Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-14
West and South.


adopted pronounces all corporations sub
ject to the control OF the States or tLe Fed
eral Governmcnt; demands an investisa-
ton by Congress of the cost of railways
and transportation: urges the establish
ment of postal telegraph, postal savings
banks, graduated income tax, and the
amendment of the Patent laws: opposes
the issue of currency by banks; favors
paying off the National bonds in lawful
money: dcnounces the tariff as being
wholly in the interest of monopolieS, and
pledges TIE members Of the organization
not to enter into any utilization with the
Republican, or Democratic parties.
A BOILER in J. F. kelly's aw-mill, at
Huntsville, Tex. exploded few days ago,
killing fo;,r men instantly, and severely
wounding fo;r or five others.
AT Evansville, Mimi, twcntysiX build
ingS wcrr destroyed by fire the other even
inr. cntailin2 loss OF sI5o,oOo.
IHE firm Of " hitco.ub & Kendall, Chi
cago provision merchants, has failed for
SIl".Un.
Woon'S Opera House was destroyed by
fire at ~. Paul. Mimi, few nights ago.
OH the 18th eleven convict soldiers, des-
tined for the military prison at Fort Leav-
enworth. escaped from the lrlard-house at
Fort Omaha hy tunnelinG the structure.
Three. of the fu.citives were recaptured.
TIE Shaw locomotives, i'll trial of speed
Oh the III between milwaukee, and Chicago,
ma lie a record ot siXty-five miles an hour.
The Democratic State Convention of
Minnesota will be held at st. Paul on the
ID of August.
On the 9TH ,wo ships arrivedat Pensacola,
Fla, from Vera Cruz, with yellow fever on
board.
IN South Chicago on the 9Th steam was
accidentally turned into boiler at the
rolling-mill which be ing cleaned by
john Hero and john Holngren, scalding
them to death.
a HEAVY thunder and rain-storm visited
the region around Petersburg. Va, the
ether night, many structures being struck
bv'lightning and orchards damaged.
\ NEGRO named John Cone was hanged
al Houston, Tex. on the 9th, for criminal
assault upon Il white girl.
\ MOB at Mound City, ILL.,, on the night
of the 9Th lynched Nelson Howard, who re-
Gently killed John Kane, bridge contrac-
tor on the Wabash Road.
THE Health Board of Pensacola, Fla, has
issued an order that yellow fever infected
until frost comes.
The other day james Napier, negro,
became Jealous of his wife at Hampton,
Ga, beat her fatally, and then hanged HIM
self.
OK the 9Th the Red River Valley was still
suffering from drought. Minnesota and
Southern Dakota mad been blessed with CO.
piouS rains. The wheat crop i'll that
ton was estimated al ninety-fOur per cent.
of an average yield. Corn was fully three
weeks later than usual.
EARLY on the morning of the 9th the
Y of ,1]
the crew save four down with yellow
fever. The ilI-fateu craft came from Vera
Cruz.
\ CONFESSION was made by Mrs. Chris
tian of san Antonio, Tex, on the 9th, to
having poiso ned seven men to obtain their
personal effects. One victim was Mr.. lis
ton, of Chicago, whom she murdered two
years ago, on Il ranch near Laredo.
THE prima donna, Maria Won Elsner,
known to the world as Mile. Litta, died a
few DAYS ago at Bloomington, ILL.,, her
birthplace, aged twenty-seven years.
NEAR Baltimore few days ago Mrs.
Alberto kuhlman, aged eighteen, and Miss
Mary Donion, aged seventeen, were
drowned by the ovcrturning of Il boat
MARSHAL HENSLEY, of Greensburg, KY,
set out with Il posse a few days ago to ar
rest Il desperate named James Owen The
latter and his friend killed the Marshal,
fatally wounded his deputy, and put the
rest of the party to flight.
GEORGE AYERS. aged sixty years, a
wealthy farmer of Salem, o., known to
have been insane, killed his grandson the
other day, fired the house and barn, shot
himself, and pcrished in the flames.
1T is announced that clerk i'll the en-
pIoy of III. FEEDER & Co., of Cincinnati, has
ahScon,lcd with 5000.
entered by three men on the 9Th. anI while
two of them engaged the cashier and his
assistant in conversation the third got be-
hind the counter, secured Il package of
money containing S1,4Jt, and leiSurely
walked out. The Others followed, and all
escaped.
4 YOUNG man on farm near New Phila- !
delphia, O., was nearly stung to death a |
few DAYS ago by a swarm of bees. His life |
was saved only by his employer rolling |
him i'll the dirt of the corn-keld.
The coal-miners at Springfield, ILL.,, |
struck On the 9Th for an advance of two |
and Il half cents to three cents per bushel, |
and several of the mines Were closed.
THE convict labor and State Prison of |
Tennessee have been leased to coal and |
iron company for six years, at SlOl 900 per |
annum.
THROUGHOUT Wisconsin,, Minnesota and |
Iowa wheat and oats were doing well On |
the 9th and promised large crops, but corn |
and barley seemed to have suffered from
the cold and wet.
In the vicinity of Kalama, w. T., terri
bic forest fires were raging on the ?ih SIX
miles of the Northern Pacific Road had
been destroyed, and the losses already aS-
crcg gated S2oo,000.
TIE Sheriffs of Garland, Yell and Mont
somery Counties are urged by the Cover
nor of Arkansas to summon aid and hunt
down the outlaws in that mountainous
A RECENT issue of the Chicago tribune
saws a counterfeit ten-dollar silver certlh-
,ate has put in appearance, and Is sup
posed to be in circulation. 1t is made by
.he Photographic process and fades after
being exposed to the air any length or
.ime. 1t is the series of 1880, letter - By
94S,09S
Four prisoners were lynched curing the
hours ended on the 9th-one
N Louisiana, two in Tennessee and one III
Mexico.
INFORMATION has been received by the
of Justice that Judge IiouGh I