Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-10-20
West and South.

. LYMAN J. GAGE, of Chicago, was elected
President of the National Bankers Asso-
citation, in session at Louisville, KY, on
the 11th. Resolutions were adopted favor
ing an equitable Bankrupt Law and rec
ommending discontinuance of the COM
pulsory coinage of silver dollars.
AT Edgerly Station, La, Texas train
was boarded by mob a few days ago,
who captured Lewis Woods, negro who
had been convicted of criminal assault
upon white girl, and hung him.
FIVE murderers scaled the walls of the
prison at Cincinnati on the 11th and at
tempted to escape. Thirty shots were fired
at them by the guards. One of the offend
ers secured his liberty, another was killed,
and two were badly injured.
In a dispute at Baltimore on the 11th be-
tween Democratic ward politicians, in front
of the City Hall, James F. Busey was fatal
ly shot by William F. Harrig.
JOHN A. FERGUSON was acquitted of the
murder of Officer Parks, at Danville, Va,
the other day, the Court instructing the
jury that citizen may legally kill a pO-
liceman who attempts to arrest him with
out warrant.
THE wife of George E. White, of Tee
garden, Ind. went to Plymouth on the 18th
to secure a divorce for cruelty. During
her absence White fatally wounded their
infant daughter and blew out his own
brains.
THE village of Arcadia, Wis, was visited
by cyclone a few days ago which de-
| stroyed barns and fences and upp9rGGc.Ls
many trees. Broken boarda we're hurled
and stones filled thu some instances as to
win SUCH through the sides of the build
.4gs. The total damage was estimated at
81, 900. No lives were lost. :.
a pE,BoM three to five inches of snow fell on
+hrnSa in the region between North
-. hut Evanston, Wy, 7. ss;ss
the P,e etta' MAb. and he ws.sy ssE51 Sd s 9ss
AT Convention Off, hersANsw
railway men in Chicago On ,rallrOs by tne
resolved to adopt a standard tine. Paul
York and its vicinity being gover arr nine
seventy-fifth meridian: Chicago, ScS Seffects
and Kansas City to run trains by the szz.ss
tieth meridian, the order to go into Nsst
November 1S. sBa-
In dispute few days ago
Iberia. La, over a woman, SylvaiE and
zille killed his brother. tred
A MOB recently took Nelson Coopetail at
Sambo Daily (colored), who murdek
man named Dick Winlock d on the 10th
Russellyilla-Lrv- was lou postmaster
-----:--.t ex-Governor Coniey' t,,a funSs
,.,a,to. Ga, for enoezziins amounted
"a t.4s. ..77,,.y.sss.ar w. II. Snii'n
AN electric shock killed Edward Robbins;
SUPERINTENDENT of the Electric Light Com
pany at Dayton, o., the other day while he
was fixing a lamp that had broken from the
cable.
CARL BACH, for killing his wife, was
hanged ut Bowling Green, O., on the 18th,
and Jack Radford, for similar offense,
was executed at Fremont, ..
ELLIS CRAFT, the third and last of the
Ashland murderers, was hanged at Gray
SON. KY, on the 18th.
AT Akron, O., Robert Allen, well-to-do
wagon-maker, committed suicide lie"
days ago by hacking his head to pieces
with an AK. He was temporarily insane.
THE son of James Rice, of Chicago, a
bright, healthy little boy, between four ana
five wears of age, died in great agony few
day ago from the effects of drinking whls-
XIV which had been poured down his throat
by two women "just for fun," they said.
AT Winnipeg, Manitoba, good slelShing
| was reported on the 18th.
THE death of Prof. J. Lawrence Smith,
| a distinguished scientist, occurred at his
| residence in Louisville, KY, on the l2th,
| aged sixty-five years.
| Two MEN named Alexander Patsey and
| Corde Bates were recently struck by a
| train at Knoxville, Tenn, and killed.
| A NEGRO named Lewis Wood, who had
| been convicted of a criminal assault upon
| a white girl, was taken from a train at
| Edgerly Station, La, few days ago py
a mob who took him to point some little
| distance from the depot, chained hlm TO
| pine tree covered him up with pine knots
| and chips, and burned him to death.
| On the night of the 18th three men who
| attempted to cross a railway track In
| wagon at Castalia, o., were killed by
| locomotive.
| WILLIAM HARRISON, infamed by Jeal-
ousy, and angry at his mother-ln-law's IN
reference in domestic matters, shot dead
his sixteen-year-oldw wife at Denver, Col,
| n few DAYS ago, and then killed himsel
| TX a brewery at Cincinnati a condenser
| containing several hundred gallons OF am
monia, burst the other evening, driving
| everybody off the square. Twenty-three
horses were killed by the fumes.
THE discovery of serious deficits in the
accounts of Postmaster Hays, OF 1t.
l,ouis. caused that official to tender his
resignation to the President on the 18th.
| THE Lyceum Theater, in Chicago, was
DESTROYED by fire, supposed to be OF IN
| cendiary origin, early on the morning OIL
the 18th. Harry Perry, an employee per-
| ished in the flames.
| IT was discovered on the; loth by Gus
| toms officers at San Francisco that the
| Chinese Government was issuing to COM
mon laborers certificates that they were
professional traders, thus enabling them
| TO evate the Restriction law.
| ADvIcEs of the 10th state that sixty one
fine horses were suffocated by the ex-
| nlosion of ammonia at the Moerlin brew
| ery, in Cincinnati.
| THERE were five new cases OF yellow
| fever and five deaths at Brewton, Ala, on
| the 18th.
| THE returns on the 18th from the recent
| Ohio election gave Hoadly, Democrat, for
| Governor, a majority of 1880. Inc State
Senate stood: Democrats, 81; Republicans
II. House: Democrats, SO; Republcans'
| 46. The vote for the Probibitory Amend
ment was $40, ,554, whic gives nearly o''oo
majority against prohibition.
ON the night of the 14th Fora A. Burns'
| servant, of Lincoln, ILL.,, was murdered
near the city limits by unknown persons
for whose detection a reward of Sl,ooo has
been offered.
| A. p,cKPocKEr relieved DR.. Thomas
Creighton of columbus, O., OF s26'oo' Oh
the 10Th. The doctor was in the act OF
stenninp on the platform of train at Lam