Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-09-15
West and South.

ROBERT DUNN and John johnson y. T.
| relied a few days ago in Amite County,
| Miss, over debt of fifty cents, and dur
| ing the fracas both men We're killed.
| Mrs. HoYLAND, aged sixty five, and two
grandchildren, three years and SIX months
old, respectively, were burned to death by
/ the burning of i frame cottage at River
| ton, ILL.,, the other day.
| FRANK JAMES, on trial at Gallatin, Mo-,
| for the murder of Frank Mcmillan and
participation in the Winston train rob
! berry, was acquitted on the 9th. Hells and
cheers greeted the verdict of the jury
IT was reported on the 9th that John G.
! Dwiggins, formerly Treasurer of Mont
| gomery County, Ind, was behind in the
settlement of his accounts to the amount
of 1000. Grain speculations caused the
trouble
THERE We're six deaths from yellow fever
at Pensacola, Fla, on the 9th, and the dis
| ease was said to be on the increase.
On the evening of the 9th the Milwaukee
| Industrial Exhibition was opened.
A YOUNG man named Charles Simpson
fell from a railway trcstIe near Baltimore,
Md, few days ago, a distance of seventy
feet, and was fatally injured. AS the in
| irred man was about to be taken into the
house of Mrs. Mary Crudden, his sister-in-
law, she was told it was her husband and
| that he was dead. She sank to the floor,
and when raised life was extinct.
Two INCHES of snow fell i'll the vicinity
of Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the 7th.
On account of numerous incendiary fires
n reign of terror prevailed at Lynchburg,
Va, on the eth, and Vigilance Committee
had been organized.
AT Grecnboro, Ala, Frank Shelton, a
wife murderer was hanged on the 7th, and
7 n x,ly cCrN
was executed for the murder of Henry
Steele.
On Greenough Shoals, Lake Huron, the
schooner Explorer foundered a few days
ago, and all on board, four in number,
perished.
THE last rail of the Northern Pacific
Railroad was laid and the last spike-a
golden one-was driven home by Mr.. Vii
lard with a silver sledge-hammer, few
miles west of the Mullan Tunnel, on the
western slope of the main divide OF the
Rocky Mountains, at 5:15 p. m. on the 9Th,
making the iron highway complete and
ready for travel from Duluth to Tacoma, a
distance of a little more than i,9So miles,
There are also GA miles of branches, mostly
completed, giving grand total OF more
than 2,654 miles of road.
Irwas announced on the 9th that great
and other crops in Michigan, Iowa and
Minnesota, and to the tobacco and cram
berry crops in Wisconsin, by the heavy
frosts of the two previous nights.
THERE were five new cases OF yellow
fever and one death in the navy-yard at
Pensacola on the Sth.
FLOODS in the Rio Grande valley swept
away eleven bridges on the Texas Pacific
Railroad a few days ago, and caused grea1
loss to stock and other property.
On the Sth the complete official vote OF
Kentucky at the August election was an
nounced giving Knott, Democrat, for Gov
ernor, I33 SIS; Morrow, Republican, sS,1Sl.
Knott's majority, 45,437.
THREE workmen were recently lmprls-
oned behind one hundred tons of ore by
the caving in of mine at Deadwood, ID.
T. One man worked his way out through
eighty feet of ore by using giant-powder.
The corpses of his comrades were recov-
cred a few hours after.
WHILE a freight train was going down
Kenosha Mountain, in Colorado, the other
day it jumped the track, and seven en-
ployes were injured, three of them fatally.