The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-11

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1 Wall 5 rect Daily N,tcs.
| At the court of general sessions in
/ New York City. Richard Short, who
/ stabbed Captain Phelan in O'Donovan
/ Rossa 5 Office. pleaded not guilty. His
| bail was increased from S3,oo0 to So
/ o00. Mrs. Dudley, the woman who
| shot Rosa, was held in $500. y plea of
not guilty was also entered in her be-
/ half.
| In the United States district court at
Chicago. arguments on the motion for
a new trial Tor Joseph c. Maekin and
/ William !. Gallagher were postponed
until March l.. The criminal court of
! Cook county viii take no action ON the
/ indictments against the parties named
until the cases in the federal court are
settled.
II is stated that a lady in kenosha,
/ Wisconsin, after answering the matTi-
monial advertisement of a Californian
and exchanging several letters. made
the trip TO the Pacific coast, only TO be
| informed that she did not meet the ex-
| pectauons of her correspondent. and
| she has returned with a large stock of
| experience.
Some admirers of General Grant in
| California have rendered him, as
loan. a bearing vineyard with all the
necessary buildings for home, and
| the officers of the Central Pacific road
| offer special cars for the family TO cross
| the continent. The general has tele-
| graphed that at present he can not
make the trip.
| The weekly clearinghouse statement
| is again unfavoTable. the reports show
| ing a decrease in the transactions of
| 33.9 per cent as compared with the cor
| responding week of 1884. The decrease
| outside of New York was 3l.2 per
| cent. OF the reporting cities only
| three show gain. The decrease in
| Chicago was l7.9 per cent.
When the people of Winamac, Ind.
| assembled at the theatre Saturday TO
see the Lights o London" and found
| that cheap magic-lantern entertain
| ment was to be palmed off upon them
| they rose in body and seized the
| agents of the show, who only escaped
| cold bath in the river by the timely
| arrival Of the sheriff and posse.
| At a representative convention held
| in Pittsburg the coal-miners of that
| district refused TO accept the rate of
| two and one-half cents "a bushel fixed
| by [ Umpire Weeks, and resolved to
| strike next Monday for three cents per
| bushel. The operators say they will
close down the mines rather than pay
the advance demanded. Four thou
sand men are affected.
The joint resolution to submit pro-
hibitory amendment to the people was
defeated in the Michigan senate, Is
republicans voting yea and Is fusion
| lists voting nay. 1t required a two
thirds vote to pass the resolution. In
the house a bill was passed restoring
the death penalty for murder in the
first degree. 1t is expected that this
measure will become law.
General Hazen, in an interview pub
hshed on Monday, placed upon Sec
Tetary Lincoln the responsibility for
the loss of so many members of the
Greely party. HaZen has been placed
in arrest, and Captain Mills will take
| charge of the signal service. President
Arthur ordered court-martial for next
week, General Hancock presiding, to
try HaZen on charges of conduct preju-
dicial to good order and military dis
cipline.
A large encampment of Oklahoma
boomers is pitched near Arkansas City,
kaS. Rei.forcements are constantly
| arriving. Capt. Couch and twelve 9TH
er leading officers of the boomers were
arrested Wednesday. Capt. Couch as
Sured his comrades that his arrest was
a mere farce, and said that he would
be again at liberty by Saturday. He
advised them to await his return be-
! fore attempting the projected invasion
OF the territory.
President Arthur intends to devote
! himself after his retirement from office
to life of leisure. He does not con-
template reSuming his profession or
| engaging in any other occupation, his
fortune being ample for his support.
| He will spend a few days with his
! friends, the Frelinghuysens, at Wash
e., II
| trip to Fortress Monroe. By June he
will start for Canada ON his summer
| fishing tour. After his return in the
autumn New York City will be his
| home.
Fred Grant joins the physicians in
the statement that General Grant is
very sick man, of whose permanent re-
covery there is but little chance His
| teeth have all been extracted, in the
| hope of easing the neuralgia pain in the
| face, and he can take only liquid nour-
ishment. His head is kept wrapped in
| hot fanneiS, on account of severe
pain in the right ear. The cancerous
| growth at the root of the tongue be-
| comes steadily worse. For the past
| eight nights he has had very little
| sleep.
| In the joint session at Springfield, ILL.,.
| Wednesday, IIaineS caused sensation
| by declaring that, as there was no long
| er any hope of Morrison's election as
| United States Senator, he would vote
| for Richard Bishop. After the adjourn
/ ment of the joint assembly there was
I pugilistic encounter between Repre-
/ sentatives Campbell and Baker. In
| the State Senate bills were introduced
providing for the recovery of usurious
| interest, to prevent gas extortion, to
| repeal the elevated railroad act, and to
prevent the consolidation of parallel
roads. In the house bill was offered
/ to submit the question of taxing church
property to vote of the people
| Both houses of the Minnesota Legis-
latuTe have passed an amended railroad
| bill, which provides for the appoint
ment of two commissioners, who shall,
with the present commissioner, consti-
| tute board of grain and warehouse
commissioners. They are granted the
right of looking into the affairs of rail-
road corporations. Corporations are
required to grant free rental of land for
| elevators, and are to provide side-track
| facilities and grain-cars without dis
elimination. No discrimination in
freight rates is permitted. The house
| also passed grain bill making eleva-
tors at Minneapolis. st. Paul. and Du-
luth bonded warehouses. requiring
!
establishing State inspectors.
William Gresham. who cowhided
Albert Gihon on the streets in Wash
ington. was arraigned in police court
in that city. together with Smith and
Ruff, two other young society men who
were present as witnesses of the affray
Gihon charged Smith and Ruff with
participating in the assault. This was
denied ON the part of the defense
Gresham said that an insult offered BY
Gih0n to a lady whose escort Gresham
was oecasioned the trouble. lie had
challenged Gihon to a fist fight, which
the latter declined, and he had accord
ingly been compelled to seek satisfac.
tion publicly. In disposing of the case
Judge Smell referred to the participants
as fastidious dudes and sentenced
Gresham to two months in jail. Smith
and Ruff were fined 500 each. The
case viii be appealed
4 plot to rob the state treasury OF
Nebraska became known at Lincoln
three weeks ago. About o'clock Sat
urday afternoon, three men stepped te
| the cashiers window in the state house
presented pistols at the head of Deputy
Bartlett. and took 500 in coin. AS
they walked away, detective fired a
| them, and killed one named Jane.
| Griffin. Alva McGuire was captured
and the third party escaped. The rob
bers named had each previously killed
his man, but escaped conviction on tn.
plea of self-defense. Later report.
say there are suspicious that the at
tempt was a clever job engineered b,
local detectives solely to secure repu
tation. The revolver of one of the al
legged burglars was found to be LOADED
with blank cartridges only, and there ar
other suspicious circumstances in con
nection with the affair which a coro
| par-c if1rv aro now inyaSfipatiuu