The Russellville Democrat., 1888-06-21
GRIMES AND CAsUALTIEs.

ChfhES AND CaStALIlES-
 Ar Lakefield, Ont, 800, ,000 feet of lum- Der, owned by R. & G. Strickland, was burned on the 11th. Loss, $l5, ,000.
 FOR kissing his sweetheart on the street Albert Miller, of Harrisburg, Pa, was ~sentenced, on the 12th, to two months inn prisonment.
 ON the 11th more than one hundred and fifty warrants were served upon Cincin- natl saloon keepers for selling liquors on Sunday.
 IN Paris duel took place between NJ. Paul de Roulede and M. Arene, member of the Chamber of Deputies, on the 11th. The weapons used were swords. Nj. Arene was wounded.
 ON the 10th a quantity of gunpowder and dynamite was stolen from a store hut on Arran Island, Ireland. Since then a number of tenants have been cautioned not to pay their rent, and warned that if they do they will be blown up with dyna- mite.
 ON the 11th the Brookside creamery. near Mechanicsville, Ia., the property of J. R. Morin & Co.,, of Cedar Rapids, was burned. Six tons of butter, with the dwelling house and stable, were de- stroyed.
 ON the 18th, during a storm, lightning struck the house of Berlet Gunderson, four miles south of Clarkfeld, Minn., killing two children and shocking the re- mainder of the family severely.
 Ar Elisabeth, N. J., Lawrence Stearns, an invalid, died, on the 18th, from over exertion, caused by extinguishing the flames that threatened the life of his mother.
 Ar Minneapolis, Minn., Louis Blew .1sx@t. ing store, shot himself, on the 18th. The only explanation he gave was that he was tired of living. He died in Q few hours.
 ON the 18th Moses N. Gage, a prominent resident of Hyde Park, Boston, was found dead in his yard. It was discovered that he had cut his throat.
 THE American schooner John Bird, from Jonesport, Me-, for Hillsboro, N. B., was reported ashore near Mispec, N. B., on the 18th, and would be a total loss. She was uninsured.
 ON the 18th Barclay Peake, who pleaded guilty at Mt Holly, N. J., of murder in the second degree for having shot and killed his cousin, Kate Anderson, was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment
 ON the 18th the Bayview House, owned by Daniel Thurber, situated at Water Isl- and, South Beach, opposite Patchogue, l.. l., was destroyed by fire.
 AT Menomonie, Wis, clay bank in a brickyard caved in on the 18th, burying seven men, two of whom were taken out dead and terribly mangled; two died in few hours, and the remaining three had legs and arms broken and internal in- juries.
 THE hush of death was produced in the German capital by the sad news from Potsdam, on the 18th. The people were quiet and subdued, and the streets were silent Berlin thought and spoke of nothing but the mournful tidings which the sad morning had brought to the wait ing hearts of her people. national grief moved all Germany, because be- loved 'fUnser Fritz" was no more.
 Ar New York Lawyer Dunn was found guilty of grand larceny in the first de- gree, on the 18th, in receiving from Teller Scott money stolen by the latter from the Manhattan Bank.
 THE railroad bridge at Duluth, Minn., caught and held the logs liberated by the giving way of the boom at Cloquet on the 18th. It transpires that the boom at Fond du Lac, Minn., also gave way.
 ON the 10th the Supreme Court of Cali fornia affirmed the decision of the lower court in the case of Dr. J. Milton Powers, convicted of the murder of his wife and sentenced to be hanged.
 ON the 18th Will Hague, formerly city clerk of Paterson, N. J., who fled to Canada in 1884, leaving deficit of 5000 in his accounts with the city, voluntarily returned, and gave himself up to the au- thorities. Hague was also treasurer of the Peoples Brewing Company of New ark, and was some Sl2,000 short in his ac- counts there. He states that his life as a fugitive had become unbearable, and he decided to return and stand trial.
 ON the Pennsylvania road twenty freight cars were wrecked near Fifty-second street, Philadelphia, on the 18th, and were almost entirely destroyed by fire caught from hot-box aud fed by refined oil with which one of the cars had been loaded.
 ON the 18th the jury in the Diss De Barr case were unable to agree, and were locked up for the night
 MISCELLANEOUS.