The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-01-03
NEWS AND NOTES.


]. a. Ijams, President Of the Tennessee
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, died at
Knoxville, on tbs 24th, of congestion Of
the brain.
A Honey Grove special says: Alta
donia, Tex, on the oath, VIM. Vaughan
mortally wounded the two brothers Boone,
great grandsons of Daniel Boone, OF Ken.
lucky fame. The difficulty grew out Of
some little dispute about potatoes. One
hundred men are in pursuit of the mur-
derer.
Robert 1. Alcock, a prominent Young
me mber Of the Glasgow tKy.) bar, died on
the oath, after long illness.
The Dallas Herald says 275, ,OOO, 900 feet
Of pine lumber were cut in Texas last
year.
Mrs. Myra ]. Osborn and her SON, Ollie
aged II years. were found dead in their
sleeping apartments in New Castle, Ind.
It is generally supposed the mother pois-
oned her son and then committed sui
eide.
Another murder at Cincinnati. Jan les
Chumley shot Thomas Lamb; livery
stable employees; both drunk.
A collision of freight trains occurred on
the 25th, on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railway, by which FIVE men were killed
and two wounded.
The Methodist chuch at Amite City,
Miss, was burned on the 25th. The FIRE
originated from a defective fue
At Augusta, Georgia, coIored man at
tempted to outrage a white girl near Mil
len, Georgia. She was going through the
woods from her fathers to her brother-in-
laws residence, half mile distant. When
the negro assaulted her, he cut her across
the breast severing her clothes; she resisted,
calling loudly for help, and frightened the
miscreant off without accomplishing his
purpose. Subsequently the negro was
arrested, and while on the way to Jail a
mob took him from the officers and lynched
him.
Daniel Bennett, one of the oldest Masons
in this community, died of pneumonia
Sunday morning, and was buried by the
fraternity yesterday
| The amendment of Senator Blair of
i New Hampshire, to the Pendleton civil
service reform bill Is exciting great deal
| Of. comment among the department em-
ployees. The amendment is thatno person
habitually using intoxicating liquors shall
/ be employed or retained in any Of the de-
partments.
Bessie Bye, aged Is years, and her sister,
aged TO- were both drowned at Merriton,
Ont, on the Goth. The youngest sister at
} tempted to rescue the eldest, who had
broken through the ice while skating on
the canal.
An Arkadelphia special to the Gazette
says, Lou T. Kretschmer, Secretary Of
the State Senate Two years ago, and widely
known throughout the State, suicided by
shooting himself in the head.
At Bedford, (Ind.) Mrs. Bell obtained
permission of Mrs. Owens, the jailor's wife
to talk in the corridor with her husband
imprisoned for murder. Mrs. Owens being
called away, Mrs. Bell quickly gave her
husband revolver, and in an adjoining
room got the keys and gave them to him,
with which he made his escape. Mrs
Owens returned and tried to prevent the
escape, but was held by Mrs. Bell.
Capt A. C. Mutt, cashier Of the Penn.
sylyania State Treasury, was shot and in
stantly killed, by N. L. Dukes, a leading
lawyer and member elect Of the Legisla-
ture. The cause of the tragedy is un.
known, but rumor says it grew out of the
alleged fact that Dukes had been intimate
with Capt. Nuts eldest daughter, and
that at the time Of the killing the Captain
was demanding justice for the girl.
; At Warner Station, Arkansas, g negro
named Charley G. Branch, ravished and
I murdered colored girl nine years old
He was arrested, and intense excitemen
prevails, and threats Of hanging by mob
At Grosbeck, Ohio, DR.. Rankin and Mr.
Godfrey were chasing cattle on horseback
when their horses collided knocking Mr.
Godfrey down and fracturing his skull
! He cannot recover.