The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-11-13


David Whitmore, his wife and three cbiI.
aren were Killed by q locomotive, which
struck the wagon in which they were rid
ing 70 church at Maquoketa, la.
GREAr damage to shipping interests was
occasloned by the recent gales along the
Newfoundland coast.
ON the 4th freight train collided with n
passenger train on the Virginia Midland
Road, "A brakeman was killed and several
passengers were injured.
On election day two men were killed Al
the polls in Chicago, one by a United
states Deputy Marshal, notorious char
acter, known as "BlaclI Jackn Yattow,
an Cincinnati, O., on the 9th, Patrol Ser
geant James Dunn shot and fatally wound
ed John Shannon.
an Roanoke, Va, on the 9TH, Lizzie win
son, aged fourteen, was dragged into a
back lot lot, and her throat was cut from
ear to ear The murder is a mystery.
At South Haven, Mich, on the 5th, tile
steamer Grace Grummond burned TO the
water's edge.
FIRE destroyed the Opera house at
Cory, Pa, on the 9TH, together with Tie
1etegruPh printing Office and Rayinond's
carriage factory. Loss, 100000.
a NEwsBoY named BERTHE Kahn, aged
ten, was shot and killed in Cincinnati
on the 9TH by Thomas Mccormack, aged
fourteen, with pistol lie did not know was
loaded.
a FRENCH Canadian weaver named
George Chagnon was killed and several
persons We're injured by the bursting OF a
hy-wheel Of the engine in the Wauregan
Mills at Providence, r. T., on the 9TH
ON the 9Th the body Of Andrew Marshal,
accountant for the Bank Of British North
America at Montreal, was found floating
IN the st. Lawrence River opposite the
city. The affair presented mysterious as
poets.
FIRE destroyed Grohmer's stables in Car
rollton, Ind, early on the morning of the
9th. Thirteen valuable horses were con-
sumed, and several others fatally burned.
The loss is very heavy.
On the evening Of the 9TH George AL
bert, desperate criminal OF Shelbyville,
Ind, was shot dead at his house by John
Renner, Of Connersyille. Renner gave
himself up and pleaded self-defense. AL
berts was beating his wife, and Renner in
terfered. Alberts turned on him and Ron
ner shot him.
THREE railway bridges on the Straitsville
Branch of the Columbus, Hooking Valley
y Toledo Road burned the emorning Of the
9th. Loss about $4,000. The wires were
cut and communication with the general
offices thus shut off. The bridges
were all in the same neighborhood, be-
tween Straitsville and Nelsonville.
FIRE destroyed L. Bernstein's clothing
store at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the night Of
the 5th. The stock, said to run as high as
$4,000, was completely destroyed; insur-
ance light. Tho building was damaged to
the extent Of $1,000.
AT the dynamite works Of Stump & Co.,
at Stouchburg, Pa, an explosion occurred
on the 9Th, resulting in the instant death of
three men, the demolition Of the build
ing and damage to surrounding struc-
lures.
JOHN TYLER, young lad, was killed at
0ttumwa, In, on the 9th by falling from
train, which passed over him, crushing
his body.
Four persons were killed and number
injured by boiler explosion at Stafford,
England, on the 9Th.
BY the fall of smolSe-stack at Rolesonia
Station, Pa, on the 9th, six men were killed
and several others killed.
Ir is reported that the schooner Wild
Gazelle, Captain Lawson, which left San
Francisco October 1st, on a cod-flshing
cruise, was wrecked Off the Choumagin
Islands, Okhotsk Sea, and all hands lost.
Silver Plume, near Georgetown, Col,
was almost annihilated by fire on the
morning Of the 9th. 1t was incendiary and
originated in the rear Of Sam Demott's
saloon and destroyed forty-one buildings,
including the best in the town. The
Georgetown fire department was tele-
graphed for but arrived too late to be of
material service. The loss is estimated at
$15O,00O.