Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-02-09
The East.

Mr.. AND Mrs. CLINTON, an aged couple,
were burned to death in their home near
Norwich, n. ", few nights ago.
AT the mint in Phila lelpiiia the coinage
during January aggregated Il ,1jl ,o2:;.
a FEW days ago n sleigh containing 2
TWEEN: y-seven laiies upset on Crooked Hell,
at Reading, Pa, and Mrs. Hummel suffered
to the ex cnt of broken nose, three others
were badly injured abou. the head by the
horses feet, and others were more or les ;
bruised
E NEWTON ROwELL was acquitted at
Batavia, n. y, on the 3lst ult of the muir
der of Johnston l.. Lynch. The people
gave the liberated man an ovation, lighted
bonfires in the streets, and burned Palmer,
the chief witness for the State, in efiigy.
A PLATFORM containing about seventy
tons of metal gave way a few days ago at
the Linden >tee-works in Pitts burgh, Pa,
and the mass fell upon John Butler, Thorn
Lney and John Roach, killing them in
stantly.
In the Allegheny River moving ice on
the 1st sunk two boats at Pittsburgh, and
set adrift several flats. Floods caused by
gorges had resulted in much damage on
the bottom lands of the Youghiogheny,
families in some instances having been
compelled to seek safety i'll the upper floors
of their houses.
AT Philadelphia on the 1st Bertha
Clear, who recently married the living
skeleton, but deserted him after two days,
declared in open court that she was not re-
strained of her liberty, and SO was permit
ted to return home with her father.
The other night sixty policemen of Phil
adelphia made a descent on a cock pit and
captured ninety five spectators and seven
ty-two chickens. Nearly all the men paid
fines of S11.5O each.
LAST summer Thomas Salmon, liquor
seller at Woburn, Mass, was sentenced to
Jail for violation Of the Temperance law.
While an appeal was being heard he was
elected to the Legislature. The Supreme
Court on the 1st decided that he must
serve out his term in prison.
THE death of H. E. Packer, President of
the Lehigh Valley Road, occurred at Mauch
Chunk, Pa, on the lst, aged thirty three
years.
B. SCHULTZ, a Pittsburgh merchant, was
captured in Chicago on the 2d by detect
ives, on charge of embe zzling 5000, more
than that amount being found in his
pockets, and Leon Cronson was arrested
in the same city for embezzling $4,000
worth of diamonds from Goldsmith &
Kuhn, in New York, and property valued
at $11 900 was recovered.
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died at his home in Boston, Mass, on the
evening of the I'd, in his seventy-third
year, leaving a reputation as one of the
most eloquent speakers and irrepressible
agitators in tie United States. He rose to
leadership among the Abolitionists by a
speech on the murder of E. P. Lovejoy in
1887, and became President of the Anti
Slavery Society. His wife survives him.
AT Long Island City, L. l., Thomas Coll
ier and his wife were poisoned on the 2d,and
the brother and sister of Mrs. Collier had
been arrested for tho crime, the motive of
which was said to be the possession of
SO, 500 left by their father, who died mys-
teriously some time ago.
AN Auburn IN. W boy recently OBJ
tanned Judgment against the Central Road
for $15, 900 for the loss Of foot.
OK the I'd the Democratic Common Coun-
Gil Of Newark, n. j., deposed the Repub-
lican police officials and elected Democrats.
Two sets of officers were on duty, and the
Supreme Court would be appealed to.
AxEL PAULsEN skated twenty-five miles
at Brooklyn, N. V, on the I'd, in one hour,
thirty-two minutes and seventeen seconds,
beating all previous records.
A FEW days ago non-union lasters, who
had taken the places of strikers, were fired
upon at Boston when returning from work,
but no one was injured,