Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-11

Convention at st. Paul on the ID and nom-
mated w. w. McNair for Governor, r. l..
Frazee for Lieutenant-Go }. j.
Green for Secretary of State, John Lud-
wig for Treasurer, AMI j. w. Willis for
Attorney y-Ge General. The platform adopted
favors tariff for revenue only and OPP
poses prohibition.
THE Jail in Mayersville, Miss, was
sailed by Il mob a lew nights ago, took out
a man named Pressell who was charged
with criminal assault on a young girl, and
hanged him in the courthouse yard.
On the evening of the I'd President Ar
thur, Postmastcr-General Gresham and
Secretaries Folger and Lincoln arrived i'll
Chicago, en- route to Yellowstone Park.
WILHELM ScuMELD, of Baltimore, while
suffering from delirium tremens a few
days ago killed his wife and himself with a
revolver.
ABOUT seven O'Clock the evening of
the I'd hack-team became frightened and
plunged into the river at Polk street
bridge, Chicago. Mr.. James Bezey, a
wealthy contractor, who was inside,
jumped out and escaped, but three of his
children, aged respectively sixteen and
twelve years, and son, aged eight years,
were drowned. The driver went over, too,
but was saved
a
other buildings We're destroyed by a hurri-
cane on the sd, and numerous persons were
badly injured.
The St. Louis, Emporia & Denver Rail-
way has filed its charter at Topeka, Kan.
The road is to be l,00O miles long, and the
capital stock is S2O,0OO,00O.
IN the election for Supreme Court Judge
in Georgia Mark \. Blanford, of Column
bus, was chosen to succeed Martin j.
Crawford, deceased.
\ CoLoRED murderer named Charles
Henry Lee was hanged ut Richmond, Va,
on the Sd.
THE average yield of wheat in Kansas
was on the Sd estimated at twenty bushels
to the acre. Many fields of oats had cX-
ceedcd ninety bushels per acre. y large
gain would be made the corn crop of
last year.
a CALL has been issued for COlored
Mems State Convention i'll Baltimore, Sep
tember 13, to elect delegates to the Ma
tional Convention to be held in Louisville.
FIRE destroyed thirty buildings in the
business portion of San Francisco on the
4th, the loss being estimated at $4,000.
Henry Morgan, actor, was burned to
death.
FEW nights ago, at Deep Creek, near
Norfolk. Va, John X. Simmons, a proini-
ntnI tlJlLef, uua'feiel VIII MS Niit,
whom lie fatally shot, aud then killed him
self.
OK the 9TH, while walking on the track,
the wife and fivc-year-old daughter of
Anthony Thomley, of Minneapolis, Mimi.
were. killed by the cars. Mr.. Thomley was
a witness TO the terrible accident, and was
rendered insane.
On Hurricane Creek, i'll Arkansas, a man
named Barker slew his daughter with an
TX the other day because she wanted to
marry a y"ung man in opposition to his
wishes. Tho ncighbors hung Barker to his
own lonr-po>t.
The wcli-knovvn scientist, Prof. T. w.
Tutin d:"d at Louisville a few days ago,
of consumption.
On the ith seventeen Cinnamon were
smu@glei into Washington Territory
from British Columbia, making the third
/ lot smuggled over the border within Il
week.
IN ST. Louis on the :th the Sunday law
was ignored by the saloons and theaters,
and the police were kept iusy taking notes
/ for Wholesale arrests.
MAN named Beck in fight on the 4th
with three negroes near Jackson, Miss,
killed ore and was himself subsequently
killed from amt r,h. Near Lake Provi-
,,ence, La. one ciI Ill of Mr.. Early was
killed ard another fatally wounded by a
negro named Clark. Edward Wallace, II
white man, i:uprilcntiy showed sixty dol
lars to two uc-rocs, Frank s|carswell and
L., Broker. iollnw-wOrllIu. Il i'll a Louisiana
swamp. Wallace murdered and
rOl bed and IL. nc .crocS had fed.
\ FARMER named John Garret, aced
ahout Sky, living near Dayton, o., stole
behind his a@ed wife the other night and
crris.c Il il her skull with a hatchet and
otherwise mutilatel her. Tie then threw
T. ATaccIpred picnic n few days ago at
Hckntv. Kan, fight occurred and six
persons were probably fatally injured.
her into the cellar of his house and made
his escape. The murderer was arrested,
but refused to give any explanation of his
conduct.
Ir is announced that flowing oil wells
have been developed in Washington Coun-
ty, in Sou: u:hcastcrn Ohio.
MAJOR CIvINsaud Il liquor-dealer named
Rennie were killed by three drunken In
dians Il few days ago at Harrisburg, Alas
ka The citizens shot one of the murder
ers and hanged another, and Colonel Barry
executed the third one.
In obedience to orders from the Brother.
hood of photographers portion of the teie-
graph operators connected with the
Could system of railroads struck
at various points on the 9th. In the
strike previously inaugurated there was
no change, both employers and employees
having made no concessions.
AT Dodge City, Kan, the Texas fever
has broken out among the native cattle,
resulting i'll the death of great numbers of
stock.
The election in Kentucky on the 9th re-
suited in the choice of Proctor Knott for
Governor, his ma jority being estimated at
1900. The Legislature would stand; Dem
ocrats. 40: Republicans, 23.
THE Utah election on the 9th for a Coun-
Gil, which corresponds with a Senate in the
States, resulted in the choice of the Nor
mon ticket The Gentiles generally re-
Trained from voting.
\ FEW nights ago fifty persons were
poisoned at Camden, S. c., by eating Ice
cream at "A church festival. On child died
and the recovery of many others was
doubtful.
As THE result of an election riot at bry-
antsville, Ky. on the 9th, two negroes were
shot dead, two fatally wounded, and three
other persons (two white) seriously IN
jured.
NEAR Sisterville, w. Va, party OF col
ored men and Italians on the 9th were
blasting when an explosion occurred, Kill