The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-07-17

mencement exercises of Bowdoin College
at Brunswick, Me-, made speech and held
a reception.
On the 10th Sanville, editor-in-chief of
Trait d Union Of Mexico, and who was
banished from that Republic as "a perni-
cious foreigner" landed at New York.
COMPTROLLER CANNON has directed that
an assessment Of 100 per cent be levied on
the shareholders of the Marine National
Bank of New York.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made by the
Independent Republicans of Boston, who
oppose Blaine's nomination, for a general
conference of Independents so soon as the
Democratic nominations shall have been
made. 1t will probably be held in New
York.
JOHN BRIGHT hopes the powers of the
British Lords will be curtailed. He will
join the reform agitation.
On the 9th Prince Albert of Sweden mar
rowly escaped drowning by the wrecking
of his yacht. The crew were drowned.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE remains Of man supposed to be
w. L. King, of Florence, Kas., or ]. b.
Smith, of Memphis, Mo-, was taken from
the river at Keokuk, Ia, on the 9th.
A YOUNG woman named Gertie Phillips
of Alliance, o., was found dead in grove
at that place on the 9th with bullet hole
in her head. Two well-known young men
are in custody awaiting developments.
HUMPHREY JACKSON, while standing on
the street in st. Louis on the 9th, was
struck In the face by bullet from an un-
known source. The wound was painful
one, but not dangerous.
On the 7th the steamship Lincoln City,
on its first passage, ran ashore during a
dense fog near Isaacs Harbor, on the
Nova Scotia coast.
FIRE damaged A. G. Toof & Co.'s print
ing house at Memphis, Tenn, to the extent
Of $4,000 on the h. Fully insured.
Two Detroit (Mich.) girls went boating
in the river with two young men from
Sandwich. One of the girls and the men
were drowned.
On the night of the 7th Commodore Shu-
feldt's summer residence at Oconomowoc,
Wis, was robbed of II 900 worth of silver
ware. The Commodore is a resident Of
Chicago.
PAT O'MEARA, of Fall Creek, Wis, re.
fused to treat party in saloon, when he
was beaten to death with billiard cues by
three sons of prominent German farmers
Threats Of lynching were heard.
ON the Sth VIM. 4. McClelland, prom
inent young Pittsburgh man, attempted
to commit suicide, first by jumping intC
the river, then with knife, and tried t
shoot the officers who rescued him.
HENRY SUMMERS and May Whitney
were found on the sidewalk at Austin, Ill.
on the Sth, with bullet holes in their heads
The man, who may recover, says the CIR
did the shooting, but as the pistol was il
his hand, it is thought he did the deed.
AT Toledo, o., three lumber yards burned
on the 9th, the aggregate loss being owe
$35l 900.
ON the night of the 9Th W. L. Lamb, on
of the owners of the Buckeye Tobacco
Works at Toledo, o., was shot by burgla
and will probably die.
On the 9th Liddell, a magistrate of Lur
gan, Ireland, was shot at while driving
with his wife, and the latter was wound
ed.
A New YoRK salesman, named Leonard
Davis, has been arrested for forging th
! names of editors Of newspapers to rt
quests for theater, railroad and steam
boat tickets, which he sold to scalper'
Three persons have been arrested as al
completes.
FIRE damaged the Hamilton rubber fac
tory at Trenton, N. j., $4,000 worth o.
the 9th, and several firemen We're hurt.
ON the 10th the interior of the royi
armory at Madrid burned; contents saved
A YOUNG lady named Gertie Phillips
I, Of Salineville, o., who was missing sine
Z June 81, was found in the woods on th
9th with pistol-ball hole in her head.
party who was with her that day was al
rested.