The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-10-02

ahlVus hauBeu nlmSelI IN the Seventh
Ward Democratic wigwam at Fort Wayne,
Ind. He leaves wife and six children.
No cause assigned.
ABOUT half the business part of Bronson,
Mich, was burned on the night OF the 2lst.
Eighteen business houses, two dwellings
and several barns were consumed. 1t is
supposed to have been the work of an in
cendiary.
A LONDON dispatch said the British gun.
boat Wasp was wrecked off Tory Island,
northwest coast of Ireland, on the 23d.
Fifty-two men were lost.
AT Hayesville, Tenn, Edwin Henry was
killed on the 23l by Il. T. johnson. This
is n sequel to the suicide of Mrs. johnson
at Indianapolis last year.
On the 23d a passenger train on the Chi
cago & Alton Railroad en- route to st.
Louis, collided with a freight train near
Pontiac, lii. No one was seriously in
| iured, but two Pullman coaches were
burned.
| BURGLARS dug a sixty-foot tunnel under
the vault of the First National Bank of
Las Vegas, N. M. The scheme being dis
covered on the 23d,. a Mexican went in the
cellar and meeting one OF the excavators,
shot him dead without word.
| OK the 23l Howard Sullivan, in jail at
Salem, N. j., charged with the murder
of Ella Watson, made a full confession.
He said he killed her to get the money to
go on an excursion to Atlantic City. He
denied outraging her.
By an accident on the Brattleboro s.
Whitehall Railroad near West Dummer-
ston, VT, on the 23l, nineteen persons
| were injured, one fatally.
The Grand Jury of Rutland County,
Vermont, have indicted John b. Page, ex-
President, and j. NJ. Haven, ex-Treasurer
of the Rutland Railroad Company, for
emhezzlement of $4,000.
ON the 221 the manged and lifeless body
of Gillie Leigh, member of the British
Parliament, was found at the base of a
precipitous cliff in the Big Horn Noun
tains in Wyoming. Leigh was out with a
small English pleasure party. He left the
camp ON the l4th inst for stroll, and
was not heard afterward until an eight
days search revealed the dead body. The
remains will be shipped to England
On the 24th Darwin N. Gardner, of
Cleveland, o., shot his wife and then shot
himself. No cause for the tragedy was
apparent.
! CN bLlG -tuii bil1 buAfdA anu 1Np hhh9o9 O.
zeitoun, Syria, were destroyed by fire.
On the 24th John Fore, an Italian barber
at Rinzua, Pa, was shot dead by Mrs.
Kavanaugh, to whom he was paying the
devoted against her wishes.
ON the 24th John Gray, wealthy farm
or of Cass County, Ind, was killed on his
, farm while engaged in pulling up stumps.
His team started suddenly, throwing a
heavy stump upon him, injuring him SC
that death soon occurred.
, The Captain Of the steamer Lord Of the
Isles, which arrived in New York from
Yokahoma on the oath, reports that or
August 23 Off Cape Guardaful, he took of
| the crew of the French transport AvyrOn
3OG all told, and landed them at Alden
+. The Avyron was wrecked five miles south
a of Guarda Ill,
r On tue oath Chas. r. Rice, travelling
: agent for Chase Bros, nurseymen, Roch
ester, N. Y, killed himself at Paterson
i N. j., when about to be taken to Jail OF
S the charge of swindling his employers
I AT Whitestown, Pa, on the 2jth, Ger
e man, seventy-fve years of age, fatally
shot his wife, aged sixty five, the result o
i a quarrel.
r The large glass works, covering tw'
acres, owned by Abel Smith a. Co., anI
3 Robinson, Rea s. Co.'s machine shops
5 in addition to many dwellings, were de
: stroyed by fire at Pittsburgh, Pa, on tn
/: 25th The loss aggregates several hundred
I thousand dollars.
i FIRE destroyed the large brick fourinl
mills of Clement Brothers at Neenah
1t Wis, on the night of the oath. Loss, $40,
600; insurance, So, 900. On the 25th Coates
+ Elevator at the same place was destroyed
It Loss, $1,000; no insurance.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THERE were AL fresh cases of cholera
Z Italy and 2O3 deaths during twenty -fou
hours ended the evening of the 24th.
:, APPLICATION has been made by the Oh
= nese Government for 5000 square feet {
: space at the New Orleans Exposition.
7. BoNDHoLDERs in England have rattle
the agreement for the settlement Of th
:, Mexican debt.
y DEALERS recently shipped $4,000 busl
= els of wheat from Buffalo to Chicago
10 .bo.ts IN Eantau1 her dalivarV.