The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-03

1t was on Tuesday swept away by flame
y A grand jury at Chicago has indict(
II "Black Jack" 4attaw for the murdt
IT of a special constable on election da
The United States dispatch-bo Do
e phin, built by John Roach, broke dow
/ ON trial trip off the coast of Come
ticut.
John King, the successor of Hugh
Jewett in the Erie Railroad. W;
j.. elected head OF the new Board of ID
! rectors.
> The superintendent of public instrul
;, ton for Dakota reports fifty thousan
children enrolled in the schools La
> summer.
:, Robert Garrett. on taking the pres
: dency of the Baltimore and Ohio roaC
: refused to accept an increase of salaT
to $25, 900.
The nail factory and nail-plate mi
' of the North Chicago Rolling-Mil
Company at Bay View, Wis, resume
work Monday.
David L. Wells, of Milwaukee, Wis.
one of the most prominent railroa,
builders in the Northwest, died Mon
day morning.
President Arthur has invited Cleve
land to make the White House hi.
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prior to March 4.
The scaffold had been made ready al
Quebec for the execution of Mrs. Bou
tel, when notice was received of a re,
spite of eight days.
The Canadian government has de.
cided not to take part in the New Or
leans exposition, for lack of time Ia
prepare exhibits.
After some weeks of hard work by
the newspapers of Denver, the acting
mayor has ordered the police to close
all gambling-houses.
During a democratic jubilee at Hick-
man, Kentucky, rocket set fire to q
factory and caused the destruction of
| property valued at 100000.
The mayor of Philadelphia recon-
mends to the council that the old lib
erty 2ell in Independence hall be sent
! t. the New Orleans exposition.
The New England society has been
| granted permission to place in Central
! park, New York, statue representing
the landing of the pilgrim fathers.
A policeman in Brooklyn picked up
| in the street man stupidity drunk and
nearly frozen, in whose pockets were
found full outfit of burglars tools.
The grain commission firm of Grier
Brothers, of st. Louis, has failed, ow-
| ing 81 900 on the corn exchange. Five
years ago they were estimated at $780,
600.
Thomas p. Dunn, a young cavalry
man at Fort Leavenworth, who recent
ly lost near relative at Detroit, shot
himself through the heart with car
bine.
Mrs. J. A. Garfield has secured the
appointment of Congressman Tucker,
of Virginia, as guardian for her minor
children Of the family property IN that
state.
J. n. Bruen, Of Monmouth, Illinois,
widely known throughout the west
from his large interests i'll land and
cattle, died from cold contracted III
Chicago.
The annual message of President
Arthur has been largely placed in type,
which is kept locked in vault, Pub
lie Printer Rounds reading the proofs
himself.
Mrs. John Mulliken, a wealthy resi-
dent of Boston, sold peanuts at booth
on the common for twelve hours, on
an election bet, and realized 500 for
charity.
A cyclone which on Saturday night
swept over two plantations just above
New Orleans, killed Mr.. Mialarat,
brother-in-laW of the French historian,
Michelet.
The deaths are reported of Jonathan
X. Cooper, the oldest member of the
bar at Peoria, Illinois, and John Fish
back, formerly owner of the IRdtdnGp-
Oils Sentinel.
The plow factory of B. d. Buford &
Co., at Rock Island, is about ready to
resume business with an increased cap
ital, giving employment to over five
hundred men.
The sentence of Koerner, the In
dianapOlis wife-murdereT, has been
commuted to Imprisonment for life, at
the request of all the judges of the SUI
preme court.
Governor Cleveland intends to tender
his resignation to the legislature jan
uary 6, and to remain the guest of
Governor Hill at the executive man
sion until March /.
w. w. Beckett, a hardware mer-
chant of Sherbrooke, Province of Que
bee, whose liabilities are over 100000,
has made an assignment. He is a
heavy indorser for the New Bruins
wick bobbin factory.
The body of Augustine O'Connor,
son of Judge O'COnnor, of Aberdeen,
Ala, was found living. frightfully man
gled, on the Mobile & Ohio track near
Egypt Station, Miss.
BY a combination of the republicans
and TammanYites in the New York
Board of aldermen, John McClave and
Stephen b. French were confirmed as
police commissioners.
Two men started in a sloop from
Victoria, British Columbia, with a
cargo of nineteen Chinese, who were
to be smuggled into Washington terri
tory, but all were drowned.
at Philadelphia, Solomon X. Grimly,
who pleaded guilty to receiving greater
compensation than allowed by law in
procuring pension, was sentenced to
pay fine of $3.50 and costs.
The recent fiogging of a prisoner at
Winnipeg by order Of Attorney Gener-
al Miller forced the government to de-
mand the latter's resignation, and he
will give up his Office this week.
John G. Dore, of Chicago, has pre-
sented to the Merchants exchange of
st. Louis plan for improving the Illi-
nois and Michigan canal, and will
probably secure its Endorsement.
At Edinboro, Pennsylvania, on Sat
urday evening, railway brakeman
~ Ds w llAAdAllD ApLuAAN bliON MS
wife then killed himself. For the past
two years they had lived unhappily.
An alligator ten feet inlength, which
for years has been the terror of Jeffer- |
Son county. Arkansas, was last week
killed with shotgun by Miss Dottie
L. Steck, of Bellwood, Pennsylvania.
The trial of Daniel Holcomb, at
Jackson. Michigan. for the murder of
the Crouch family, has been indefinite
ly postponed on account Of the death OF
Frank E. Hewlett, prosecuting attor-
ney.
DIR. F. II. O'Connor, who has kept
drug store in Keokuk for the past
twenty years, made an attempt to end
his days with laudanuIn, and fought
the physicians who tried to save his
life.
w. w. Crawford, who married Miss
Kate MeCann at Lexington, KY, was
arrested at the instance of the brides
brother ON information from Colum-
bus, o., alleging that he has a wife
there.
An attempt is being made in Balti-
more to show that Wilkes Booth killed |
President Lincoln because OF the lat
ler's failure to pardon Captain John |
I Yates Beall, who was shot as a con- |
federate spy.
A postal-clerk is authority for the |
statement that in several mountain
counties of Virginia and Kentucky |
hundreds of human beings have re-
Gently died from plague resembling
Asiatic cholera.
A mob at Davenport, Washington |
Territory refused to permit the county |
records to be transferred to Sprague,
blff the annpararen nf Sheriff fSo1v !
signal for surrender.
Acute typhoid d-dysentery is the med
icaI name given to the fatal scourge /
which has recently broken out IN the |
western portions OF Virginia. One /
hundred and fifty deaths have occurred 1
in Wise County alone.
There were 25S failures il the United /