The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-02-23

TaK Virginia Legislature has, hy strict |
party vote, pa=nci = Congressional Appor.
tloument bill which gives eight districts 20 |
the Democrats and two 10 the Coalition.
lists.
TuE soldiers barracks At Fort sully,
Dak., were destroyed by dre on the 18th,
and the troops were compelled 20 camp out
while the thermometer registered twenty.
Ave degrees below zero.
In the case OF Frederick NJ. kcr, tho
Chicago dcfaultar, Judge Dlckcy, OF tho
Illinois Supreme Court, on tho i3th grant.
cd q supcrscdcaS, and hearing win be
had IN March.
A HEAVY snow.storm prevailed through.
out Minnesota during the three days ended
on the i3th, and tho mercury range from
twenty TO thirty degrees below zero.
Travel by rail and otherwise was almost
entirely suspended.
AN order for ton pcr cent. reduction In
the.wages OF machine molderi was with.
drawn on tho 18th by the Pittsburgh mill.
owners, thus avcrting rlke.
AT Adrian, Minn., the body Of Martin
Riley, farmer, was found murdered In
straw.stnck on the 18th. His son, aged
fifteen years, who had disappeared, was
supposed TO have committed the crime.
The Thermometer registered forty.1vo
degrees below zero at Hallcck, New, on tho
18th, the coolest ever known In that sec
tion.
0s the night Of the 18th an aged couple,
Mr.. and Mrs. James l.. Wilson, OF Win.
netka, ILL.,, were murdered by some one un.
known. MIR. Wilson was nearly eighty
years Of age. Mrs. Wilson had for years
been confined TO her bed with paralysis.
The venerable couple were believed TO have
considerable money In the house. Mr.. viii
son was a highly respected citizen, native
Of New Hampshire, and the last Of a family
OF ten brothers.
JASPER SHEARIs, OF Dauvillo, KY, was
shot and robbed recently by his brother
in.law, George w. Rawley. BY feuds In
tho family for the past thirty years ton
persons have lost their lives.
UNDER different aliases two mon secured
sixty.seven complete suits Of clothes and
seventeen pairs OF shoes from the Relief
Committee at Wheeling, w. Va. They
were arrested on the 18th for fraud.
The failure Is reported OF l. d. Mowry
& Son, cotton factors at Charleston, y. c.,
with liabilities Of $4,000
On the i4th ten Mormon proselytes, Ave
OF whom'were girls, from Cleveland coun.
ty, N. O., passed through Atlanta, Ca, en-
route for Utah.
THE marriage Of Captain Paul Boyton,
tho noted swimmer. 10 Miss Maggie Con-
ley, took place In Chicago on tho 18th.
A srAoE.coAcB. filed With passengers,
was on tho 18th reportcl lost In tho
mountains Of Colorado. The snow was ten
feet deep on the level.
BURGLARS tho other night stole one OF
the most comprehensive coin collections In
the United States from the Office Of Dr. II.
G. Brainard, Of Cleveland, o.
INVESTIGATION into the causes OF tho
election riot AZ Dsnville, Va, was com.
menced on the 18th at Washington, the
first witness being colored policeman
who was a spectator Of the bloody work.
GEORGE Emery, the engineer at tho
Hoosirr Fiouring.sIills in indianapolis,
was caught by the shaft Of the ny.whsel a
few mornings ago and whipped 70 fright
full death.
The Trinity River ovcrhowed on the iith
and submerged section OF Dallas, Tex,
and rise at Elm Fork flooded the country
for miles between Denton and Dallas. Five
miles OF trcsiling on the Missouri Pacific
/ Road had been wished away,