The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

burned on Sunday night.
The rnavor of New York has APP
pointed General Fitz John Porter to
police commissiOnership
David McCulloch a well-knOwn Ca
madam journalist, collector OF customs
at Hamilton, died Sunday.
]. Y. Brown, husband of the post
mistress of Rocky Mount, Va, was ar
rested for rifling re giStered letters.
Captain J. c. Bonnycastle, a we'll
known military man, died OF heart uls-
ease Wednesday night at Louisville.
No less than twelve hundred miners
| have been sent from PlttSburg TO the
Hooking valley Of Ohio since the strlke
in July.
A loss of SI50C was caused at Port
Clinton, Pennsylvania, by a eoLlslon
of freight trains. One fireman was III
jured.
A. Jefferv. of Hallville, Illinois, has
! entered for the Chicago fat-stock show
| a hog said to weigh fourteen hundred
pounds. -
The Canadian Government has re-
voked the special quarantine reguia-
| tons adopted in August owing 10 the
cholera.
While firing salutes at a democratic
rally in Rondout, New \ ork, four men
were terribly injured by the explosion
! Of cannon.
At Locust Point, Wednesday morn
| ing, a Baltimore and Ohio freight 10
comotive exploded, killing the engineer
and fireman.
business failures for the week num-
| Der 234, against 209 last week, and the
same number in the corresponding
| period of 1888.
William Kirkwood and other Chica-
goans have incorporated the lnterna-
! tional Provision company, with capl-
| tai Of 100000.
The chair of church history in the
| Garrett institute at Evanston, Illinois,
| has been accepted by Prof. Charles w.
Bennett, of Syracuse.
At Colima, ManZanillo, and other
| towns on the western coast Of Mexico,
yellow fever of malignant type is
claiming many victims.
The Washington mills, an immense
establishment at Lawrence, Massa-
| chusetts, have decided to shut down
| for an indefinite time.
| In the federal court at San Francis
CO, Thomas Donovan was sentenced TO
three years Imprisonment and fined
$500 for illegal registration.
| As the result of q feud, at Dawson,
Ga, Editor G. w. Cheves, of the Jour
nal, Saturday evening, shot dead Cap
| tain L. IL. Pickett in the street.
The railway shipments eastward
from Chicago during the past week
were 1000 tons, OF which the Michi-
gan Central secured nearly q per cent.
William Hall, formerly a merchant
at Toledo, Ohio, and South Bend, Ind,
was killed by his son Lincoln. aged Is,
in a quarrel Thursday at Delphos,
Kansas.
The Association for the Advance
ment of Women met Wednesday at
Baltimore, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the
President, delivering the opening adj
dress.
Eddie Lardon, Is years old, was
found dead in the suburbs at KeQkuk
Wednesday with a bullet-hole in his
neck. How he came by his death is a
mystery.
The fire in the Calumet and Hecla
n ne still continues to burn. Unless
work is soon resumed the miners and
their families must suffer for the nee
essaries of life.
The United States supreme court
has decided that the time of service Of
a cadet at West Point must be counted
as spent in the army in computing his
longevity pay.
Later reports say fourteen corpses
have been taken from the burning
mine at Youngstown, Penn, and two
persons rescued can hardly survive
their injuries.
Andrew Crowl, who passed quietly
away at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, was
born in Vermont in 1894, was a school |
mate Of Gerrlt Smith, and soldier in |
the war of 1912.
A package of 81, 500 in currency re-
Gently disappeared from the Office Of |
the United States express at Youngs- |
town, Ohio. Detectives have been at |
work on the case.
S. S. Smith is to be general superin-
tendent of the Union Pacific road, |
with headquarters at Omaha. His
assistant will be j. NJ. Eddy, who will !
be located at Denver.
In a runaway at Columbus, Ohio, |
Saturday evening, Miss Emeline Burg
ner, teacher in the public schools, was
instantly killed, and Mrs. DR.. Connell
probably fatally hurt.
About twelve hundred invitations
will next week be sent out for the we'd
ding of Orme Wilson and Miss Carrie
Astor, of New York, at the residence
of the brides parents.
Mrs. Georgiana Heustis, held fog
requisition at Boston for the larceny
of $40, 600 from a New York woman,
was ordered to be released Wednesday
by Governor Robinson.
w. d. Ward, of the Morning ETpress.
of Castroville, Texas, was sentenced to
years in the penitentiary
for the murder of Bob Fly, in uOndo
County, about q year ago.
In st. Tammany Parish, La, a few
days ago, three persons were murder
ed, and posse hanged four negroes
to be the perpetrators, and
were in pursuit Of others.
George 7. Jackson, President of the
Enterprise Cotton Factory at Augusta, {
Ga, is defaulter to the extent of !
100000. He has confessed, and as
sumes all the responsibility.
A Hebrew orphan asylum, located
On the Hudson River at the upper end
Of New YORK, was dedicated Thursday S
It cost 100000, and has accommoda- /
ions for five hundred children. e
A meeting OF creditors of the Mon \
aux mills, of Fall River, Mass, will d
soon be called to consider its en- u
The last sale of stock v
vas at the rate of 81 per share.
By collision on the Wabash rail- Q
way near Taylorville, Illinois, a coach 1
pad of Italian immigrants was thrown D
Town an embankment, fourteen of y
hem being seriously injured. u
In Calhoun county, West Virginia. !
friday, Mrs. Johnson gave arsenic. =
mixed with sugar. to her two step y
'hlldren, and swallowed some herself.
Vi three dying in few minutes. E.
!, A jury in New York gave William =
3raqy verdict for $50, 600 against G. L
:. Huntington for negotiating the pur- II
base of the Morgan railroad and i
teamshlp lines in Louisiana and II
Texas. II
The dry-goods store of I. A. Chap q
nan q Co., of Milwaukee. was destroy- h,
d by fire Thursday evening. with t6e "
n1re STOCK OF goods. The loss is
500, 900 or more, and the insurance n
100000. =
Carl Hensen. of New York, one of n
he editorial writer's on Puck, was ar n,
ested upon charge of having stolen q
pair OF diamond earrings from a dis a.
equitable, female. lie was held in N
/ 900 bail. -, ~
The lease by which the Baltimore hc
nd Ohio road enters Chicago will ex- "a
Ire next Saturday. Vice President ds
pencer and Smith have arrived to
egotiate with the Illinois central for ia
renewal. W ~
The miners strike along the Monop- til
amelia and Yonghiogheny rivers has Sc
collapsed, and every coal lei
{ Will be in operation before the close br
the week. ALI the men accept tie ar
duction. lei
Arguments in the suit to take the 1t
.rsey Central road from the control at
the Heading company are being tri
AGE at Philadelphia by George NJ on
Obeson, Roscoe Conkling, and Clar-
ice Seward. n
Z; w. Hazelton, from jamestown. Sc.
T., who killed Mamie Thorpe in 4 d.
sreputable house in Baltimore. was me
nYlcted only Of manslaughter and col
II spend from two to ten years In the as
fav