The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-12-18

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OF England, sentenced Captain Dudley and
Mate Stephens, of the Mignonette, to be
hanged. They killed and ate the flesh of
a companion while in a starving condition
at sea.
THE noted Cincinnati philanthropist,
Reuben r. Springer, died on the 10th.
THE first acts of the Diaz administration
in Mexico are giving satisfaction.
The Japanese Prince Alexis Saigo, a
nephew of Colonel Oyama, japanese Min
lister of War, died at Washington, d. c.,
on the 10th. He was only eleven years of
age.
A PROPOSAL is made that the President,
surrounded by his Cabinet and others,
shall from the White House open the New
Orleans Exposition by electricity.
PRIME MINISTER FERRY has been in
formed by Earl Granville that English ne
gotiations with China with view Of set
tling the Franco Chinese difficulty AMIGA
bly,, have resulted in failure.
The American Base Ball Association has
dropped the Virginia and indianapolis
clubs. Officers elected, II. D. Mcknight,
President; Chris Won der Abe, Vice. Pres
ident, and w. G. Wycoff, Secretary and
Treasurer.
THE President consented to start the
machinery of the New Orleans EXPOSE
tion by electricity from the White House
on the 10th.
In West Virginia curious political
complication has arisen as the result Of the
change of the time for State elections
voted upon October 14th.
The silver jubilee of Archbishop Lynch's
conservation began at Toronto, Ont, on
the 18th, accompanied with imposing fes-
tivities.
TAMMANY, 800 strong, will participate in
the ceremonies attending the Inauguration
of President Cleveland.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
NEAR Ashton, Oak, Mrs. j. s. Mills and
her three year-old child were burned to
death on the 9th.
On the Ohio Central Railway near Nc
Cutchensville o., incendiarie@ fired a
bridge on the 9th, and train of twenty
three loaded coal cars went through the
burning structure into the creek below.
OK the 7th steamer, supposed to be the
Alliance, of Cardiff, foundered off the
Cornish Coast (Eng.) and all hands were
lost.
A NUMBER of mysterious deaths have oc-
cured in family named Horan at White
water, Wis, fifth of whom has just died
from poison administered by herself, after
confessing that she had caused the death
of the others by the same means.
THE mysterious poisonings at White
SulPh9 Springs " Va s55 are fqgn9 " t9sAyl
who had been dismissed from one of the
families. They, however, mixed then
poisons, giving strychnine and arsenic to-
pether, thus partially defeating their pur'
pose.
On the 9th six hundred cases of good to
bacco, valued at $4,000, went up in smok
at Thompsonville, Conn.
ON the 9th Mrs. 9. E. Giesendorlfer
wife of former wealthy manufacture or
drowned herself at Indianapolis, Iral.
TIE people Of Pittsylvania County
Virginia, are anxious to capture Charlie
| Palmer, desperate only eighteen year
old. who shot one man to death an
nearly killed another. A lynching
probable.
/ ON the DLn SIX peIsouS NSio thNii'uS
a burning dwelling at Trenton, sma
mining village near Delano, Pa. Only
seven year-old child escaped, who we
dropped from window of the burnin
building by the father, Frank Farrell, wi
returned for other members OF the tamil
and perished with them.
On the 10th James l.. Flint, member
the New York Union League Club, w
arrested on charge Of having persuade
n man to vote under another's name f
Cleveland.
NEWS was received at st. Paul, Mlnr
on the 10th, that commercial travel
named Baird had been killed and robo'
of S4, 500 near Golden City, British Colun
bia. Eddy, Hammond & Co., for who
Baird travelled, have offered a reward
81 900 for the capture of the murderers'
, THREE young men, J. w. Mckee, frai
II Mcdonald and Charles II. Locks, all
, buffalo. N. Y, were arrested in st. Lou
Mo. on the 10th. The frst-named W
. book-keeper for a firm in Buffalo, a
: took away with him $l,llS.l0 OF ms e
Movers, money. The young men spent
hut $500, which was recovered. They we
willing to return without requisltion'
JoHNP. HAIDEN, who resides near LlVt
!, ton. w. Va, accidentally shot hlmse
wife and four children on the llth' wn
taking a load from gun. None VIC
n fatally injured.