The Russellville Democrat., 1888-06-28

1 Mrs. Frances Willard and others ad- l dressed the meeting.
 | THE report circulated on the 22d that | Count De Lesseps was dead was promptly | denied. He was not only alive, but in 1 good health. The first report caused the | closing of the French bourse. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. i ST. JosEpH's ORPHAN ASYLUM, seven miles south of Newport, Ky, was burne d
 on the 18th. Loss, S37,0o0. IN Silver Lake, near Perry, N. Y. AL bert E. Purdy, a well-known business
 man, and Miss Lettie NJ. Strauss were
 drowned, on the 18th, by the upsetting of l their boat.
 | ON the 18th Mime. Dis DeBar and Gen. eral Dis DeBar, who were recently con- | victed of conspiracy in swindling Luther R. Marsh, New York lawyer, out of a portion of his property, were sentenced
 by Judge Gildersleeve to the penitentiary 1 for six months.
 THE Sparta Hotel at Wakefield, Mich, was destroyed by fire on the 17th. The building was owned and occupied by Ed-
 ward Bowler, whose family perished in
 the flames. Several men were badly burned in trying to save the children.
 Loss on building and contents trifing. ON the 18th a deputy United States mar shal arrived at Wichita, Kas., from the Indian Territory with Tom Thrumber and Jim Baldwin, murderers of Peter Mann, Thrumber's father -in- law. The three men 1 quarreled over the possession of a wagon
 and a team of horses. Three weeks ago Thrumber and Baldwin laid in wait for
 Mann, and shot him as he passed along 1 the road
 ON the 18th John R. Dunn, the lawyer | concerned in the Manhattan Banking Company robbery, was sentenced to nine | years and eight months in New York 1 State prison, the full penalty of the law. THIRTY lives are reported to have been l lost in the fire at Dubois. Pa on the IS tn, l twenty men, four women and six chil- dren; also that the loss will aggregate
 more than $2, ,000, 900. Photographic com
 munication was cut of by the fire, and
 the details have not been received. ON the 18th Fred May, the well-known man about town, was arrested in New 1, York for insulting ladies on the street. He was intoxicated, and pointed pistol at the officer who arrested him. The lat | ter clubbed him into submission, and it was found necessary to send him to the | Chambers Street Hospital for surgical at- | tention.
 DISPATCH was received from Klel, Germany, on the 18th, stating that the steamer Nord had been lost by fire and
 that eight of her crew were drowned by the capsizing of a boat
 AT the Nelson colliery, near Shamokin, l Pa., on the 20th, there was terrific ex- plosion of gas by which Geo. Schmack re- ceived probably fatal injuries; Michael a1l. zF had hrr cd | besides other injuries. and Karin Karins, | of Scotch Hill, was frightfully burned. | The latter may recover.
 1 ON the 20th Mrs. Josephine Morike, a
 Polish woman, residing in Pittsburgh, | Pa., administered strychnine to each of her three children, all under nine years | of age, and then took the fatal dose her. | self.
 IN London, on the 2lst, two well-known 1 American burglars, Billy Porter and | Frank Buck, both having many aliases, | were arrested on a warrant issued on a | charge of burglary at Zurich, Switzer- l land. Superintendent John Shere of the
 Metropolitan police and officers of his | staff made the arrests and the prisoners
 were identified by officers from Zurich. | ON the 21st Charles Giblin, the mur- derer of Mrs. Madeline Goelz, of New ' York, was convicted of murder in the | first degree. The jury were out only | thirty minutes.
 | AT Alexandria Bay, N. Y, the stables 1 and servants quarters belonging to the | Thousand Island House were burned on
 the 22d. It was only by the slight veer-
 ing of the wind that the immense wooden | hotel was saved. The utmost confusion
 prevailed among the 300 guests, most of
 whom had been called to take the morn l ing boat for Montreal. The hotel fire ex-
 tinguishers were found to be almost use- l less.
 | A ZAcATEcAs (Mex.) dispath of he 23d 1 tells of awful destruction of life and prop l erty by floods caused by heavy rains, on 1 the 18th. At Zelos 800 houses were swept
 away, and a great many lives lost; at
 Leon, the next city in size to the capital,
 1000 bodies had been recovered, and at
 Lagon the loss of life and property was
 equally terrible. Hundreds of families
 were homeless at all points, many were | starving and crops were ruined.
 Ar Keyser, Md, shifting engine on
 the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, exploded
 on the 22d, killing Engineer Joseph Bell,
 of Grafton, and injuring fatally John
 McNabb, of Winchester, the conductor,
 and William Baylis, of Keyser, the fire | man.
 AT Schuylkill Haven, Pa., on the 22d, in
 collision on the Philadelphia & Read ing road. Engineer John D. Smith and 6
 man named Frank Herschey, both oi | Philadelphia, were killed, and Charles
 II. Eddinger, fireman, was terribly
 sealded The tracks were blocked for six l hours.
 ON the 23d, Cooley Stone, the jockey
 who rode Frolic at Sheepshead bay, l.. l.
 on the 22d, got into a quarrel with Earnest
 Miller, bartender in the St Nicholas
 Hotel, at the west end of Coney Island
 about payment for drinks. Stone drew 6
 pistol and shot Miller dead. The murderer
 was arrested.