The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-12-02

NoTIcE Of contest has pcon served
upon william II. calklns, Congressman.
elect from the Thirteenth District OF In.
diana, by John II. winterbotharh, on the
ground Of fraud and intimidation.
In accordance with the facts elected
by careful investigation, the grand Jury
ignored the bill against Mr.. John A. Cock.
erill for tho killing Of A. W. siaybaek, IN
the Office OF the Post-Dispdteh, St. Louis,
No., by vote OF II toi.
CRIMES AND CAsUALTIEs.
HARVEY BAUsH, young brakeman,
was cut to pieces by train at Bcllalre, Ohio,
Nov. 20.
j. w. BuRros was shot and killed by
". A. Tharpe, his brother.in. law, at Som
ervllIe, Tenn, the other night. The trouble
grew out OF misunderstanding about fam
lily matters, Burton having publicly de-.
nounced Tbarpc and threatened TO kill him.
Tharpe, who Is President Of the somervillc
College. armed himself with shot. gun, and
happening to meet his brother-in-law In n
billiard saloon, discharged both barrels Into
his head and face. Burton had been in
trouble for killing one man and cutting an.
other. and his best friends considered him
rather dangerous.
A SAILOR named Burns, hailing from
Buffalo, N. Y, was found pinned to the
track by q car wheel, In Toledo, Ohio, the
other morning. He died while an arm was
being amputaied. lie had been drinking,
and probably went to sleep on the rail.
SYLVESTER BoBR and Ransom Willis
met horrible fate In tho straw board works
at EIkhart, Ind. the other day. A rotten
board prccIpIlated them into vat Of boiling
pulp, and when taken out the flesh dropped
from their bones. George Bridensteln and
Patrick MeKenna were fatally sealdcd by
the bursting OF lard vat In a rendering
house near Bridgeport, Ohio, on the same
day.
A SIonr express on the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati a ST. Louis road was thrown
down an cmbankment by train.wreekers,
near Union Station, Ohio. Nov. g. The
passengers escaped with slight bruises.
-Four train men were badly hurt.
The steamship Wearmouth, from
Quebec to London, went to pieces on one Of
the Magdaen Islands and sixteen sesmen
were lost.
Four men charged with completely in
the murder Of the joyce family, 10 Ireland,
pleaded guilty and asked mercy from the
court, but were sentenced to death.
The drug house Of Gilbert Brothers
& Co., 10 Baltimore, Nd, was destroyed
by fre the other day. James Shaw, the
porter, was fatally burned. I've fremen
were severely Injured by falling timbers,
aud party Of girls at work on the third
floor we're rescued while the stairway was In
flames.
FIFTEEN Spanish soldiers were In
jured by an explosion Of powder at the bar.
racks In Madrid the other day. The build.
Ing was demolished.
THE body Of Newton Ashton, aged
-, was found 10 the woods near Martins
Ferry, Ohio, Nov. %, with bullet-bole Ia
the temple. A young lady to whom he was
engaged bad Just given him back his ring,
and " be mad threatened 70 MAe ne ,.s
unless sne married o'm' a'e''''' o' 'u'''''
was rendered
Two negroes were cremated at the
sIoss furnace In birmingham, Ala, Nov. r.
TheY were cleaning the stack, and beccm.
Ing overpowered by gas fell Into the mas ol
ore.
JoHS KELLY was fatally stabbed by
Michael Mecban, . feIlow-laborsr, durins
drunken brawl at sunbury, Pa, the other
night.
TmRTr lives were lost by the wreck
Of the steamer wInion, OF the French coast,
the other day.
Two miners were killed and three
other. seriously injured IN the oxford air.
sh.ft, near Scranton. Pa, the other hight.
Hundred. Of large icIeIs. which had col.
Ieelcd on the sides Of the shaft became looss
and fen with great force upon platform
one hundred feet from the bottom, snd ths
unior,unsies were crushed and buried be'
meath the entire mass.
DAVID EVANS, an inventor who had
spess the last few year. Of long life in vsIr
toIl upcu = perpetual motion scheme sI
Wasrnas = Beavers works. near wilkes