The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-05-16
News AND NOTEs.

At Winona, MINI, two children were
killed by lightning while playing in the
street
A whole family travelling on the Texas
international Road we're poisoned almost
into death, by eating canned beef,
Henry Reyils, colored, was hanged at
Lake Providence, Laa on the llth, for
the murder OF Henry Hyams, VIII te.
The Supreme Court Of kentucky have
decided that q wife may recover money
lost by her husband in gambling games,
The New York Legislature has passed
a bin FOR pensioniug superannuated and
incapaoitated teachers in the public
schools,
VIM. S!Woods, the recently appointed
judge of the United States Court in In
diana, is said to be natiEe Of Marshall
county, Tenn.
The New York Legislature has passed
the bill prohibiting free passes being
granted to anyone except railroad em-
ployes and officers,
The McMinnville (Tcnn.) Standard
reports smallpox in the family Of Mr..
Milligan, seven miles from that place, on
the Winchester road.
The receipts for home missions in the
Southern Presbyterian church increased
this year over ~ per cent. rs compared
with last years receipts,
The arrival Of immigrants at New
York increases; 1912 were landed last
week, being the largest number Of week
ly arrivals 50 far this, year.
Louisa b. Stephens i the first woman
to become president of bank. She
succeeds her late husband in the First
National Bank Of Marion, Iowa,
The California State Board Of silk
Culture has been endowed by the Legis-
lature with $4,000 toward the establish
ment of a silk reeling school.
Escaping conviots in Arkansas, pur-
sued by bloodhounds, caught the dogs
and hanged them to a tree. Others were
obtained and the fugitiyes captured.
There arrived at Boston on the 18th,
1921 evicted tenants from Ireland,
most Of whom had bcen assisted to
emigratc" by the British Government
The legacy Of the late Miss Tclfair,
made to the Georgia Historical Society,
is now at its disposal The amount Is
81, 100000, with nine years accrued in
terest.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
has refused to release from the peniten-
tiary Charles Freeman, who killed his
child in 1879 while laboring under re-
ligious excitement.
The commission Of Keim, ms Chief
Examiner of the Civil Service Commits
sion, has NOT Yet been signed, and may
not be, owinR to the great clamor CAUSED
by his nomination.
Smallpox is raging in Mercer county,
w. Va, where it Is said to have been
spread among the people through the
ignorance Of aphyscian, who is reported
to be dying Of the disease.
Major j. r. Wasson, United States
paymaster at the military department OF
san Antonio, who was robbed Of $4,000
was found deficient Of over SIS, 900 in hi,
accounts, has been placed under guard
A most heaFt.rending affair is report
cd from Middletown, 0. A mother
rushed into the river to rescue her little
daughter from drowning, and her hus
band rushed in after her, and all three
were drowned.
Nothing seems too costly for a railroad
president. The estimated cost of Mr.
Sidney Dillon's new car is said to b
over $4,000. It is to be 60 feet Ions
| and 10 feet high, and Of course replett
with every luxury.
| The decree Of divorce of Mrs. Fair
wife Of U. S. Senator Fair, from her hus
bond, provides that she shall be allowed
"a, $4,000, the family residence, and til
care of three children. She can manag
to live comfortably.
The National Board Of Health has in
formed the local authorities at Memphi
that after June 1st next, they will hav
to bear the expenses of tho quarantin
stations on the Mississippi river betweel
New Orleans and Memphis.
In Columbia, Tenn, a company ha
been formed for the manufacture o
hosiery and net goods, which will en-
ploy about 30 young girls. The machir
cry has been purchased and the factor
will soon be in operation.
At Thomasville, Ga, two colorcd chile
: ren, aged seven and nine, enticed fror
|, its home a threeyear old child, an
throwing her down, forced sand into he
mouth until dead. Because Of their e.
) treme youth, Judge Mitchell discharge
the children.
; Manageable women are scarce an
! high in Utah. "Elder Jim Wood an
! Susan Stoddard Of Bountiful, celestia
lied in the early springtime, the eide
! giving for Susan COW and load (
hay" Celestialization means polygi
{ nous marriage.
The trustees Of Columbia College, i
> New York, have prepared plan to n
a ceiye young women for four-yea
= course outside Of, but under the supe
vision Of, the colleges; graduates TO |
6 entitled to the same honors as youn
men who have taken the regular cours
At DeKalb, Texas, w. w. billiard sht
and instantly killed young planti
named Henry Sims, under great PROV
cation and in self-defensc. billiard IL
Z wealthy lawyer and an ex-memberof IL
! LEGISLATURE. Sims was quarrelson
4 bully.
/ At Monroe, Ga, Charley Neal has tv
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