The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-01-10
NEWS AND NOTES.

sick neighbor the night before, and We'd
nesday night was sleeping at home, and
while his wife and two children watched
at the neighbOr's bedside they saw the
flames of their homestead Before they
could get there the walls had fallen in.
enveloping the five inmates. Mrs. Cur,
renee made frantic but unsuccessful at.
tempt to rescue them, and received burns
that will prove fatal.
AT Springfield, Massachusetts,, Merriam
Montgomery, shot his two little children
at Packardyille, near Amherst, Instantly
killing George, six years old, and probably
fatally wouuding Eva, four years old.
Montgomery had not lived with his wife for
eight months, leaving her through jealousy.
and she made her home with her father,
Horatio Marsh, farmer.
AT Dallas, Texas, Robt. Cole, while en-.
gagged in coupling cars in the Texas and
Pacific yard at Fort Worth, got his foot
fastened in a frog and was run over and
killed by train. His body was frightfully
mangled, being cut in two and mashed be-
yond recognition.
Joseph Holt, formerly the Napoleon of
the Mississippi bar, and President Buch
anan's Postmaster General, and afterward
Secretary of War and Judge Advocate GEN
eral lives in strict retirement in Washing.
ton. He is childless widower, and is very
seldom seen in npublic.
/ r. j. Redding, Assistant Commissioner of
Agriculture of Georgia, says the farmers of
that State are in better condition than they
have been for ten years.
At Faribault, Mimi Chief of Police Ship
ley, while trying to arrest L. NJ. Sage was
fatally shot by Sage.
At Vevay, Ind, Louis Ford shot William
Landy through the heart, causing instant
death. Ford escaped to Kentucky. The
quarrel was about woman.
In shooting affray at Clayton, Texas,
between Capt. Ross and George Cariher and
one Mcdonald, the two last named were
seriously and Ross fatally wounded
: A little son of James Hall, Of Kas., was
fatally poisoned by taking some morphine
/ pills prescribed by his mofner
Addie Kirby, handsome girl of eighteen
years and daughter OF a wealthy merchant
of Anson, Texas, was arrested at Cesco, il
the same State, a few days ago in male
attire. She was taken to furnishing stor,
and dressed in a style beftting her sex anC
! then taken before the court, where sh,
stated that she was on her way to For
Worth in search of VIM. Carpenter. who
9 year ago ruined and then left her. TIL
g court failing to find her guilty of an,
S offence, she was released and proceeded oil
: her way. Her intention, if she finds Car
! penter, is TO shoot him.
+ Dave Roberts, eolored, was taken fror
Jail at Abbeville, s. c., and lynched. II
was charged with cotton stealing and a mui
9 derous assault
4 Mrs. W. II. Horton was elected county ST
I, perintendentyof schools ait Memphis, Tenn
r the first lady ever elected to Office in tha
n city.
+ Nettie Hazeltine. the St. Louis beaut,
who became noted through fight brougf
6 on by Irritation with an actor, several yeal
ago, has gone on the stage. She is no
Mrs. Plnamore, having married the ma
l. who undertook to whip the actor
Baltimore is having small pox scar
, There were seventy-fve deaths in that eli
from that disease last week, and 1000 cas-
are reported.
a brutal murder committed on Christm
1T near Houston, Texas, has just been disco
c. cred. A negro man named Cobb SheltC
Y, killed his son with an ak at the instigatic
ee Of the step-mother of the boy The ste
r mother has been arrested. and officers a
! now in pursuit of the murderer.
rs J. D. Tylor, Republican, was elected
~ fill the vacancy in the 47th and 48th Co
gress, caused by the death Of J. 7. Upd
:, : graf, over Ross ]. Alexander, Democrat
~ majority of 1900 Large Republican gal
o. are reported in all the counties. This il
Ohio District. n
Dr.. +. A. Ross, the former pastor of t
Presbyterian church Of Huntsville, and Q
4; Of the ablest divinesof the South, celebri
or ed his seth birthday on Christmas day.
Ii The Alabama Great Southern Railw
Of Company is building its own cars at
rs shops in Chattanooga. An entire passt
n ger train, consisting Of baggage, expire
ey mail, smoking aud ladies' cars, was turn
q out on the road at Chattanooga Monday.
nS is claimed that the entire turnout was bu
Of home grown material.
j. vickery was arrested at Dallas, Tex
and iailed. He married alady with cons
of erable cash at Tyler on Christmas. He
lls possession Of the money, and two days aft
'm stole span Of horses and eloped W
them.
A boy aged about 10 years, giving
Is name as Philip Samuel Fleming, OF Phi
lice. Of Dallas, Texas, was arrested
Shreveport for stealing a letter contain
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