The National tribune., 1892-06-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Political and Industrial.

| per TON Oh egg, stove anu CneSnut Sizes AT q
meeting Of Eastern agents In the same city,
the price Of chestnut coal was raised Is cents
and the June output increased to 100000
tons-Chairman Herbert, of the House
Naval Committee, has reported favorably the
bill to increase the enlisted force Of the navy
to 5000, the increase being made up of $50 ap-
prentices A letter from Secretary Tracey to
the Chairman. dated April z, says the total
number of men now in the service is S.l65, or
62 less than the limit, and that the increase
would cost $16S. 760 year. The demands
made upon the naval forces have greatly in
creased in recent years.-Henry A. Thomas,
Superindent of mails at the Boston postoffice,
has announced himself q candidate for the Con-
gressional nomination in the new 18th District,
to succeed Hon. Elijah H. Morse.-Hon.
Joseph B. Chesdle, of Indiana, has publicly
announced his withdrawal from nomination as
a Congressional candidate.
Crimes and Casualties.
William r. Laidlaw, jr, has sued Russell
Sage for $4,000 for the injuries he received
when Dynamiter Norcross blew up Sage's office.
| Laidlaw was cashier for John BloodgOod & Co.,
aud visited Sage's Office in the conrse of bust
ness about the time that Norcross made his
call. Laidlaw charges that Sage laid hands
upon him Just before Norcross dropped his
bomb, and used him as shield against the eff
fects Of the explosion with such success that
the complainant will never fully recover his
dered Express Messenger Saunders in Florida
the Other day was captured last week and con-
fessed his guilt, after being tortured with twist
ers and hot Goals. The man had boarded
freight train and ridden to Orlando, and was
there arrested. There are Ave men in Orlando
and four In Sanford under arrest but only two
| seem to be seriously implicated. Sheriff
Shelley, of Putnam County, has a man under
arrest here suspicion of being of the
robbers. He answers we'll to the description
of ono of the men.-Shambiss Brigham
manager for Col. George C. Phillips who owns
| plantation on Island de Siard near Bastrop,
La, while in the field was shot dead from am
| to the plantation residence, summoned Col.
| Phillips and told him he had killed Brigham
and wanted to be hanged for It, Col. Phillips
put rope around the negro's neck, and the
negro was soon swinging from the limb Of .
tree. No motive Is assigned for the murder,
and it is thought that the negro was insane
Jarvis Woodruff, of Bridgeton, N. j., was bitten
by dog about two years ago. Last week he was
| taken sick and soon showed signs of b ydropho-
bia. He has become so violent that he has to
be strapped to the bed. He is about 40 years Of
age.-People living in the vicinity of Forest
vile, near which place the Lyts Colliery dis
aster occurred, are greatly alarmed by the
caving in of the old workings which arc now
being pumped out. Some very largo cave-ins
| have occurred lately and in such close proxim-
| ity to this village that fears entertained for
its safety.-A waterspout burst over the viii
| lage Of Kinsrnan, Pa, drowning six persons
and destroying buildings stock and crops. At
length dam above the village broke and
| swept through tho place. drowning moro per-
sons and stock. The damage is estimated at
$4,000. The number of lives lost is unknown.
Frank Snyder, IA years old, of Tamhicksn
Pa, was stung on the neck by small insect
some time ago. Nothing was thought of it at
a. A e., Al
planned Of great pain and his neck became
very much swollen. He died in great agony
May GA terrible cyclone swept through
Wellington, Kan, Friday, wrecking every
thing in it's path. and killing and ipjuring 800
people The overturned buildings afterward
caught fire. Wellington is q postofaoe town,
the Countyssat of Sumner County, situated
on State Creek, 30 miles south BY west Of
Wichita. 10 had three churches, newspaper
and bank. Its popu alton was about 1000.
General.
David B. Loder, of Bridgeton, N. j., who for
q loIg time has been unable to read news
paper without the aid Of spectacles, and then
frequently could scarcely discern one letter
from another, has received his second eyesight
and can now read the finest type without arsi-
fetal assistance Of any kind as we'll as he could
when boy. He is ~ years old.-The Chief
Clerks Of the Second Division of the Railway
Mail Service met at Washington in conference
May "a. The Railway Mail Clerks Mutual
Benefit Association now numbers 2, 400 out of q
total of over 5000 clerks in the service The
association was formed for the purpose Of aid
ing the widows and families of mail clerks
killed while on duty, and pays to them 81 600
for every person killed. For 10 years ending
juno 30. 1891 in an average Of 5000 clerks, 40
have met death by accident, 482 were seriously
injured, and SAL slightly injured.-W. II.
Vanderbilts funeral took place ct New Dorp
Staten Island, on Friday. At meeting of the
Yale Junior Class at New Haven, resolutions
Of sympathy were passed, and it was decided
that members of the class shall wear q mourn
ing badge for 80 days.-The will Of President
James K. Polk was declared null and void at
Nashville, owing to a peculiar provision to
the disposal of his property on the death Of his
widow, which was construed as attempting to
create an entail The property now goes to
the heirs at.law.-Rsv. Howard McQueary,
the deposed Episcopal clergyman, In letter to
friend at Canton. O., denied that there is any
trouble between himself aud the Univsrsaist
authorities, of which church he is DOW min
lister at Saginaw, Mich-The Louisiana su-
prone Court decided at Now Orleans that the
" Jim Crow or separate car law docs not ap-
ply to negroes entering or leaving the State or
passing through it. The negroes have raised
o large fund to fight the law in the courts.
Foreign.
peerags has been conferred upon Prince
George Of Wales, with the titles Duke Of York |
Earl of Inverness and Baron Killarney. Sir |
Julian Paunecfoto, the British Minister asWash.
ingtsn, has been made q G. c. B. Grand Cross of
the Order of the Bath.)-The friends Of Ed |
ward Parker Deacon, the American who shot his |
wife's lover in the hotel at Cannes, have been |
advised that 1t is probable President Carnot |
will pardon Deacon on July a. the anniversary |
of the fall of the Bastile, whom it is customary
for the Executive to extend clsmency to certain |
prisoners. The decision not to appeal to the |
COur de Cessation 10 based upon the expectation |
of an early communication of the Sentence
Minister Lincoln in London denied statement |
current In the papers to the effect that he will |
not return to the American Legation there |
after his coming visit to the United States. |
Mr. Lincoln says he has general purpose to |
be at home in October and November and that |
he has no present reason to doubt his return
to the London Legation at the expiration Of |
his leave Of absence.-Gsn. Won Richter,
Chief of the Military Household of the Car Of
Russia, last week arrived in Berlin with an
autograph letter addressed to the Kaiser. The |
letter is said to be eonciliatory and even fra
ternal in language, and is evidently intended
to atone for the failure of the Car to visit the
Kaiser on his way to Copenhagen ss intended.
Cholera continues its ravages in Serinagur
one of the capitals of Cashmere. India. The
population of tho city is about 81, 600 and the