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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-03-27
nIIsoELLANEOus.

On the 18th the flagship Hartford, Of
commanding, arrived at San Francisco
from Honolulu.
THE French contemplate occupying
Chinese territory to enforce the payment
of a war indemnity.
On the 18th the prosecution closed
in the Carpenter murder case at Peters
burg. III.
IT is declared by experts that the cat
tie disease near Wapello, Ia, is foot rot,
and not foot and mouth disease.
OK the 18th one of series of grave
yard insurance prosecutions, instituted at
Fall River. Mass. resulted in conviction.
An important clew is said TO have
been discovered to the perpetrator of the
murder OF Phoebe Paullin in New Jersey
last winter.
Instructions have been issued to
General Millot TO advance and occupy
whatever territory may be necessary to se-
cure the French holdiags in Tonquin.'
The hotels at Warsaw, Russia, are
compelled to furnish the police lists of all
strangers arriving. The action is taken on
account OF Nihilist plots.
PORTLAND, Ore, will secure Eastern
mails twenty-five hours earlier by the new
fast mail service than formerly.
IT is officially declared that Ireland is
free from foot and mouth disease.
On the 18th Convention of Mime
sofa farmers, with 159 delegates present,
opened at st. Paul and was addressed by
Governor Hubbard. The object OF the Com
vention was stated to be to decide upon the
best means of bringing the railroads and
millers' associations to grant relief to
farmers in the matter of grading, weights
and railroad transportation.
Or the 10Th Newfoundland expert
enced violent earthquake shocks.
AUSTRIAN troops have been sent to
preserve order in Titschen, Bohemia, where
q great factory strike is causing serious
trouble.
On the 19th, at ameeting of the River
and Harbor Committee, several Congress-
men and George l.. Wright, Secretary of
the recent River Convention, argued in fa-
vor Of increased appropriations for the
Mississippi.
The intention of England to address
America in regard to the making of dy-
Mantle is said to have aroused the hopes
of Russian advocates of international in
reference with the manufacture of explo-
sives. s9s
The Federal Council Of Switzerland
has decided to grant the extradition OF an-
archists whenever asked for. Otherwise
the anarchists, would be expelled from the
country,
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A RIVER MYSTERY.


