Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-08
West and South.

west and South.
| AT Milwaukee the eleventh of n series Of
incendiary fires occurred on the 30th ult.,
and a general feeling of alarm pervaded
the city, arising from the incendiary at
tempts.
OWING to unpleasant relations with her
husband Mrs. Rail, of Baltimore, Md,
| killed her two young children and fatally
wounded herself with razor OH the 3Oth
ut.
WHILE attempting on the 30th ult. to ar
rest four burglars ut Shelby, o., Marshal
Sulter was fireI at and severely wounded.
He shot one of the robbers dead, however.
Then the other three started off, pursued
by many citizens. One fugitive turned and
shot pursuer dead, but the murderer was
captured and taken to Shelby. Another
member of the gang, after making des-
perate attempt to escape, was overtaken
and riddled with the bullets of his pursu-
! ers, and the fourth robber was captured at
! Plymouth.
| DISCOVERIES of fabulous richness in the
CoeJIr d'Alene Mountains in Montana are
again reported, and from twenty-five to
ono hundred dollars each day per man
/ Were being taken from the rim rocks and
gulches.
| NEAR Pueblo few days ago Mexican
! discovered that his child had while play
| ing burned up two hundred dollars in
paper money. In his rage he killed the
child, and then out of remorse threw him
! self in front of a locomotive, which ran
over and killed him. His wife had become
/ insane.
AN aged woman named Mary A. Gren
was burned to death at Louisville, KY,
/ few Mi gifts ago, her clothing having ignited
by candle.
ELI FRANK and Joseph Block, rival He
Z .t.,,I I,ia Irl- -hx-il1 Ind had
dispute a few evenings ago, when a son of
| the former fatally shot Frank, who rushed
into a barber-Shop, procured a razor, and,
returning, cut Block in a fearful manner.
Frank died in an hour; Block could not re-
cover, and his son was in Jail.
THE following executions occurred on
the Goth ult.: Richmond Stuart (colored),
at Shreveport, La, for the murder of his
wife; Joseph Jewell, at San Jose. Cal, for
the murder of NJ p. Renowden, and Am
brose West (colored), at Macon, Ca, for
the murder of James Monroe.
TIE disappearance the 3Dth ult. of
Edward ID. Sherman, an emplOye of the
Texas Pacific Railroad at Sherman, Tex,
led to the discovery that he was a default
er for $4,000.
THE death of Prof. J. II. Tice. the we'll
known weather prophet, occurred at Chel-
tenham, Mo-, on the Both ult. He was
seventy-cour years of age.
In dispute in Cincinnati street car
early on the morning of the 30th ult. Harry
Shatfer shot the conductor, William Swift,
and the driver, John Cosgrove, the latter
dvini, in a few hours, but Swift might re-
cover. Shaffer claimed self-defense.
WHILE playing about street bonfire at
| Dayton, o., a few evenings ago Lizzie
; Binkley, an eight-year-old girl, accidental
ly set her clothing on fire and was burned
to death.
A FEW days ago A McWilliams, an ex-
press messenger OH the Memphis &
Charleston Road, was fatally shot at
Memphis by a burglar because he refused
to give up the keys of his safe.
AT Cummins vile, o., James Boyd, aged
seventeen, was shot and killed maliciously
by his father few days ago for playing
marbles on the common.
THE We Southern Indiana counterfeiters
. | were on the 1st sentenced to terms of inn
prisonment ranging from three to eight
! years.
| In Spartansburg, Winnsboro, Orange
| burg and Marion, in South Carolina, re-
cent elections turned the question of
/ license no license, and the nO-HcenSe
/ party successful.
THE notion house of Gustave Metzler, in
Chicago, was damaged by fire on the after
| noon of the 1st to the amount Oh S2oo,oo.
There were eighty girls in the building, all
of whom escaped but two, who were killed
, | by falling from windows in the sixth story
, to the pavement. In the evening a fire in
the Off of the Erening Journal complete
" Quilted the building, causing a loss of
Sl50,OO.
ADVICES from twenty-five OF the nelgh-
| boring counties of Indiana, Kentucky and
+ Illinois the 1st of the condition OF
! business and industries showed a larGe ly
increa Sed acreage of wheat over 1852. All
other farm products were plentllul ana
4 commanding good prices.
! The twenty nine mills OF the CONSOLIDATE
e ed Paper Company, scattered throughout
Illinois, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin and Indl-
ana shut down on the 1st for an indefinite
| period, owing to over production.
. NEAR Canton, O., Tony Laymiller, 6
school-:eacher, Oh the Sd suspended Mary
v Og:ethorpe, aged eleven, for six and one
/ half hours by the wrists, her toes barely
s touching the floor, seriously injuring the
n ! child. He had been held for trial.
t AT Chillicothc, No., dozen stores and
e offices were destroyed by fire few days
II ago.
INFORMATION was received on the 81 by
/ the Adjutant-General of the army of the
surrender at the camp on Poplar River OF
Il five lodges of Sitting Buu's forces from
the British forces.
V THE death OF Mary O'Conners, aged one
hundred and three years, occurred in 6
# hospital at Lafayette. Ipd., on the I'D.