The National tribune., 1890-10-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL.

| The story that Ex-P President Cleveland is
| In declining health is emphatically donied by
the Observation-Disclosures Kenrick, of
st. Louis, Mo-, is said to be booked for q Card-
nails hat by tho Popo of Rome Hon. VIM.
Walter Phelps, United States Minister to Ger
many, is home for few months vacation.
| Gov Hill, of New York, having been asked q
number of questions by Superintendent Porter
regarding the census of New York, declined to
answer them, and sont the blanks back TO the
| Census Ofice.-Col. John Il. Camp, of the
22d N. Y. Militia, has preferred charges against
six Captains of his regiment, and they will
| be tried by general Court-martial.--Mra
| Emma Cooper, mlliner, Of Fulton, N. Y, has
| fallen heir TO an estate in England valued at
| $4,000 000.-Twenty- -nino thousand No. /
| mackerel were captured in senes near New
| port, X. l., last week. The catch is considered
emarkable-Judge w. Q. Gresham, of tho
| U. s. Circuit Court, refused TO set on the hear
| ing of temporary injunction case of tho
Big -Four system, TO prevent the sale of that
| road to the st. Louis, Alton Il Terre Haute
Railroad, when he found that his son Otto
was interested in the road in dispute as u
| udhoder.-The hop crop of New York will
only amount TO about 10000 bales against
| 10000 for the year 1889, but IL is of such
| superior quality that it will bring 40 cents
| pound.-An army officer stationed at tho
| that religious excitement now prevalent among
| the Indians in that section will bo followed
| by an outbreak of violence toward the whites.
Ice was formed in the Saranac Lake region
| in northern New York. and tho high peaks of
| the Adirondacks were covered with snow on
Friday.-Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela
have appointed representatives to the Inter-.
Continental Railway Conference to be held in
Washington in October, and tho President and
Secretary Blaine will soon confer upon the ap-
polntmcnt OF delegates upon the part of tho
United States-.Iustice Miller, in tho II. s.
Court st. Louis, Mo- decided that Wobster's
Dictionary of 1S47 may be reprinted without
violating later copyrights-An International
Congress of Civil Engineers met at Chickering
Hail. New York City, on Monday last. A
large number of engineers will be present from
England, France and Germany, while the
United States will be heavily represented.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A terrible flood visited Hot Springs Ark,
and many business and other houses were badly
injured. The loss will amount to at least
$7j,O00.-Mrs. Carl Hapsmith, of Harrisburg,
Pa, drowned herself aud babe in the canal.
Mental alteration was the ecause.--Miss Mille
Panhorst shot and fatally wounded Samuel
Goldberg, to whom Ehe was afancod, In San
Francisco. Goldberg had refused to marry the
girl because of her religion.-Six distinct
shocks of earthquake wcro reported at Charles
ton s. C., on Tuesday, Sept. % The last shock
appeared TO come from the South, aud lasted
nearly a mnute.-Haggerty who was
shot in an ARRAY at Chicago last week, Is dead,
and COnnerty, who did tho shooting and who
was also badly wounded, is not likely To live.
"A negro assaulted young white girl in
Amelia County, Va, and parties are securing
the woods for him. II caught he will bo
lynched.-Napoieon White (coored) was
hanged for wiie.murder at Tallahassee,
Fla. on Wednesday, Sept 2J.--On Wednes-
day, Sept. "a. cloud burst over Helena Ark,
and IN an incredibly short time the entire city
was a vast sheet of water. Heavy damages are
reported the rainfall In two days was 1919
inches-A young lady while working in n
| Wheeling (W. Va factory was suddenly
stricken with total blindness. Physicians arc
! at loss TO account for her strange aillictiou.
Mrs Lizzie HalfoFd, of Brooklyn, n. Y,
took dose OF carbolic acid, with fatal results,
because her husband had deserted her. She
had three children, who are left dostitute-
Miss Lizzie Weaver committed suicide In
Brooklyn, n. Y. by taking n large dose of
Paris.green.-M George Ludwig commit.
ted suicide by drowning herself in cistern in
the yard OF her residence at Woodside, Long
Isand-Arthur Buctt. ono OF tho alleged
train wrcckers on the ~ Y Central Railroad,
who had pleaded guilty, changed his plea 10 not
guilty in Albany, Wednesday. Sept 2i.--A
AAt '4SA hdtlASN WHO lifEh III NtisDu
County, KY, died recently Of hydrophobia.--
A convict named Victor huntington, who had
escaped from Jail, was found dead near Hop.
kinsviile, KY. lie feared arrest aud died from
starvation.-A prisoner In the Astoria (Oro.l
jail recently told the Sheriff that three broth
ers named WhiteGeld, who are in Jail for petty
oneDses confessed To him that they had MUIR
dered one Crosby in Takoma Wash, about
year aRo.-Rey A. h. DO Ford of Horton
vile, Wis, was arrested in Milwaukee on Fri
day, charged with raising the yalno Of bank
bills.--William Taliafcrro, aged 10 a nephew
OF Gen. Taliaierro, and a cadet at the Virginia
Military Institute at Lexington, Va, was
killed by Frank McCannico, an Is year old
cadet, In fight with fists over an affair OF
hOnor.--Ida Phillips and Oracle Merry, two
cotton factory employees at Bcrkley, X. L.. were
stopped and robbed whiio Oh their way homo
| by masked highwaymen, and relieved of thoir
wages Edward Trian and George Barnard,
| of WinchcndOn, Mass. were instantly killed by
touching guy wire that was in contact with
| an electric-light ciTcuiL-A woman named
| Miller was found OH the outskirts OF Merchants
vile, N. j.. with hor head nearly severed from
| her body. negro named Francis Lingo, who
| was accused Of the murder of Annie LecOney
some months ago, but who was acquitted, has
| been arrested for the crime. The affair took
| place near the scene Of tho Lcconoy murder
The town of Phillips, Wis, was almost
tosshIaS A'sAlpJtA bS uIc WHICH sbhElsu III tu6
lumber yard OF the J. X. Davis Lumber Com
| pany, on Friday. The town has about 1900
inhabitants, and nearly all are homeless.
FOREIGN.
A fre which consumed over 81 900 900 worth
Of property occurred at Colon, on tho Isthmus
| Of Panama, last week. Crowds OF rioters and
| plunderers thronged tho streets during the con-
| hagration.--A sham attack was made last
week by the British feet upon the forts guard
| ing the entrance 10 tho port Of Halifax NJ s.
| IL was shown that the forts would have blown
| the fleet out Of the water in case q rcai attack
| should be made.-It is rumored at Rome hat
! the pnna lnInnla 10 annnLul cnrIulu luu1un,. %