The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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morning.
The burlington road is about to run |
direct trains from Des MONIES to Kan |
sas City, 20 miles
Nitrate of cocoaine, the newly-dis- |
covered anasthetic, has been success
fully applied TO dentistry
w. Il. Warren, a leading citizen OF
Terre Haute. Ind, dropped dead on
the sidewalk, frem apoplexy.
A case of smallpox at the Coy house
has caused alarm in Council Biu115.
The building has been quarantlneo.
Mr.. Blaine has instructed his attor-
news to dismiss his suit against the In
dianapolis Sentinel for criminal libel.
Samuel J. Randall viii during the
holiday adjournment Visit Louisville,
Nashville, and the Alabama iron re-
gions.
The surprising statement comes from
Texas that two lads froZe to death,
Friday night, on the prairie near ADJ
lene.
Kansas democrats intend to urge the
claims of Gen. c. W. Blair upon MI.
Cleveland for the Secretaryshlp OF the
Interior.
George D. Robinson has given score
of politicians early notice that he will
not run for governor OF Massachusetts
next year.
Hosiery operatives to the number OF
100 have left Nottingham, England, 10
take places already secured IN the
United States.
Rev. I. B. Fuller, Episcopal bishop
of Hamilton, Ontario, died from blood
poisoning. caused by running Tile III
10 his hand.
Rumors are afioat that the Wiscon-
sin Central road will be extended to
Chicago, for lack of facilities over the
ST. Paul track.
Prof. J. c. Redpath, Vice-President
OF the Depauw University, has been
offered the Presidency or tue Indiana
State University.
1t is thought that the portfolio of the
Interior Department will be offered oy
Gov. Cleveland to Mr.. William Z.
Whitney, of New York.
Mrs. Jacob Judy. who settled near
Atlanta, Illinois, in 1919. was on
Thursday followed TO the grave by
seventy-five descendants.
In the mines at Coal Greek, Tennes-
see. six convicts undertook to escape.
| The guards killed two of them and IA
tally wounded two others.
The president of the Canadian Pa
| cific road has filed AT Ottawa plans Tor
| bridge across the ST. Lawrence al
LacnlIle, 10 cost So,OOO,cOO-
At least twenty negroes lost their
| lives by the capsiZing of oyster-boatS
| in the Rappahanock river. Eleven
! bodies have been recovered.
Exports from the Port of New York,
exclusive of specie, during the week
! ended Tuesday were 81, S45. GOO, against
| S9.456.0 eco the previous week.
Notice OF 10 per cent. reduction in
wages after the 9th inst. has been Civ
en- the employees of The New Jersey
steel and iron works, in Trenton.
| After seYenty-four rounds brutal
| priZe-hght at Montreal between John
| ny Cash and a pugilist named McGlade
| ended with the defeat of the latter.
An oil-refining firm of Cleveland has
! obtained judgment against the Lake
! Shore road for 81, 000 for discrimlna-
ton in freights and 81 600 fordamages.
A leakage in gas-pipe in Montreal
mansion was followed by an explosion
| which injured three servants almost
fatally and nearly wrecked the build
| ing.
II. X. Mccoy. United States Judge
| for the Northern district of Georgia, is
| said to be becoming mentally unsound,
| on account Of trouble with son-in-
| law.
/ In the superior court at Chicago, l..
| Z. Letter began suit for $50, 900 against
! Marshall Field. for the unlawful seiZ-
ure of one hundred feet OF city prop
erty.
Fred II. Winston, a well-known at
! tOrney and politician of Chicago, has
| brought suit for 100000 against the
hlter-Ocean company for libelous state
ments.
The governor of Iowa sent two COM
panies of militia to Angus, to deal with
| striking miners. A delegation of citi-
zens has gone to Des MOines to enter
protest.
Hezekiah Brown, a colored school
| teacher, was lynched by masked men
! in Howard county, MARYLAND. for inti-
macy with white girl named Fannie
| Shultz.
A desperate fight between the local
authorities of Dunegan Settlement,
| Ga. and a gang of moonshinerS result
ed in the death of two of the noon
| sinners.
At trial of the Haskell multicharge
| gun at Sandy Hook. a shot weighing
1872 pounds was sent nearly four miles
at the rate of eighteen hundred feet
| per second.
| Andrew May, venerable citizen of
! Indianapolis, was found dead in his
! buggy. Henry Jones, one of the old
/
! died Sunday.
Out in Montana much disappoint-
ment is felt concerning the nomination
| of Platt Carpenter TO the Governorship
| of the Territory. Carpenter lives III
New York State.
The supreme court Of West Virginia
| has decided that railroad charter is
merely license, the right to fix freight
and passenger rates being vested only
in the legislature.
An oil well in Butler county. Penn
| sylvanla, located half mile from ali
| previous developments, was torpedOed.
and is flowing at the rate Of five thous-
and barrels per day.
The shipments eastward by rail from
| Chicago during the past week were
| 1886 tons, an increase of $3.50 tons.
| The Michigan Central carried "A per
| cent. of the total freight.
Governor Cleveland pronounces ut
| terly without foundation the story
| about himself and the Virginia shoe
maker who desired to make a pair of
| boots for the Inauguration.
William Rover, when convicted of
| murder at Fort Wayne and sentenced
to life Imprisonment. urged the court
to send the jury back with instructions
to order his execution.
A schedule of assets and liabilities
was filed by the assignee of the j. l. !
Case Plow Company at Racine, Wis,
Tuesday. The assets are S451, S62 and |
the liabilities $733, 1865.
A large quantity Of dynamite and |
giant powder has been found at Vic I
toria. Il. c., secreted behind a pile of |
freight on the wharf OF the Pacific /
Mail Steamship Company.
A. L. Ballard. a well-known loco |
motive engineer of Meadville. Penn |
sylvania, leaned out of his cab to look /
down the track, and was fatally in /
Jured by car striking his head.
Toledo iron merchants wound UP the |
Miller Manufacturing company of |
Canton, Ohio, which had erected ex.
tensiye buildings at Crestline and
purchased a vel! of natural gas.
The national democratic committee
mas selected fifty citizens of Washing
ton, with Colonel James G. Berret as
chairman, to make all ARRANGEMENTS
Tor the inauguration ceremonies.
Secretary Lincoln says that the re.
cent newspaper publications concern
ing the letter received by Lieut.. Gree
~ from Capt. Howgate have defeated
his efforts to capture the fugitive.
Frederick Sherman. one of the best
known club men of New York. died
suddenly at his home at Fort Wash
Ihglon sunday or scarlet fever. which
he caught from one of his children.
The presence at Portland of the chief
engineer Of the Grand Trunk and a
party of surveyors, gave rise to ru-
NOR that they were preparing for an
extension CT their track to Boston.
The Mandelbaum party of fugitiyes
from New ork were on FRIDAY dis
charged from arrest at Hamilton. On
tario, but the customs authorities re-
tain possession of the diamonds seized
Boston canifalists haua oor4rna.1 |