The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1883-12-15
West md South.

THE death Of Mary O'Conncrs, aged ono
hundred and three years, occurred In
hospital ut Lafayette, Ind, on the ID.
0S the 81 Mrs. A. b. Ransom and daugh.
ter, Of Union, Eau Claire County, Wis,
were instantly killed by being thrown
from buggy attached 10 a runaway team.
A hold attempt was made by robbers a
few evenings ago to wreck aud plundcr a
train on the Memphis g. Little Rock Rail.
way, twenty-five miles west Of Memphis,
but the train officials made a prompt dc.
fense with firearms, and the robbers, after
shooting at tho engineer, fed into tho
woods.
AFTER two days investigation Of tho
election riot the Grand Jury at DanvIlle,
Va, reported ON the ith with no indict.
ments.
TnE railroad depot and tho stores ht
sadiga. Calhoun County, Ala, were burned
the other day. Loss, $4,000.
PROMINENT colorei people held an en-
thusiastlc meeting IN Nashville, Tenn, n
few evenings ago, and resolutions wcre
adopted denouncing the late decision ot
the United States Supreme Court 81 the
Civil Rights bill.
The other nlght J. 8. wigler a member
Of tho New Orleans Grand 7ry' was ihtai'
iy stabbed by two nnkr,wn mon.
TWENTY-FIVE buI,dngH, including the
,Ssutiaei Office. we destroyed by a recent
fire at Lyaet'irg. Tenn.
co,xu.. HAwKiss, OF Madison County,
Ind. a ealthy landowner, shot and killed
l. ! johnson. postmaster at Johnson's
t,-Jssing, on the jth, aud then blew out bis
Jwn brains. The tragedy was tho result
Of an old fend between tho parties.
EIoHrY counties Ia Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa, Arkansas and Missouri reported ON
the 5th that the winter wheat plant was
IN a vigorous condition seldom before
equaled, and that the acreage had been In.
creased.
on tho 5sh fourteen inmates Of tho fail
at Chattanooga, Tenn., sawed their way
out with steel shanks from their shoes.
The Virginia Legislature met and or.
ganixed on The 9Th, Democratic officers b..
ing elected In both houses. In the Senate
a resolution was offered asking for the res.
Ignation Of United States senator Mahone.
Tue discovery Of huge land fraud, by
which some two thousand persons In the
vicinity Of Wheeling, W. Va. have been
swindlsd out Of amounts ranging from
fifty dollars 10 hve hundred dollars, was
made on the s'h.
A nAILRIpEH was held up by armed rob
hers few days ago four miles from Dar.
daneiis, Ark, and his let,erpouch was
taken.
AT Denver. Col, on the 9th snow.storm
blocked railway communication for twen.
ty.four hours, and carried down three hun
dred telegraph poles laden with wircs.
THE Arm Of Plunkstt 4 Wright, leaiing
merchants nj Iavoca, Ark, sold all their
stock al whatever u would bring. and do
parted recently for places unknown, ow.
Ing $4,000. The creditors would got moth.
ins.
Os the oh sn earthquake lasting forty.
eight seconds was experienced at Rousn-
den Springs, Arb. II broke stoves and
crockery, and loosenrd rocks In the rail.
way GUS.
THE eleventh annual session Of the Ma
tlonai Butter. Egg and Cheese Association
closed NJ Cincinnati on the eth. II was
said by the SECRETARY that the total value
Of butter, cheese. eggs and poultry mar.
keted In the United states during ths year
ended November %. 1893, amounted 10 over
sGo. o.ooo.ooo.
TIM Farmers National Congress, at it-
session IN LcuIsviile. KY, on the g,h elect.
ed Colonel Robert Beverly, Of Virginia,
President.
Nrnksovz Ohio elsreymsn assembled a,
Columbus on the esh and formed Divorce
Reform League, With Rf..fsv. q. 7. Bedeii,
of Cleveland. a. Presideut
A vrHE fs~ days sEp destroyed the en-.
tire business section Of Williamson, n. G..
including The ps<f-ofics and telegraph of.
Sea The stesmsf Commsrcs, with two
hundred bales of cotton and ether freight,
vas also consumed.
Tvs authorities 81 Fort Davis. Ter. ~
Gently toot four nesicass. charged with
numbering Dsnlsso PIinxo, sad Iynchsi
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