Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-03-29
West and South.

auce in three herds OF cattle in MareS
County, Mo.
AT Oakland, Cal, n few evenings ago
Mrs. John Schaefer, while insane, cut her
own and her blhy's tEroa-. When the
husband saw the corpse he also attempted
suicide aud a lady was shocked at the
CORY scene that she became a raving ma
niac.
THE failure is announced of the Gill Car
Manufacturing Company, ut Columbus, o.,
having 500, ,O)J liabilities and S19o,0Oo as
sets.
THE Maryland Legislature on tho Goth
tabled n bill in tho House prohibiting, the
sale in Baltimore Of Wcstern-slaug ghtered
beef bv a vote OF 66 to H.
The Virginia Democrats will hold their
State Convention at Richmond May II, to
nominate State officers.
GREAT excitement still prevailed on the
Goth over the discovery of gold in Coeur
D'Alene, in Idaho, the rush was immense,
and over il thousand buildings were going
up. Several claims were yielding hand
somelv.
A FIRE a few nigits ago destroyed the
Josephine Hotel at Hot Springs, Ark, and
many of the guests lost all of their cloth
ing and valuableS.
THE Michigan Democratic State Conven-
delegates to the Ma ional Convention.
EARLY on the morning of the 2oth the
Chicago limited express train going east
rushed into a landslide near Salem, O.,
which dcr1iled the cars, the locomotive
piunging down an cmhankment and inn
mcdiately exploding. The engineer and
fireman were killed, and three persons
were seriously and twelve others slightly
injured.
A BOILER in Ratman's saw-mill, at New
port, Ark, exploded few days ago, kill
ing the fireman and three children.
THE execution of Champ and Rudolph
Fitzpatrick, brothers, took place on the
2lst. at Columbia, KY, for the murder of
Miller Brewster.
RECENTLY the announcement was made
that McFa iden, an accompllce of PrentlsS
Tiller's in the ST. Louis express robbery.
had ate Inptcd to commit suicide in the ST.
hauis Prison by swallowing fragments of
l.,-oken glass. On the Goth the report was
said to lie unfounded, McFadden being de-
sirous of being placed in the hospital,
whence escape would be easy.
On the 2ISt back water was flooding the
houses in Front street at Eicksburg, and
the country between the Mississippi and
Atchafalaya Rivers was being inundated
through breaks in the levees.
THE death of Mrs. A. H Foote, of Law
renee, Kan, occurred recently from blood
/ poisoning caused by wearing green val
| which rubbed against sore on her face.
| Ten great creyas~es in the Mississippi
| levees near New Orleans were reported OIL
| the 2Ist, all pouring great volumes of water
! into the country and overfowing some o
the finest plantations in that section.
/ DODGE CITY (Kan.) advices of the 21s
! hot ha q
the North this year would be from $500
to $40, 900 head.
! THE death is announced of Judge Thatch
| er, Of The Supreme Court of Colorado.
JOHN j. VERTREEs, Chairman of th'
/ Tennessee State Democratic Committee
caused an injunction to be served on th'
| .lst on the President of the Nashville
| American Newspaper Company. restrain
in. him from advocating in that paper
| protective tariff. Vertrees claimed t.
have an interest in the majority of tn
stock of the american.
SEVERAL masked citizens of Marysville
| Kan, tie other day forced the jailer to de
| liver to them Samuel Prayer, who had bee
| convicted q the murder of John Pennlns
| ton and wife, The offender was taken t.
The wagon bridge and hanged, after he ha
made a full confession of his crime.
| THE fire in the PocahontaS coal mine i
| West Virginia where one hundred an
fifty-three men recently lost their lives b,
an explosion, still raging on the 22d
| Engineers had been sent there 20 locate fir
chambers, when corps of oil-well driller
| would be set at work to penetrate tn
| mount ain from the TOP, in order to flood tn
mine through the borings.
AN examination by the veterinary SUI
geons Investigating the cattle disea e a
| Neosho Falls, Kan, has resulted in tn
finding in the hay fed to the sufferers o
wild rye which contained twenty time
more ergot than was ever before known i
feed. 1t was claimed that the feet of tn
cattle froze because the erGot contracte
the Ilood-yess is and retarded the circula
tion.
BY an explosion a few days ago in th
fireworks establishment of Debl & Co
| at Cincinnati, three men were serlouSl
burned, and the roof fell upon them an
held them until help arrived.
Ats meeting in Chicago on tho 22d {
| Senator Sabiu, John c. New and Others
representing the National Republican Con
| mi:tee, 70 arrange details for the Natlonf
Convention. positive orders were issue
that the attendance at each session shoul
| not exceed six thousand persons. The d
| rector of the HuSlcal le NtlEdi, W pS h'i'
Nav, sta ed that the Exposition Bu1ldln
would be arranged for the Accommodate
of 1,7Jl persons on the main floor.
j. B. JOHNSON kill, himself with
yo,yer near Denver on the 23l, while @
his wav to make restitution to drug frl
at st. Joseph, Mo-, whom he had robbed
| a large amount of goods.
A NUMBER of leading citizens Of ChIcae
| have signed an address urging the 1orm
tion of an Indepenien. Republican ASS
cia ion to promote the work of adminlstr
, | tive reform and the extinction OF u
spoils system.
AvERDICT of not guilty was rendered
the 81 in the case OF o. A. Carpenter,
trial at Petersburg, ILL.,, FOR the murder
Z,ra Burns. Five jurors on the first pa
lot voted for conviction. The wife an
daughter of the accused waited all nlgl
ut tae Sheriff's residence to hear the resui
Tne father of the murdered girl was
wild from grief that he was CONSTANT