The Evidence OF a Foul Crime Cast Up nv
the Waters of that Fonlest OF Foul
Streams, the Chicago Rtvsr-The BODY Of
Well-dFessed Stranger with Arms FlrrnIy
Isound-Who Was He?
CHICAGO, ILL, March 20.
The North side police and detectives are
all agog over mystery which they claim
conceals a cold-blooded murder. Shortly
before dusk, Tuesday evening, Anton
Wagner and Anton Kellat, OF No. 25
Fox place, discovered the body Of q
man floating in the North branch of the
river, at the foot of Black Hawk street,
and reported the matter TO the police of
the RawsOn Street Station. OfIicer Grimm
was sent out TO investigate, and the body
was pointed out TO him by Wagner and
Kellat, and he summoned the patrol
wagon TO convey it to the morgue at the
county hospital. The body was with diff
hculty taken from the water, and when It
was fully exposed TO view on the dock,
the officers were astonished to find that
both arms were tied securely behind the
back OF the deceased, and the
end of the rope fastened about
his right leg. The left cheek
above the mouth and left temple were
badly discolored, which clve rise to the
impression that the deceased had been
struck a hard blow with some blunt In
strument. There were no other visible
marks aside from the suspicious presence
of the ropeJ which would Indicate that
murder had been committed. The body
was conveyed to the morgue at the
County Hospital @where It is now await
Ing the action of Coroner's Jury. Late
at night Lieutenant Arch, of the Chicago
Avenue Station, accompanied by De-
tectiye Hass, visited the morgue
and made a careful examination Of the
body. They were greatly perpiexed after
the examination, but believe that the de-
ceased was murdered and that the blows
on the left side Of the face and head were
produced by his murderers. One mark
which viii probably lead to his identifca-
tion was apeculiaf wound over his right
eye, The latter organ was probably gone
altogether, as the eyelid was sewed
firmly 10 his cheek. The deceased was
dressed in suit made of black
diagonal of fine texture, and
a fine gray oyercoat. His shirt
was flannel of dark brown color. The
deceased was about Eve feet eight inches
In height, was rather stout, and had curly
hair of dark brown color. His face was
covered by short beard OF nes@ly the
same color. From the appearance OF the
body it is believed that it has laid In the
water some months, and decomposition
was only prevented by the low tempera-
tnre of the water. The detectives intend
to make an immediate einyestigationof OF the
case, as they believe the man was MUIR
dcred for some purpose or another. The
Coroner's Jury, which was summoned
Yesterday, viii probably throw somelighi
W the natter,
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Lemoine & Co., tobacco warehouse.
men, Louisville, KY, have failed for $780,
| 900.
The Governor of Mi si:sippi has COM
muted the death sentence of John Nelson
to imprisonment for life.
In an afray az Greenyille, Tex, re-
Gently, two men named respectively Parker
and Baker killed each other
There are indications OF extensive
frauds in connection with the Louisville
tobacco failures.
A surplus Of $4,000 from the Texas
Penitentiaries was recently banded over to
the State Treasurer.
The steamship J. G. Harris, Of the
Morgan Line, run aground a few days ago
at Brazos Harbor, Tex. She had eight feet
Of water in the hold and half her cargo was
damaged.
Mr.. Benjamin Gratz, aged ninety
two, the last survivor Of large family
prominent in Philadelphia and brother Of
Miss Rebecca Gratz, the heroine Of Ivan
hoe, died in Lexington, KY, few nights
ago.
John Duffield was assaulted by thugs
in the street in Galveston, Tex, recently
and defended himself, stabbing John Kel-
", one ofhis assailants, to death.
Atlanta's flour trade is $5,0J0,0O0
year.
The presidents Of cotton factories in
the neighborhood of Augusta, Ca, invite
the cotton mill owners of the South and
West to meet in Augusta April Q to consid-
er plan to decrease the production of cot
ton goods.
a cutting scrape occurred on tho
steamer Headlight near vicksburg, Miss,
a few days ago. George Martin cut Ferge
McFall in the left side and back. Both
the boat and Martin was turned over to the
authorities on the arrival of the boat at
Yicksburg.
A few days ago Antonio Valdez went
to the house OF Tregono Palacios at Browns
vile, Tex, and Shot him through the body,
infiicting fatal wound.
George Ball, the well-known Calves
ton banker who recently gave 10000 TO
build public high school in Galveston,
died in that city few days ago from the
effect of paralytic stroke.
The next session of the Southern I'm.
migration Association is to be held in New
Orleans.
On street corner in Nashville,
Tenn, few days ago, from disagreement
about some business matters, William
Spence killed Edward S. Wheat with re-
volyer The victim was a son-in.lasv of his
murderer, and succeeded him as United
States Marshal for thetMidale District OF
Tennessee,
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ON the IaLh Az hin makinr h man.

On the l9th the bill making it man
datory upon cities having 2fssOO population
and upward to adopt civil service rules
passed the New York Assembly.
On the 18th, the Portland (Me)
Board Of Trade resolved that the public
good requires that the coinage of silver dol
lars be Immediately suspended by act OF
Congress.
On the 10Th the brig Screamer, sus.
pected of assisting Cuban rebels, arrivedin
Boston in tow of the revenue cutter Dexter.
In collision between the two the Dexter
lost her fgure.he and bowsprit and the
brig her starboard cathead.
A STILL further advance of the Brit
ish into the Soudan is imminent. General
Graham is in favor Of continuing the cam
paign. He thinks the rebellion not vet
crushed. The situation Of General Gordon
is considered critical.
On the 18th the Communists eele-
brated the beginning of the Commune OF
1871 in Paris by banquets in several Of the
suburbs. The speeches at these were Of
violent revolutionary character.
ORDERS have been issued by the Brit
ish Government for the detention Of the
Chinese ram Nankin, which is now in the
Tyne loading with Armstrong guns, pend
ing inquiry whether her action is construa.
BILE as breach of neutrality.
The Director of the Irish Criminal
Investigation Department., has appointed
fifty detectives in London, who will be un-
der special pay and have special duties.
Twelve OF them are English, eight Irish and
eight American, and the rest Russian,
French, German, Austrian, Italian, Span
ish and Canadian. The Irish Constables
are appointed to act as detectives in En-
glish seuports.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY has abolished
the professorship Of modern Greek.
On the Goth the Terre Haute Qnd.)
Board of Trade was formally opened
MOONEY, the Joliet Gil. convict who
killed his cell mate, is on trial for murder
at Waukegan.
SIXTY candidates have been selected
by Parnell for the elections in anticipation
Of a dissolution Of the British Parliament.
AT st. Petersburg, Russia, four artil-
lery officers have been arrested chargt d
with participation in Nihilist plots.
THE Chamber of Commerce of Pitts
burgh, Pa, asks Congress to go slow in tho
matter of altering the patent laws.
An expert writing in the Breeders
Gazette says the cattle plague at Neosho
Falls, Kas., is not foot and mouth disease,
but is the same as that prevailing in lii
nois and Iowa.
SIX feet more of snow has recently
fallen in the mountains OF Utah, and more
slides are anticipated.
On the 20th George D. Roberts, of the
Postal Telegraph Company, made argu-
ment before the House Postal Committee
in favor Of the proposition Of that company
to contract with the Government for tele-
graphic service
THE House bill to return to China
the balance of-the indemnity fund will be
recommended for passage.
The Cuban refugees detained at Bos-
ton viii be allowed to follow their own in
clinati N as 10 an abiding place.
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a categoricaI inquiry.

