The Russellville Democrat., 1888-05-31
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the 22d the old Congress Hall, West
Philadelphia, of centennial fame, was de-
stroyed by fire.
On the pod it was decided by District
Attorney Fellows, of New York, not to
press the indictment for grand larceny
against Miss Dis DeBar, for the present.
but to proceed to trial on the charge Of
conspiracy.
On the 22d Constable Potts, Of Des
Moines, Ia, was sentenced to five months
Imprisonment in the county jail and to
pay fine of 500 for bribery in connec-
ton with liq uor cases which he was pros
ecuting.
In New York the up town central Office
of the Metropolitan Telephone Company
was burned out on the 23d. Loss, about
$50, 900. The cause was the crossing of
an electric-light wire with telephone
wire.
WHILE fishing, Charles Jackson, the six
teen year old son of Edward Jackson, liv-
ing in the northern part of Monroe
County, Ind, was drowned, on the 22d.
He was seized with fit and fell in the
river
SUIT has been instituted in the New
York Supreme Court by the National Park
Bank of New York City against Charles l..
De Baum, its defaulting assistant cashier,
for the recovery of $4,000, which it was
found he was short in his accounts.
On the 23d a building at the corner of
Broadway and John streets, New York, in
the course of demolition, cayed in, bury
ing five men in the ruins. The fourth floor
had been entirely removed, and men were
at work tearing down the second and third
| floors. The foreman felt the building
shake, and ordered the men to come
down, but before they could do so the
building fell.
On the 23d the town OF Argonia, near
Wichita, Kas., was entirely destroyed by
cyclone.
| AT Providence, r. l., Patrick keenan,
and John O'Rourke, engaged in sewer
| construction, were buried alive, on the
oath, by caving bank. keenan, was
taken out dead and the body removed to
his home. O'Rourke was badly injured,
but will recover.
AT Napanee, Elkhart County, Ind, Mrs.
George Reed took her three-months- old
child in her arms, on the 23d, and jumped
into well. Both were drowned She
| left note saying that she was tired of
| living, and would take her child with her
| to rest. Her age was twenty three.
RICHARD N. RAY and Thos. Chalow, oc-
cupying buggy, were instantly killed by
passing train, near Roup station, Pitts
| burgh, Pa, on the oath.
AT Portage station, near Bowling
| Green, o., two men were killed and two
others fatally injured by boiler explo-
sion in saw-mill, on the oath.
AT Columbus, Neb., Alfred Dunkel, q
wife murderer, hung himself in the Jail,
| on the 23d.
On April disastrous confagration
occurred at Ohno, in Yechizen, China.
| Out of 1000 houses in the town 1880 were
| destroyed and many people lost their
| lives.
On the oath the Girard (Pa.) Wrench
| factory was burned, entailing a loss of
| $40, 900.
AT Mt. Holly, N. j., the Peak murder
| trial was resumed on the 18th. Judge Gar
rison excluded the so-called dying decla-
ration of Kate Anderson. The dicision
| is regarded as the turning point in the
| trial, and it is not unlikely that Peak will
escape conviction.
THE appeal of ex-Alderman Henry M.
! Jaehne, the convicted boodler of Now
| York City, for writ of habeas corpus,
| set for argument on the 25th, was post
| poned until June 1.
On the 23d Mrs. e. Davis, of Salt Lake
| City, learned that her husband, TO whom
she had been married twenty years, had
married second wife. The shock un-
balanced her mind, and, on the 2ith, she
| cut her throat with razor.
AT Leavenworth, Kas., Policeman
| Goodell shot three times and killed wife,
beater named Ben Black, on the 25th.
Black had first fred at the officer, inflict-
ing flesh wound.
AT the late explosion in Merlots cart
ridge and works factory in Paris,
only two persons were injured and no
loss of life occurred. Early reports were
greatly exaggerated.
AT country school-house near Diller,
Neb., on the evening of the 23d, in rehears-
ing for an amateur representation of
"Uncle Toms Cabin" j. w. Foults, the
school l-teacher, pointed pistol at Samuel
Stump, not thinking it loaded. 1t was dis
charged, the ball passing through Stump's
head, killing him instantly.