Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-21


Hamilton County, Neb., also suffered by a
gale, accompanied by rain and hail, many
structures being wrecked and some stock
killed. The residence of family named
Berry was blown to pieces, and all the in
mates We're wounded.
NEGROES, in dread of yellow fever, have
commenced an exodus from Northern Loui-
siana, Arkansas and Eastern Texas.
Two TWIN children OF George Boozer,
at LaurenS. s. c., six weeks old, died sud
denly few days ago from the effect of
morphine, administered by mistake by a.
careless nurse.
AT the recent session of the Louisiana
Colored Baptist State Convention, at Baton
Rouge, membership of fifty thousand
was represented. The convention decided
to Immediately send a missionary to Afri-
ca through the Baptist Foreign Mission
| Society of the United States, and to push
forward the missionary work in the State.
On the evening of the 18th q cyclone
struck indianapolis, tearing up shade
trees by the hundred, and unroOfing build
| ings. The new steel mill was partially
wrecked.
| The Apollo Commandery, of Chicago,
and a large party from surrounding States,
! left on the evening of the 18th for Euro
| pean tour.
AT Falls City, Neb., Alice Gum, aged
| fourteen, was burned to death the other
! day by the explosion of a coal oil can she
/ had been using to light a fire.
| REPORT was made on the 18th by the Illi-
| nois Department of Agriculture that corn
| promised a better crop than last year, al
though the season had been unfavorable.
| n. 5. TEMPLE, a cOlored politician of
note, was found guilty at Jackson, Miss,
recently of numbering his wife, and was
awarded life imprisonment.
| Careful estimates place the total Texas
| cattle drive this season at G0,oU head.
| The stock is i'll good order and free from
disease
| A HAIL and wind-storm which swept
| so,Itheasterly across Iowa and Illinois on
| the 18th assumed the proportions of a tor
! nado, and inflicted damage which could
! not be computed. a tract of forty square
miles devastated in Scott County, Ia,
| and thousand acres of grain were ruined.
In Western Illinois buildings were wrecked
and crops destroyed. Much damage was
done at Kansas City, st. Joseph and Mo-
| berly, Mo. Heavy rain in ST. Louis flooded
| cellars, while the wind unroofed structures
| Near Lincoln, Neb., the crops and some
! buildings were demolished. Many struc-
| lures We're wrecked at Maiden, Mo-, and at
Harrisonburs, Va, deluge of rain created
/ havoc. AT Maryville, Mo-, the best busi-
ness houses, the county Jail, courthouse,
| city hall and Presbyterian Church were
| partially demolished, and several persons
. were wounded. Near Browning, Mo-, a
passenger train was blown from the track,
and eight persons were seriously injured,
two fatally.
| Mrs. MINNIE BROwN, white woman,
| and Mrs. Crawford, colored, were fishing
! inf all
Mrs. Crawford's daughter, aged fourteen,
| severely beat Mrs. Browns child and then
| held its head under the water until the
| child was drowned.
DE Soro, the President of Honduras, and
party, arrived in Chicago on the 18th.
THE New York and Cuba Mail Line
steamer Niagara burned off the Flor
ida coast IA few days ago. The passengers
were saved and taken to Havana. The
| steamer was valued at S50, 900.
The failure is reported of j. +. Macheca
& Co., fruit-dealers, of New Orleans, for
100000.
| On the 18th a bank ledger which was ex-
| pected to furnish evidence for the cnnvic-
ton of Marsh T. Polk was stolen from the
office of the State Treasurer at Nashville,
Tenn, and Il reward of $50 was offered for
! its return.
! AN explosion in the powder works near
Wilmington, Del, few evenings ago blew
two men to fragments.
y On the 18th official estimates showed a
| marked decrease in the acreage and aver
| age yield per acre of the Michigan wheat
fields, the estimated deficiency in the wheat
| crop of the State being over S,O00,0OO BUSH
els as compared with last years returns.
CAIRO, ILL.,, slightly shocked by an
| earthquake early on the morning of the
| 18th.
"A NEGRO herb doctor murdered his wife
| and, mother-in-law with butcher-knife
| in the woods near Paducah, Ky, on the
| 18th.
NEARLY the entire town of CokatO,
| Mimi, was destroyed by fire n few days
ago, the loss being estimated at 100000.
Three railroad laborers We're burned to
death i'll the hotel where the flames orig
/ mated.
THE two assassins of r. l.. Clingan,
postmaster at Polk City, Iowa, We're
captured on the 18th in ElkhOrn Grove,
| Shelby County. One of the men, giving
| his name as Benjamin Gates, was fatally
wounded before being taken, and his COM
| panion vino said his name was Smith, was
taken to the Shelby County Jail. Before
| diving Gates confessed that he shot
| Clingan and also Mayor Stubbs about one
year ago, the motive being robbery.
! IN the Southern states ''nlleu' twenty
dollar gold pieces were reported in circn-
tiun on the 18th.
Two YOUNG men named Elijah Hayes
and Ruff Mcconnell, living near Paris,
| Tenn, quarreled recently while in swim
| ming. In the scuffie which afterward en-
| sued Mcconnell drew pistol and fatally
/ shot Hayes. Mcconnell started home, but
| fell dead on the way from excitement and
| remorse.
AT St. Maly's Industrial School, near
Baltimore, ten deaths from black measles
| have occurred, and on the 10Th fifteen in-
| mates were prostrate.
| In Tracy City, Tenn, colored barber
! while shaving Il customer the other day
was shot dead by some unknown person
| outside the shop.
| HALF the business part of Belleville, New,
| was recently destroyed by fire.
| THE chemical buildings, saw-mill and re-
! torts of the Vulcan Furnace Company, at
| Newberry, Mich, were destroyed by fire
| few days ago. Loss, 100000.
In portions of the Northwest another cy-
! clone on the 18th destroyed nearly every
thing in its path. Bloomington, Pekin,
Decatur and other places in Illinois were
visited and buildings were devastated and