Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-10-27
West and South.

West and South.
GENERAL J. B. STEEDMAN, of Toledo,
O., died of pneumonia on the 18th, aged
sixty-six years. He was made a Major
General for bravery at Chickamauga. OF
late he had been Chief-of-Police at Toledo.
THE man, named Charles Hyronimus, who
was buried in well at Dayton, o., was
rescued from what appeared to every one
to be his horrible fate, at noon on the 18th.
He was somewhat injured by being pulled
up through the sticks and dirt by wind
lass. but was able to walk home.
AT session on the 18th at Denver, Col,
of the African Methodist Episcopal Church,
the recent Civil-Rights decision of the Su-
preme CourtNyas denounced in the strongest
terms.
AT the reunion in Cleveland on the 18th
of the Society of the Army of the Tennes-
see General w. T. Sherman was reelected
President, General Grant was chosen as
orator, and Lake Minnetonka, Mimi, was
selected as the place to hold the next re-
union.
A FEW days ago Mrs. Theodore Davis,
Fora Noblett and boy named Dave Nor
ton were drowned by the upsetting of a
buggy in a creek at Joplin, Mo.
THE artists of all nations are invited by
the Garfield Association of Cleveland to
furnish designs for a granite monument in
Lake View Cemetery, to cost $3.50, 900.
AT Mount Cory, o., Mrs. Wade and her
daughter died a few days ago from using
water from a well in which poisoned rat
had been drowned.
A RECENT fire at Weston, w. T., de-
stroyed property valued at $4,000.
A TRAIN on the Terre Aux Boife (Louisi
anal Railroad jumped the track few days
ago, and three men were killed and ten
others were injured
THE assignment is announced of John
Campbell, of Ironton, o., the heaviest
stockholder in the embarrassed Union Iron
Company, to cover liabilities of 100000 or
more.
WHILE hunting n few days ago i'll the
woods near Detroit, Mich, a man named
Macarthur mistook child for bear and
shot it dead
A WEALTHY widow of Mansfield, o., Mrs.
Alison Allen, who inherited insanity from
her father, hanged herself few days
ago.
B. A. JESTER and B. F. Hudspeth, be-
tween whom there was an old feud, met a
few days ago near Fort Gaines, Ga, and
renewed their quarrel, resulting in Jester
being shot in the head and Hudspeth
stabbed twice, dying instantly.
The capture of three counterfeitcrs at
Mobile, Ala, was effected on the 10Th, and
$I14 in dollar pieces and all the molds,
metal and battery for doing an extensive
business were secured.
The other morning Irving c. Miller, n
son of one of the weathiest citizens of
Baltimore, was found dead in bed, from
excessive Indulgence in liquor.
On the 10th w. B. Klein, under indict-
ment for the murder of Mayor Stubbs, of
Polk City, Ia, was fatally shot by his
brother-in-law, John Cools.
MARGARET HARRISoN (colored) was
hanged on the 10Th at Calhoun, Ga, for
poisoning white girl; Taylor Bryant (col-
ored) was executed at Monroe, Ga, for
criminal assault upon white woman,
and James Stanley (colored) was hanged
at Columbus, Tex, for the murder OF a
white boy.
A PROMINENT merchant of Lincoln, Ill,
named o. A. Carpenter, was on the Goth
committed to Jail as the murderer of Fora
Burns, ION the alleged discovery of human
blood on the handle of his riding-whip and
the lines of his harness.
FROM three to six inches of snow covered
the soil of Minnesota and the Red River
Valley on the 21st.
ATS negro ball in Charlestown, w. Va,
the other night a free fight occurred, in
which one man was killed and several
others were seriously injured, two, it was
thought, fatally.
GOLD ore was on the Goth said to have
been discovered near Lisbon, u. T., worth
$40 to T25) per ton.
A FEW evenings ago Levi Weeks, n dissi-
pated resident of Aberdeen, ID. T., fatally
shot his daughter, while drunk.
WHILE chopping wood a few days ago
near Lexington, Ind, Thomas Hughes was
killed by being pinioned to the earth by
falling tree, limb of which passed through
his body. In this terrible condition he was
found by his son, who had carried his din
ner to him.
AT Baltimore on the 21st Rev. Alfred NJ.
Randolph was consecrated Assistant Bish-
op of West Virginia.
CHINESE laborers employed on the
Canadian Pacific Road were, it was re-
ported on the Goth, being smuggled into
the United States from British. Columbia
by twenties and thirties.
OVER twelve hundred acres of cotton and
corn were overflowed by high water in the
White River at Batesville, Ark, on the
21st. -Et@ .-.
AT Shelby, N. c., a colored burglar
attackel an aged couple named Logan
few nights ago, killing the wife and chok-
ing her husband nearly co ueatn.
POSTMASTER HARRIS, of Sheffield, Ind,
was sand-b -bagged at an isolated spot and
robbed of 81 ,O5) on the 20th-
SwIrCHMEN Of the Missouri Pacific and
the Texas & Pacific Roads struck Oh the
2Osh at Dallas for an advance from sixty to
sixty-five dollars per month.
THE vote of Ohio for Governor at the re-
cent election was officially announced as
follows on the 22d: Hoadly, $50, ,593; For
aker, 347 ,O64; Schumacher, s,361; Jenkins,
2,1S5; Hoadly's majority, 1,Ss3; total vote,
12I, ,464. Majority against the Prohibition
Amendment, IS, ,543.% -I-Ff
NEAR Cheyenne, wy. T., Henry Mosher,
brother of the man who admitted having
abducted Charley Ross, was lynched on
the 22d for the murder of ]. II. Wentzell
and brutal assault on James Knight.
A rEUD between the Syms aud Rogers
families at Mclean, Ga, resulted few
days ago in three of the Synses being shot
one being killed on the spot, one mortal
lv, and another seriously wounded. The
belligerents were well-connected farmers.
.n-orcl;c Md during a fire on the