Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-03-01
West and South.


dead and six others were seriously wound
ed.
FIVE Piegan Indians in Montana made
raid few days ago AMI stole fifty ponies.
They were followed and overtaken by
white men, when. skirmish ensued, dur
ing which four of the Indians and two of
the whites were killed. The ponies were
recaptured.
The wheat and fruit crops in Southern
California it was thought on the 2Ist
would be greatly benefited by the recent
floods, and farmers anticipated golden
harvest.
EARLY the other morning John Brehmer,
residing near Glasgow, o., prevented his
father, who was drunk, from numbering
his wife, when the old man shot his son,
inflicting mortal wound.
OWING to ti.e terrible destruction of
property by storm and fool, Shawnee
town, ILL.,, was on the 21st almost entirely
abandoned by its inhabitants, and it was
said that several years of prosperity would
hardly put the town where it was before
the flood. Uniontown, Ky, AMI Metropo-
lis, H., We're similarly afflicted. At ether
points the waters We're recehing, and the
worst was considered over.
BEVERLY TAYLOR. an aged C1oiorc1 man,
and his wife and grand daughter, Of Avon
dale, o., were murdered by negroes re-
Gently, and their bodies were found i'll the
dissecting-room Of the Ohio Medical Col
lege, at Cincinnati.
The Chicago Board of Trade issued lis
annual report the 21st, which showed
the shipment of farm products for 1880 to
have been $50, 1G5 0DU.
TELEGRAMs of the 21st state that the re-
cent wind-storm wrecked hundreds of
submerged houses in the district around
Evansville, Ind, besides drowning mum
bers of hogs and cattle. An immense
amount Of corn was also lost. Many
persons were taken from trees and bills
where they had taken refuge, by the
relief boats, some Of whom were badly
frozen.
THREE men were recently killed by two
revenue officers in Mitchell County, North
Carolina.
The Greenbackars of Indiana met in
State Convention at indianapolis on the
22l and nominated the following ticket:
For Governor, ii. Il. Leonard, of Cass
County; L;eutenant-GCvcrnor John b.
Milroy, of Carroll County: Secretary of
State, +. L. Warin-, Of Wells County ;
Treasurer, Thompson Smith, of Wayne
County; Auditor, j. III. Robinson, of Put
nam County; Attcrn"y-General,J John o.
Greene, of Floyd County: Superintendent
of Public instruction, :. :. Boyd, OF Wayne
County. \ platform was adopted ien0unc-
ing the present financial system and de-
manding that all money issued by the Gov
ernment be legal tender; calling fer the
speedy payment OF the National debt and
the abolition of the Rational bank priyi-
leseS; opposing the importation OF Chinese
or other scrvile lator, and favoring pen
sions for all soldiers.
ADENTISr nameI Rose in a dispute on
! the 22d at birmingham, Ala, over some
bills presented for collection, drew his
pocket knife and cut the throat of Henry
HarraISon from ear to car. The vici i'm
was popular lawyer, and his friends were
organizing for vengeance.
HENRY WILSON and j. W. Watts became
eng aged in a fight Il few days ago on board
| q steamer near ChattauooEa, Tenn, ana in
the struggle hey both fell overheard and
were drowned.
THE loss of life by the recent Southern
| cyclone was est mated as follows on the
| 21d: Alabama, 30; Georgia, 200; North
| Carolina, 40; South Carolina, %; total
go. 1t was thought that these figures
would be largely increased as news was
| received from sections with which COM
munication was d fficult. The loss of prop
| erty also inlmenSe. Whole villages
were swept entirely away and plantations
! and farms derudcd of everything valua
BILE. livestock in great numbers were al
| so slaughtered.
| \ CALL has been issued by Jesse Harper.
! Chairman of the National Greenback Labor
/ Committee, for National Convention, tc
/ be held at indianapolis May -.
ABOUT nine hundred Cree Indians Were
! on the a2d said to be i'll revolt in the North
west Territory. They had captured the
Government supply of provisions.
A FEW days ago John Heith, sentenced
to life-imprisonment for the Bisbca mur
ders at Tombstone, y. T., was taken from
| Jail by a mob and hanged TO telegraph
pole.
Born Houses of the Virginia Legislature
| On the a2I passed over the Governors veto
the bill + apportionin tho State for Repre-
| ScntativeS i'll Congress.
| By a circular recently issued the high
| tariff people of the country are invited t.
meet in mass convention at Chicago the
2lS: of May next.
| TIE unvciling of a monument to General
Robert E. Lee took place at New Orleans
| on the I'D. The figure is sixteen feet high
standing upon white marble column
| eighty feet in hight.
| A HURRICANE few days ago blew from
| the track three coaches of train on the
| Colorado Central Road near Georgetown
and two ladies were badly burned and
many other travellers were injured.
AT Annapolis, Md, Pedro Montaldo
| Professor of Spanish at the United States
| Naval Academy, was found dead in the
| grounds a few days ago.
| ONE of Colorado's best-known mining
| men, George ii. Fryer, died at Denver on
| the 24th from overdose of morphine,
administered by his own hand.
| a CALL has been issued for National
| Convention of wool growers TO meet at
! Chicago on the 9Th of May.
| JACOB LEHMAN, an oil citizen of Fort
| Wayne, Ind, while attending services on
the sith at the German Evangelical
| Church, dropped dead in the aisle.
On the Hannibal & St. Joseph Road n
| passenger train broke through a bridge
near New Cambria, No, a few days ago,
| and one child was killed and thirty-three
| adults were injured, five mortally.
a LARGE agricultural implement ware
| house was burned at St Louis few days
ago, causing a loss of Sl2o,oGo.
| ALLEN INGALLS, and Ben johnson (ne-
| groes) confessed at Cincinnati on the 23d
to numbering the Taylor family (three in
number) at Avondale recently ard imme
| diately delivering the corpses to the Ohio
Medical College. Ingalls, also stated that
| he was professional resurrectionist.
| THE Grand Jury on the 2:Sd indicted Neil
| McKaigue, a young butcher at Winnetka
| H., for the murder of James l. Wilson
| and his wife, and he was placed in Jail
The fatal buttons found in the room where
| the murder was committed Were fitted to
| the butchers vest i'll the presence of the
| grand jurors, and this, with other circum