The Panola weekly star., 1882-03-11


sfRfEfhs ATTACKED number n
Wofkmeh ensaaod ~ An ihelf pi4oes Al Ina
lnlon Iron and Steel Compans'. rolling.
mill ~ Chicago, feb, lslh, The police
wefc called on n qnsli the riot, but we're
moi IN shioIcnt force 10 properly protect Tho
worhmen, who we're heoted aud peliel IVY
The mob.
Tts NlhIlisi prisoners, including ono
woman, have been sentenced 10 death Al
st Petersburg. The remainder wero sen.
fenced 10 various terms oi scrtliude.
JANIS II. MANrnnorr WIS arralgned
In New york police court the other day
ior appfopfatlng 5000 belonging TO per.
son for whom he had sold Peruvian bonds.
lie said his arrest grew out n conspiracy
10 prevent his giving evidence against iho
manlpnlaiors Of the Peruvian scheme.
TnE Mississippi Is said 10 be seventy.
five miles wide at llale's Point, Tens.
TIE town Of Valley Mills, in Texas,
has been swept away by cyclone.
A DISPATCH from Ottawa, Ont, snys
that Mr.. Weldon. while on bis way TO tho
House of Commons, the other day, was at.
tackled by ''crank" named Sullivan, and
beaten In brutal manner. II appears that
Sullivan labors under an halucinatIon that
the Government should appropriate 5000,
900 for the immediate suppression Of renl.
anIsm, aud had asked Weldon TO present the
| matter to Parliament
RoBgRT MAGELLAN, a London clerk,
tried to immor alze his name by firing
pistol at Queen Victoria, March 2
To judge from tho report, III,
pistol was not heavily loaded. Tho
Queen, who was probably not aware o.
what had happened, was Immediately driver
10 the Castle, but before she passed the mar
had been seized by the Superintendent o
Borough Police, who was standing near by
lie was violently seized by the crowd, ant
only rescued when three or four policemen
came 70 the superintendent assistance
The Queen held her dinner party at night NJ
usual. Nopoltlcal significance Is attached
to the outrage. At the examination OF Mac
Lean, two letters written by the prisone
were read. In the first, which was writer
before the shooting, he said that he wa
compelled 10 commit tho crime agains
"bloated aristocracy" because Of tho Insult
iiciency Of relief offered him. In the secon,
letter, written after his arrest, he said bi
only object was 10 cause public alarm an,
get his pccunlary grievances redressed; tina
he did not mean to hurt the Queen. but onl
fired at the wheels Of her carriage. Polio
evidence at the examination, which th
prisoner tried 10 shake by cross-examina
ilon, went to prove that be fired straight a
the carriage, and not at the wheels, as h
alleges.
| IT is said that Judge Advocate-Ge
eral Swain, In his review Of Lieut.. Fllppor'
case. se.recommends that less serious punish
ment than dismissal be imposed. IL
thought that the President and Secretary o
War favor the lighter punishment
The court-martial trying Sergeau
Mason for attempting 10 kill Guiteau ha
adjourned sine die.
TnE First Dutch Reformed Church q
Holland. Mich, whose members favor III
Masonic order, recently resolved to seccd
from the Protestant Reformed Church ,
America, and refused 10 allow the Use OF n
edlncc for meeting Of the classi., the Hai,
being nailed and guarded. A free fight =,
suited, and the Mayor read the riot act an
ordered three arrests.
TBE American Rifle Association hs
accepted the British proposal to shoot
match nj crcedmoor, near New York, ne,
September. Tho twelve Engll.hmen vi
be drawn from the volunteers, and III
American team from the Nationsl Guard.
THE damage to the Memphis & Ii
ilc Rock Railroad by foods I. estimated q
$4,000. Refugees are flocking 10 hemphI
by hundreds. The commissioners TO dI'
tribute rations for Arkanss, aud Mississippi
have forwarded supplies TO various points
The water at New Orleans ID greatly high,
than The average level Of the city.
CHINA Is preparing for hostilitics wit
Japan on the Lcochoo issue.