The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-16

toba Legislature, on the sth, for royal /
commission to investigate the charges OF |
corruption which have been freely made
against him and the Manitoban Govern
ment
ON the 9th Henri DeBamberger, the |
noted Austrian physician, died at Vienna
A MAJORITY for Harrison in the Elec-
toral College Of seventy-seven Is IN
dicated by the latest returns.
THE explorer Nausen has accomplished
his perilOus journey across Greenland
ON the inland ice, and has arrived safely
at Godthaab on the west coast OF Green
land. The journey was made on snow
shoes and was for the purpose Of exPIor-
ing the unknown interior of Greenl and
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the night of the 4th an incendiary
fire wiped out three of the largest busi-
ness blocks in Gary, OAK.
AT Tacoma, w. T., on the 4th, sixteen
sailors Of the ship Hecla, which arrived
loaded with wheat for Great Britain, en-
tered suit in the District Court against
Captain Snow of that vessel for cruelty,
Their allegations of tl-treatmenV ana
starvation are blOOd-curdling.
ON the morning of the 9th an explosion
of gas occurred in the Starkville (CoL)
coal mine, wrecking the mine and killing
| two men. Had it occurred an hour
| later Fifty men would doubtless have per-
! ished.
| ON the 9th, while Mrs. Stuysanka, of
! Abbeville, S. c., was out driving, the
horse became frightened and backed the
| buggy off a bridge, and Mrs. Stuysanka
/ was killed by the fall
| AN express on the North & West Branch
/ railroad ran into wildcat engine at Nes-
copec, Pa, on the 9th. Engineer Samuel
| Dietrich and his fireman, George Steulitz,
Of the passenger train, were probably
| fatally injured The baggagemaster also
! sustained serious injuries.
WIN PARKEs, regis ter of deeds OF Nell
| son County, Oak. is reported to have ao-
seconded on the 5th, with 10000, which he
had secured by mortgaging his property
| two or three times over, escaping detec-
ton by neglecting TO index the mort
cages.
on the 9Th Henry Lindemau, of Albany,
N Y, a labOrer, aged forty, shot and
killed his fourteen-year-Oid-s WILEY
for quarrsling with his brother.
A TELEaRAM from London of the 9Th
said: ''Severe gales are prevailing on the
coast OF Great Britain. Many wrecks or
vessels are reported. but no lives are
known to be lost as yet"
ON the 7th the fishing schooner Gold
smith Maid, with 80, OOJ pounds of fresh
fish, was run into and sunk IN Boston
harbor. Peter Landry and Howard Mon
asleep in the forecastle, went dowE with
her. The rest of the crew escaped.
On the Tth reports were received at st.
Petersburg Of terrible railway accident
on the Southern Russia line near KoveL
1t is stated that many were killed
News has been received from Calcutta
Of the sinking of q ferry y-boat, in col
lision Sixty persons we're drowned.
OK the 7th a reservoir at Montreaux. on
the Lake OF Geneva, used to work an
electric railway, burst destroying nu-
merous houses aud drowning many per-
sons. Seven bodies have been recovered
Asa result of the election excitement
a serious riot occurred, on the Sth, be-
! tween the negroes and whites at Ports
mouth, Va. Several persons we're wound
| ed and much bad blood engendered
AMAN named Jules Leese and an un-
{ | known boy we're crushed to death by
fall OF slate at the Willow Grove Goa
, Mines, near McDonaIds, Pa, on the 9Th
| On the sth, in a freight collision on the
J Baltimore g. Ohio railroad a little ives
1 | OF GAINESVILLE, o., Engineer Dennlson ol
{ the west bound train was killed, and the
. engineer of the east bound train is re-
ported fatally injured. One fireman wa
> also badly injured. The loss to the com
pauy is heavy.
NEAR White Bear, Mimi, on tue 9th,
outh-bound St.. Paul & Duluth freigh
=. train broke IN two ana the rear soCtLoL
crashed into the forward portion. Tit
shock overturned the caboose stove, ant
. the car caught fire. Conductor Burke, Q
= Minneapolis, was pinned in the wreck
: and burned to death.
The recent accident to the Cars train
. it is stated, was the work of NihiHsts i
an attempt to assassinate their ruler. Th
many arrests which have taken plac
= since discredit the carefully promulgat
: ed theory of accident
A sTEERAGE passenger named Carol1n
- Rose, on the National Line steame
= Egypt, committed suicide by jumptn!
overheard at sea on the 9th ult
. ON the 9th an unknown man jumpe
!. into the river from Prospect Park q
: Niagara Falls, and was carried over tn
falls and lost.
FoUR men were thrown to the grouuC
two being killed and the others severel
, injured, by the falling Of mason's scat
4 fold in the Weed building, at Stamford
a Conn, on the 9th.
On the 9th Michael KlOnn, the secon'
= victim OF the recent boiler explosion q
q the Lancaster (Pa) Chsmlcal Work
q died from his injuries.
On the night of the Sth another atrOcioJ
woman murder, with the usual disgustin
"A butchery Of the remains, was perpetrate
, in SpitalheIds, London. As before Il
police are impOtent
a A FIRE, with loss Of life which ms
= reach between ffty and sixty, occurre
l. | in the Rochester IN. W steam Guage al
h Lantern Works on the eth.