Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-11-24
West and South.

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AT Sour Lake, Tex, twelve tramps con-
greGated the other night, and when a train
came along rushed for the express car, but
halted at the sight of twenty Winchester
rifles held by determined men, warning
having been wired that the tramps in
tended robbery.
THE suGar-king of the Pacific coast, Claus
Spreckels, has ordered two steamers built
for the China trade, in opposition to the
Pacific Mail Company.
THE'death of the wife of John w. Gar
rett, President of the Baltimore s, Ohio
Road, occurred Oh the 18th at Montebello.
Md, from injuries received by being
thrown from her carriage ten days before.
THE receipts at Cleveland, o., of iron ore
this season were GG3,SD1 tons, against $685.,
CAS- tons last year; and the shipments ag-
gregated O., ,33l tons, while in 1882 they
We're G7S, ,71S5 tons.
A GERMAN Iaborer on the docks at Cleve-
land, named John Waffen, with a wife and
five children to support, won one dollar re-
Gently by drinking fifteen glasses of
whisky in fifteen minutes. He survived
the feat only two days.
The American Public Health Association
at its recent annual session in Cleveland,
O., elected as President DIR. a. L. Gibson,
Medical Director of the Unite States navy.
THE Washington Territory Legislature
on the 10Th passed bill striking the word
''male" from the Election laws, and Gov
ernor Newell promised to attach his sigma
ture.
A NEGRO named Harrison Crews, when
arrested a few days ago at Lynchburg,
Va, charge of incendiarism, con-
fessed that in the past three months he had
set fire to twelve structures.
\ FIRE the other day destroyed T. H.
Turner & Sons warehouse at Columbus,
Miss, with two thousand bales of cotton.
Loss, $1m,nU.
THE municipal and commercial authori
ties of Cincinnati announced on the 10th
that they would not conform to the new
standard of time, and the newspapers
would give only local time on the railroad
tables.
A FEW days ago Texas convicts EN-
ployed as laborers on the Houston Road,
near Choctaw, misplaced the track i'll
such a manner as to wreck train and in
jure all the employees.
THREE cars of a rapid ly-moving passen-
ger-train on the Alabama Great Southern
Road were thrown down a steep embank-
ment near Collinsville a few nights ago
and twenty-five passengers were hurt, one
fatally.
FROST and ice, the first of the season.
made their appearance at Dallas, Tex, on
the 10Th, and cotton and all other vegeta-
tion was reported as killed.
JOHN SMITH (colored) was executed at
Oakland, Md, on the 10th for the murder
of Josiah Harden, and Perry Jeter, one of
a gang of seven negroes who fired the
plantation house of their former master i'll
South Carolina, was hanged at Union.
<l,1 1.,lyo
owned by Marion Brothers, of Detroit,
Mich, with u crew of four mon, was lost.
The other day two farm hands while
walking on the railroad track near Fargo,
ID. T., were struck by locomotive and in
stautly killed. They were both intoxi-
Gated.
A ST. LOUIS reporter named Rowland
Rickard, who had been tried three times
for the murder of his landlady, Miss Selma
Wilson, was on the 16sh acquitted on the
ground that his pistol was accidentally
discharged.
AN excursion train from Minneapolis to
Southern California was wrecked on the
10th near Jamesport, Mo-, apd seven per-
sons were seriously injured.
On the 18th Frederick NJ. Ker, the en-
bezzling book-keeper of Preston, Kean &
Co., of Chicago, was sentenced to impris-
Onment ior ten years.
In the region of Wolfville, n. s., the
dykes have been badly broken by fierce
storms and unusually high tides, and hum
dreI is of acres of land were under water on
the 18th.
On the 11th a Mormon elder passed
through Kansas City with seventy eight
proseIytes from the Southern States.
JACOB NELLING, who recently confessed
that he murdered Ada Atkinson, the young
daughter of a farmer for whom he had long
worked, was taken from Jail at Fowler,
Ind, on the evening of the 18th by three
hundred citizens of Oxford, and lynched.
\ FIRE at South Chicago a few days ago
destroyed row of seven tenement houses,
and Peter Mointz lost his life in one of the
buildings.
THIRTY citizens a few nights ago visited
the drug store of c. +. Sutton, at Romney,
Ind, who was charged with retailing
whisky, and demolished the building and
destroyed goods valued at 81 200.
NEAR Natchez, Tenn, the steamer S. H.
Parisot, with a cargo of cotton and oil
cake, was burned on the 18th, causing a loss
of over $4,000. One deck-hand was
drowned and it was thought three passen-
gers perished in the flames.
PASSENGER trains on the Illinois Cen
trail collided few days ago near Bradford
Station, Tenn, and three men were killed,
several passengers were wounded and five
cars were burned.
Ina quarrel a few days ago at Gallipolis,
O., over the price of drinks, William Stew
ems shot James Block dead.
TEMPERANCE agitation it was announced
on he 18th had been revived in Kansas to
a degree which bid fair to close the saloons
in Atchison, Leavenworth and Topeka
The cause was the assumption of political
influence by the 1iquor-dealers in the re-
cent campaign. -- .~. J;-L
EARLY on the morning of the 10Th an in.
cendiary fire destroyed Mav's Hotel at