The National tribune., 1889-05-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
pnIITTcAL

POLITICAL.
The Secretary of State is informed that Bo-
livia viii presently establish legation of the
first class at Washington, and will send DEL
egste to the Conference of American States
At the second days proceedings of the Inter-
state Commerce Commissions investigation at
| Titusvile. Pa A. D. Denning, of Oil City, testi-
fed that the oil freight rates were too high to
allow the independent rehners to carry on their
/ business to the failure of the Italian
Government to give up the murderers of Nc
| Clure and Flanagan, at Wilkes Barre, Pa, the
Board of Trade of that city has written to the
Governor asking him to enter protest i'll the
matter, and urging if nothing is done that
the Italians be excluded.-It is found that
a number Of the laws passed by the Minnesota
Legislature must probably be declared invalid
by the courts on account of gross errors in en-
rolling. The Governor refused to sign others
for the same reason.-The Sioux Indians at
the Standing Rock Agency do not look with
favor upon the proposed treaty with the Gov
erDment.-The new industrial home for
wives of Mormons who renounce poygamy
was opened in Salt Lake City.-The Depart
meHt of State has received copy of circular
letter which is being sent to prominent parlla-
mentariaus in this and other countries inviting
participation in the session of the international
Parliamentary Conference of Arbitration, to be
held in Paris June % and 80. The circular is
signed by members Of the French and British
Parliaments.-The radical members of the
English House Of Commons propose to give a
banquet in honor OF Senator Sherman on his
arrival in London.-Mr. Gladstone has re-
ceived addresses of sympathy signed by the
Governors, Senators. Representatives, and other
State officials of Minnesota and Wisconsin.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Richard Boeckh, young German, apparently
a crank, was arrested in Albany, n Y, Friday,
for sending challenge TO fight duel to Henry
Willard, President of the Oregon Transconti-
mental Railway Company.--Mrs. Bishop the
mother Of w. Irving Bishop, the mind reader,
wrote a note TO Coroner Levy, or New
York, demanding that further examina-
ton be made to determine whether her son
died under the surgeons knife, as she charges,
or from catalepsy.-Robert Day, of Kansas,
O.. while drunk, shot his father and divorced
wife, inficting wounds that are believed to be
mortal, and injured other zne--s0ns before being
oyerpowered snd cepitured.-Charles Hupe,
:cSS1u r. of Marion, Ind, shot and fatally
] wounded his daughter-in-law. One hundred
! buckshot took effect The tragedy originated
! in quarrel between the young woman and
/ her mother-in- law-Two thousand men en-
/ ployed by the National Tube Works at Nc
/ Keesport, Pa, struck on Thursday last for
4 10 per cent. advance in wages. About 5000
more of the cOmpany's employees threaten to
/ join the strikers.--William Austin, yard
brakeman on the Richmond, Fredericksburg
! and Potomac Railroad, was killed Friday after
noon, near the Union depot, Richmond, Va,
while coupling freight cars.-Charles b.
/ Lasby, a widoWer, aged GO, photographer, of
+ Baltimore, Md, and who had been in i'll health
! for some time. committed suicide on Saturday
/ by shooting himself.-James L. Turner shot
/ and mortally wounded /. 4 Holton in the
/ Office of Justice of the Peace Arts Brown,
/ Nashville, Tenn, on Saturday, because of an
! execution upon merchandise in Turner's store.
a freight train going West from Aibuquer-
que, n. NJ, encountered a tremendous sand
/ drift in small canyon near Houck's Tank, and
4 the engine and 10 ears were ditched The head
brakeman, w. Dixon, was Instantly killed and
several other persons were seriously injured.
Nelson Colbert, @eolored, was hanged in
| Washington, d. c., for the murder of Philip
| Wentzell, on Frday-Judge J. l.. Milburn, of
theSt Mary's County Md Orphans Court, was
instantly killed by lightning on Thursday
1 1t is reported that two Mexican bandits who
killed Superintendent Richards, of the Santa
Fe mines, and secured $1,000, have been shot
by the posse in pursuit-Frank Jasinki, a
Chicago youth of 10, who has been crazed by
fash literature, shot companion fatally and
seriously injured another. He saw them in
the street aud deliberately fired at them with
a rile.-Joseph Pelz an Austrian, was Sc
Verely whipped by regulators at Horton. Kan,
and ordered to leave the town on account OF
E. Allen, teacher in one of the public schools
of Washington, was shot and killed by her
worthless husband as she stood at her desk in
the presence Of her pupils last Friday. The
murderer then committed suicide.-Three
surgeons who made the autopsy in the case Of
Washington Irving Bishop, the late mind
reader, were placed under bail by Coroner Levy
in New York pending an investigation as &c
whether Bishop was dead when the post-mor-
tenn examination was begun.-A disastrous
wind and hail storm swept over Seneca County
Ohio, Sunday, doing thousands of dollar;
damage TO buildings and fences. Freight ears
were blown from the track at New Riegel
Crops were badly cut by the hal.-A jury Of
inquest summoned in the case of William
Lauerson, Oiler on the steamship Allegheny
) whose body was found floating in the harbor al
Baltimore Nd. on Friday, and who was sup
posed to have been murdered, rendered YER
, dict Of accidental drowning. John Bogard
Of Van Lue, Ohio, took dose of arsenic Sunday
) with suicidal intent dying shortly afterward
He was to have been married in two weeks t.
| Miss Lola Beck, and killed himself because sht
received calls from another gentleman.-Dis
patches from what is termed the middle Cali
} fornia report an earthquake about :I5 Monaa,
morning in the San joaquin Valley. The top
Of chimneys were thrown down.