The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE lower packing-house of the L

Donald. and Peter Doyle were killed. The
building contained about ton aud half of
powdr r, and nothing remains to show where
II stood.
SOME time ago the entire family of
Geo. Cass. consisting of father, mother and
eight children, residing near Tampico, How
ard County, Ind, were suddenly taken
sick, and the symptoms indicated arsencal
poison. The other day the smallest child
died, and the Coroner was summoned to
hold an inquest over the body. There are
only slight chances for any of the family to
recover. A chemical analysis of the well of
water on he Cass place and the dead child's
stomach will be made.
A CHESAPEAKE q Ohio passenger
train was thrown from he track by a large
bowder, near Clifton Narrows, w. Va,
March b. Thomas Smith. the engineer,
was killed, and the fireman was fatally in
jured. The en- inc an baggage-car rolled
into he Kaaavh, River.
THE American Powder Company's
works mt sudbury, Mass, blew up, March
Sth Frank Wil-oa was seriously injured.
AT Berlin, Bracken County, Ky, the
other day, Mr.. Thomas O'Neal committed
suicide by taking morphine. She first cut
her throat and then took the powder. She
had been in delicate health for several years
and was laboring under temporary insanity
at the time.
OSCAR DAVIS and his wife, riding
near Red Bluff, Ark, during storm the
other day, were ia ally injured by a falling
tree.
JOHN o. MASSEY and wife, an aged
couple residing near Charlottesville, Va,
We're murdered by robbers, March Sth.
JOSEPH B. WARNER, aged II, a
nephew of Captain Williams, of the New
York City Police, applied for admission to
st. Luke's Hospital, the other day, saying
he had shot himself. He was received, and
it was found that bullet had lodged just
below the heart, making fatal wound. The
hoy refused to give any information about
himself or 10 ell why he took his life. In
his possession were found three cards of
merit, signed by the superintendent and
secretary OF the Sunday school of the First
Baptist Church at Greenpoint, l.. L., and a
handkerchief on which was written with
lead pencil farewell message to his mother.
WILKESBARRE, Pa, was startled by
a report that resemblei the shock of an
earthquake, on the 9th, and the fact that
many buildings in the northern part of the
town were yisibly shaken gave rise to the
belief that something of the kind had occur
red. 1t was caused by an explosion at gas
house in the suburbs. The news spead like
wildfire, and thousands Of people focked 10
the scene. A large brick building, in which
the machinery stood, was ridded and torn
as if dozen batteries of arti lery had bonn
barded it. No one was seriously hurt.
A GERMAN named Otto Harder com
mitted suicide at St. Joseph, No., the other
day, by shooting himself in the heart. He
was formerly book keeper of the Bismarck
Bank and other German societies of Chicago,
and was about 60 years of age. He was
buried in Potter's field.
THE farm house of John Taylor, near
Meadow Lea, Manitoba, was burned down
during a recent storm. His wife and three
daughters were frozen to death, not being
able to find shelter OF any kind. Mr.. Taylor
was also severely frozen. Miss Reid, who
was visiting the Taylor family, barely es =
capped with her life.
TIE City of Mexico has been visited
by storm which demolished market and
killed several people.
TROOPS have been dispatched from
Poplar Creek Agency to rescue from their
Indian captors Sheriff Healy and his depu-
ties, of Choteau County, Montana.
THE residence of Joseph Mellen, Nor
walk, Ohio, was destroyed by fire early on
the morning of the Sth. The Inmates were
aroused, but the flames spread with incon-
ceivable rapidity. Two young men were in
jured by jumping from the second story.
Miss Mary Nagle, IS years of age, persisted
in the flames. Her body was recovered.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
A TRAIN went through trestlework
on the Knoxville & Ohio Railway, March
It'll. Eight men were injured.
CHARLES SHELTON, John Redmond,
and Harry French were taken from Jail at
Los Lunas, N. Mex, March Sth, and hanged
to trees by masked men. Shelton murdered
Foreman Woodruff last fall. Redmond
killed James McDermott last January at
Galley's, on the Atlantic and Pacific Rail-
way. French, alias Simpson, was one of
the band of desperadoes who killed Deputy
Sheriff Jones at Cranes. The mob also
took two negroes from Jail, beat them I'M
mercifully, and turned them loose.
NOTICE has been given by the Illinois
Midland Railroad Company that it will re-
ceive no more freight or passengers from
connecting lines until further notice, on ac-
count of strike of employees.
GENERAL CURTIS, recently indicted
in New York for levying political assess
ments claims that he has been made scape-
goat for leaders who ordered the work done.
Mrs. HARRIET BELL, of Boston,
Mass, was accosted at the door of her resi-
dence, the other morning. by man who
followed her into the house, and soon came
out and walked away. Almost immed-
ately it was discovered that she had been
stabbed in the neck, and in two minutes
she was dead. Three arrests have been
made, but the affair is still a mystery. That
the assault was committed by some person
who bore an intense hatred against the
woman is indicated by the fact that the au-
topsy reveals nine distinct and separate cuts
on the neck and breast, made by broad
oladed Fnife, and most of them deep and
wide enough to cause the victim to bleed to
death.
MAYOR KING, of Philadelphia, Pa,
having become convinced that several mem
bers of the detective force are no better
than the thieves whom they pursue, is ma
turing plans for different system of catch
ing criminals.
By the will of Miss Sarah Burr, of
New York, nearly $1,000, 900 will be dis
tributed among the benevolent and religious
societies of that city.
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