Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-02-16
West and SOI1f1,

| three dangerously.
| INDIAN Inhabitants of Ommittan, near
| Oaxeca, Tex, rebcIIed on the 9th against
the whites and burned the business houses
and murdered seven chief merchants. They
| dragged the bodies through the streets,
| plundered stores and spread terror through
| out the place.
y SOLDIER and his sweetheart were re-
Gently ma: red by Rev. w. G.. Lane, of
| Halifax, y. c., without license, and after
| a few days the bridegroom deserted his
wife because the union was illegal. The
clergyman has been ordered to pay a pen
| atty of two hun ired dollars.
| MARTIN HENDRICKS (colorei) while rob
bing the house of Samuel Norman, near
Chilliccthe, o., the other night was Shot
| dead by the proprietor.
A L0CKPoRT IN. W merchant named 7.
c. Walls, ag d six. y-five years, met with
| revcrscs AMI emi rated to Texas to re
| trieve his fortune. He poisoned himself
at Dallas a few days ago, after having
| subSistcu for some time on one meal per
| day.
| MARGARET O'DoNNELL, 4 young woman
| while shooting at rats ut Cumberland,
| Md, few days ago accidentally shot and
| killed Thomas Coughiin.
| On the Texas & St Louis Roa Hon.
! Richard Nelson (colored), proprietor of
the Galveston CTex.) Spectator, was elected
| from Il train on the ItI because he refused
| to ide in the smoking car. He would sue
| for damages.
| crossing the river at Lafayette, o., few
days ago were drowned by their boat being
| crushed by floating logs.
THE Congressional Apportionment bill in
| Ohio, giving the Democrats twelve districts
and the Republicans nine, became Il law
the 9Th.
| THE other day man supposed to be Kill
| Wade, 4 notorious horse-thief, was found
! hanging to a railway whistl ling-post near
| Bassett, Neb.
| BY the upsetting of a boat two brothers
| named Nelson and two other young men
| were drowned in Tus,'arawas River at Ev
| ansburG, o., few days ago.
| AT Minneapolis, Mimi, a band of boys
| recently hanged lad named johnny No
| Ian in barn, and when found and cat
| down life was nearly extinct.
| IT is reported that emigration from
! South Carolina to Texas and Florida has
| been quite general among the negroes
| throu ghout the former S at, for some time.
AT Toledo, o., Robert Bailey, a leading
| coloret man, was arrested on the Sth for
marrying white woman in December
las. He pleaded that the Probate Judge
b
| the facts.
THE water in the Ohio River was rising
| at Cincinnati Oh the Sth and the suffering
| was increasing Provisions We're berom-
| ing scarce at Wheeling, w. Va, where
| fifteen thousand homeless persons Were in
! need. WeIlsIur-,, w. Va, and some Ohio
| towns along the river were also threatened
| with famine.
| On the Sth steamer and a sloop, carry
ing an armed force, sailed from Anlrap Ills,
! Md, to capture mrn engaged in robbInS
| the oyster-bed in Che>apeak. Bay.
AN address has been issued by co!or"d
| citizens of Bloomington, ILL.,, to the voters
| of their ace in the Northern States, urg
| ing Il conference at Pittsburgh, April ~,
| to consider the growth of political despot-
| ism in the South.
| A LAWYER at New Orleans, namcl James
| Graham, VINO had squanIercd his wifc's
| fortune, killed her Il few nights ago with
! pis OF while she slept, and then took his
own life with II, nearly scvering his
| head from his body.
| GA FARMER named John Hennin gton, and
his wife, residing near Frankfort, Kan,
were found dead in their barn on the Sth.
| A hired man who had recently been dis
| charged by Remington, and who
missing, was suspected of the crime.
THE representative of an En- :lish syndi-
cate desiring to invest fJ,0ao,o90 i'll ranch
properly in Texas left that State in dis
gust few days ago, and would make an
adverse report to his principals. He said
! there was more security for property in
Ireland, and no prospect of improvement
| in the nCar future.
! DURING TIE one hundred hours ended on
the 10Th rain had fallen continuously in
| the dist iict of Longview, Tex, submergin:
the bottoms, AMI causing wa shouts and
slides on the railways.
| THE other day James Geary, a railway
employe at Lafayette, Ind, killed himself
| with a revolver in presence of several
| friends who were helping him to hang
| pictures in his room.
| A TELEGRAPH operator at Milwaukee,,
| named Jerry II. Arnold, on the 10th fatally
| shot Bridget Eagan, cook in a restaurant,
and then killed himself Difference i'll
views on religious subjects caused the
tragedy.
| IN Chesapeake Bay the oyster pirates
lost two vessels by capture on the 10Th.
! Two hundred craft were hlockaded by the
| police boats, and attack on the fleet
| would he made.
! THE capture is announced of three men
| who hal flooded with counterfeit silver
the towns on the border of Missouri and
| Arkansas.
| HIGH water on the 10th swept away the
! house Of Tim McCarty, who lived on the
| Island at Wheeling, W. Va, and $500
| in gold which he kept in the house was
lost.
A QUARREL. between \. s. Doran and the
| three Flynn brothers, of Hot Springs,
| Ark, resulted few days ago in the kill
ing of John Flynn and back-driver, the
fatal wounding of the other two brothers,
and three spectators were also badly in
jured.
AT New Castle, Del, six convicts, five
of them colored, We're d few days ago
whipped for crime.
| A LARGE number of white men engaged
i'm business in Indian Territory were de
clared intruders and given notice on the
9th to leave at once. Many who were en-
eayed in farming or ock-raisinS refused
| to obey the order. Those within the Creek
limits would enter the plea that there was
no executive of the Government before
whom they could appear.
| JAMES YOU'VE was killed and his brother
| Henry fatally wounded in an ARRAY at
| Richmond, Ky, few nights ago.
THREE men attacked Henry Warner, OF
Canton, O., the other night, shot MN
throu ,h the hand, and robbed him of $40.
THE Umatilla, an iron steamer, was
wrecked on the rocks of Cape Flattery. ON
the Pacific coast, a few days ago, the loss
being 500, 900. The Captain ana ere"
made their escape in small boats.
ALL the indictments found i'll the state
courts of Missouri against Frank James
| were dismissed in the Criminal Court at
Kansas City on the 11th, on the ground
that the refusal of the Governor to par
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