The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-11-25

ioeh.uP IN get sober, WHEN he fired thf
structure and burned himself 10 q crisp.
SEVEN pcrons were killed In the City
OF Mexico by the collapse Of the roof Of an
old dwelling.
An engine and twelve cars Of the Can.
ada Southern Road we're badly wrecked Al
the yard In n. Thomas. Ontario, the other
day, and two men were seriously injured.
MISCELLANEOUS
THg Chinese Minister and three mem
bers OF the legation left Washington. the
other day, In special car Of tho rennsyl.
yanla road. under the escort OF Attorney.
General Brewster, 10 Wilt the Baldwin To-.
comoilye works, the Altoona shops, the
Jobnstown rolling. mills, aud tho factories
at Pittsburgh.
RICHARD HOFFMAN, q resident Of
Somerset Township, Penn, has for years
been 80 badly paralyzed that he was com.
PEELED to use whce.chnir lie states that
while praying behind barn he was ordered
To rise and walk, and now goes about In the
natural way.
Ar the silver wedding Of tho Crown
Prince OF Germany, which occurs In Jan.
uary, the people will present tableware and
furniture valued al half million marks.
w. A. ALLEN, farmer living near
Elkhari, Ind, discovered nine valuable
oyercoats sccrctcd In his barn the other day.
lie secured an officer and another man and
laid In wait for the thieves, who came at
night, to the number oi nine. The officer
called on them TO surrender, and In endcay-
orlng TO escape one was shot through the
neck, though not fatally. Three got away.
a WORK TRAIN on the Chicago q Al
ton road was wrecked by collision with a
hand.clr, near Grain Valley, Mo-, on the
18th. Henry Dose, John Hamilton, and
Barney Conk were killed; Fred. Graham
and Phlllp Leon were mortally wounded,
and twelve others were slightly hurt. Con.
ductor Humelett, Engineer Smart, OF the
construction train, and one or two other
employees, testified at the inquest that the
train was running fifteen miles m hour, had
passed through one cut and was just enter.
ing another when brakeman on the train
sIgnalei the engineer 20 stop. The hand.car
then was a few rods ahead Of the train and
the men were trying TO III Il on the track.
The engine was reversed and brakes ap-
piled, but too late 10 avert The catastrophe.
Brakemen testified that they were on the
lookout for the hand.car, and that the whis-
lie was blown three times shortly before the
accident. II was quite dusk when the COLI.
sion occurred. The Coroner'sjury returned
a verdict finding that the accident was un.
ayoldable.
SERGEANT y. BERTz, OF the Fourth
Cavalry, was killed In dsrepuiable place
at Leayenworth the other night. lie was
hunting deserters, using his wife a. deooy,
but becoming jealous OF her attentions 10
other men there was quarrel. The woman
summoned policeman, and Just as one ar.
rived the couple went Into an adjoining room
and the fatal shot was fred. The police
think Il a case OF suicide.
JOSEPH HUGHEs and Marcus Davis
won some money from man named sbanks,
In saloon al st.Josrph, No., the other night.
Shank. accused the lucky ones Of forming
combination against him, and there was 4
quarrel; but the diniculty was adjusted at
the bar and the three left the place appar-
emily on good terms. A few minutes after
ward four shots were heard, and Hughes
and Davis were found on the sidewalk, each
with a mortal wound in the head. shanks
disappeared.
A coRosER's jury investigating the
killing OF Col. Rsppert and others at Ash
land. Ky., rendered a verdict hnding that
deceased were Killed by State militia on the
Granite State, and that said hring was no,
dons in the line Of duty. The jury holds
Major Allen, commander Of the troops, eul'
pabIe for ordering and permitting the lre.
SAN FRAscIsco merchants have sub
scrIbed 500. 900 TO the Nicaragua canal pro-
ject.
TaE New York Associated Press and
the Western Associated Press have agreed
10 operate under Joint MANAGEMENT
COMMISSIONER PRIcE has requested
The Secretary Of War 10 send troops from
For, MI..ouls to the Flaihead agency In
Montana, 10 keep the camp followers and
womsa out Of the reservation and TO pre-.
ven, tho selling Of liquor and trading with
the Indians.
JUDGE WILSON'S mansion on Pine
street, San Francisco, CAL. was damaged by
hre the other morning 10 the extent Of
500. 90.
THERE was costly fire Ia Boston,
Ma.... on the i7,h.
APPLICATION has been made TO the
A,,osnsy. .Csnsral Of the state Of New York
,os the opening Of proceedings 10 vacaie the
charter Of the Mutual Unios Telegraph
Company.
Two masked men attacked VIM.
Cooler. a wealthy farmer living near wsn-
p,e.. VIA. the other night, bound and
gagged him. and attempted TO make him re.
veal the hIdIns.plsce Of bis money. They
rscsived small amount aid led.
DH. GAsz, who represented the
American Socialists at the Hague cvngrss.
Ia 1881, has been sentenced 10 Two yssrs'
impri.oament st Rotterdam. fer obislninE
coed. By fraudulent advertisements.
syvvRK storms and numerous wrecks
ar. repor,ed On the eoa., Of Great Britain.
r,x. slls,s we're drowned while trying to
rrssh : vessel IN dIstrss. In the Frith Of
Forth.
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