The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-02
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

1 bound freight ou the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, consisting of thirty-five cars, l jumped the track, completely demolish- l ing sixteen cars A brakeman, whose home is in Newark, O., was fatally | hurt. Loss unknown.
 IN Sing Sing, N. Y, on the 23d, Mrs. Mary Shoemaker and her five year. old | grandson, James Barrian (colored), were instantly killed and horribly mutilated by passing train.
 1 Ar Haverhill, Mass, as the body of the | infant child of Mir and Mrs. Charles Blum was awaiting burial, on the 24th, the drapery took fire from candles burn | ing around the catafalque, and the body was burned to a crisp. The room took fire, but the flames were extinguished with small loss
 | NEAR Bedding, Cal. on the 2ith, James Mason an old stage driver, sat on fifty pound box of giant powder and touched Ii off. Twenty pounds of his body was picked up in basket.
 | ON the 25th one young woman was killed, and several others. severely in- l jured, by the collapse of tho floors of a l New York City book. .bindery. 1 TIE damage wrought by the great fire | in Port-au- Prince, Hayti, on the 4th, is
 
 were burned. The fire was of incendiary origin.
 ON the 26th company of militia att | tackled, routed and captured nineteen of band of bold, bad tranps, who, armed with revolvers, were making life burden to farmers and others in the neighbor- | hood of Ashtabula, o. They had pre- viously routed the local police. | NEAR Presidio, Cal, Rothblum & Co.'s beef packing house was burned, on tn @ 26th, the large building and plant being | entirely destroyed, and causing loss of l S40,00o
 | WHILE playing on some logs in the l L'Assomption river, four sons of Mir. | Vandevill, of Boston, aged six, eight, ten and twelve years, respectively, were drowned at Montreal, Can, on the 2ith 1 Their bodies were recovered and buried on the 26th.
 | NEAR Arlington, Va, sixteen-year old son of Mir. o. L. Pruden, assistant secretary to the President, was killed, on the 27th, on farm. The lad was riding i on & farm wagon, when sudden jolt threw him off. The wheels passed over | him and so crushed him that he diB u! pc | short time.
 AT Brighton, N r., on the 2Ith, seri- 1 ous break occurred in the three mile l level of the Erie canal Several boats were broken in two, and all of the east. | bound boats were delayed.
 ON the night of the 26th Deputy Sheriff l.. $. Elmer. of Wahpeton, Dak., was taken from jail by mobof angry citizens and hanged for the unprovoked murder l of Miss Mollie Korbel
 ON the night of the 26th Eugene Zen ] gins, a young married man of St. Paul, Ninn., attended prayer meeting in In dianapolis with his wife, where, after taking part in the exercises for awhile. ht retired to a classroom and took a dose O carbolic acid, dying in great agony few minutes later. He was out of employ ment and Respondent
 Ar Canton, O., the New York aud Chi cago Limited Express, east bound, was wrecked on the 27th. The locomotive ! jumped the track on a switch crossing, I and was upset. A com bination car fol 1 lowing was dashed upon the disabled en- | zine and demolished. Engineer Pat Nor gan was fatally injured, and several pas. sengers were slightly bruised Travel wa delayed four hours.
 At Pittsburgh, Pa, Robert Barnett ant w l.. Penny, Jr., charged with swindllnl He were acquitted on the 27th. MISCELLANEOUS.
 ON the 23d the Senate adopted tn conference report on the River and liar bor bill, which practically passed thu measure and left it ready for the Presi- dents signature.
 NEAR Raton Col, on the 23d, one hun dred settlers rode to the ranche of Georg' Blosser and reinstated him in possession of his property, which, during the ab sence of Blosser and family from home had been turned over to the representa- tives of the Maxwell Grant.
 CUT in freight rates was announced by the Union Pacific Railway Company on the 23d, at points ia Utah between Yampa and Lehi Junction, of thirty cent on first class freight, twenty cents or second, third and fourth classes, fifteer cents on fifth class, twenty cents on A and eight cents on B, c, D and E. ON the 23d Chairmen Hoge and Murph, of the Burlington grievance committee arrived at Denver, Col, and called meeting of the striking engineers and fire men to discuss the question of deolarin of the Burlington strike. After an inter esting session, lasting several hours, tn ! the fight.
 CHARLES P. SMITH, lighthouse keeper at Fire Island, N. Y., and Edward Udahl, his assistant were dismissed b. the Secretary of the Treasury, on tn, 23d, for carelessness and negligence.
 TIE only bidder for the steel plates fo the battle-ship Texas, to be built at Nor folk, was the Standard Steel Castin Company of Thurlow, Pa. Their bid $41,684.
 THE annual meeting of the Wisconsin Editorial Association was held at Mil waukee on the 24th. After the formp business of the convention was finished the members of the association made a excursion to Sault Ste. Marie. over tn Lake Shore & Western and Sault Sts Marie roads.
 THE action of Resident Magistrate Town send for libel against the Dublin Frse mans Journal, for imputing corrupt con duct to him, was settled out of court O the azth. The Journal agreed to apologiz and withdraw the imputation and to pa EbO0 and costs.
 THE Hosiery Company of New Bruns wick, N. J., determined, on the 24th, { close their factory indefinitely or unt the markets will justify a resumption This firm in good times employs 1,lC men.
 MAUD g. trotted a mile in 2if2k, c Fleetwood Park, New York City, on Oh 2Sd, tho fastest time ever made on tn Fleetwood track MT. Bonner ia hayin the mare put in condition to beat ne record of 2:0sA in case he should deoid to have her do so this summer or autumn
 AT Chester, Pa, the monster steamboa | e.. Ha1I Ina
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