The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1884-01-25

HENRY b. PAYNE was elected United
States Senator from Ohio on the 18th.
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IN New Brunswick the Thermometer
recorded % degrees below zero on tue 18th.
ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS is looked on no
reasonably certain to be the next Ameri.
can Cardinal
IHE business failures in the United
states and Canada for the week ended the
18th numbered 425
srA pKA.ss 4. islaINGs.,
GOVERNOR MURRAY gave the Utah {
Legislature some timely advice in his an. /
nual message en- the 18th. {
THREE men were killed and three
buildings destroyed by dynamite explo- J
sion mt Attention, Pa, on the 18th.
MORMON polygamist Immediately
on reading the message of Governor Muir. q
ray, of Utah, went and hanged himself. (
Ex-SPEAKER JOHN EAGAN of the New
Jersey Legislature has been sentenced to :
the Pententiary for attempted bribery,
THE forces of the False Prophet have a
cut off the retreat of the SEMINAR garrison =
and have blockaded the Nile below Duem
A TUNNEL under St. Clair River be-
tween Sarnia, On, and Port Huron, Mich,
is the latest Canadian engineering pro-
ject. L
The VignaM-S chaefer billiard match +
in Paris ended on the 18th in victory for ii
Vignaux by score of 5000 to 2,S6S for g
Schaefer. s.
THE Committee on Pensions will soon :,
report in favor of pensioning all survivors !,
of the Mexican, Creek, Seminole and Black Il
Hawk wars. ;,
A UNITED STATES Treasury agent b.
captured $4,000 package of smug2led ST
diamonds on the 18th sent from Amster- c'
dam by mail.
A RUMoR prevailed in New York on a. a,
the 18th that Jay Gould had met with some 9,
severe losses, estimated in the neighbor- ~,
hood of S20,O00,000. to
Four men were killed and several 81
others seriously injured by the explosion ei
of boiler in E. G. & E. Wallace's tannery Ut
at Rochester, N, Y, on the 18th.
THE window-glass and bottle makers or
have agreed to advance prices, the Eastern
manufacturers to fill orders for Western d.
ones whose factories are closed a..
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GREAT alarm has beer created re- to to
Gently in Montevideo by tile frequent re- w W
currence of immense tidal waves. They vi
are attributed to volcanic movements. III
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RALPH SELLEw, who died suddenly -
at st. Louis, Mo-, on the 10Th, bequeathed W
$4,000 to st. Louis institutions, half of to
which goes to Washington University. al
THE steamship City of Columbus, of q,
the Savannah steamship line went ashore tr
on DEVILS Bridge, Gay Head, Mass, onthe
morning of the 1S.h, and of 1855 souls on r,
board, 104 perished 4,
THE Louisiana sugar planters have d.
appointed a commi. tee to attend the Cane
growers Convention in st. Louis, Mo-, and HI
represent the Importance OF opposing any te
reduction of sugar tariffs.
SrNATOR-ELECT HENRY B. PAYNE, OF II
OHIO, gave banquet the evening of the r,
18th. at Columbus, to members of the Leg %
islature. About 700 guests were present. "
A general reception occurred earlier in the
evening.
TIE Maybce mystery is solved and
one of the Long Island murder horrors n
fully explained. Edward Tappan con-
fessss that his brother killed the two wo-
men. he himself being present as an ac- I
cessory.
Hon. S. A. BRIDGES died the evening y
of the 14th at Allentown, Pa, aged eighty
two wears. He was member of Congress
from the Tenth Disr.cs during the years .
1913 TO 1855 and from 1876 to 1873 He leaves
a widow.
THE mystery of the murder of Clug- t
stone at Valley Forge, Pa, in 1881, prom
ises to be unraveed. A man named w. H. G
Atkins is in Jail at Norristown, Pa, charged t
with the crime, and not without strong cir {
cumstantial evidence. t
LIQUOR DEALERS forced to close their
saloons on Sunday at Fort Wayne, Ind,
have brought suit against the proprietor :
of the Fort Wayne Gazette for publishing
Sunday paper, and will, it is said, also
prosecute the Street-car Company
A CERTIFICATE OF incorporation OF
the Standard Multiplex Telegraph Com
pany was fled in New York on the 10th.
The lines of the company will run from
Boston, Mass, to Portland, Me-, Florida,
Buffalo, Chicago and the Pacific coast.
Capital stock, S2,5OO,OOO.
The first Jewish temple ever erected
in Memphis, Tenn, was dedicated on the
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Samfield, assisted by Rev. DR.. Isaac M.
Wise, of Cincinnati. and DR.. Sonneschein,
of st. Louis. The structure, cost $4,000
and comfortably seats 800.
THE Summers Powder Company's
mills, nine miles from Scranton, Pa, blew
up. one mill at time, the night of the 17th,
DESTROYING nine of the ten mills. 1t is GER.
tain one man, L. H. Emory, and probably
MANY more were killed. The company was
orcanized year ago. The loss is serious.
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THE Grand Opera-house at Lafayette,
Ind, was damaged by fire to the amount of
$1,000 on the l4th. ''Her Atonemen"
troupe was billed for that evening, and had
most of its scenery and effects in the lower
rooms, but all was saved without loss.
Damage to building about 5000. The build
ings and conrents were insured for $4,000.
SECRETARY CHANDLER has reported
to the Senate that there were 92 We sells on
the naval register Noyember, 1888. OF
these 20 were built PRIOR 10 the rebellion,
81 during the war, Al since the close of hos
tilnies. The original cost of the 92 vessels
was $40, ,796,6l3, repairs S4l,2OO,s22; total
cost, $S1 ,9J7, ,4S5. The repairs exceeded the
original cost SAD4.-O9. !