The Springdale news., 1889-02-08

to the effect that the greatest consolation he can now have on earth k the comfort ing words of the Pontif
 AMONG the proposed amendments to the appropriation bills reported from the Sen ate committees was one from the com mittee on the judiciary 10 pay to the wid- ow of the late Chief Justice Waite the uH- paid balance If his years salary, Ss,tf5.
 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
 AT Denver, Col., an attempt Was made. on the 29th, to assassinate John Grinrod, the most important witness in the SHiicns murder case. Giant powder was placed under the floor Of his cabin and fired. tear ing the end of his cabin 10 pieces. There is 10 elew to the perpetrators of the out- rage.
 0S the 31st Secretary Albeit. of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Gom- pany, began the first direct litigation against Joseph A. Moore. by making an affidavit in attachment and garnishmeut against the emhczzler for an alleged iu debtedness of SI344.
 OS the 3lst the stables of fhe celebrated Mt Hope farm. al North Attleboro, Mass.i were burned, with twenty head of import ed cattle. Loss. ete,o19.
 OLIVER W. NooRHIs, well-to-do farm CT of Marion County, Ind. was arrested, on the 3lst, on d Federal grand jury in dictmeut for swearing il all illegal vote at the late election.
 0N the 1st fhe Union Academy, at JahnStowH. \. Y., containing about ole thousand pupils. was totally destroyed by fire. George Thompson, cHiet of the fire department. vas instantly EIiicd and Teddy Smith, badly h4et,hE falling walls. The loss is estimated u sfa.p)1.
 MELEE BJNNELI, editor Of the Duluth tMiuu.1 Herald. WIS arrested bY Chief If Police Hcnucssey of Grand Falls, Dak.. on the alst, OH telegram charging him with the embezEemeut of el.N41 worth of diamonds. He was on a train bound for Winnipeg.
 IT k announced that Joseph \. Moore, the defaulting general agent at Indian apolis of the Connecticut Eitr Insurance Company, of Hartford. t in Montreal.
 A YOUNG Baroness. it is asserted, com mitted suicide at Meyerling oa the same night Chat Prince Rudolph died.
 ON the ist Adolph Sambplina. the de faulting manager of David Spero's arti- ticial flower store at No. Gl3 Broadway. New York City, who fled ta Belgium after defrauding his employer ont or SIS 001 and who was brought back, tried and con yieted, was sentenced to tea years hard labor in State prison.
 FATHER MtRRINAy, of Castle Connel, County Limerick, Ireland, has been sell tenced to five weeks imprisonment under the Crimes act. He appealed rom the decision of the court
 ON the 3Ist a devastating fire visited Clear Lake la. sweeping away mi entire block and badly damaging a number uf adjoining buildings, ca Using la all q total loss of fully N50031
 SEVERAL persons were badly injured by q runaway motor car jumping the track at Denver, Coi.. on the 3j.
 THE German Reformed Church at Day ton, 0.. which vas tu have heea dedicated on the 3d, caught fire from an oycrheated furnace and was totally ruined inside by fire, water and smoke.
 A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred near Groencudael, Belgium, oH the 31. X train from Brussels for Namam struck pillar of q bridge near the latter place, causing the bridge to collapse. The train was carried down with it and completely wrecked. Fourteen person, were killed and fifty injured.
 ON the 3d. during q gale. the barracks of the Salvation Armyat Derby, Eng gland, were blown down while meeting was in progress. Almost immediately the debris took fire from the stoves and began blaZ- Ing fiercely A boy of fourteen was killed and his body burned, but the other oc eUpantS of the barracks succeeded in es caping from the fire, though many Of them were seriously and some, perhaps, fatally injured by the falling beams, etc
 ON the night of the 4th Carrie Nolan, aged seventeen and James CoHsidiHe, aged twenty. were found on Seventy fourth street. New York City. suffering from the effects of carbolie acid and paris green which they had swallowed Con- s1dine died after being taken to a hospital. The girl may recover. She admitted that they had agreed to die together but would not give any cause
 ON the 4th Charles T. Beauchamp, Sev- ern ". Crosswell and John E. Wallace, all captains of oystcr-drcdgiug vessels. were before United States Commissioner Bond, Of Baltimore, Md, on the charge of cruelty to the hands on their ships. They were all sent to jail in default of bail for hearing on February l2. Noah lard and Albert McNamara, captains of oyster pungies, were similarly treated on like charges
 THE British ship Bay of Cadiz, which left Sydney, \. S w, October p. il is feared, is lost. She was bound for San Francisco, and has not since been heard from. large premium has been offered to rensure the vessel.
 NEWS has been received from the Phil ippine Islands that the Spanish steamer Remus sunk with all her passengers off one of the islands.
 ON the 3d, at FudsleE, Yorkshire, En- gland, the spire of the Congreg atioual Church was blown down and crashed through the roof. There was an average attendance of worshipPers in the building at the time, and many of them were hurt by flying splinters, glav,, etc, but no one was killed