The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK

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Near Jersey City, a real-estate aeent
named bartholomew Haas shot hi.
e wife and killed himself.
The fire at Palatka. Fla. DESTROYED
property worth S654. $50. The ins,Ir.
anee IS placed at S24l $50.
Edward b. EseOtt, a leading druo.
glst OF Grand Rapids. Mich. died on
the street from heart disease.
The Spaulding iron and nail works
IN jefferson county, Ohio, closed down
Monday tor an indefinite period.
DR.; James a. Reed, superintendent
OF the insane asylum at Pittsburg,
oled suddenly from kidney disease.
Mrs. SpangleT, of Winamac. Ind.
eoulihltted suicide because of the de-
leat OF her husband for circuit judge.
w a car OF the hsh commission has left
applicants in Ohio. Indiana. and Mich
dgan.
u. W. HaZeltine, who killed Mamie
Ihorpe IN Baltimore, has been sent
enced TO the penitentiary for eight
Six women began a 16s-hour go-as-
yoq-please pedestrian contest Monday
the building. -
4. y. AGREE, telegrapher and ex-
press agent at Parmley, Ark. killed
himself Friday night. He was short
IN his accounts.
Sullivan and Latin, the dude pugi-
Lst, fought four rounds in New York
Monday night, the battle being award
/ ed TO the former.
The widow of jeremiah O'Connor,
SWltchman killed Cd the Lake Shore
ROAD III chicago, has been awarded
! damages OF $500.
At Montreal Monday the Laval Uni
| Vefslty officials expelled all the law
students but six for refusing to comply
with the regulations.
Joseph Leeds will probably be pro-
NOTED to the general freight agency of
the Santa Re road, and Joseph Phillip
is to be his assistant.
In planing-mill at Michigan CITY.
Indiana, supply pipe became dis
connected, fatally scalding B. F.
Lower and John Snyder.
by a collision of West Shore trains
at Rochester, a conductor and brake
man were badly bruised and a passen-
ger had five ribs broken.
Asbury jarrett. one of the ''Old De-
tenders, and father of the theatrical
manager, Henry G. Jarrett, died Mon
udy dL DditlHlote. aged 81.
Three bridges on the Hooking Val
ley road, near Straitsville, Ohio, were
destroyed by incendiaries, after the
telegraph wires had been cut.
The earnings of the Union Pacific
road Tor the past nine months were
SlS.37O. 900, a decrease of s9.449. 235
from the same period last year.
Vast damage was done Wednesday
night by high tide i'll the lower st.
Lawrence river. The waves off Father
Point rose to height of so feet.
The Union Pacific office at Boston,
according to Charles Francis Adams,
has for three months received $1,000 |
900 net per month from Omaha.
The first exhibit of the executors of |
Charl G.. Stratton Tom Thumb, af- |
ter all debts and expenses had been
paid, shows balance of SO, 49,.
Mrs. Mile A. Rood, of Lemont, ILL.,.
has sued the village authorities for |
5000 damages for the death of her |
husband in ditch left open at night. |
The will of Mrs. l.. J. Knowles, of |
W orcester, Mass, gives $4,000 for art |
education and hospital in that city, |
and $1,000 10 RipOn college, in Wis |
Consin.
DR.. d. Z. Salmon, in report to the |
commissioner of agriculture on the |
cattle disease in Kansas, expresses the |
belief that it was caused by eating |
ergot.
Wreckers opened a switch on the |
Ohio and Mississippi. near Vincennes, |
Indiana, causing the death of Cad |
Fairbanks, the oldest engineer on the |
line.
After collision Saturday night off |
North Head. Nova Scotia, the British |
schoOners Northern Light and Elsee |
sunk, two of the latter's crew being |
drowned.
Diphtheria has become epidemic in
Montreal and throughout the oil |
regions of Pennsylvania. The health |
department reports considerable alarm |
i'll Chicago.
The directors of the Baltimore and
Ohio road reports its revenues for the /
fiscal year as SO, SOC, eco, with an addi-
ton of One-tenth that amount to the
surplus fund.
Nearly all the business men in
Lynnyille, Iowa, have been ruined by
the failure of Cause & Macy, bankers.
The liabilities of the latter prove to be
about $4,000.
A memberof the vigilance committee
at Palatka, Florida, caught negro in
the act of firing the only large block
remaining in that city. The miscreant
made his escape.
The national monument at Washing
ton has reached a greater height than
any structure in the world. There is
little doubt of it's being ready for dedl-
cation February -.
One cattle company capital OF
S2O0.000 and another with $500 OO
stock have been organized by John V;
Farwell, Charles B. Farwell, and
others, of Chicago.
A daughter of ex-President Tyler,
Protestant by faith, has secured per-
mission from the pope to be married
in the cathedral at Richmond, Va, to
Hon. William NJ. Ellis.
Richard G. Cunning, member of
Marine insurance firm in Buffalo, has
been arrested for illegal voting, on the
ground that until within eight months
he has been a resident of Chicago.
Trial in the case of Mrs. Cotton
against Gov. Stanford. c. Z. Hunting
ton, and Charles Croker was begun
Tuesday at San Francisco. The
amount involved is nearly $3,OOO,OOO
Chiniquy, the ex-priest, leetured at
Montreal, Wednesday evening, in
Russell hall. His sentiments provoked
a riot. in which he was rescued by the
police. The lights were turned out
and the windows broken.
The steamer Grace Grummond,
formerly owned by the government, of
an excursion boat. was burned at
South Haven, Michigan, on Wednes-
day night. She was valued at $4,000.
An assignment has been made by
the National Wire company of Chi
cago. manufacturers of baTbed fencing,
A. b. Stone is president of the inStitu-
ton. The liabilities are not stated, |
but the stock on hand is valued at
$4,000.
The trial of ex-Mayor Chase, Of
Omaha, for receiving brides was COM
meneed Wednesday. Ex-Marshal
Guthrie was brought from the Nebras-
ka penitentiary as the main witness
against the accused, but he refused to
testify.
Two passenger trains were in collis-
ion Monday morning between Berlin /
and Shelbyville, Del, one of the /
engineers being killed and the other
fatally hurt. a passenger had leg /
roken, and both locomotives were
wrecked.
at the annual meeting of stock
holders of the New York elevated rail- /
ways. Cyrus W. Field predicted that
within a year they would use only I
electricity for a motive power, as a /
raised track furnished the best facility /
Tor insulation.
Mr.. Daniel Manning, Chairman Of
the New York State Democratic Com /
mittee. and Miss Margaretha Prayer
will be married at Albany Nov. l9, and /
Immediately start for Europe. On the
day of the wedding the State Board OF /
Ganyassers will convene st Albany.
Clearing House exchanges last week /
-S7I9. 057 ,766--are greater than the re-
turns for the previous week by $751;
Io0.St6: but when compared with ex-
eI,anues for the corresponding period /