The Russellville Democrat., 1888-12-20

ON the I4tn the senate cOmIlttee On military affairs ordered favorable re- port on a bill to retire General W. s Rosecrans with the rank of Brigadier : General.
 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
 ON the 10th rumors were current in Sar Francisco that the overland train on the Santa Fe railroad was ditched, on the 9th between Peach Springs and Williams Ariz., and a number of passengers killed
 ON the 9th Hacker, the Anarchist who made desperate attempt to assassinatt his benefactor, James Bruce, at Indianap. oils, Ind, stabbing him nine times in tht neck, was arrested at farmhouse il Shelby County, in that State.
 Ar Naples, Italy, two members of the Republican Society have been arrested for an attempt to wreck the German Con, sulate there with dynamite bomb. Nc damage was done, as the bomb did not ex plode.
 ON the 11th Joe Ivy was killed in Sumter County, s. C., by Budd Cato, who objected to Ivy's attentions to his sister.
 ON the 11th D. II. Baldwin & Co.'s music store in Memphis, Tenn, was totally destroyed by fire; loss, S75,000.
 ON the 10th, in an engagement between the Maryland State steamer Governor Me Lane and the fleet of dredgers in the Chester river, two of the dredgers' boats were sunk and number of others were taken. One of the crew on the steamer Governor McLane was shot.
 DR. DUDLIN, of Baltimore, Md, was ar rested at Augusta, Ga., on the 10th, for fighting duel with a Philadelphian whose name could not be ascertained.
 ON the 10th Mrs. Theodore B. Wilcox, daughter of Judge Dangerfeld, of Sar Francisco, was killed in a collision a lHuyallup Station, W. T.
 Ar Youngstown, O., the patients of Mrs Dr. Moyer's hospital had narrow escape from death by fire in the burning of the institution on the 12th
 FRANK BAER, a prominent miller il Southwestern Pennsylvania, has been ar rested at Greensburg, charged with arsor in burning the mills of two rival firms causing @ total loss of S1l0,000. A dis. pute over the amount he was to pay his four accomplices led to the discovery oi the crime.
 WHILE crossing a long, high trestle near Alexander, N. C., on the 11th, Miss Bynum, twe1lty-year old school teacher and Miss Lewis, aged eighteen, were struck by railroad train and instantly killed.
 ON the 12th Eber Durham, aged thirty five, of Salisburyville, Chester County Pa, was found dead at Leaman place near Lancaster. The night previous h. built fire and lay beside a tree. Int tree was burned down and fell upon him crushing him to death.
 ON the 12th Sheriff Smith of Jefferson County, Ala, was again arrested at Bir mingham, Ala, on new charge of mur der. The law breakers seem determined to make it warm for him.
 SEVERAL of the crew of the oyster slool Mahoney, sunk in Chesapeake bay in th' recent engagement with the State steamer McLane, were drowned. Statements as t' the actual number vary from two or thre, to nine.
 ON the 11th the murdered body of United States Deputy Marshal Goodson, who lief Elizabethton, Tenn, November 30, to serv' papers on gang of desperate moonshin CTS, was found in a laurel thicket at tn foot of Roan mountain.
 IT is reported that six gypsies were frozen to death, recently, in Boskowitz Austria.
 ON the 11th an explosion in shaft No. 
 Col, killed Henry Wallace, the mine foreman, and Peter Galloway, miner About a dozen others were seriously hurt The mine had been on fire for seyera days, and the men had gone down to try to extinguish the flames when the explo sion occurred.
 IT is reported that during target prac tiee on board French iron clad in tho Gulf of Juan, recently, a gun exploded and killed an officer and five men.
 ON the evening of the l2th the jewelry store of Smith French, at Wabash, Ind. was burglarized to the extent of Sl ,soC while the proprietor was absent taking tea.
 ON the 14th the jury in the case of Jame Stone, the negro jockey, on trial in Brook lyn for the murder of a Coney Island bar tender, named Henry Miller, in a bar room fight last summer, failed to agret upon a verdict.
 ON the 14th the trestle work on the in side of the stand-pipe being erected il connection with the water works at Ste vens' Point, Wis, fell, killing four me- and severely wounding two others. ON the night of the 18th an oyerlan' train was wrecked near Encinitas, thirt. miles north of San Diego, Cal, by tn spreading of the rails. Every car but tn sleeper left the track and rolled down steep embankment. All hands escape injury except Express Messenger White head, who had one of his ribs broken. ON the night of the 1ith Mrs. Hall, O Roclport, \. Y., was suffocated by smok from q fire which originated in salool in the building in which she was tenant
 ON the morning of the lith the foundr and engine house of the Moorehead Manu featuring Company, on Second avenue Pittsburgh, Pa., was destroyed by fire Loss, S3O,0OO; fully insured. The fire supposed to have been caused by a nat uralgas leak.