The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-26

be returned to the mailing office unless
there are the words Return too In adj
dition to the hotel card.
An immense school of black-fish.
which made its appearance inside Cape
Cod, was pursued TO Wenfeet bay BIZ
Feet OF Whale-boats. representing every
village from Dennis TO ProyincetoWn.
The catch is valued at 81. 200.
Two thousand persons assembled in
New York Tuesday evening to witness
a glove contest between Sullivan and
lGreenfield. As the struggle quickly
Idegenerated into a desperate fight. the
police arrested the eombatants.
Joel NJ Yanarsdalen, a weli-known
lawyer of Philadelphia, died of paral-
ysis in the Eastern penitentiary of
Pennsylvania, where he was sent for
ten years for forging the will OF a MIL
lionaire named Robert Whitaker,
The residents of Farmingdale, Long
| Island. are excited over the alleged
elopement OF Mrs. Elizabeth Baylis.
aged seventy, with John Barnun, a
good-looking young peddler, with whose
appearance she had been smitten.
Some prominent citizens of Chicago,
remembering the English donations to
| the public library made through the
| efforts of Thomas Hughes, have under
] NfAhEA ~ CDllEGt 1OIAu5 III SAlQ VI luG
| Hughes library at Rugby, Tennessee.
Charles W. Farciot, formerly at the
| head of a wire factory near SanduskV,
Ohio. disappeared last June with $50
GOO of the firms funds. A cablegram
from Belgium announces his arrest in
that country, and an officer will be sent
for him.
The Crouch tragedies at Jackson,
Michigan, one year ago, are recalled
by the trial of Daniel S. Holcomb,
which commenced ten days ago, jury
only having been secured Friday. Ex-
Governor Austin Blair manages the
prosecution.
In the matter of the estateof Wilbur
F. Storey, of Chicago, the probate
court allowed Eureka c. Storey to ap-
peal from its order appointing 4. L.
Patterson administrator-to-collect on
her filing bond for $4,000 within
twenty days.
A strong non-partisan movement is
on foot in Ohio to do away with the
October elections in that State. Petit
lions are being circulated for sigma
natures and the subject will be agi-
tated at this winters session of the
Legislature.
The Eiba iron-works, at Pittsburg,
have started up, after some months of
suspension. The mills at Sharon,
Pennsylvania, have stopped for lack of
orders. The strike in the lock-works
at Branford, Connecticut, has been
amicably settled.
There is great excitement at the Mex |
lean capital in regard to the conversion |
Of the English debt. Crowds in the |
street threatened President Gonzalez |
with deattPand marched to the resi- |
dence of~General BiaZ to make him |
state his position.
Two tramps, at O'Clock Friday |
night, visited a farmhouse near Des |
PLANES, Illinois, killed Joachim Dem |
low and wife with clubs and corn
knives, and then ransacked the premis-
es. A lad of 10 years was awakened,
and made his escape.
The list of suicides for Friday con.
tanned the names of David Darling, a
we'll known coal dealer of Buffalo, |
William Marshall, a fire-insurance |
agent of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and
Mrs. Mary Smith, a dressmaker of To-
ronto, related to wealthy residents.
Judge Brewer of the United States
Circuit Court at Omaha has rendered a
decision denying the right of the
Brighton Ranch company to fence in
about 81, GOO acres of Government land
to remove the fences at its pleasure.
In Baltimore, Wednesday evening,
Charles Leopold was accepted by Miss
Bessie Wlnterbauer, handsome bru-
nette, A few minutes afterward he
drew a revolver in a careless manner,
accidentally shooting his betrothed in
the side, with probably fatal results.
The Burlington road on Monday
added to the bitterness of the Missouri
river passenger war by cutting rates
from Kansas City to Chicago to 81.
The Alton retaliated by announcing
that it would carry the public from
Quincy or Hannibal to Chicago for 81.
A citizen Of Kershaw county, South
Carolina, has sent to federal marshal
at Camden steel plate for printing 2
cent postage stamps of the old issue,
with vignette of President Jackson.
1t was found among the effects of
dead planter, and was well worn from
use.
Five laborers who were engaged in
Chicago for railroad construction in
Guatemala write that on arriving at
Port Barrios they were ordered to work
as slaves under a guard of soldiers.
These victims managed to escape to the
United States, but left l65 other dupes
penniless.
In the business office of the Chronicle
ut San Francisco, Wednesday evening,
Adolph Spreckels shot NJ. H. DeY Dung
in the left arm and left shoulder, on
account of comments on the manage
ment of the Hawaiian Sugar company.
Spreckels was at once taken TO the sta
immigration to Canada has mater
tally fallen off during the first ten
months of 1884, when the arrivals were
1873, 1856, as compared with 1913, 4S5 for !
the corresponding period in 1888. OF
this years arrivals $3.50 settled in
Canada and 1876 passed through to
the United States.
Some weeks ago, John Downey and
wife. of Windsor, Ontario, being des-
titute of the necessaries of life, agreed
to drown themselves in the Detroit
river. The woman promptly carried
out the contract, and the husband was
arrested for murder. Friday he hang
ed himself in his cell.
Father Egan, of Thornhill, Ontario,
saw tit to nail board across pew III
his church rented by Duncan McCague.
A struggle ensued at the commence
ment of the services, last Sunday, and
the priest dragged the old man to the
door and threw him with such force as
to fracture his thigh.
Rebecea Jones, for many years
housekeeper for the Hammersleys In
Fifth avenue, New York, was last
May sent to Ludlow street jail for con-
tempt in refusing to answer questions
in the famous will case. After re-
naming in prison with parrot for SIX
months, she has petitioned to be set at
liberty.
The livestock exchange of Chicago
is REPRESENTED in the national cattle
mems convention at st. Louis by forty
six members. Ex-Governor John Ia.
Routt was chosen permanent president
of the latter body. A resolution was
introduced to memorabilia congress Tor
a national trail from the Red River of
the South to the northern boundary oil
the union.
A Southern member of the National
Democratic Committee says Governor
Cleveland has discharged no employe
from the executive department at Al
bany for political reasons, and has en-
phatically declared that the rules OF
the civil-service commission Will gov
ern all minor appointments when ne
becomes president.
Al reduction of 10 per cent. in wages
by the lock works at Branford, Con-
necticut, caused strike by four hum
coal region Of Maryland the price of /
mining is to be reduced to 40 cents per
ton. Two hundred men employed IN /
the Walsenburg mines, IN Colorado, |
have quit work.
The bank commissioners OF New |
Hampshire have secured from the Su- |
nreme Court an Injunction restraining /
the Portsmouth Trust and Guarantee |
Company from continuing business. |
The capital is $1o0. 900, and the guar
antnn fund of an equal amount has
been impaired $74, 900. The deposits |
aggregate Sill, O0u.
in the probate court at Chicago, Fri
day. the latest of two wills said to have
been made by Wilbur T. Storey was
refused probate on the ground of un-
soundness of mind An appeal was
promptly taken. Austin I. Patterson,