones and Mike OHara,
| miners, were shot. Their wounds are not of a
/ serious nature. Joe Briggs, James Callahan,
/ Conrad Jones, jerry Kenney and VIM. Studs
were arrested for doing the shootug.--
! The progress Of yellow fever in Florida
continues without interruption. Every day
| kilograms from Jacksonville show from 20 to
! 30 new cases, with an increasing death rate.
The type ofthe fever is not considered as malig-
nant as usual, however. The people are fright
ened and are fleeing from the city in large
numbers, the quarantine being raised to
| permit them to escape.-A party of 40
armed men broke down the doors Of the
| jail at Farmville, Va, on Saturday morning
aud dragged out negro named Archer Cook.
| They CARED him to the outskirts of the town,
| hung him to tree and riddlcd his body with
bullets. He was accused of brutal assault
upon the person Of young white Weman.