SPRINGFIELD. ILL, March &C.
A Adispatch was received yesterday from
the Chief Veterinarian OF the Agricultural
Department at Washington, as follows;
KINsLEY, KAs., March 10, 1884.
To DIR. JoHN II. RAUoH, Secretary ILL.
nois State Board Of Health-Foot and
mouth disease at Neosho Falls not
spreading: no contagious disease among
cattle in counties further west.
DE. SALMON.
This is the first authoritative intima-
tion that true foot and mouth disease ex-
lists anywhere in this country west Of
Maine, where it was introduced direct
from England. There is certainly none
in Illinois, and in the hope that DR..
Salmon's dispatch may have been injudi-
ciously worded, Governor Hamilton has
caused the following categorical ques-
lions 10 be teiegrapbed him: nIiaye you
found veritable foot and mouth disease
anywbereg If 50, 10 what extents 10
what lpcalitiesl'
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-03-27
A SAD TRAGEDY.

Young Married Woman Ends n Life OF
Marital Infeiicity By Hanging Herself in
In an Oak Tree.
SrRINGETELD, Mo-. March n. =
The body Of woman apparently about
twenty-threc years old, was found hang
ing to the limb of small oak tree In a
thickct about one mile southwest Of the
city last evening. She had taken long
strip of new goods and evidently climbed
up the tree about seven feet, and, tying
the strip around her neck and fastening
II securely to the limb, swung herself
down by the body of the tree and died of
slow strangulation. The young woman
was seen near the spot where she COM
mitted suicide few minutes after twelve
O'Clock, and hence committed the rash
act only short time before the body was
discovered. Some note paper and a few
envelopes We're found on the body, and
q few lines written with pencil, say
ing;
"Dear Jasper-For the last time this
day pray BLOOM.
Coroner Van Iiaase summoned Jury
and began an inquest last night which
will be concluded to-day. The body OF
bhe uIlOTluHuJc WoHiuH was DfOugnb 10
an undertakcr's establishment in this
city where il was identified as that of
Sarah Stewart, wife of Jasper Stewart, OF
Pittsburgh, Kas., who became estranged
from her husband and came here three
weeks ago. Her maiden name is said to
have been Smith, and her parents still
reside in Pittsburgh. Had the unfortun-
nte creature lived month or two longer
she would have become mother.
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PERSONAL ANp poLITIcAr.

