Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-02-09
West and South.


scantling before he would surrender his AK.
EDWARD =. FTNSroN has been nominat-
ed for Con rcssnan by the Republicans of
the Second District OF Kansas TO succeed
the late d. G. HASKELL.
IT was announced on the 3!st ult. thai
Colonel john q. kasey had absconded
from Bedford County, Va, of which he was
treasurer, leaving $4,000 indebt edncss for
his b ndsInCn I > pay
\ FEW davs ago Rev. j +. Seneker, well
known in Virginia IS Lutheran CLERGY
man, slipped on ice at Cabin Hill, near
Shcnand all, and was killed instantly by
the fall.
THE firm of John T. Warren & Co., of
Cincinnati, wholesale arocers, has failed
for SlGo,opU.
THE execution of J. c. z. Collins took
place the lst at Nevada City for robhing
Il stage in 1879. and killing and robbinG a
barker, n;,rleI w. +. Cummings, of Seven
thousand pliars. Simon Bonner was
hargrd at P4rt Gibson, Miss, for the muir
der # James Il. Light.
TIE arrest is announced of f.. T.. John
son, agen- of the No.thrrn Pacific Road at
Aims worth, for erbezZling 1, package con-
tanning SIS o..
Mrs. GrnRGE \. EVANS, who was said
to have ori ,ini;e,i the observance of Deco
ration Day by rvwinE flowers on The
soldier. graves at Arlington Heights dur
ing the wa" died at Des MONIES, Ia, on the
Ist.
REPORTS on the 1st stated that the ex-
IRENE cold weather i'll South Carolina had
ser inuSly damaged tie nat crop, destroyed
early vegetables. and killed doves, mock
ing birds aud, poultry.
HENRY Il. HOLMES was burned to death
|. N.h f.y
morning ago, ami thirty cattle and all the
contents of the bUilding We're consumed.
1T has been discovered that b. II. Llnier,
of New Orleans, 4 pos;-olce Inspector. who
recently fed to South America, dcfrauded
seven southern postmasters Of consider
able sums the pretensc Cf needing it to
follow up and prosecute criminals.
THE Denver & Rio Grande round-house
and six locomotives were burned recently
at Leadville, and six houses and Il livery
stable at Pueblo were consumed by fire.
Ii is reported by Marquis de Nores that
a,mew dis 'as' anon: sheep prevails on
six thousand heal of mcrinos sent from
Iowa and Wisconsin.
THE stores of r. a. Ward, w. S. Lay
and j. II. Redmond, al Searcy, Ark, were
destroyed by recent fire, causing a loss
of S2o0,ODy.
courts Of California for seventeen years,
involving lands in the vicinity of San
Pablo value a. =, ,o0o, 800, was decided in
favor of the heirs of cX-Govrrnor Aiyar-
ado.
AN eleven-vpar-old daughter Of Mr.. Tay
lor choked herself to death t." other day
at Mayficli, Ky, Will l. playing with Il
skipping-rorc, and Il little son of Isaac
Kennedy was killed at Wheeling, w. Va,
by falling into Il kettle &C boiling soup.
IN TwicheE's shing!e-mil, near Blanc
ar,l, Mich, the boiler exploded on the Ist :,
killing two persons, mortaIly wounding a
third, and injuring several others.
JAMES ABE!iCRoMBIE, of Opclceka, Ala,
son of Judge J. j. Abercrombie, recently
stabbed and killed Town Marshal Henry
Hart.
\ GASOLINE explosion on the 1St i'll the
store of r. VI. Orr, at Alliance, o., dam
aged property to the amount OF $1,000,
and killed Mr. Orr; Elmer Orr, his son;
Mrs. Homer~ Hi ighland, Mr.. Orr's daugh-
ter: Mrs. Frank Evans and her two chill
dren, agel respectfully two years and
four months, and the two o-yearoid son of
Mrs. Highland. Nine persons were also
badly injured.
a WEALTHY farmer named William Brad
shaw, living near Albany, Gentry County,
Mo- was murdered near bis home the other
day.
THREE men few days ago robbed the
stages running each way between Whites
boru and Gainesville, Tex, and secured
five hun ired dollars.
\ BILL has been passed by the Texas
Legislature appropriatinS $4,000 for the
use of the Governor to employ detectives
and rangers in the suppression of fence
cutting.
NELSON & Co.'s extensive manufactur
ing works at St. Louis were destroyed by
fire few days ago, causing loss of S1Oo,-
900. Three tiremen were seriously injured
by falling walls.
ONE HUNDRED masked horsemen a few
days ago took Sandy Robinson, a negro
who had murdered Deputy Sheriff. from
the Jail at Crockett, Tex, and hanged him
to tree.
AN aged citizen of Lancaster, Tex,
named John Hash, was murdered few
days ago by maniac brother whom he had
tenderly cared for.
A WAREHOUSE at Fergus Falls, Mimi,
containing 40,O90 bushels of wheat, burst
the other day, causing loss of $1,000.
A BILL in equity has been fled 10y the
United States Government at Lincoln.
Neb., against the Brighton Ranch Cnn,pa-
ny for the possession OF fifty-two thousand
acres in Custer County, which the corpo-
ration had I,nlawfully fenced in.
On the Chicago & Atlantic Railroad Il
passenger and freight train collided at
Hepburn, O., a few davs ago, killing cngi-
neer Henry Gauf and seriously iniuring
several other employees.
UNFORTUNATE grain speculations caused
A. c. Stevens. a prominent resident of
Geneva, o., 70 kill himse If a few days ago.
A GUN-BoAT from Virginia stole into the
midst of a fest of Maryland oyster
dredges few days ago, riddled many of
the craft with cannon-shot aud bullets,
and ca ptured one vessel which carried a
crew of nine men, and had thirteen hun
dred bushels of oysters. The crew had
been imprisoned and the boa. confiscated
In the harbor at Baltimore, Nd, boat
containing sevon young MEN was upset Il
few days ago, and two % the occupants.
Paul Artmann and Louis Roth, were
drowned.
The house of Morgan Martin, at Galiip-
oils, o., was destroyed by fire the othef
day, and his wife and little daughter per-
ishei in the flames.
FIFTY armed men few nights ago took
jeff Rogers, a negro who brutally assault
ed Mrs. Strib;in in Chambers County, Ala,
from the jail u Lafayette and hanGcl him
to a tree.