The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Wo1D HftHT, cousin of the famous
James boys, arrived in Kansas City On the
l4th, heavily handcuffed aid inanacled, and
was locked UP lib the County Jail with great
secrecy by officials from Clay and Jackson
| Counties. Hight was arrested near Cross
| Plains, Tenn, upon warrants sworn out In
! Missouri charging him with being one OF the
parties who robbed the Chicago & Alton ex-
press train In the cut near Glendale last
| September.
THE fall of scaffolding at Carrolton
| Market, New Orleans, Feb. II, killed two
workmen, named zebeck and KeemegS.
JoEL A. DIX, Wholesale fish and pro-
visions, and II. o. Kenyon & Co., grain
commission firm, of Chicago, have failed.
JACOB GEssERT, lately Superintend-
ent of Police at Cincinnati, killed himself
with a revolver, leaving wife and mine
children.
A GERMAN gardener named Schapp
was arrested in Columbus, o., the other
day for stealing food from his neighbors.
When he told his pitiful story of a starving
family he was released. visit to his home
revealed most deplorable state of affairs.
His wife, confined to bed with d newborn
child, was raving maniac, and three small
children lowered about her crying for
| bread.
GILBERT STEPHENS, engineer, was
killed by the explosion of a boiler in jew
clips flour mills, Brooklyn, n. Y, on the
10th. A miller named Kohn was badly hurt,
losing his entire scalp. A flying timber
struck G.. NJ. Ba dwin, a Fulton Ferry pilot,
breaking leg.
THOMAS DALTON, an irish laborer, of
New York City, died recently from hydro
phobia. He was bitten by dog in Novem-
Der last, receiving slight wounds on the left
arm and hand. The dog was killed, al
though there was no indication that 1t was
mad. The wounds inflicted by the animal
soon healed, and Dalton suffered no trouble
| from them until the 10th, when he was at
tackled by numbness and violent pains in
his arm. During the night and until his
| death he continued to suffer intensely. His
| throat was parched, and, although he was
constantly afflicted with burning thirst,
the sight of water threw him into convul.
sions. He had neglected to have the wounds
on his arm and hand canterized.
JOHN LANAHAN, farmer of Sibley,
Iowa, was murdered few nights ago while
standing on his own bearthstone. Maggie.
his oldest daughter, has not only confessed
that she did the shooting, but duplicates
her mother, her sister Anna, and the latter's
lover, young man named Birch. The girl
testified that 1t had been agreed between
| them some time ago to "put the old man
out of the wayo at the earliest opportunity
Birch furnished the pistol, and when her
fath al,
met ting and was about to sit down she
stepped up behind him and fired, kill
ng him instantly. She then arranged the
body so as to make 1t appear that some one
had shot him through the window, while
Anna went out and broke the glass. Mag
gle says Birch wanted to marry Anna and
her father refused. He also did not pro-
vide well for them. Birch at one time lived
with the family, and was driven from the
house by Lanahan, who suspected him of
criminal intimacy with his wife and daugh-
ter.
THE Pennsylvania Military Academy.
at Chester, burned on the 10TH The entire
loss will foot up 100000; insurance, not
over $4,000. All State and Government
property was saved. The students saved
most of their personal effects. Fire origi
mating in Meisenheimer's clothing store.
Robinson County, Kans., on the same day,
destroyed every business house in the town
except one, twelve stores, two hotels, the
post-office and one dwelling being swept
away. Loss estimated at $4,000.
DIPHTHERIA has within four DAYS
swept away four children of John Wander
an, OF Cleveland, o., and they were placed
in one grave at Riverside Cemetery.
MAGGIE MOORE jumped from Lake
Shore train running thirty miles an hour,
near Ripley. Ohio, onthe 18th. She man
aged to walk to the station, ho~~a~a-. and
took the next train for Cleveland, where she
was taken to the hospital. The young
woman explained her desperate leap by say
ing she feared two men on the train were
about to assault her. She appeared to be
suffering mentally, but seemed to have re-
ceived no serious physical injury.
FATHER O'FARRELL, an esteemed
Catholic priest, committed suicide in Peo
ria, ILL.,. on the 18th, by cutting his throat
and vein in his arm. For several year. he
had suffered from painful dropsical COM
plant, and got into the habit of taking
drugs to relieve the pain. The doses were
recently reduced by his superiors because
they thought be was taking too much. 1t
is supposed these circumstances produced
temporary insanity.
JOHN HIGHwARDEN. of Marion, O.,
died on the 18th from an overdose OF chloro-
form administered by surgeons who were
about to remove an injured eye.
ROBERT WILSON, Mrs. Jennie Schnull,
and Mrs. Jane tastes were seriously injured
by runaway horses in Indianapolis the other
day.
THE brothers Charles and Christian
Sundemeyer, prosperous farmers Of
Pinckney Township, Warren County, Mo-,
recently quarreled about the sale Of some
land. Charles used his fists, but Christian
drew a knife and stabbed his brother in the
abdomen, infiicting a fatal wound.
/ A MASQUERADE ball at Indianapolis
the other night ended in disgraceful riot.
Morris Dalton, railroader, insulted
young woman named Howard, and was
assaulted by her friend, s. Eaglen. The
fight spread until every man in the ball was
engaged, and the police were unable to
quell the tumult. Afterward three of the
ringleaders, William Walls. Charles Chatter
son and Morris Dalton, were arrested and
committed. A score of people were more
or less injured by the flying missiles.
THE village of Constantine, Mich, is in
a state of great excitement over a little cpl
sode that occurred the other day. A young
married lady. of that town drove out alone to
her fathers farm house and administered
horse-whipping to a lady visitor whose
actions have been the cause of scandal.