The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Edward II. Ludlow, the veteran real
estate dealer OF New ork, passed
away Friday.
Near Elizabeth, Kentucky, seven
men were killed by the explosion Of a
saw-mill boiler.
The wife of Hon. Alexander Ram
sew. of 81. Paul, died Saturday, after
prolonged illness.
The French cabinet council has de-
cided to increase the duty on grain
about 20 cents per bushel.
Francis d. Moulton, who was lifted
into fame by the Beecher trial. died
Wednesday evening in New York.
The body of Hugh Campbell, a
brother of the chief of police of Brook
lvn, was found i'll the Gowanus canal.
John D. Standish, city assessor Of
Detroit, a lineal descendant from the
famous puritan, died of heart disease
| Tuesday.
By the fail of scaffold on Baptist
church in Lee avenue, Brooklyn, one
slater was killed and another was AZ
tally hurt.
The lease of the Jersey Central road
TO the Readsng company has been de-
clared valid by the circuit court OF
Philadelphia.
A train on the Michigan Central
! track at Detroit caused the death OF
| two ladies, named Green, who attempt
ed to drive across.
d. l.. Payne, for some years the
/ leader Of the Oklahoma raiders, died
at the breakfast-table Of hotel III
Wellington, Kansas.
Joseph Bush. n gallant officer who
was retired from the army with the
rank of major, died Sunday at Somer-
1 vile Massachusetts,.
A negro named Howard Sullivan
was on Tuesday executed at Salem,
| New jersey. for the murder OF a white
girl named Ella Watson.
Seven men in jail at Helena, Ar
kansas, concealed themselves behind
door, and made their escape lry knock
4 ing the jailer senseless,
Norman l.. Jarvis, a resident OF
Monmouth, Illinois, steps to tile front
| to claim the honor of having heard
Lafayette speak in 1874.
Another company of Oklahoma raid
ers is said 10 be forming at Emporia,
Kansas. with the intention of crossing
the border at HunDewell,
The banks of New York hold S42,-
267, coo in excess of legal requirements
the weekly statement showing d gam
of So ,Q2l ,060 in the reserve.
The Young Mems Christian associa
ton of Chicago, has elected John V
Farwell, Jr., president, and Gyms III
Mccormick, Jr.. vice president
A warrant has been issued for th'
arrest of J. c. Pusey, chief clerk OF tn
Kansas penitentiary. who is charged
with the embeZZlement OF $1,000.
Since the election Ben Butler ha
leased to the Senate, for committee
t rooms, one of his granite houses ol
n Capitol hill, at $1,000 per annum.
Scalpers at St. Louis are selling tick
cts to chicago at 30 cents. The Fitch
| burg and West Shore roads have GU
: rates from Boston to Chicago to Si3.
: Hog cholera is raging SO violently a
Wheeling, West Virginia, that qnaran
tine has been established. The diseas
: has also appeared at Philo, Illinois.
A gentleman in New York, Sunday
after witnessing panic caused oy
I mad dog, calmly seized the animal b
7, the neck and cut its throat with a pei
i knife.
:, A row in the Mary land Jockey ciul
J. between President Bowie and Secrt
e tary Ferguson, led tc the resignation {
/ the latter, which the club refused
accept.
Of six men who undertook to croi
the railway track at San Rafael, Cal
fornia. two were killed. one was fatal
II injured, and the fourth mad an Ar
4: broken.
A. Freight trains on the Chesapeal
:, road collided near Henning's Static
j; Tennessee, killing an engineer az
j. brakeman and burying two firemen
= the ruins.
a mortgage for 100000 has bet
recorded at Freeport Illinois, by arr
way company which proposes to co
siruct an AIRLINE track from Chicago
al Minneapolis.
y, Two confidence men of Charlot'
IT, Michigan, who won $50 at three-ca
G. monte. were convicted of larceny az
I'd sentenced to three years each IN
as ppniteutiarv.