Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19
West and SOuth.

non for Congress.
AT Mitchell, ID. T., City Marshal Pierce
was shot dead few days ago by saloon
keeper named Henry n. Lewis, whom he
tried to arrest for u violation of the law.
dynamite exploded a few days ago at
stone quarries near Franklin, n. c., kill
ing Dock Rob- i1son and Twin Strong and
woundins four men, all colored-
In quarrel over note John Roe,
farmer near Carrolton, No, was shot and
Instantly killed 4 few evenings ago by
Henry BauGh.
THE Republicans have renominated Con-
gresham Reuben ElwoOd in the Fifth IL
linois District.
AT Rardin, Ill.,, on the morning of the
10th Mr.. and Mrs. Fleetwood, aged
couple, were found dead in bed at their
home, with their throats cut. A hired
man named James Winkleback had been
| arrested for the crime, The old folks had
no money! and the motive for the murder
was n mystery.
On the 10th Indiana Republicans renom,
| mated for Congressman Thomas NJ. Browne
| in the Sixth, and Stanton j. Peele in the
! Seventh Districts.
SEvENTY-FIvE breaks had occurred in the
| levees of the Arkansas River, in Tensas
| and Concordia parishes on the 10th, and a
| large area of land was OverflOwed.
MATILDA G. WINGATE was awarded
| $4,000 damages in the indianapolis Federal
Court recently against the UnIo q. Mis,i.
| sippi Road for the killing of her husband
on train by a drunken passenger.
| THE Republicans of the Seventeenth H.
! linois District have nominated H. j. Ham
lin for Congressman. L. f. Payson has
| been renomnate1 in the Ninth District
| and Jonathan Fl. Rowell in the Fourteenth
| District.
| NEBRASKA Democrats will hold their
| State Convention at Lin coin Nav %.
THE ex-Speaker of the New Mexico
| Legislature, Juan B. Patron, was assassin
atei a few nights ago at Las Vegas by a
| cowboy.
A CYCLONE at Fresno, Cal, few days
ago demolished everal buildings.
| A COMBINATION has been formed by sew
enteen firms engaged in the manufacture
of vapor stoves, with a capital of $780,.
| OOO, to equalize prices.
| In Southern Minnesota and Dakota wheat
seeding i'll progress on the I1th, week
| in advance of last year. There will be a
| substantial increase in the acreage.
A MEAT and ice company, backed by
| Eastern capitalists, is to be established at
| Columbus. Tex, which will ship dressed
/ beef to New York, via St Louis, and will
| also manufacture oleo, oil and butterine.
|
| be started in Kansas and Nebraska.
| THE three-days' convention of the Wom-
ans Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
| of the West closed on the 11th at Milwau-
kee. Toledo, o., was selected as the place
| of meeting in 1885. Mrs. A. j. Howe, of
| Chicago, was elected President.
| Mrs. CECILIA MURPHY, an aged woman,
| was found on the 11th near fredericksburg,
| Md, with her skull crushed in and throat
cut. Her premises had been robbed, and
there were evidences of a terrible strug-
gle.
| NEAR Dayton, o., an express train on
| the Pan Handle Road went through q
bridge the other day, and the engineer,
| fireman, baggage-master and express mes
senger were killed. The accident was said
to have been caused by train-wreckers.
| HEAVY rains have fallen in California,
| the rivers were swollen the 11th, and
| there had been many washouts. 1t would
take four or five Gays to repair the dam
| ages done to railroads by the floods.
On the 11th sixteen mutilated bodies
! were taken from the reopened Pocahontas
mine, near Lynchburg, Va, but only six
| of them could be identified.
A FIRE few mornings ago destroyed nine
buildings, forming the principal business
| blocks in the city of Tacoma, w. T., caus-
| ing loss of $4,000.
| THE appointment is announced of Theo-
| dore A. Hurd, of Leavenworth, as Asso-
| ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of Kan
sas, to succeed d. J. Brewer, who was
called to the Federal bench.
| In Cincinnati on the 18th the train-load
Of corn contributed by the people of But
Ter County, Kan, to the Ohio River suf-
ferers, was sold at auction, realizing $1,000.
| r. w. DUNHAM has been renominated for
FFCongressman by the Republicans of the
| First District of Illinois.
| A FEW days ago c. B. Finlayson, seven
| teen years old, who murdered his grand
mother, hung himself in a corridor of the
| Portland (Oregon) Jail.
| In the Idaho gold regions discoveries of
| quartz, said to be rich in paying ore as
| the Leadville carbonate, were announced
on the 18th. The prospectors were greatly
| elated, and anticipated a splendid har-
| vest.
BY a boiler explosion recently at Ford,
| Ia, two brothers named Spencer were
| killed.
FIFrY-FoUR bodies had been recovered
| from the mine at Pocahontas, Va, up to
| the 18th, and were all in a badly mutilated
| condition.
Ar Gainesville, Ark, posse of citizens
pursued a band of escaped prisoners on
| the 18th, killing one and woundmg three
| of them. Four others had not been re-
| taken.
ApvICEs of the 18th from New Orleans
state that the river was gradually falling,
and planters were in hopes of saving most
of their seed cane.
FOREST fires have recently done great
damage in Dooley, Taylor, Webster, Sum-
ter, jefferson and Glasscock Counties, Ga.
The winds had drifted the huge sand piles
ovar tilled lands making new preparations
for planting necessary.
AT LYONS, Tex, a negro named Gibbs,
Who murdered . Mrs. Moore, was captured
by a mob a few days ago and burned to
death at stake.
A NEGRO named Berry johnson, after
choking his wife to daath at Shreveport,