Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-22


Rev. DIR. Edison, of Indianapolis, and was
captured on the road thirty-seven miles
| away.
| MISS EMMA BOND, in a courtroom at
Hiilsboro. ILL.,, on the 18Th told her sorrow
full story and positively identified John c.
| Montgomery as one of her assailants. Be-
fore her testimony was finished she was
| attacked hy hvsteria and carried out by
| her mother and sister.
| IT was reported on the 18th that an inn
mense bonanza of copper and gold had
| been found one mile north of Padmore, in
the Rocky Mountains, on the Bi itish side
! of the line.
AT Cincinnati on the 1854 the Pallium
was conferred upon Archbishop Elder. of
the Catholic Cathedral, by Bishop McClos-
| KEY. Six brothers of Archbishop Elder,
| who had not been together before in fifty
| years, were in the great gathering i'll the
| Cathedral
| JEROME B. Cox shot and killed Charles
| Mclaughlin at San Francisco on the 18Th.
| Tie crime was the result of litigation in a
| railroad contract suit of seventeen years
| standing.
| In a saw-mill in Chambers County, Ala,
| a boiler exploded few days ago, killing
three negroes named Ross, Brooks and
| Holloway. Nobody lived to explain the
| cause of the accident.
| OK the Georgia Central Road a freight
| and passenger train coliided the other
morning, one person being killed and four
| badly wounded.
| AT the recent session in Madison of the
| Wisconsin State Grange officers were
elected as follows: Master, S. c. Carr,
| Milton Junction; Overseer, NJ. Anderson,
| Cross Plains; Lecturer, Aaron Broughton,
/ Evansville; Steward, r. A. Williams,
! Hillsboro: Assistant Steward, W. A.
| Spra;,ue, Reedsburg; Chaplain, s. n. Jones,
| Fennimore; Treasurer, Miss Hattie Nj.
Huxley, Neenah; Secretary, II. E. Huxley,
! Neenah.
| SEVENTY FIVE distillers in Kentucky
production of whisky. The agreement was
signed by men representing half the regis
| tered capacity of the State.
A YOUNG lad named George Orr, en-
! ployed on the farm of NJ. NJ. Trimble, near
| Paola, Kan, recently killed the aged couple
! and escaped with what money they had
! secreted.
! FIVE horse and cattle thieves were re-
Gently lyncted by vigilantes i'll the Mo
brara Valley, ID. T. Four others, in Jail
! on the 18th, if not punished by the law
! would share the same fate.
! AT the recent session in indianapolis of
the Indiana State Grange, Columbus was
! chosen as the place for holding the next
| convention, on the second Tuesday IN De-
cembcr, 1884.
AT Baltimore, Md, ON the 14th Emma j.
Harrington brought suit for divorce from
| Robert Fearing, whom she married in
! Maine four years ago. She thought he
| was n white man, but discovered recently
| that he was of African descent when he
took her to visit his family in North Caro-
| lima, and found them of decided negro
| tint. One child was the fruit of the union.
A BANKER of Indianapolis estimated on
the 18th the amount of money shipped from
! that city to Chicago, within the past few
months, to meet losses on options, at ST.
! coo 900, and stated that smaller towns were
suffering in like proportion.
Two NEGROES were hanged on the 18th
for murder-Pleasant Hall, at Rolling
| Fork, Miss, and Burt Ellis, at Shelby,
| n. c.
LEVI JAMES, a ChOctaw murderer, was
shot dead by deputy sheriff at Scully-
| Vile Courthouse Oh the 18th, in accordance
| with Indian law.
ENoCH BROWN (colored) was hanged on
the 14th at Halifax, N. c., for the murder OF
his wife.
DURING a riot on the 14th at one of the
polls of the Democratic primary elections
/
Captain NJ. J. Fortier, Gus Remand and
Edward Mason were killed, and Sheriff
Brewster and ten others were wounded
| The Sheriff and three of his deputies were
locked up.
| TWELVE salOOn-keepers on trial in the
! Common Pleas Court at Cambridge, o..
were on the 18th sentenced by Judge Fra
zier to terms of imprisonment aggregatine
four hundred days, and fined to the amoun,
of 81 400, for violations of the Scott Llq
uor law.
In the Bond trial at Hillsboro, ILL.,, on the
14th the only witness was Lawrence Helm
lein, an uncle of John Montgomery, one OF
the defendants, and his evidence was tt
the effect that the latter several times
asked advice as to the propriety of a full
confession.
In the Pecan Grove La.) plantation
sucar-house the boilers Hurst few days
ago, killing two men and woundins -four
others, two fatally.
| A FIRE the other day caused by n falling
lamp burned the sugar-houSe of Charles IL
Walker, located two miles from Franklin
La, valued at $780, 900. The refinery was
one of the best equipped in the world.
THREE of the young boys, Moffett, Fincl
and Miller, who set ten incendiary fires IL
Milwaukee recently, pleaded guilty, and
were Sentence'1 on tnc lodl 10 tIe Ietloi III
School until they are of age. Benny West
pleaded not guilty, and would be tried in
January.
| SEVERAL of the leading politicians Of
New Orleans were placed in the parish
prison on the 18th on the charge Of murder
in connection with the recent riot. Nc
Caleb, formerly City Attorney, was re
leased on $40, ,OO0 bail.
EARLY n few mornings ago boarding
house at Moorhead, Minn., caught fire and
the inmates of the house, eight in number,
had a narrow escape. They were all more
or less injured, having to jump from the
| windows to save themselves.
The ship Sea King arrived recently al
Portland, Ore, and the Captain reported
that he compelled to shoot the Chinese
cook who became insane and fired at the
mate.
AN attorney named A. Digby Howard, OF
Brandon, Manitoba, recently fled wi
SD, 900 intrusted to him to purchase lands
| Detectives traced him to Denver, where
nearly all the stolen money wa found in
the hustle of his wife.
| sTEvEDoRE namef William ID. Fox,
living in Mobile, Ala, heat his wife while