Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-11-10
West and South.

West and South.
BY runaway a few days ago near Cald-
well, o.. Mrs. Polly Miller, Mrs. Cynthia
Turl and young man were thrown from
a wagon, and Mrs. Miller was fatally hurt
and the others were badly injured. Will
lam Miller was crippled for life while try
ing to stop the team.
THE steamer Katie P. Kountz was burned
on the Mississippi River recently at Arkan-
sas City. The loss on boat and cargo was
$4,000.
A BOILER exploded on James Goldberry's
plantation, near Terre Haute Landing,
Miss, few days ago, and the engineer and
two negroes were killed,and several others
We're wounded.
A SURVEY has been made for a narrow
gauge railway from Manitou to the summit
of Pixies Peak, thirty miles, and work is to
be commenced at once. James H. Kerr
of Colorado Springs, is President of the
company organized to build the road. The
ma Ximum grade is to be three hundred
feet to the mile.
JUDGE MCCRARY decided in a land case
at Denver the 1st in favor of the can
collation. of sixty-one patents fraudulently
obtained in Colorado through the Pre-emp-
ton law, although the title had passed into
the hands of innocent parties.
THREE brothers called ex- Sheriff Mcken-
zie, of Morgan County, KY, to his door
few days ago, on pretense of making up
an old feud, and he was fatally beaten with
clubs. The assassins escaped.
AFTER a determined fight, United States
Marshal r. S. Foster and posse of de-
tectives captured nine counterfeiters at
Pikevillc, Pike County, Ind, on the 1st
and took them to indianapolis. In the
conflict two of the criminals were danger.
ously wounded
JOHN ERNEsr's house at Middletown, O.,
was burned recently and two children were
suffocated.
THE Coroner's Jury in the case of Fora
Burns, at Lincoln, ILL.,, on the 1st found
| that she came to her death at the hands of
| some person OF persons unknown. Orrin
| A. Carpenter had not been released from
| Jail, as he was held on q warrant charging
him with the murder.
A TRAIN ran over and killed two intoxi-
Gated wood choppers on the outskirts of
Detroit, Mich, few days ago.
EIGHTEEN cars We're thrown into the San
ia Anna River, in California, the other
night by the falling of a bridge, and two
tramps were killed. Two train hands were
injured.
THE Rock River Paper Company of Chi
cagO made an assignment on tho I'd for
about 800 900.
THE little town of Willoughby, O..
twenty miles east of Cleveland, was al
most totally destroyed by fire on the I'd,
entailing a loss of not less than 500, 900.
A DISPUTE arose few nights ago at a
dance at Lamar, Mo-, between Anthony
Bummits and Alexander Brown, in which
the latter killed his rival with a pocket
knife.
THE death of Colonel Frank B. Fond, of
Malta, Morgan County, O., author of the
Pond Liquor law, occurred on the I'd.
SENATOR SHARON has been sued by Aggie
Hill, of San Francisco. in the Superior
Court for divorce, division of property and
a limony, alleging that he is worth $15,OoO,-
900.
A WEALTHY Cincinnati Jewish lady,
Mrs. l.. Wolfstein, fell from fourth story
window the other day, while calling her
coachman, and died soon after.
EDWARD RICHARDS, an inmate of the
Milwaukee Soldiers Home, while absent
on leave fell into trance which on the Cd
had lasted twenty-eight days. A small
quantity of milk had been fed to the old
man, but he continued his sleep in spite of
all attempts to awaken him.
THE ST. Louis girl Mary Churchill, who
mysteriously disappeared from her home
August 10 last, was found on the 4th in the
insane asylum near indianapolis, where
she hired out to do laundry work. She re-
turned home with her father.
AT Algiers, La, fire recently destroyed
twenty houses and other property. The
total loss was placed at 100000.
A FEW davs ago Mrs. Elizabeth B. Gibbs,
widow of United States Surgeon Gibbs,
threw herself from a railway car at the
tunnel entrance near Baltimore, Md, and
was killed.
MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD was unani-
mously reelected President of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union at
its session in Detroit on the Sd.
NEAR Sonora, Cal, the Miltin stage was
stopped on the Sd by highwayman, who
took Wells s. Fargo's express bag contain
ing 100.
on the Sd Ellery A. Andrews, a self-con-
fessed embezzler of 50, 500 from the North
western National Bank of Chicago, was
sente need to three years imprisonment,
and Peters, a book-keeper for Lyon q
Healy, who embezzled $4,000, was dis
charged for lack of prosecution.
AN affray occurred at a political meeting
in Danville, Va, on the Sd between white
and colored men, followed speedily by
general discharge of revolvers. Four ne
groes were killed, one white man was NOR
tally injured, and twenty other persons
were wounded. A company OF militia was
called out to patrol the town, and one OF
its members was wounded from a window
by negro. .,..
A TERRIFIC cyclone swept through
Springfield and Brookline, Mo-, on the
afternoon of the 5th, and in the former city
five persons were killed, nearly sixty were
injured, and over two hundred buildings
we're wrecked. The pecuniary loss was
placed at $4,000
AT Lincoln, ILL.,, the preliminary exam