The Russellville Democrat., 1888-10-18
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

| THE police of Moscow, Russia, on the
| sth, discovered in cellar complete
| manufactory of dynamite shells, and ar
rested the proprietor, Nlhilist recently
returned from penal servitude in ST.
| IBERIA.
| THE storm Of August 90 at Nokagori,
Japan, destroyed 5000 houses, wrecked
800 vessels, besides eighty-f others
| which were totally lost Fifty-two thou
sand wounded persons received public
assistance.
| THE bodies of Charles Parker, his wife
| and two small children were found by
| physician in Marshall County, Ala, on the
| 9th, having perished miserably, the pa
rents of yellow fever and the infants Of
starvation and exposure. They were
victims of the merciless shotgun quaran-
| tine.
| FRANCIS a. WILLARD, aged sixty lone,
senior partner of the extensive banking
| and commission house of William Black
| & Co., OF New York, shot himself, on the
Sth, owing to worry over the troubles Of
the firm which was caught in the Hutch
| inson squeeze on wheat.
| AT the meeting OF the Whtechapel
| (London) inquest on the Sth, several sur
| geons deposed that the body found in
| Whitehall was that OF a woman of un.
usually fine appearance and evidently Of
| good social position.
| THOMAS CARR and John Roach were
caught in a burning New York stable, on
the 9th, and the former was burned to
death, while the latter sustained fatal in
| iuries, and died soon after.
| THos. +. CAREY, awaiting trial for
| drunkenness in Salem, Mass, took paris
| green, on the Sth, and died, making the
| third suicide by parties awaiting trial at
the present term Of the Superior Court in
| that city.
! THE American seiner Matthew NJ. v.
Murray was dismasted off Louis burg, N
| S., on the 9th. She afterwards anchored
! near the entrance to Louisburg harb or,
| but dragged ashore and went to pieces.
| A NUMBER of buildings at Moscow,
Idaho. were burned on the 9th. Loss,
| 10000; one-third insured. 1t is believed
that "tin-horn gamblers" recently ex-
| peeled from the town are responsible for
| the fire.
On the 10th Adolph Reiche, the New
York wife murderer, was sentenced to be
hanged on November 80.
NEAR the coast OF Newfoundland, on
| the 9TH, the fishing schooner Magdeline
was cut in two and sunk by the National
Line steamer The Queen. Twenty-one
| members of the crew were lost
On the 10th VIM. b. Smith, freight
cashier of the Erie railroad at Mansfield
| o.. disappeared with s., 100 Of the COM
pany's funds.
THE number of victims of the church
accident at Reading Pa, was stated, on
the 10th, to reach 100. Broken arms and
legs constitute the great majority of in
jurles.
TWENTY THREE saloon-keepers OF Rock
ford, ILL.,, were indicted by the grand
jury, on the 9th, for openly selling liquor
since the No License law went into ef-
feet
ON the 11th the steamer Hafiz and bark
Ella Vose, lying at the Standard Oil Com
pany's docks at the foot of North Tenth
street, New York containing respectively
40, 600 and 1000 barrels OF naphtha, were
destroyed by fire, together with the COM
pany's shed on the pier. Loss, $250,000.
NEAR Massilon, o., a disastrous coli
lision occurred on the Cleveland, Larain
g. Wheeling road, on the 11th between
an accommodation and a freight train,
by which number of passengers were
injured.
In Belfast, Ireland on the 12 blood
stained man with razor aud knives In
his possession, was arrested on sus-
picion OF being the Whitechapel mur-
derer.
DANIEL GoULDISG, a former warden of
Tullamore Jail, has been arrested for per-
jury, committed at the inquest into the
death OF Mr.. Vaudeville.
ON the 18th public funeral of the VIC
Tins OF the Mud Run wreck was held at
Pleasant Valley, Pa.
g sWALTER MCCARTHY attempted to board
a Northwestern train in Chicago on the
18th, and missing his footing fell with his
neck across the track. His bead was sew
cred completely from his body. He was
eighteen years oil.
AT Boston VIM. Nowlin aged twenty
one, brother OF ths murderer OF MILK
man Goldman, was arrested, on the 1ith,
on suspicion Of being about to commit a
similar crime. The plot was overheard
and given away by aservaut girl.