The Springdale news., 1888-09-21
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

THE losses sustained by the recent cyclone in Cuba foot up fully $19, 099,090 Eight hundred lives were lost and 10010 people are left homeless.
 FIRE destroyed the St James Hotel at Point Pleasant, N. J., on the 18th. The wife of Rev. H. R. Wye is supposed to have perished in the flames. Many guests narrowly escaped with their lives.
 FIRE destroyed two hundred buildings at Washburn, Wis. on the 1fth.
 NEAR Tlgerton, Wis, on the 12th q pas- senger train on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western railroad was wrecked by q broken wheel
 FoR attempting to blackmail Rev. Dominick Shunk, a Catholic priest at San Pierre, Ind, Harry Golden, alias Louis P. Meyers, an ex-conv.ct was sentenced. on the 14th, to three years ill the peni ten tiary.
 AT Fort Wayne, Ind, Charles Klein, attempted, ,on the 14th. to shoot his wife, and failing in this, beat her head into a jelly with the butt end of his revolver. He then went into the yard and shot him. self through the temple.
 ExTELLER CHARLES A. PITCHER of the Union Bank of Providence, R l., was convicted at Montreal, on the 1ith, on q charge Of taking stolen goods into Can ada.
 Ar Dubuque, Ia.. J. Below anl L. Mar ktin, eighteen ant tw eaty-tgo years oss age spectivety, were arratgned, oa the 18th. before the United States Commis- siouer, for robbing the post-office at Hazletou. They were uaable to furnish bail, and were committed to jail. Below claims to be the son of Colorado judge.
 NEAR Hastings, N Y, on the 18th, fye persons were drowned i'll tae Hudson river, while out in sall- which was swamped half q mile from saore. A PARTY of four, composed of young men and women, were carried over Fair mount dam in the SehnylkAl river, at Philadelphia, on the night of the 18th. and two of them, Frank C.tffrey aal Minnie Luffty, were drowned
 OY the 14th one of the two men struck by Lackawanua train ia Buffalo, on the 6th recovered onscioaSness and gave his .uame as Thomas Hughes, and said that Ihis companion, who was killed outright, was Charles fully, of Providence R. I.
 OS the tith Alex. J. Goldensen, the young murderer of his betrothed, was hanged in San Francisco. He was too drunk to know what was going on at tue time.
 DURING lit Of insanity caused by business troubles, John Spleniek, tailor of Omaha, Neb., on the IS h, shot his wife three times and then turned the weapon on himself. Spleniek was dead at last accounts, but the woman was still alive.
 4 DEsrRUCTfv storm visited the City Of " ashington on the 1Gth. Several houses were blown down and many roofs lifted, besides other damage done. BETWEEN Akron and New Portage, O., on the l6th, an engineer was killed and a brakeman and a tramp badly injured in a collision on the New York, Pennsylvania 6 Ohio railroad.
 ON the 17th Michael Hussey was ar- raigned in Brooklyn on the charge Of murdering Edward Barry, whose body was found on the track Of the Bath Beach & West End railway. His examinatio on was set for the 9th.
 A CASE of witch burning is reported to have occurred recently among the Mojave Indians iu California. T le victim was a young raw eighteen years ol L ANDREW J. CLARK. of Washington, ac- eidentslly dis scharged 8 rife, on the lGth, the bullet striking a nine -year-old col ored boy standing on tue street, and kill ing him instantly. Clark was arrested.