The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-02-02
West and South.

sAiLER COLBY was d,sarmed Ivy ten pris.
oners at Wheeling, W. Va, ON the I'D.
who beat him IN brutal manner and cs.
capped TO the roof. The citizens hoard tho
alarm and began firing at the prisoners,
who went back to their cells.
A SAFE was being hois,ei TO a second.
story window at Canton, o.. n few even.
ings ago when the chain broke and tho safe
fell, fatally injuring ROnhold Rochers and
William Miller.
DuRfso quarrel few nights ago bo.
tween Tom Fairbanks aud Edward Mona.
han, In a saloon at Haskins. o.. Monahan
was literally cut 10 pieces by Fairbanks,
eighty.three wounds being found on his
body.
DRIVEN 10 desperation by poverty, and
too proud 10 ask for assistance, Mrs. viii.
lam Hall, of. .Elkton, Md., gave her six chil.
dren arsenic on tho 23d, and then took
dose herself. When discovered the
mother and youngest child were beyond
help, but II was thought the others would
recover.
A CHICAGO lawyer named Cornelius Van
Setback, confined In tho Insane Asylum
at Painssville, o., escaped from that In.
s,itution few days ago, and his dead
body was found under railway bridge.
on tho night Of the 23d Joel Fowler, a
noted desperate, and said TO be worth
$4,000, was taken from jail by citizens Mt
socorro, N. NJ, and hanged TO tree.
on the ed John johnson tcolored), who
killed Stephen Alexander In q Chicago
gamhling-house few nights ago, was ac-
quilted by Coroner's Jury, on the ground
Of sslf-defenss.
The execution Of George A. Wheeler oc.
Cured In San Francisco on tho q far
strangling his sister. inlaw, Adele J. Till
son, In 1887.
AT the jail In Indianapolis. Ind, four.
teen now cases Of smallpox were deycl.
opcd on the s3l, and twenty-five case, pre-
vailed at the pest-houss.
THE other day Cato J. jerks, merchant
Of Apex, N. C., deserted hIs sick wife and
three children 10 elops with the thirteen
year-old daughter Of his clerk.
A STATEMENT appeared In tho Baltimore
lSsH Of the I'D 10 the effect that General
Sherman had declared 10 apersonal friend,
in the most emphatic manner. tina, he could
only relterate what he had previously ui.
tered ~ 10 the mention OF his nams for the
Presidency. n be was nominated by sccia.
nation In the convention and received the
Electoral vote Of every State In tho Union
he would stiil decline. Helooked forward
| for the remnant Of his days 10 q lIfo Of
comfort and ease, and an entire freedom
from care and worry Of any kind. Hs
though, it would b. the uppsrmrst kind Of
folly for him 10 be tempted by the baubis
Of the Presidency 10 enter the White House
and have four years OF strife. contention,
irritation and criticism to encounter.
A INV days ago . raft was drawn Into q
whirlpool In the upper Cumberland River
near Carthage, Tenn, and nine men wers
drowned.
LOUIS Boxprcx and wife were murdered
By unknown parties a. Fenioa, No., q few
nights ago. They had no money, and oe
cupiei two rooms in . log house on {
rented farm.
At Dallas, Ore. eleven business houses
valued st $4,000. were destroyed by FIR
on the 1lth.
A rxasrstr blirksri swept over n.
northwest portion Of Minnesota on ~
9Th. which coaaaed every one 20 thsil
HOUSES A. Superior Junction and oths1
points ths thermomster indicated forty
four degrees below ssro.
II wss reported on the 7tth that Jane
and Edward Hhadsick, boys axsd thIrtseE
and nft>sn years. of Marietta. os-, vi
savs information which caused the srre<
Of moonshin<rs, had ben murdered b
frisads of the prison<ra
Hos. loss Q. NEw arrived Il he hom
n Indianapolis. Ina. cn Ne 1tth. hsvin
resigned His position - Firrt Assistan
Secretary Il sks Trssssry 70 stt<nd 70 ki
privsss busises.-
Ax explo>ias IN tts'coIsrsdo Coal Css'
pssy's coIliwy u cFrsssd Butte. Col, O
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