Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-01-12
West and South.

Co., at Ishpe ming, Mich, has failed for
100000.
a SPECIAL election OH March 1 to elect
successor to ID. c. Haskell from the Second
Congressional District of Kansas, ha been
ordered by Governor Click.
THE cot: on warehouse of Phinczy & Co.,
at Augusta, Ga, was destroyed hy fire the
other day, causing n loss of S.DD,0U
CLEMENT, ono of the persons acquitted
in the Emma Fond case, went to Irving,
near Hillsboro, ILL.,, on the Sd, and VIXEN he
was given ten minutes to leave the place
he departed at once.
IT was discovered on the 81 that James
a. Wallace, the missing cashier of the
Hopkinsville (ky.) Bank, had stolen be-
tween 10000 anl $50.0G0 of its :uDds.
THE residence of Milton Highland, at
Mechanicstown, o., was burned the other
night, and two of his daughters, aged eight
and fourteen years. perished in the flames.
In San Francisco Il few evenings ago
Governor Stone:nan presided at meeting
where arran2 ements We're made to hold 4
Worlds Exi osition in 1887. 1t was re-
solved that guarantee fund of $1,000, coo
be raised.
STANLEY GRIFFITH, the young lad who
! fed from Salem, o., after fatally shooting
| his father, was captured the 81 aud
| placed in jail He confessed his crime.
| THE death is reported of Chief Jud ge
Nelson Poe, OF the Orphans Court of Bal
| timore Il cousin of the author of "The
| Raven"
| IT is reported that the Gould system OF
| railways will soon open n school of tcleg-
| raphy at st. Louis, in which young men
will be trained in all branches of that art,
| and then be given situations on the DIFF
| fereut lines as their services may be
| needed.
TIE recent riot in Yazoo County, Miss,
resulted as follows: Whites, killed. five !;
wounded, one. Colorci, Iynched, five.
| FIRE few days ago destroyed a four
| story build ng in st. Louis, causing loss
of $2oO,00).
| IL Chicago at four O'Clock on the morn
| ing of the 9TH the mercury Indicated
twenty degrees below zero, thirty-five
| below at Bismarck, twenty-scven below at
| Omaha, for;y-two below at Fargo, seven
| above at Denver AMI two above ut Buffalo,
| n y. In Iowa AMI Wisconsin the mcr-
| curry ranged from ten to thirty degrees be-
| low.
| \ NEGRO named Nalmar Rector was
hanged at Baton Rouge, Li., on the Attn
| for the murder of Duncan Williams, and
James Crrmmidy (colored) was executed
| at Eastman, Ga, for the murder of James
| Mitchell.
THE marriage of n fourteen-year old
| white girl to negro of til" darkest hue oc-
Cured at Denver, Cot, a few evenings ago,
| a white minister officiating. There were
rumors that the girl forced into the
alliance, and much eNcit emert prevailed in
the neighborhood.
A FEW days ago Albert Kent, of San
| Fr,ncisoo .I1~-i Sn- 900 III .--.-:~.,.
| gift of $4,000 for tie crecticl of a chemical
| laboratory at Yale College.
THE banking firm of HenI.er & Moore, of
| Morris, Mimi, has failed TO- <loo,OO0. The
| assets We're conSi ;crably less.
UNKNOWN persons entered the office of
| the huasds IrOhibitjDHiSt, at LeavenwOrth,
| the other night and pied one of the forms
| and half of the type thrown into the
| stove and melted.
OK the morning of the 9th the thermom
eter registered thirteen degrees above
zero at Charleston, s. c., it being the cold
| est weather recorded in that section in one
hundred and thirty-five years.
IN sections of Virginia, Tennessee and
| North Carolina a heavy snOw-stOrm pre-
! vailed on the 9Th, with the coolest weather
| known for years.
AT Charlestown, Ind, on spur of the
| Ohio & Mississippi, a train running from
| Vernon to Louisville was wrecked a few
days ago, and score of people were bad
ly hurt, including members of the Yale
College Glee Club.
THE failure of the Dietrich Canvas Bag
Manufacturing Company of San Francisco
occurred recently for 50, 900.
THE burning of the furniture establish
ment of BurrelI, ComStOck IS Co., at st
Louis, and the jcwelry house of Menick
Walsh & Phelps OH the 9Th, caused n tota
loss of 800, 900.
| A STATEMENT appeared in the Age %
Steel on the 9Th, on the authority OF one
largely interested in the iron trade, that
there was Il scheme on foot to pool the en-
tire pig-iron industry of the country.
THE destruction of the new Park Thea
ter at Cleveland, o., by fire a few days
since caused loss of $2O0,0OO, and the
First Presbyterian Church was damaged
to the extent of S4J,G GOO.
JUDGE PARDEE rendered decision on
the 9TH in the case of the New Orleans Ma,
tional Bank against the post-oiic, author
tiles, who refused to deliver mail, claim
ing that it properly belonged to the lottery
company, that the bank was entitled to
free and full use of the mails.
NEAR Fort Scott, Kan, n carload of six
teen mules was froz N to death on the 5th
OIL the way from Lamar to Kansas City,
and number of mules and cattle on the
Missouri Pacific Railway suffered the same
| fate.
FIRE destroyed the courthouse and jail
at Jerseyviile, ILL.,, on the 9th, and fouI
prisoners were suffocated, their names
being Wall Dunsdan, James Gregg, Emile
kahler and August Schultz.
THE death of Mary V. Young, the seven
teenth wife of the deceased Mormon proph
ct, occurred at Salt Lake City few days
ago. Sixteen widows still live to mourn
J Brigham's loss.
A FIRE broke out on the evening OF the
9Th in the Catholic Convent at Belleville
ILL.,, and in an hour it was reduced tc
ashes. Sixty pupils made desperate eff
forts to escape, some of them leaping from
| the windows. Eleven bodies had beer
taken from the ruins, and sixteen other:
were known to have perished in the flames
The building was a f1ve-story brick struct
, | ure, valued at about 1000. The origin
| of the fire was unknown.
Il AN early morning fire in Chicago on the
9TH partially destroyed the fine building
, | on Michigan avenue known the Beau
rivage flats, causing a loss of over 100000
, There were 110 persons in the building
/, all of whom safely made their way to the
| street.
Cox, accused of the murder of McLaugh
lin, the millionaire, has been acquitted by
| San Francisco Police Justice.
A DECLARATION was made in the taberna
Gle at Salt Lake on the 9th by Apostle:
4 Cannon and Woodruff that Mormonism II
! all its features and doctrines would be con
tinued, whatever Congress or the country
| might threaten, and that the progress o
| the church could only be stayed by killing
: all the Saints.
ADv1cEs on the 7th state that yount