Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-01-19
West and South.

A RAILWAY ticket agen: at IIartSville,
O., named Morgan Machenerc, fNei n gun
trap a few days ago for thief, hut forgot
about the matter and received the entire
contents i'll his own body.
WHILE Il number of Mexican Iahnrers
were working on n railroad at Seven
Rivers, y. NJ, on the 9.h crowd Of roughs
suddenly made their appearances, and with
out Il word of warning: fired a vollev into
the Iaborers. killing four and woundins a
number of others. The assassins then hed
and had no. been captured.
In the var Is of the Minnesota Peni.en-
tiary, at saltwater, fire 4 few days ago,
believed to have been started ly convicts,
caused a loss of $4,000.
THE Female College at Columbus, Ga,
WIS DESTROYED bv fire Il few days ago, the
| estimated loss being S}0,Ooo. There were
! 10 pupils in the luilding, all of whom
made their escape.
| AT the recent session in jackson Of the
| Michigan Sat, Temperance Convention a
resolution WAS adopted in favor of n new
| partv, to be known the Union Party, and
to advocate strics prohibition of the liquor
| traffic.
| CHARLES DIETEEI.T, a murderer, was
| taken from jail at Wcisser, Idaho, tie
| 10th by masked m-l> and hanged
ROSE CHERRINGTnN, aged twenty-thrce,
| was burned to death at Porter, o., Il few
| days ago, her clothes catching fire from
| crate. Her father was seriously burned
while trying to rescue her.
| FIFTY cit'Z of Tayloryill". H., as
semb.ed on the 10Th in the school-house in
which Emma Bond was so terribly treated,
and passed resolutions of respect toward
| the young lady, and declared that justice
! was outraged by the acquittal of Mont
! gomcry, PcttiS and Clement.
| AT Dayton, o., TIE walls of an icc-hCuse
| fell the other day, crushing to death
| Charles Ryder and a team of horses. At
Gore, O., Joseph Auker was killed by the
cage of an elevator falling upon him.
THE failure of NJ. Waterman & Co.,
| grain n-dcalers of San Francisco, for II ,5n,-
| Geo. was announced on the 10th.
| EXECUTIONS took place on the 11th as fol-
lows: Jerry Alexander, at Sparta, La;
! Isaac Anderson (coiored). at Barnwell, ).
! c.; John Jarvis, at Norfolk, Va.
| THE other night Edwards Opera House
| at Selma, Ala, was destroyed by fire.
| THE doors of the Farmers Bank of Wap-
| akoneta, o., were closed on the 11th in
| consequence of the assignment by the pro-
| prietor, NJ. Better.
| A PARTY of eight hunters, in attempting
| recently to slaughter a flock of prairie
chickens near Fort Sill, became careless
| that three of their number were fatally
| wounded.
NEAR Pendleton, Ore, passenger-train
| was taken possession of on the 11th by
| mob of two hundred men recently dis
charged by the railroad. General Miles
| sent two companies of regulars from Fort
| Walla Walla, but a crowd of roughs Joined
| the rioters and overpowered the soldiers.
| Serious trouble was feared.
| STEPHEN RICHARDS was hanged on the
| I1.h al Auburn, Cal, for the murder of
| Thomas Nichols.
| JEFF GILLILAND, notorious criminal
and murderer, was killed bya companion
in dispute about woman a few days
| ago near Fayetteville, Ark.
| In the Susquehanna River at Port De-
| post, Md, on the 1Ith an ice-gorge threat
| ened widespread inundatioI. The Della
| ware River was also gorged in the vicinity
of Trenton, and Pennsylvania farms were
submerged by back water.
| AT Richmond, Va, the wife of Colonel
H. Coulter Cabell was fatally burned re-
| Gently by her clothing taking fire at a
CRATE.
TIE death of W. P. Rathburn, President
of the First National Bank of Chattanoo-
GA. Tenn, and a wellknown capitalist, oc-
Cured a few days ago.
THE bribery charges made against Gov
ernor Oriway, of Dakota, were dismlsset
on the l1th, the court deciding that the
case was one of malicious prosecution
| In the peach belt of Michigan the
orchards passed uninjured through the re-
cent severe weather, but in the region OF
Mobile, Ala, orange groves suffered dam
age to the amount of 100000. Many
trees in Florida were saved by building
| fires in the orchards.
THE San Angelo stages each way were
halted recently by four Texas highway
men, near the Colorado River, who rooDeo
the maii-bags aud passengers, making
| heavy haul.
AT recent session in Chicago of the
, | Roman Catholic Total-Abstinence Society
resolutions were passed favoring high
license. recommending oppositto9 to tho