The Russellville Democrat., 1888-01-19
cnIuEs AND CASUALTIES.

l and. although not very sick, it is thought l that her end is drawing near. as she is 1 very aged
 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Ox the 10th the Bent County (CoL) l court house at Las Animas was burned, 1 all the records being destroyed. The loss | is a very serious one. but can not be com i puted in dollars and cents. No particu- lars are known.
 ON the morning of the 10th, between l three and four o'clock, the aims-house 1 and an adjoining dwelling located in
 East Village near Monroe, Conn, were
 burned to the ground. Three persons per ished in the flames.
 AT Havervlle, Mass, on the 10th ter | rible railroad disaster occurred in which nine persons were killed and over fifty l in hired.
 Oy the 10th Rev. John Lowther, a rector at Bolton, near Wfgton, England, committed suicide by shooting. Previous l to the act he had received summons to | answer a scandalous charge. Deceased
 was a cousin of Lord Ionsdale and rela- l tive of Right Hon. James Lowther. l AT Meriden, Conn.,, on the night of the l 10th, fire was discovered in the barns of l the horse railroad company, and although | the entire fire department was called out, l the entire main barn burned out, with l eighty horses and fourteen cars The l origin of the fire is a mytery. The loss
 will foot up S75,000. Insurance, O,000. ! NEAR Plume, Austria, the bodies of fourteen women have been dug out of the 1 snow. Many are still missing, and 1t is l supposed they are buried beneath the i snow. Thirty thousand persons in Mon- ] tenegro have been deprived of food by the l floods.
 1 EARLY on the morning of the 12th fire l broke ont in the central building of the | fire department at Lowell, Mass. The l building contained the armories of the | Merchants Phalanx and Putnam l Phalanx, and also the fire alarm tele- I graph headquarters, all of which 1t was l feared would be destroyed. The loss is
 roughly estimated at Sloo,o0l; insurance 1 unknown.
 | ON the 12th Theodore Houston, promi- 1 nen { railroad man of New York, commit l ted suicide by shooting himself | AT Atchison, Kas., the residence of | United States Senator Ingalls was de- | stroyed by fire on the l2th. The loss IS, Iii
 some respects, irreparable. | Oy the 18th Macey Warner, the murder 1 CT confined at Jeifersonville, Ind, made a 1 desperate attempt to commit suicide by 1 cutting an artery with a piece of glass. l ON the 12th Tom Barrett. convicted at | Minneapolis, Minn., of the murder of 1 Street. Car Driver Tollefson, was sentenced
 10 be hanged May II.
 ON the night of the 18th the car works
 at Dauphin, Pa, ten miles from Harris burg, together with n church and several
 houses, were destroyed by fire The loss will be heavy.
 IN Paris, Ringgold Cooner, an Ameri- l can forger, has been arrested on an extra | dition warrant for forgery upon the | London & Westminster Bank, by which
 he realized f3,Goo.
 1 ON the 12th the Fourteenth Regiment
 armory building at Columbus, O., was de- | stroyed by fire. The Ohio poultry, ken mel and pet stock exhibition was in prog ress in the building, and fifty thousand | dollars worth of b!ooded dogs and chick | ems were burned.
 Two schooners, the Wm. Parsons, which | sailed from Gloucester, Mass, for George's Banks November 22 with twelve men, | and the Peter D. Smith, which sailed Mo- yemher IS with a crew of twelve, have
 been given up for lost
 Oy the night of the 18th Indianapolis | had a fire in the wholesale district of l South Meridian street, which at latest ac- counts had done damage to the extent or
 nearly million dollars.
 ON the night of the 18th the Arcad ia building in Detroit, Mich, occupied main Fly by printing offices, was gutted by fire I The employees of the Free Press, whose 1 building adJoii.s the Arcadia, were tenn
 porariIy driven from their posts py the dense smoke.
 ON the night of the 18th, John Marly, a
 young man of Bloomington, Ill.,, died | from the effects of a dose of aconite,
 taken by mistake for cough medicine.
 8 RUSSIAN frontier advices say the troops l in the Lubliu district are suffering terri
 bly, from cold. Forty sentinels have
 been frozen to death. Dysentery and | typhus fever are prevalent. 1 ON the 18th w. H. Johnson, New York | stock broker committed suicide at the
 Rathbun House, in Elmra, N. Y., by
 shooting himself through the heart with a
 revolver.
 ON the 12th "Jakey King" was shot and
 instantly killed by Isidor Vehon, Chica-
 20 saloon K eeper. He had stolen some of Vehon's geese, and was about to shoot
 him when Vehon drew his weapon and
 fired.
 IN the court house yard at Hastings, | Mich, on the I2th, Wm. H. Jewell, a
 local Republican politician and an ex- i tensive farmer, was found with his arms
 and legs frozen solid, and died soon after
 ward. He was commander of Cox Post | c. A. K.
 ON the 18th United States deputy mar l shal arrested Elmer Gest, late employe
 of the pos t-oflice at Xenia, O., for theft
 from the mails. The office had lost money
 and valuabes to large amount, and an
 investigation has been under way for
 some time. Gest is boy, and claims to | be able to prove complete innocence. ON she 18th Henry Schmidt was hanged at West Union, Ia., for the murder of 1 Lucreti Peek, Septemher4 1886. He made
 a statement on the scaffold, admitting the
 murder and charging that Ellison T. Smith instigated 1t and was present at 1 the time, and that Smith killed Abram | Peek.
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 AT Newark, N. J., two hundred ana | fifty operators in Clarke's 0. N. T. thread
 works struck on the 10th against an al
 legged tvrannical superintendent.
 TIE Fourth National Bank of New York l City, Comptrol CT Trenholm declares, is
 perfectly sound. despite the retirement of
 President Baldwin.