Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-06-30

The Democrats of Ohio held their State
Convention at Columbus on the 21st. Judge
George Hoadley, of Cincinnati, was nomi-
mated for Governor, and John &. Warwick,
of Stark County, was selected for Lieu
tenant-Goveri1or. The platform adopted
demands reform in the public service; the
gradual extinction of the public debt; a
tariff for revenue only: opposes sumptuary
legislation and unequal taxation, and fav-
ors regulating the liquor traffic by n graded
license system.
THE Episcopalian Bishopric of Indiana
has been accepted by DR.. Knickerbocker,
Of Minneapolis, and he will take up his
residence at indianapolis in October.
AT the recent session in Cleveland of tho
American Homeopathic Institute, DIR. j. c.
Sanders, of that city, was elected Presi-
dent.
NEAR Wheeling, w. Va, the fourth nat
ural gas well was struck on the 2Ist at a
depth of $40 feet.
w. d. THORN, ex-Treasurer of Adams
County, Neb., an invalid Dver seventy
years of age, was on the 21sJ sentenced to
one years Imprisonment a hard labor for
the embezzlement of $4,000.
a FIRE few days ago destroyed three
buildings at Salt Lake City, valued at
| 100000. During the fire a powder explo-
sion occurred, causing loss of $4,000.
RoAD-AGENTs stopped the Butte ON. T.)
stage, carrying eight-passengers, few
! afternoons ago, and carried off the treas
ure box and all the money and valuables
belonging to the travellers.
NEAR Chillicothe, NO., a cyclone on tho
night of the Goth blew down twenty five
farm-houses, killed two men and badly in
! jured fifteen other persons, and greatly
damaged crops.
On Robert Williams plantation, near
Grecnville, S. c., boiler of threshing-
machine exploded few days ago, killing
! Ned McBrayer, the engineer, and a negro,
and fatally injuring two others.
A FEW days ago four men we're fatally
! injured in Minneapolis, Mimi, by the fall
| of a scaffold from the third story of a
| building.
| DISPATCHES of the 22d say that the tor
nado which recently passed over the Sec
ton some thirty miles west of Kansas City,
Mo-, proved very destructive. Two per-
sons were killed outright, five others were
fatally injured, and large number were
more or less injured. The obliteration OF
| farm-houses, barns and orchards was very
! complete.
! THE execution of four train robbers, Cove
and James johnson, Monroe Mcdonald and
James Herndon, took place at Clarksville
O>iA
ductor Cain, and Lewis Carter (colored)
was hanged at Jerusalem, Va, for murder
ing his wife.
THE flood in the Mississippi River at St
| Louis was unabated on the 22d. The Fish
! Lake levee below East Carondolet, Ill.
had broken, and about ten thousand acres
of fine farms were under water. The dam
age to crops and other property was esti
mated at 100000. Above Friar's Point
| Miss, many fine farms were flooded.
A wIND-SToRa passed over Jefferson
City, Mo-, on the 22d, uproofing the peni.
tentiary and seriously wounding several
persons. Other buildings We're also dam
aged and three men were reported to have
= been drowned while attempting to cross
the river in n skin.
| On the 22d, the first day of the profes
sional regatta given by the Pullman (Ill.]
Athletic Association, Edward Hanlan, OF
! Toronto, Can, was victorious, winning the
three-mile race over six strong competitors
Time, 22:30.
i SIXTEEN persons were drowned by the
recent floods in Nemaha County, Neb
| In Pawnee County the wife and four chill
d:en of John Grubb, and seven members
of Bohemian family, were drowned
Many houses were washed away, and the
crops were badly damaged.
at the South Chicago Rolling-Mill, eight
men were badly in jured, three of them
fatally.
AT Veto, Ala, Kyle Walker and Harry
Reid, both colored, who were arrested fol
implication i'll the murder of young Trice
were lynchcd a few days ago. They con
fessed before being hanged.
AwoMAN named Fanny Conley, of Mans
field, o., who had been exhibited as the
Zulu giantess with circus, was found
dead in bed the other morning, at Sala
manca, n. y. She weighed 591 pounds.
In Gant's wooden mills, at Boonville, No.
the boiler exploded the other day, wreck
ing the building Several men were in
jured, but only one, the engineer, fatally
The mills were valued at $4,000.
FEW days ago the body of Charles T.
Goodman, the missing cashier of the Lake
Shore freight house at Cleveland, O., WI
found in the lake, he having committed
suicide. 1t was shown that he was de
faulter in the sum of So 900.
In the vicinity of Omaha, Neb., and Al
| Atchison, Kan, recent tornado did
considerable damage to property.
HANI.AN and Lee were the victors in the
double-scull race at Pullman, H., on the
2;sd, making three miles in 10 minutes ant
81 seconds. Teemer, only eighteen years OF
and II seconds, beating all previous rec
ords.
A STRIP Of sixty square miles OF the
richest land in Southern Illinois was flood
ed on the sd by the breaking of the Madi
son dixie between Alton and East St. Lou
is. The farmers were making their way tC
the bluffs with such effects as they could
transport. The wheat crop of the region
| was considered total loss. The actual
loss in crops and personal property was
stated to be fully 81, 900, 900.
REPUBLICAN conventions in fifty-nine OF
the ninety-niue counties of Iowa had up to
the 23d declared for prohibition to the full
| extent.
THE Mississippi River overflow had on
the 18th rendered homeless about two thou
sand persons in the vicinity of Alton, Ill.
| and the loss was estimated at S2,Om,OO
The bottom lands were submerged for fifty
miles, and great suffering was reported
among some of the poorer farmers. The
people of the vicinity had joined in an ap'
peal for aid. AT Atchison, Kansas City
and ST. Joseph the Missouri River was
rising slowly, and the situation was con-
sidered critical.
A FEW evenings ago the Planters Cotton
| Seed Oil Works, in Algiers, La, the largest
| cotton-seed oil mill in existence, was de-