Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-03-15
West and South.

| pastor or the Catholic Church, for permit
ting the running of a wheel of fortune at
church fair. The matter caused n great
deal of bad blood, each side having it
| quota of adherents. 1t eliminated on the
2d in a number of friends of the priest call
| ing at the store of McDevitt and forcing him
to proceed with them to point about a
| mile from the town, bareheaded and with
| out coat, notwith standing the severity
of the weather and the fact that n blind
| ing snow-stOrm was prevailing. Arriving
| there, he surrounded by the mob,
| who, with drawn revolvers, abused him,
firing many shots at him, though only
| with the motive of further in
| creasing his terror. He was afterward
| started the road leading from the
town, with the assurance that should he
| again show his face in the village he would
forfeit his lie. He returned to the village
on the 9Th, with a number of friends, and
was escorted from the depot by about two
| thousand people. Several arrests of those
| engaged i'll the affair, including Father
| O'Boylan, were made, and a desperate
| state of affairs existed in the community
on the 9th.
| THE Democrats of Illinois will hold their
State Convention at Peoria July =
THE Republicans of Iowa will meet in
| State Convention at Des Moines April so,
| TO elect delegates to the National Conven-
| tion.
| THE Prohibitionsts of Ohio met in State
Convention at Columbus on the 6sh to
| lect delegates to the National Convention
to be held at Pittsburgh May u. The dele
| gates elected were instructed to work for
| the nomination of G.. I. Stewart, of Ohio,
for President. Resolutions were adopted
| declaring that all good men and women
| We're tired of repeated compromises with
| the liquor traffic; that Prohibitionists have
suffered from unfair counts of ballots, and
urging tho friends of the cause to remedy
this state Of things, and demanding the
withdrawal of all restraints from the
suffrage, without regard to color or sex.
The Wisconsin Republican State Con-
vention will b, held at Madison on the 30th
of April, to elect delegates to the National
Convention, nominate an Electoral ticket
| and select State Committee. The regu-
lar State Convention will be held in Sep
| tember.
| AT the recent session in New Orleans of
| the Louisiana Republican State Conven-
tion John A. Stevenson was nominated
| for Governor and William Burwell for
| Lieutenant Governor. The platform adopt
ed favors judcious protection, encourage
ment of American ship-building, vigor-
Gus foreign policy, the extension of public
e6tuCatlpp- n'rf' endorses tfeSluenh Az
| A SUDDEN rise on the 9th in the Sandy
| River swept away two miles of lumber
fleets anchored above Catlrttsburg, KY.
| Rats of timber We're also broken loose,
and the total loss would be great.
| On the 9Th the 1evee one mile above
Friar,s Point, Miss, broke, inundating
that place and doing considerable damage.
| THE disc Dvery uas made in Chicago On
hat hiatt tl,., fa fta xryp1a tnrtc
office of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Road had been robbed of $4,000. There
| was no ciew to the thief.
| ALECK DIETRESCHEN shot and
| killed by William Scollard at San Leandro,
Cal, a few nights ago, and when Scollard's
father heard of the tragedy he fell dead.
THE Michigan Republicans will hold their
State Convention at Grand Rapids April
"a to elect delegates to the National Con-
vention.
THE following executions took place on
the eth: Noah Jackson (colored) at Lake
Providence, La, for the murder of his
wife; Harrison Williams, at Corsicana,
Tex, for killing his si-ter-in-law; and
David McClain, near Traders Hill, Ga,
for the murder of William Saxton.
THE failure is announced of the Consoli-
dated Paper Company of Chicago, with
liabilities of $97 ,0OJ.
THE Mississippi River was over forty
miles wide on the 7th at Blackf1sh, Ark.
Edward Lee was drowned there in the
food.
On the 9Th William Riley. aged sixteen,
and his sister Mary, aged thirteen, were
indicted for the murder of their father at
Adrian, Mimi.
AT Hot Springs, Ark, all the gambling
establishments were closed on the 9TH, and
the sporting fraternity had evacuated the
town.
THE Captain of propeller which reached
Milwaukee on the 9Th reported Lake Mich
igan completely frozen over, with occa-
sional icebergs twenty-five feet high.
THE notorious desperate, Frank Rande,
who recently made fiendish attack on his
keepers, and nearly killed one of them, in
the Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary, hanged HIM
self in his cell on the eth, and was dead
when discovered. He had torn his under
shirt into strips to form a rope with which
to strangle himself.
THE other night w. H. G. Gestern, of
Omaha, Neb., a civil engineer, blew out
the gas in a room at the Palmer House,
Chicago, and was suffocated.
A FIRE few days ago destroyed the
principal business block in Memphis, SCOT
land County, Mo-, and falling walls killed
three persons and wounded seven others.
| OVER four thousand miners in the Hook
ing and Sunday Greek (Ohio) Valleys
were idle on the 9Th because of the haul
ers strike against a reduction.
| On the morning of the 9Th a cloud burs
| over Florence, A. T., the water running
four feet deep in the street, occasioning
$4,000 damage.
| In the levee, fifteen miles above New
Orleans, serious break occurred on the
Sth, flooding plantations and submerging
the Texas Pacific and Morgan Railways.
The Tennessee River ut Chattanooga had
overfiowed and railroad traffic in that vi.
cinity was interrupted.
A sNow-sLIDE a few days ago at Alta,
Utah, killed eleven persons and swept
away the works of the new Emma mine
The snow was piled forty feet high.
| IN Pyle Canyon, Union County. Ore,
five men employed in the construction OF a
railroad were caught under a mass OF earth
| and rock on the Sth and instantly killed.
AT S.. Louis and Alton the leading glass
works resumed operations on the Stb, and
others would soon follow, after an idleness
extending over eight months.
| HEAVY storm i'll California Oh the 9th
converted the Santa Clara Valley into n
vast lake for a distance of eighteen miles.
The damage to property was estimated at
$JO0,op0.
MOST violent form of the foot-anh-
mouth disease has broken out among the
cattle in Woodson County. Kan. or one
| herd of one hundred and twenty head nine
| r..,o I,.t a bnoF ar a norton of the leg.