The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-06-27
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Con. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War dur.
Ing President LincolD's Administration, and
U. s. Senator from Pennsylvania for several
terms, was stricken with paralysis last Thurs
day. and although still alive, is expected to
die in very few days. Gen. Cameron is 30
years of age, and although he shows wonderful
vitality, no hopes are entertained of his re-
covery. He takes no nourishment of any kind,
and with the exception of two or three spoon
fuis OF milk, which were administered a day or
two after his attack, nothing has passed his
lips. He retains his faculties in wonderful
degree. and appears to know what is going on
| around him when awake. His son, Senator
Don Cameron, is in Scotland, and has not yet
answered the cablegram sent him the day his
father was attacked.--Rev VIM. T. Howard
was sentenced to nine years and eight months
imprisonment in Sing Sing for his connection
with the electric sugar swindle.-Capt Jas
Cochran and Mate JOS. Downey, of the Phila-
delpha schooner Seaman's Bride, were drowned
at Wilmington. Del, having fallen OFF the deck
Of their vessel after the whole crew had been
drinking heavily.--Andy Caldwell. colored
lunatic, attempted TO assault Mrs. Beck ham,
near Ridgewatcr, s. e., and shot her daughter,
who tried to shoot him. A Sheritf's posse capt
nred him, but q party Of 40 lynched him.
Three people were killed by FIRE in HeyeF
Bros fireworks factory, Boston, on Friday, and
three others arc believed to be dying OF their
injuries.-A boy named Snyder, 10 years old,
residing at Highland. Yermilion Co., Ind, was
murdered on Thursday by four boys whose
ages range from nine TO ID. The boys are two
brothers named Peaman and two named Doug
las. Snyder's body was found in creek. He
had been stabbed and shot. All the boys are I'M
der arrest.--Nettie Colburn, aged ID daughter
of Elijah Colburu, of Elkhart, Ind, took five
grains of morphine on Saturday aud died sew
eral hours later. She was highly sensitive over
her fleshy condition and had frequently threat
ened suicide. She arranged for the funeral-
On Sunday morning, at New London, Conn, AL
win Park the cook of tho Noank fishing smack
Maria Louise, murdered 14-year-old girl
named Littlefeld. Park Is q widower and is
40 years old. He was in love with the GIRL
but Of late she declined his attentions
Andrew Grimes, who murdered Mate John
Martin last Christmas night, and threw his
body overheard from tho schooner Annie Carl,
was hanged Friday at Mays Landing Nj
Frank X. Ward, formerly proprietor of the Al
derney Dairy in Washington, shot and prob
ably fatally wounded Morris Adler In Wash
ington saloon last Wednesday.-A white man
who declares himself TO be Jesus Christ is cre-
ating great sensation among the colored people
in South Caroina.-During tho services In
Sc. Casimr's Polish Catholic Church, Brooklyn,
on Sunday. the veil of little girl who was to
make her first Communion, caught fire. A
panic was averted, and the little girls life
saved by the action of man, who tore of the
veil and stamped out the fire-A ferry barge,
containing party of French Canadian excur-
sionists, was carried over the Graad Falls on
the st. Maurice River, Quebec, on Sunday.
Twenty people are thought to have persisted.
-" Clara Ellis" committed to the Detroit
House of Correction for disorderly conduct,
has been found TO be man, and will have to
wear male attire and work with the men,
Pietr0 Grossi, of Boston, is being prosecuted
on the charge of getting incoming Italians to
state falsely that hand-organs and harps
they carried were their tools of trade-H.
III. Flann. the l5year-old bookkeeper of the
Marine National Bank ut Pittsburg, Pa, who
was arrested on the charge of embezzing $685.
900 of the banks funds, is still in Jail, unable
to procure the $780, 900 bail