Savannah weekly echo., 1884-01-20
South and West.

GOVERNOR SToNEMAN presided at a meet
ing Of capitalists in san Fran cisco to make
ARRANGEMENTS FIR boiling worli's fair in
that city in 1881 The meeting represented
St6,toadp0. 1t was resolved to provide q
guarantee fnnl Of Sl0OUN, ana to reti-
ton Congress and the State legislature for
appropriations
JAMES CRCMMDY .col0rrd was hancel II
Eastman, Ga for The murder of a y1ung
white man named Mitchell AS Crlirnmidy
was about to be led to execution. he cut his
throat with pocket knife In this c:,ndi-
tlon he was carried to the galows an
banged
There are at present 3li cotton mills i'll
The South, having l,-.G,I2 spindles ana "a,
S13 looms
EDWARD RECTOR tcooredl. Vas hanged II
the jail ward at Baton Rauge Ia III, the
murder ol Duncan Williams in December,
lsSa by otabbing him III The back Rector
al~o murdered his stepfather lie male A
desperate stTugglA on the Cal'oWs, era spinr
thin roIe and uttering terrific screams, ami it
wa, only with thu aih of several SPECTATORS
that he was finally -ttbluel
loLD weather SUCH as has not been fet in
Ncars has preva lei ali over the West ana
Northwest, ami many eases of persons frea.-
1ng to death have been reported In Dakota
the weather has been the coolest ever known.
the thermcmeter at Jamestown falling to
fOrty-cight degrees baow zero AT sth,r
FONTS ~ the Wet the tn sm0meter fell to the
following figures below zaro: Bismarck, pa
kata. s9; Omaha, Neb,, 3I: Dubuque, Iowa,
S2t Detroit, J5. Chica 70 "a: Cincinnati, 15:
II L'nis m. Cleveland, IA; Chattanooga.
Tenn
InE newly- built Park theatre, Of Cleve-
Land Dflio. has been destroyed b. fire. aui
total loss Of S25O,t0l sustained
A I1RE At Relleville, Ill, thirteen miles
iroh M LOUIS, DESTROYED the Convent Of the
Immaculate Conception and was attended
Mltl a terrible destruction of human life
lha flames originated in n furnace in the
basement and spread with fearful rapiditv
There were about sixty pupils in the convent
aii girlS from eight Years to adult age, and
ahout twenty five Of them perished i'll the
tamcs. beside the sister superior ana three
other s.sters.
4 BoY ami girl named Hines, six ami
seven Years od We're frozen to death in their
hed at liideI en!encc Iowa.
FolR prisoners lost their lives i'll a fire
WHICH burned down the Jail at Jerseyvile,
ILL.,
THREE hunters got lost Oh a prairie ia the
Indian Territory. ami were frozen to death
The Democrats having g majority in the
Ohio legislature, there was a determined
struggle to IS ure the caucus nomi-
succeed Mr.. pendleton The fight
was between Senator Peniletol and ex ON
gresham III Il. PAYNE ot Cleveland. with
General purbin Ward as a compromise can
didate. Mr.. Tayne was successful, however
on the first ha,l5t,r receiving forty-eight votes
to seventeen for Warl, fifteen for Pendleton
md two scattering.
JOHN DUNN, contractor and two
workmen were killed BY falling fifty feet
from q scaifoid at Milwaukee, Wis
A CREMATION society has been organized ii
New Orleans
GOVERNOR McLAyE's Inauguration at
Annapolis. Nd I, was Of simple character,
and the inaugural ldress 10 the legislature
was conspicuous for its brevitv.
FLAMES destroyed the cooper shops and
boiler shops of the Minnesota State peniten-
tiary at Saltwater causing damage cf
about 100000
+. D- ATCHIsoN, desperate character i'm
prisoned in the Monterey Va jail for stab
bing man, was taken from confinement by
a crowd, hanged and then rid1lsd with bul-
lets
AN entire family of negroes William
Groom and wife and six children-were
burned to death on a plantation in Lenoir
county, N. G.