Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-11-03

slosson defeating Sexton by 500 to 1856
points.
EDDY, HARVEY & Co., of Chicago, whole
sale fur dealers, have failed for $25O, 900.
AT Gardner, Col, citizens a few days ago
tied Mexican murderer to the horn of
saddle and frightened the horse into a run,
the culprit being dragged to death over the
rocks. .E-
The other day an insane man named
Keeny, who was locked in a room in the
courthouse at Warrenton, NO., hugged a
red-hot stove until dragged away from it,
and died soon afterward.
AT the reunion of the Army of the Cum
berland on the 25th, in Cincinnati, General
Sheridan was re- elected President of the So
ciety.
IT is announced that nearly three hun
dred children in Guilford County, N. c.,
have died from diphtheria during the two
weeks ended on the 25th.
THE bodies of two unknown Americans,
which had been robbed and mutilated,
were recently found in Mexico, twenty We
miles from FL Paso, Tex.
SHEEP in large numbers having died in a
mysterious manner in the vicinity of Day
ton, o., an investigation made on the 18th
showed the cause of death to be worm
about an inch long and one-third of an inch
thick. The insect inserts itself at the base
of the sleeps nose and works its way to
vital point in the head.
AFTER investigating the affairs of Post
office Inspector P. Foster, Of Austin, Tex,
it was shown on the 25th that he had been
falsifying vouchers for large sums, and
had been guilty of other criminal prac-
>fe wop
Jul u Tombstone, A. T., that Mexican
troops had routed the Apaches at the Swiss
helm Mountains with great slaughter. A
large body of the defeated Indians were
making for the San Carlos reservation.
AT the recent session in Milwaukee of
the Supreme Council of the Patriarchal
Circle of the United States a resolution
was unanimously adopted which removes
the Odd Fellows qualifications and de-
clares the Patriarchal Circle hencefOrth to
be an independent organization. The men,
bcrs still retain their identity with the
Odd Fellows, but hereafter all persons are
eligible to membership in the circle.
SAMUEL BAIHL, an employe of the glass
works at Kent, Portage County, O., leaped
into flaming furnace few days ago used
for making glass, and was crenated. Why
he committed the deed was unknown.
In Todd County, Mimi, two murders
were discovered on the 26th. David Stein
bach, of Germania, was found dead in a
swamp with his skull broken, and Orson
Gould, of Stowe Prairie, was found on the
highway, his body being shockingly mutt
la,ed.
SEvENTY-FIvE hostile Apaches on the
Goth surrendered to Lieutenant Hunter
near Bowie, A. T.
The death of Mrs. David Moses, aged
seventeen years, and weighing 517 pounds,
who was recently married in New York
museum, occurred in Baltimore on the 10Th
of fatty degeneration of the heart.
AT Mineral Ridge, o., DR.. Leitch dropped
a lighted newspaper into a gas well few
days ago, when there. an explosion,
and the doctor fatally injured and
several others were severely hurt.
The discovery made on the 2Gth
near WauseOn, o., that George w. w ill
Jams, farmer, had been killed III his
barr, his wife murdered in the house, and
their babe left to starve, but it was subse-
quently rescued by the neighbors. The
arrest of suspicious character named
johnson had been made, and Williams
watch was found on his person.
A RECENT decision by Judge Noonan, of
St. Louis, is to tho effect that poker is a
game of chance, and comes under the John
son law making gambling a felony.
SENATE OGLE, of Galveston, Tex, was
on the 26th sentenced to ninety-nine years
in the penitentiary for completely i'll the
murder of Allen and William Sanes.
THE Republicans of the First District of
North Carolina have nominated Judge &.
G.. Pool, Custom Collector at Elizabeth
City, for Congress. The Judge is n brother
Valt
Pool.
THE burial of Mrs. David Moses, the fat
woman, took place in Mount Olivet Gem
etery, at Baltimore, on the 9th, and at
night two attempts were made to steal the
body, but they were unsuccessful.
On condition of total abstinence from
Iauor jeff Rudesil, thief from Youngs-
town, o., was released from State Prison,
six wears in advance of his time. On learn
ing that he drank to excess, Governor Fos-
ter on the 9th ordered him sent back to
serve out his sentence.
EIGHT of the accused in the Banks Coun-
ty (Ga.) Kuklux cases were found guilty
on the 27th. Judge McCoy's charge to the
jury severely condemned outrages upon
negroes. The convicted persons, who be-
longed to leading families, broke down
when the verdict was rendered, which Gre
ated sensation, as acquittal was expected.
The punishment is from two to six years.
imprisonment.
A FEW days ago James B. Smith, muir
derer, was sentenced to seventy-five years
in the penitentiary at Hillsboro, Tex
A FREIGHT and passenger train coli1ded
on the 2Sth at Joliet Crossing, Ind, and an
engineer a brakeman and fagman were
killed, and three other train-men were
seriously injured.
WHILE Alfred Gossett, of New Orleans,
was being taken to the Criminal Court on
the 9th to receive a lifetime sentence for
the murder of Policeman Coffey, young
son of the latter killed the criminal on a
street corner with a revolver.
THE Southern Spiritualists, who had been
in session at Chattanooga for two weeks,
organized on the 9th by electing DIR. Sam
uel Watson, of Memphis, President.
Chattanooga was denominated as head
quarters for the association.
DRUNKEN roughs named STANDBY ana
Turner, at Lovelady, Tex, on the 2Sth cut
Mr.. Montzinger to pieces with knives in the
presence of his wife. A mob were in pur-
suit.
A CYCLONE early a few mornings ago
unroofed buildings and swept down tele-
graph poles at Columbus, Ind.
A FIRE few days ago destroyed Low