The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-09-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Mrs. Hiram Smell. of Malad, Idaho, is the
mother OF sextets whose combined weight is
only eight pounds-Wm. II. Tobias, Valley
View, Va, who disappeared about two years
ago after forging notes on his father and uncle
for over $4,000, has been arrested in Kalama,
Wn T., and will be brought home for trial.
Capt. Durant, of the schooner Cotter, of st.
Johns, New Brunswick, and his wife were
drowned in an effort TO save the vessel. The
crew was rescued.-The British war vessel
Lily was sunk off Point Armor, New Found
land. Seven of the crew were drowned and
large treasure lost.-The attorneys of Thos.
O'Gmdy, who is undergoing IL years impris-
onment for the murder of Michael 0'Bren, a
Chicago police officer, says he is in a fair way
Of release owing 10 the confession of another
man.-Control was lost of the electric rail-
way running from the foot to the top of Mis-
sion Ridge, aud the 80 passengers, who had
visited the Chckamauga Reunion in Chatta-
nooga, were seriously injured. One man died
subsequently. Henry A. Alioth. New York
jsweler. was served in Chicago with papers in
a suit for $4,000 brought by Mrs. Annie Hell
fenstein. Alioth tore up the whole household
effects and had the woman stripped while
searching for $1,000 worth of samples which he
supposed her husband had 'ombezzed. Two
Englishmen, Count Desamvlle aud Hon. MIR.
Everest, who are endeavoriug to penetrate far
Their into the Northwest than Lord Lonsdale
are missing since leaving Fort Chippewayan.
In the Hillman murder case at Woodbury.
n. j., Joseph Hillman who is charged with
killing the pedleT Seidemann, took the stand
aud sworc TO an alibi, cOutradicting many wit
nesses of the prosecution.-A portion of Cape
Diamond below the Citadel in Quebec, fell
upon the lower town. Thirty dead have been
taken from the debris piled up beneath Citadel
Cliff and the total loss Of life is still uncertain,
but it is thought that it will not exceed 100
The famous promenade, Duferin Terrace, Is
in a dangerous condition, and it is said that
the portion Of the Citadel known as the
Kings Bastion will have to be removed
Princess Sianti, who claims TO be relative OF
King MalietOa, of Samoa, eloped with an Ameri-
can from a dime museum IN Minneapolis, Mimi.
Harry c. Day. of Jersey City. n. j., gave
Pastor Freund forged check in payment for
his wedding fee-The fires in Oregon arc
destroying immense areas of forest, and much
property has been burned and several lives lost.
a riot is reported to have taken place on
the Island OF NaYassa, IN which several Amerl-
cans were killed. The Coroners jury in New
York decided TO hold Christian Deyhe to an
swer for the murder Of Frederick Gesswne
whom he shot in his Office on the 18th inst
IL is believed that the yacht Leo, with nine
men on board, was blown up on Lake Erie on
Sunday afternoon by the naphtha stored Tor
fuel.--Ihe romantic story of Miss lie Caron's
having furnished details of the conspiracy by
which DR.. Cronin was killed by British agents
is generally discredited in Chicago.
Fitzgerald. of New York. an cx-convict, who
stole Is cents, was sentenced by Judge Cowing
10 l6 years at hard labor as n warning 10 other
habitual offenders. assistant Postmaster
Metcalf, recently appointed in Wheeling, w.
Va, drew a revolver on Thomas Howley,
sporting man, who knocked Metcaf senseless
and broke his nose-While playing about the
house Of their parents at West Ncwburg, Ny,
Charles and Annie Bond, aged respectively five
and three years fond an old revolver. ltwas
discharged while in the hands Of the girl. aud
the bullet lodged in The breast of the boy just
above the heart, inficting fatal wound.