A SON Of the late Vice President
breckenridge has been elected to the Legis-
lature from Mariposa County, Cal
COLONEL STANLEY is TO succeed Cen
eral Mackenzie on the list o Brigadiers.
NOTHING has been heard from Gen
eral Gordon since March II.
THE Secretary of the Navy opposes a
re-opening of the Jeannette investigation.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL presided on
the 18th at the unveiling of a statue in Lon
don, Eng.
OsMAN DIGNA, the Soudanese chief
tain, is still belligerent and confident that
he can whip the British next time.
HE Chinese Yiceroy, Ii Hung
Chang, wants the British and American
ministers to intervene to secure peace with
France.
PRIME MINISTER FERRY says it is a
waste Of time to talk about general Euro.
pean disarmament.
IHE proclamation issued by Admiral
hewett offering reward for Osman Dig.
mas head, was issued because Osman muir
uered messengers in defiance Of the rules
q war. The War Department has ordered
it withdrawn,
,IHE Secretaries OF War and the Navy
nave written letter to the President dis
eouraging the idea of Offering reward to
enlist private enterprise in the search for
the Greedy party
IHE death Of Lieutenant Colonel God
irey Weitzel, United States engineer corps,
is announced.
n
w The 18th in the Carpenter trial at
petersburg, ILL.,, the defense attacked the
suaracter OF the murdered girl. The evi-
uenee was concluded and the arguments
commenced.
oN the 18th McFadden, the man i'm
plicated with Tiller in the Sc Louis (Mo.l
cypress robbery, attempted suicide by
J5",aiiowlng 5,o broken glass. Hewill probably
PERSONAL and official assurance is
gwen by Governor Hoadley that the charges
y. VI misconduct on the part of the Ohio Re-
elCommission IRE unfounded.
AN invitation has been extended by
1eneral John B. Gordon to ex.C Coufederates
y New York to a conference with a view
u establishing home for disabled Confed-
crate soldiers
LIE once widely known and popular
SINGER Nine. Anna Bishop, died suddenly
~ I'VE night Of the 18th in New York, of apo
Aeh Mr.. CHUBBUeK, a revivalist
y e'ulng a series of meetings at Dubuque,
~ nas attracted some attention by assert
~ enat he wopldrather see arumshop than
" = guiversalist Church in that city.
LIE Commander Of the Russian
e., oauaaron in American waters during the
sssll war, Admiral Sess 3ffslSy. Is dead.
:, - me 18th Bishop II. II. Kayanaugh.
H.. + anchorage, KY, died at Columbus,
basn sS. de wss eighty-three years Of age,
AMI ~ zen a clergyman for over sixty years,
M M. vas one Of the Oldest Bishops Of the
ss'10slss Episcopal Church South.
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NUMBER 6.
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
Fatal Plunge of Passenger Train Into n
Land SIide-The Boiler OF the Engtne Frx.
piodcs with Destructive Eject.

Fntul Plunge of IA Passenger Train Into n
Land Sl,ie--The Boiler OF the EngIns Kcx-
piodcs with Destructive Effect.
ALLIANCE. o., March 20.
The Limited Express on the Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne 4 Chicago Road ran into
landslide sixteen miles east OF this point
at five O'Clock this morning, throwing the
train from the track and down an embank-
ment. The engine exploded, blowing the
engineer and fireman 400 feet The coll
ored porter was killed. Six passengers
reported killed The wires are down A
number are reported wounded; none seri-
ously. Engineer James Richards and
Fireman Charles Rnoads were killed.
LATER.
Following is list Of the wounded.
j. II, Mcknight, Of Fort Shaw, Mont.
scalp wound.
y. b. Yicks, New York; hand cut.
William Fuller, Chicago; nose and face
cut.
T. J. Douglass, Fort Yates, Dakota;
scalp wound,
Richard Arter, porter; scalp wound.
X. Brunswick; eye and hand cut.
C N. Beisel; left leg and nose broken.
Henry Candisi back injured and scalp
wound.
p. 9. Newcomb, AtchIson, Kas.; back
Injured.
The others, whose names could not be
learned, We're more or less severely
wounded, including the brakeman and
conductor, The track was torn up for 200
feet.
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CHAS. LANGHEIAIER, who became ia
nous through Dickens reference to him in
his american Notes." died on the 10Th in
the Penitentiary at Philadelphia, and was
buried in the potter's field, his relatives re-
fusing to receive him He was seventy-six
years old, of which thirty-two had been
spent in the Penitentiary.
TIE Pope is reported to be again con-
templating leaving Rome
The Virginia Democratic State Con-
vention will be held at Richmond. May IL.
AS soon as be can organize his artil-
lery Ell Mahdi will march on Berber.
The Kansas Legis ature has passed
bill to appoint State Veterinary Sur
geon.
On the Goth the Rhode Island Repub-
Alcan State Convention renominated the
present State officers.
On the goth at Plymouth, Mass, H.
l.. jackson was fined ten dollars for mutt.
lating the tomb OF Daniel Webster.
CHAs. b. WRIGHT of Philadelphia,
Pa, has been elected director of the
Northern Pacific Railroad in place of Hem
ry Willard.
AT a recent session Of the Irish Land
Commission twenty-five per cent. was
stricken from the Iaatals Of the Marquis Of
Lausdowne's Limerick estates.
The King Of Belgium has appointed
Lieutenant-Colonel 4. Dewinston of the
English army Governor Of the interna-
tional mission on the Congo.
IT is reported that Osman Digna is
retiring to the interior General Gordon
says he will be unable to defend Khartoum,
and there is talk of sending troops to his
rescue.
THE Legislature of Ohio has refused
to take up the graded liquor tax bill, and
the Scott law will probably not be changed.
GRIMES AND CAUsUALTIEs.
FIRE destroyed the extensive ma
chine and brass works of Hoffman & Bill
lings at Milwaukee, Wis. on the 10th.
On the 10th two prisoners escaped
from jail at Sandwich, Ont, by killing the
jailer and fatally wounding the turnkey.
In Conundrum Gulch, Colorado, five
men were killed by a snow-slide a few days
ago. They were: J. H. Steel, S. Il. Steel,
George Lewis, j. f. Tate and Millard
THORN.
OK the 18th four million feet of lum-
Der burned at Knife Falls, Mimi.
An inmate of the Soldiers Home at
Dayton. o., named Peter Myers, was on tue
18Th found lying on the porch of a saloon,
SO brutally beaten that he died from the Of
feet of his wounds.
on the night Of the 18th Boston bur
glar tripped and cubbed policeman who
had arrested him, but was fatally shot in
the struggle.
Ar Mer'am and Morgan's works in
Cleveland, o., on the 10Th, an oil tank ex.
ploded and three workmen were burned to
death.
On the night Of the 18th the breaking
Of a levee at Roberts Island near Stock
ton, Cal, destroyed 27,000 acres Of wheat,
valued at $5OO,oOl.
Ok the goth passenger train ran in
to a landslide near Salem, o. The engi-
neer and fireman were killed and many
passengers wounded.
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The Evidence OF a Foul Crime Cast Up hy
the Waters of that Fonlest OF Fous
Streams, the Chicago River-Tho BODY OF
well-dressed Stranger with Arms Firmly
Hound-Who Was He?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1884-11-01
Eastern Tie,cs of the COaJ Trade.

