The true northerner., 1883-01-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.
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East.
Kate Fields Cooperative Dress As
sociation in New York closed its store, with
assets of s244, 600 and liabilities of sl25, ,0O0
Joseph Gray. the English champion,
beat Henry Borkes, Americas best man, in
match game of rackets at New York for the
worlds championship and $500
From Packardville, Mass. comes the
news of most-hor1ible tragedy. Merriam
A. Montgomery, % years of age, who had not
lived with his wife for nearly year visited
her ut her fathers farm Mt Packardville.
Jealousy on his part was the cause OF the
separation, and he asked her If she would
live with him again, and she refused on the
ground of former abuse He got angry, and
went outdoors where he saw his two chill
dren-GeOrge, q years old and Eva, years
old-playing Hepulled revolver from his
pocket, and fired Mt the boy, killing him
instantly be then fired at the girl The
firing attracted the inmates of the house,
and on their rushing out he fired at his wife,
and then at her father Horatio Marsh, but
fortunately missed them both The old
gentleman grappled with Montgomery,
threw him, and took away the weapon, and
finally dragged him into the house and So
cured him
There is n strong feeling among the
importers of steel IN the Eastern States
against the changes in the customs duties
proposed by the Tariff Commission
Oliver H. p. Belmont and Sara Swan
Whiting were married at Newport, r l. be-
Gov ha
presents were valued at 10000.
An icicle falling from n store at
Laona, N Y, instantly killed Charles Banks
and seriously wounded VIM. Smith.
A block of land in New York which
was bought at auction ten years ago for
s6O,OoO has lately been mortgaged for
sS91, 600
Byron & Smiths bleachery works at
Lodi, N. J. burned, causing loss of $500, ,000
Mayor Grace has concluded not to
license the production Of the Passion Play
in New York.
The Western Association of Com
mercial Travellers held its fifth annual con-
vention at St Louis
Thomas Kerr, formerly of Lexington,
Ill, killed William Hartley in cold blood in a
saloon at Pioneer, Arizona, for which he was
lynched by the citizens
The citizens of Prineville, Ore,
searched ont the members Of n gang of
horse-thieves, shooting John Thorp and John
Weston, and hanging Sid Houston and
Charles Lester
Henry G. Kiesel, City Treasurer of
Tucson, ArL, has fled to Texas, being de-
faulter to the amount of $500
Col +. H. Wolfe, Auditor of Indiana,
while going home in indianapolis, at an ear
ly hour in the morning was halted by
merchant policeman and fired upon, the in
dignity being increased by an arrest and i'm
prisonment. He was promptly released by
the Police Justice.
A Cleveland dispatch says that a
sensation was created in the extensive shops
of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company
caused by notice being posted announcing
the closing Of the Bessemer Steel Works
The rail mills, two rod d-mills, booth mill
two bar mills, pudding mill, guede mill and
several smaller mills were closed until
further notice. BY this move at least 900
men are thrown out of employment
The people OF Cincinnati were greatly
surprised last week by the announcement
that n consolidation of the Commercial and
the Gazette had been arranged by Murat
Halsted and Richard Smith The scheme has
been in contemplation for nearly year.
South.
John Townsend, Bert Cowan and w.
Rain were killed during an affray in a saloon
near Pine Hill, La
English a. Huguenins warehouse,
containing 1856 bales Of cotton, and Henry
& shearwoods grocery, at Macon, Ga, were
consumed
Near Beverly, w. Va, on Christmas
night, Adam Currence and four children
were burned to death
Five negroes were drowned by the
overturning of ferry boat at Darien, Ga
Two blocks of buildings at Prescott,
Ark, were destroyed by fire, The loss Is
estimated ut 100000.
Jay Gould has come into possession
Of the Galveston, Houston and Henderson
railroad In Texas, thus giving his South
western system an outlet to the Gulf of
Mexico
Clarence Weight deliberately applied
match to some fireworks i'm MrX Lizzie
Swim's cigar store at Fort Worth, Texas,
causing an explosion which fired the build
ing, Mrs Swim perishing in the flames
Iverson s. Cole, colored, was exc
cuted at Yanceyville & C., for the murder
of Dora White
WASHINGTON NOTES.