Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-18

and a stable at Lexington, KY, including
seven valuable trotting- horses; loss, $aO,-
600.
NEAR Massilon, o., on the 9th an open
switch wrecked Cleveland and Lorain
train, the engineer and fireman being
killed and others injured. Unknown per-
sons had opened the switch for the pur-
pose of derailing the train.
AT Dodge City. Kan, few days ago
tornado, accompanied bycontinuous light
ming and heavy rain. did considerable
damage to many structures. The velocity
of the wind was ninety miles per hour
ROUGH weather was experienced by the
bark Numa, which arrived at Baltimore
few days ago, from Liverpool, three of the
seamen having been washed overheard and
drowned.
WHILE preparing blast in a mine
near Daviess County, Ind, Edward
Edlin and his boy were, few days ago,
blown a distance of thirty feet by a pre-
mature explosion, and the eyes of both
father and son were torn out.
1T was reported ON the 10th that crops in
| Virginia were suffering from drought, and
| i'll some sections corn was burned up. The
Weld would fall far below that of last
year.
AT Tombstone, A. T., advices We're re-
| ceived on the 10th of an engagement be-
! tween Mexican forces and San Carlos In
dians, near Opulet, in which Colonel BOr-
| dola and several other Mexicans were
| killed.
| On the 10th it was reported that small
| pox making terrible work among the
Indians in Itasca County, Minn. In two
small towns eighty-five deaths had oc-
| Cured.
| AT Waco, Tex, three men were suffo-
Gated in a well few days ago.
! On the 10th the schooner Sarah Lavina
was run down off Point Lookout, Nd, by
| the steamer William Lawrence and the
| Captain of the schooner, his wife, two chill
| dren and the cook were drowned.
| INDIANAPOLIS was the scene of great ex-
citement on the 10th over the financial
troubles of the First National Bank and the
| Indiana Banking Company. The latter
bank remained closed all day, but the for
mer opened at three O'Clock in the after
noon, a syndicate having perfected ar
rangements to resume business, and to in
crease the capital stock to SS0O,oOO.
AT Baltimore day or two ago, in a sa-
loon brawl, Bernard McNally drove an ice
| pick through James Carr's heart. The muir
derer arrested.
A FEW nights ago three negroes at Stays
railroad camp, in Amite County, Miss,
and then caused them to desert, were
caught and hanged to trees.
ON the morning of the 10th the Presiden-
tial party was encamped on a fork of the
| Wind River, in Wyoming. After having
| ridden horseback twenty-One miles the
day previous, President Arthur got out his
fishing tackle and caught trout enough for
! supper. He mp at five O'Clock each
morning, and enjoying camp life to the
fullest degree.
ONE of the finest hotels in the South, the
| KimhaiI House. at Atlanta, Ga, and the
Gates CITY Bank We're destroyed by fire
on the no: ming of the 18th. Loss, 81 900, 600
AN arm ii mob of cowboys took l.. c.
Watkins, charged with cattle-stealing,
from the Sheriff at Cannon City, Col, re-
Gently and shot him to death.
IN Rule Valley, Utah, Shoshone In
dian L Gently murdered his squaw by
breaking her legs and arms and then burn
ing her alive. The tribe captured the mur-
derer tied his hands, fastened his feet to Il
tree, and then slowly choked him to death
by drawing on Il rope cCiled around his
/ neck.
A FEW days ago four boys, named En-
| glehart, Stein, Hume and Halfpenny,
were drowned in the Ohio River, near
| Wheeling, w. Va, by the upsetting of
! their boat.
JOSEPH FrLFoRD, of Miller County,
Ga, with the aid of negro, beat his wife
to death and sunk the body in the creek.
| \ mol, forced a confession from the col
| orcd ;,ccompIice and then hanged both to
| a tree near the Jail at CoIquitt few days
! ago.
ADvIcEs of the 11th stated that the City
| National Bank of Lawrenceburg, Ind, had
suspended. The assets were supposed
to greatly exceed the liabilities, and a
speedy resumption was anticipated.
THREE boys engaged in herding cattle
near Lincoln, Neb., recently took refuge
| from Il storm beneath a tree, when stroke
of lightning killed them instantly.
NEAR Riverside, A. T., stage was
stopped by robbers on the 18th, who killed
the express messenger and secured "a, 200
in coin Another stage was plundered near
| Prescott but the amount taken was not
known
| In the Bozeman (Montana) Railroad tun-
mel twelve men were killed a few days ago.
In a railroad camp near Cumberland
| Falls Tenn the bodies of four men were
found Il few days ago. 1t was supposed
| they fought AMI killed each other while
gambling.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th John
| Younger. seventy-four years old, hanged
himself at Cleveland, o.
AN employe on the Government pie
driver at Mayerville, Miss, named Dallas
Williams fell in the river on the 18th and
| was drowned. Thirteen men had been
| droxued off those works within two weeks.
MAYOR PINCKNEY of Baltimore, Md, and
| tho BOARD of Fire Commissioners were in
| dicted on the 18th for conniving at frauds in
| tho purcbasa of materials for the Fire De-
| partment, bills for large quantities OF ex-
orbitant prices having been audited.
| On the 18th an incendiary fire destroyed
Ia5,OOO tons of hay at Nincennes, lnd.
, Loss, $2OO,OOo.
| A PROMINENT st. Paul real-estate deal
er c. NJ. Dittman, was arrested on the
| 18th for forging notes to the amount OF
| $InO,0Oo.
AT ST. Louis few nights ago, August
bunker fatally shot Frank Wahl, proprIe-
tor of a notion store, and then ran TO the
rear of his residence, and put builet
| through his own head. The tragedy was
the result of quarrel over game OF
| cards.
IT was decided on the 18th by the Indiana
Banking Company, of Indianapolis, not TO
| continue business, and, much to the dlsap-
pointment of the depositors, whose FUNDS
in the concern amounted to 100000, John