New Tork.--In bituminous GOALS
it is almost needless to say prices
have been in favor of purchasers for
the usual tonnage has been upon the
market, added to which anthracite
steam fuels have been selling so low
as to check demand for bltuminous
steam fuel on the score of cheapness.
Mining Record.
In the bituminous coal trade there
is nothing of moment to record; the
tonnage is large, and the prices are
low. First-class steam coal, that is
carried two hundred miles by rail
and more than as much again by
water, sells here for $500 per ton,
and all other grades have to meet
this condition of affairs. The out
side markets are in the same depress-
ed condition, due to over-production.
Coal Trade journal.
The bitumlnous coal business con-
tinues depressed, and low figures are
accepted for occasional transient or
ders.
Philadelphia.-The is q fair
movement at very low prices. There
is more or less talk ON the street in
regard to the Vanderbilt road
and its contracts, and the reported
canceling of contracts, but this fact
is doubted here. The coal that has
been developed on his territory Il.
first reach coal and may not be quite
up to the market. 1t WAS reported
that Nanderbilt's contract was trans.
ferred to the Cumberland region, but
none Of our people know any thing Of
any such transaction. Nanderbits
road will, i'll a month, reach some of
the best mines in the Ciearfield re-
gion; but the operators here differ in
opinion us to what will be the out
come of this Vanderbilt develop
ment. They are very anxious to see
some of the chronic evils of the coal
trade removed, but have been dis
appointed 50 often that they will
not take heart OF indulge in any hopes
Of better things until it is safe to do
so.
B0don.-The bituminous branch
of the coal market is entirely devoid
Of interest. The current quotations
for cargo lots range from 5000
$3.65 delivered. The advance in pro-
vincial freights from $1.300Pl so
has caused Il corresponding advance
in the delivered prices of culm coal,
Cargo lots have advanced from So. Is
G$3.50. The small trade for this
coal is not likely to be affected by
this advance. The demand for the
rest Of the year will be light under
any circumstances Engineering and
Mining Journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1884-11-01
CORRESPOND
4 TOKEN OF RESPECT.

FRosTBuRG, Nh, Oct. p, 1884.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
1t is we'll known by number of peo-
pie in and about Frostburg and Mount
Savage that Mr.. Philip Thomas has
been obliged of late to resign his Office
as boss of the Fire Clay mines of the
Union mining company of Allegany
county, Nd. This has been OCCASION
ed by ill health.
Passing by his house recently call
ed to see him and am glad to relate
that he seems to be improving little,
and trust we shall soon be able to en-
joy his presence in Frostburg again.
l was very much pleased to see the
token of respect presented to him by
the said company in appreciation of
his services rendered so satisfactorily
during period of 26 years whilst I'M
der their employment, which consisted