The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


killed her TWO children with kl1e Z
ana then destroyed herself.
In front OF the new city hall at san +
Francisco. Daniel Kennedy was killed !
by his WIFE with d revolver.
The miners relief committee at Nell |
sol vile. OHIO. has received draft Ior /
$3.50 from cowboys III Texas.
Cash wheat in the Chicago market /
Monday closed at y cents per DuSheI, /
the lowest price on this crop.
The eunboat Coridad recently cap
tured off the Cuban coast boat con-
tanning five well-known bandits.
Jacob Cassel. ST.. who has resided in
the vicinity of NlncenneS. indiana,
since 1913. passed away Monday.
Chauncey L. Higbee, presiding Judge
of the appellate court nj Springfield,
illinois. died of apoplexy Sunday.
The plague i'll Wise county, Virginia,
which swept of nearly three hundred
persons, is decreasing In intensity.
Henry ". Fyffe, one of the pioneers
of Iowa City. Tor many years a hotel
keeper. died on Sunday, aged IS years.
The death-rate in Chicago Tor NO
yember was 16.S TO the 1,OuU-the low
est of any of the large cities OF the
world.
W. H. Vanderbilt has filed in the
J county clerks office at New ork
| Judgment against General Grant Tor
Sl55, coo.
The steamers Alliance and Pochard
| foundered Monday off the coast OF
! England, causing the loss OF sixty OF
more lives
Thomas Smith. a lumberman Of Che
| hoyCan. Michigan. whose wealth IS es-
| timated at S5,C00O00, died Tuesday, OF
| consumption.
| President DiaZ has been authorized
! by the Mexican congress 10 reform the
sfamp laws and cut down the number
of taX-eaters.
The steel cruiser Boston was on
Thursday launched at Chester, Penn
| sylvania, in presence OF large huaI-
Der of naval officers.
John Z. Butler, an attorney IN bos-
ton, who has borne an excellent repu-
tation, was arrested Tor Forging
5000 mortgage deed.
The wholesale hquor-deaiers Of Chi
cage have decided TO abolish the Gus
tom of making Christmas presents 10
their retailing patrons.
1t is rumored that the Phillips gold
mine. near Ishpeming, Michigan, has
= been sold to Chicago and II. Faul
| syndicate tor $4,000.
John r. Mclean. of Cincinnati, has
. ! given MS NOuIiE DIlUC Il iAtNhAtetO NoAt
tanning forty-seven diamonds, the val
ue being stated at SS0,oJO.
The aldermen OF New York have
} passed over the mayors veto resolu-
tiop permitting the construction OF a
, surface railroad in Broadway.
/ Joe Williams, the negro who muir
dered Minnie Brooks and Giles Hunt
in Chicago, was found guilty and sem
; fenced to imprisonment for life.
Wade Hampton was on Tuesday re-
elected senator from South Carolina
receiving every vote in the Legislature
except those of five cOlored men.
Allen B. Wilson, of Waterbury, Con-
D necticut. one of the earliest inventors
= of sewing machines, has been taken
to the insane retreat at Hartford.
In diseharging employees from its
: car-shops at Mount Glare, the Baltl-
more and Ohio road placed the names
of four veterans on the pension list.
. Exports from the port of New York
. during the week ended TUESDAY, eX-
elusive of specie. were S9,456, 000-an
e increase of 81 1S3, GOO over the week be-
t fore. -:vs
At mining village near Shenan-
a doah, Pennsylvania, during Monday
night, Thomas Barlow and five mem
bers of his family were burned to
death.
Morosini's wayward daughter has
sued a national bank in New \ Ork to
recover 81. 100 deposited to her credit
= by her father, on which he stopped
D payment.
Josiah 5. Colgate, a New York
f broker well known throughout the
q country, received fatal injuries by fall
ing down a fight of stairs at his office
in Broadway.
Orlando J. Beam. the banker and
d merchant who failed last week at Avon,
Illinois, is charged with forging notes
d for considerable amount, and has fled
t. the country.
The late II. ". Sanford. of Du-
n buque, scattered $3.50 600 among his
5 friends and relatives. his private sec
rotary being given $4,000 i'll govern
| ment bonds.
For the purpose of establishing a
| Catholic university, the sum of $780,
J. 900 was offered to the plenary council
u by Miss Mary Caldwell, of New York,
4; and was accepted
5 4 third elopement from the infected
i spot on Long Island occurred Mon
" day, when the wife of wealthy farm
y ar, with three young children, ran
away with negro.
/ A jury in New York gave David
u Stewart judgment for ) l03, 600 against
o q. =. huntington Tor SWlnQle IN
CONNECTION with the transfer of Cen
j., trail Pacific stock.
Y The wife of Rev. ". A. Downs.
+ / leaving two young children, eloped
from Overhead, Long Island, with
DEACON g. N. Terry. They have prob
{ ably gone to Florida.
! Rueben r. Springer, Of Cincinnati.
Il known throughout the country for his
gifts to public institutions. died in his
5 chair Wednesday, from paralysis OF the
J. heart, in his S5th year.
y T. L. o. Hubbard, the defaulting
banK cashier VI 4,Iv...--~---, -
has been lodged in Jail at Chicago. be-
cause of inability To secure bondsmen
under the indictment.
At Rockford. Illinois, Mrs. George
Cunningham drew from her side with
a pair OF scissors, a needle which she
: swallowed two years ago. from which