Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-01-26

other day with thirty-nine Indian chill
dren, twenty-seven of whom girls.
The boys would be placel in Eastern ins;i-
tutions and the females in the House Of
the Good Shepherd, at Milwaukee.
MIKE CUDDIGAN and wife were 1yucfed
by the people of Ouray, Col, on the 10.
for having murdered little girl whom
they took from Catholic asylum at Dem
yer.
A FEW nights ago fire at Murrell's
Point Landing, Bayou Dauchi!e, La, de-
stroyed ,145 bales of cotton.
AT Chicago the other day E. Schncider's
candle factory was totally destroyed by
fire. Estimated loss, $155,COo; insurance,
S5S,o0O.
FLAMES swept away eight business
houses at Mneoia, Tex, n few days ago.
MARTIN CoMMACK and Edward d. Easton
We're arrested at Ocean Springs, Miss, on
the 10Th for having obtained from
SO, ,0O) to 100000 from bankers and cot
ton dealers in New York on forged bills of
lading.
The firm of Mayer Bros. & Co., NOR
chants of Vicksbur-, Miss, has failed for
$I15, 600.
IN the Cincinnati Corfu eating Company's
Mandatory 4 boiler exploded the other
day, set ing the build :ng on fir. The total
loss to the several occupants of the build
ing was $4,000.
GRAvE-RoBBEas the o her night made an
unsuccessful attempt to steal the remains
of r Ght Rev. V. Whelan, late Bishop of
the diocese of Wheeling, w. Va.
n FIRE recently destroyed lc- fourth of
the busines, section of Lcipsic, o.
IT was voted by the C!ncinna Chamber
of Commerce ON the 81 st to request the Ma
tional Board of Trade to memorialiZe Con-
gress for prompt reciprocal action on the
prescription of American pork by France
and Germany.
n FEW days ago Jacob Shaffncr, of New
York, started for Las Vegas, to visit his
brother, but on l. arninG of his death be.
came insane, leaped from the train near
Springer Station, and was found frozen to
death.
AMONG the crimes reported on the 2lst
were the following: j. a. Rogers, 4 prom
inent young C .tizan of Norfolk, Va, was
! murdered by unknown persons; Lewis G.
Rider, a shecp-raiser of Thomas County,
Kan, was shot dead by William Salisbury
du ing quarrel; William Kissee and
Jack Kellogg, of Gunnis"n, Col, shot each
o.her ia ally il a dispute over a game of
cards; Daniel Williams ,n was kicked to
d. ath in a fight at San Francisco; Michael
-
| i'll drunken quarrel at Cincinnati, and
William Quinian, of Pittsburgh, Pa, killed
Thomas Whitahouse with a poker.
THE Georgia Department of Agriculture
received advices OH the 2lst which showed
that the damage to winter oats by the re-
cent freeze was six Y per cent. and wheat
thirty.
EOESrS aad cattle west of the Medina
Rive, in Texas, We're on the 2!st said
to be dying for TIE want o. grass. Drovers
were driving their cattle south.
SEvENTY-FIvE miners employed by the
Cleveland, Youngstown & Pittsburgh
Road assembled d at Alliance on the 21st to
kill Superintendent Lumley, because their
pay was three months behind. They failed
in their tempt. Afterward they tore up
several miles of track.
half the business portion of Clio, Mich.
AT Antioch, Cal, the American Ex-
change Hotel was burned on the 2lst, and
John Griffin, son of the proprietor, and
Thomas Hines were burned to death.
| { On tho Waba 81 Road a passenger train
| was thrown from the track near Macon,
| Mo-, a few days ago by a broken rail. Five
persons were badly injured.
THE stage letwcan Wickenburg ana
| Prescott, Aroma, was robbed the other
! day by higlwhyman, and the letters in
! the MA l. pouches we're rifled.