The Magnolia gazette., 1885-09-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the 26th, after losing overheard all the |
trunks Of the passengers and all the cargo |
between decks, part being swept away
and part being thrown over to tighten the
vessel. The second mate, Schauer, of
Baltimore, was, washed overheard and
lost. The vessel had ten feet of water in
her hold and her fires out for twelve
hours. The loss financially is very
heavy. r s@
The Lafayette, Newtown & Wabash
River Railway Company, capital $l,000,-
600, has been Incorporated at Indianap-
oils, Ind SO
SEVERAL militiamen were severely
wounded in collision on the Chicago, !.
Burlington g. Quincy Railway at Corning,
Ia, on the 9th. WI
The Earl of Devon, has offered to sell
his tenants their holdings on his estates in |
County Limerick, Ireland. 's,$
The remains of Admiral Courbet were
met at the Hyers railway station, Paris,
on the 9th, by State and municipal OIL
cials, and escorted to the Hotel des Inva-
lides. 500
The seasons exercises at Chautauqua
were brought to close on the 2Sth.
THE Iowa Republicans nominated Sena-
WI lIdIdDoe loE f1OfeIuoTy lluil loi lllou-
tenant Governor and Judge Beck for the
Supreme Court. Ns3
DR.. H. P. LYNCH of Sturges, Oak, was
murdered on the 9th by Corporal Ross of
the United States Infantry, and the lat
ter was lynched by a mob.
, SEVEN opposition papers in Spain have
been seized by the Government for their
vigorous attack on Germany.
THE contract for the construction of
Courthouse and POST -office at Denver,
Col, has been awarded to Hayes & Nc
Guvrey, of Colorado, at their bid of
$4,000. Armago (CoL) stone has been
selected as the material to be used.
THE fireworks factory at Ciyita Vec-
CHA, Italy, took fire on the Goth, and was
destroyed. Ten bodies have been recov-
cred from the ruins. =. w
WHILE in the act of going aboard the
Italian line steamship Archemide on the
9th Saltwater Pietta, an alleged fugitive
from Cincinnati, was arrested on char ge
of having appropriated and fled with
money deposited with him by his coun-
try men.
THERE were Att new cases of cholera
and ,49S deaths from the disease re-
ported throughout Spain on the 26th.
AT Clinton, Ind, on the night of the
26sh, burglars blew open the safe in the
Post-office and secured $500 in stamps
and money. There is no clew of the per-
petrators of the robbery, which was not
discovered until the next morning.
THE run on the Spring Garden Bank at
Philadelphia, Pa, has subsidized.
UNITED STATES MINISTER STALLo ar
| rived at Rome on the 2Sth.
GLADSTONE says his trip to Norway
greatly benefited him.
| THE German Lutheran Synod began it's
annual conference at Rochester,, Mimi,
on the 28th.
! ADMIRAL CoURBET's remains were in
TERED in the Hotel des Invalides, Paris,
on the 2Sth.
FIRE at Tallman, Mich, on the 2Sth
destroyed Butler g. Petter's saw mill, also
a large lot of lumber and shingles.
IT is reported that Russia is making
overtures to Turkey for an alliance
A GREAT boom is reported in the Bear
Mountain mining camps, recent runs OF
metal assaying very satisfactorily!
SUBSCRIPTION lists have been opened in
Galicia for the benefit of the exiled Poles.
A TELEGRAM was received at the De-
partment of Justice on the oath from q
man in West Virginia. asking if he could
kill a man for drunkenness.
A QUARTER of million dollars worth
of property was destroyed and 400 people
made idle by a fire in London on the 2Sth
THE Treasury Department paid out over
$40, 900, 900 of pensions during August. ]
is therefore expected that the decrease o.
the public debt for the month will not b,
as large as usual.
BUSINESS failures throughout the coun.
4 try during the seven days ended on tn,
| 2sth were: For the United States, 165
and for Canada, "a; or a total of 1S9 fail
ures, as compared with the total of II
the week previous. .tI
Il Two policemen nrn1ed McNatt ant
Grant were murdered at Geneva, Ill, oil
the night of the 9th. The deed is sup
posed to have been committed by burg
lars.
Hon. A. M. Kelly Is the guest of Sec
retary Bayard at Washington. He Is re
ported to have resigned the Austrian mis-
sion.
A PETITION will be presented to tn
Home Secretary of Great Britain, pray
ing for the suppression of the sale of OBJ
scene prints.
HUNDREDS of laborers have been swim
dledIin Chicago by labor agencies who sen
them to the Canadian Northwest on falls
promises of work to be obtained there.
A. WILSON NORRIS, late pension agen
at Philadelphia, having failed to settl
his accounts, has rendered himself liabl
to prosecution for embezzlement.
II CoLoRED soldiers at Fort Meade, Oak
who undertook to wipe out the town {
Sturges because of the lynching of Hal
were captured and returned to the fort.
i The crew of the whaling brig Isabel,
/ cru he'd in the ice July goth, 1884, arrive
in Halifax; on the 28th with the loss
only one sailor, who died of scurvy G
the voyage home.
MARSHAL HENRY HOLLAND, while 81
eavoring to arrest counterfeit shovel
: II lat Cape May, N. j., on the 2sth, was bea
y en- into insensibility, and E. G. Merkle
and others who came to his assistsnt
/ were roughly handled.
/: 81 IT is now learned that three pilot boa
: and fourteen members Of their crews we
/; lost off Beaufort, 8. G., during the recel
$ cyclone
THERE was a large crowd at Dulut
Mimi, on the 28th to witness the hangir
of w Waiseman, who murdered Farley la
spring and then burned the latter's sh an
a to hide the crime. The execution tot
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