The National tribune., 1889-08-15
cRIMEs AID cAsrAI.TIEa.

An old war claim. amounting 10 $96. 900, con-
corning which there has beon dispute between
the claimant aud the attorney. has been finally
settled. 1t Is said that Martin Burke, tho
Cronin suspect. has promised 10 make reyea.
tons. When handed letter from his mother,
he cried like child Julia o Brien
was struck and instantly killed by passenger
train on the Delaware & Hudson Railroad
crossing at Washington Avenue aud Beach
street in Scranton, Pa The loss by fire Mt
Spokane Falls Washington Territory. Is now
placed at $i0.00o,000 with one. fourth insur-
auce. The citizens are not discouraged, but
intend 10 rebuild at once. The young daugh-
ter Of +. NJ. Boshlier of Elkhari. Ind, was
supposed 10 be dead, but life returned after her
body had been prepared for bnriaI.--Iohn l..
Sullivan was placed under s. 900 bail for trial
August i2 at puryis iss.--fhe steamer
Montreal, from Montreal 10 Liverpool, was
wrecked OF Belle Isle, but MI the passengers
aud crew were safely landed on shore.~--Eben
g. Allen President OF the Forty. second Street
& Grand Street Ferry Railway Company. WAS
arrested for issuing bogus stock. lie confessed
that to relieve enibai rassments caused by the
failure Of patents he had borrowed $4,000 or
$4,000 on duplicate gtock.--An emigration
movement has been started among the colored
people Of North Carolina, and thousands Of
them will probably leave that State during
the next eight montha.---Two trains robbers
vase. Colo, aud obtained 5000 aud 90 watches
The crew OF the schooner Fanny Lewis, of
Portland, Me-, picked up 100 pounds Of
ambcrgris. valued at So 900, floating ON tho
water off Monhegan.----J. Frank Colom
lawyer Of Minneapolis confessed that
| he had forged millionaire John i. Blais.
| delR natne TO paper aggregating 1927 ,00u
The frequonters Of the Long Branch gam
| bling house where Baron do Pardonnet, an
| alleged attaehe OF the French Legation at
/ Washington claims that he was swindled out
| Of $1,000 at baccarat, say that his losses were
| In reality trivial.--Patrick Calhoun general
| counsel for the West Point Terminal Company,
| aud j. ID. Williamson, President of the Chatta-
nooga, Rome & Carroiton Railroad. left Atlanta,
| Ga on Friday to fight duel, growing out of a
question Of veraeity raised before a Legislative
| cummittee.---A new scheme for swindlng by
means Of bogus certified checks was detected
| in a Newburg IN. " bank-Police Officer
Fryer was murdered in Chicago during street
| fight Saturday. The mnrderers escaped. -
George w. Hollis, of the Hollis Dressed Beef
and Wool Company Boston, has been com.
PEELED to assign in consequence of the failure
Of Brown, Stees & Clarke.-A colored boy
living at Johnst0wn, s. C., saved his brother
from the effects of q rattlesnake's bite by
promptly sucking the poison from the wound.
| --TressnreT Gideon T.. Brown. of the bank
| rnpt Riverside and OsWego Mills, has disap-
company are uneasy. ---Information has been
received from Chill that Thomas Brian Gun
ming, OF Norwalk, Conn, persisted of cold in
tho mountains Of South America. Robert
Healey, who died In Anamosa, Iowa, was an
Irish Trappist, who came to this country in
1916, aud in 1859 married aud was excommu.
nicated He died alone and morose, deserted
by his wife and two daughters.--A Montreal
physician caused the death of one of his pa
tients by making an error In writing pre-
scrpti0n. An interesting surgical operation
was performed in Washington, ID. c., upon
Maurice Adler, the victim of a gunshot wound
portions of the spinous process and lsmine be-,
Ing removed with good resuIta While com.
pressed air was being forced in gas main in
Pittsburg, Pa, tho dead cap" gave way, re.
sulting in the instant death of two workmen
the fatal injury Of two more and tho serious
injury To - others.---Death clothes are being
made for five condemned prisoners In the
Tombs New York. They are all to be hanged
next Friday.