The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-04-04
THE WEST.

WILLIAM CLIHCHMAH, aged fifteen,
snapped a revolver at Birdie Lucas in St
Paul, Mimi, the other day, and a bullet
lodged In her brain. He thought it was
unloaded.
THE elevator owners OF the frosted wheat
region Of Dakota have sent notices to all
farmers whose grain was injured, offering
them good seed wheat for planting this
spring.
THE Central bonded warehouse, Rush
and North Water streets, Chicago, was
burned the other morning. A large
quantity of tea was destroyed, the loss
amounting to nearly 81, 800 ~.
JAMES GRANT, a private sol .er stationed
at Fort Laramie, Wyo. T., deserted re-
Gently with $4,000 belonging to Joseph
Rosenberg, fellow soldier, with whom he
had been engaged in a loan business.
ROBERT MCCAFFREY, aged nineteen, and
Della Love, aged twenty, were killed by a
passenger train at a crossing near Goshen,
Ind, the other morning.
CHARLES j. BEATTY, the Chicago lawyer
who procured a fraudulent divorce for
Mrs. Ada C. Gordon, was found guilty of
contempt Of court and sentenced to the
county Jail for one year and to pay fine
of $500.
w. w. MACY, pension agent at Colum-
bus, o., has been arrested and taken to
Indiana, where. it is stated he is charged
with illegal voting in the Presidential
election.
CONSIDERABLE losses by prairie fires are
reported about St Cloud, Mimi. The
flames in some places are in the woods
JAMES FLANAGAN, supposed to be "Jack
the Choker," has been arrested at Denver.
aEa oil
girls had been threatened and in some
instances choked and seriously injured by
an unknown villain.
THE steamer Nanticoke, which Is sup
posed to have been sunk in collision with
the Haytien gunboat Conserva, on the
South Atlantic coast, was chartered by
Mr.. f. w. Perry, of Chicago.
l. s. BROWN, a Government pensioner,
has been arrested at Minneapolis, Mimi,
for counterfeiting by thinly plating with
gold silver coins He was found at work.
THE young tragedian, Creston Clarke,
a nephew of Edwin Booth, was reported
lying dangerously i'll in Milwaukee. He
was suffering from tonsilitis and inflam
nation of the bowels, His company was
disbanded.
AN attempt was made to wreck the
Santa Fe train near Chilicothe, ILL.,, the
other night, unknown miscreanss placing
ties on the track.
THE business portion OF Ashton, Ill, has
been burned. Loss, $4,000.
NOTICE of suit for damages has been
served on Bill Nye and Whitcomb Riley
by Manager Maloney, of the Fort Dodge
(Iowa) Opera House, for failure to appear
as advertised. Mr.. Nye's illness caused
the broken engagement
WHILE excavating for the foundation of
a new building on an unused lot in the
central p3rt of Ottawa, H., recently the
skeletons of two men, buried in one grave,
were unearthed by laborers. They had
been murdered.
A MARVELLOUS robbery occurred at the
First National Bank, Denver Col, on the
afternoon OF the Goth. An unknown man
forced the president OF the bank to sign a
check for S21, 900 and have it csshed by the
paying teller, after which he got away.
The man was armed with a revolver and
bottle of nltro-gly ycerine, with which he
threatened tor blow up the bank building.
THE six story brick building at As to 52
North Clinton street, Chicago, occupied by
several business firms, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire the other night, entailing
a loss Of about $500, 900,