The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-02-12
SOUTHERN oLEANlNGs.

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Mrs. Cole, widow of Judge James L,
Cole, Of Placquemine Parish, aged sixty.
nine, was found murdered in bed a few
mornings ago. Thieves took her jewelry
including diamond ring from her finger
Flfe persons have been arrested on sus.
piclon.
Franklin ]. Moses, formerly Governor OF
South Carolina, recently finished term
Of three months in the Detroit mich.
$50 of Correction for obtaining money
oEtfalse pretenses. He was at once ar
rested by Boston officer, to stand trial in
that city on an indictment for swindline
Colonel I. ". Higginson and several other
professors of Harvard University.
On returning to his home in jackson
County, Georgia. few nights ago, Mr..
Basil White found his bride wife hanging
dead from joist in the stable. Her
maiden name was Elizabesh Beatty, and
she had been married but one week, her
husband being widower with one child.
The new relationship proving rksome she
sought relief in suicide.
The mother of dead infant found in
Dallas, Tex, a few days ago, in well.
has been discovered in the person Of Ella
Coleman young woman from Sherman,
Tex. When her crime was discovered she
took train for the East, and officers went
~ pursuit Of her. She is a prepossessing
| young woman, single and about eighteen
years old.
a lew nights ago a farmer named Z.
smith, residing four miles north of Cow
ington, Tenn, was murdered by unknown
persons. His body was found in the woods
near his house his skull having been split
open by hatchet. Robbery is believed to
have been the cause Of the murder, the
money in his possession at the time having
/ been taken.
Fire at Lewisyille, Tex, few nights
ago, destroyed the principal part of the
town. The heaviest losses, with insurance.
are: B. Plew, loss, ~, 900; insurance, 81, 700;
w. H. Hyder, loss, Is, 900; insurance, ii 600;
Il. Owens, loss, $50; insurance, none; John
Kealy 8 Co., loss, $1,000; insurance, none:
Mrs. May Rawlings, loss, $500; insurance,
none; p. F, Stover, loss, 81 800; insurance,
none. The total loss is estimated at So
OOO The origin is thought to have been
ineendiary
During the year 1883 Ballard County,
KY, lost several bridges, the most i'm.
portant passways in the county. A reward
Of $1,000 was offered for the apprehension
| ot The gnihy parties, with evidence
| 70 convict. No clue was obtained.
and would never have been, most
likely, but for the arrest, short
time ago, Of VIM. Beard, charged with
breaking into store. After the arrest and
incarceration Of Beard, he concluded to
cause the bridge burning business to be
dtvulged and secure the company of his
confederates. He managed to get an in
teryiew with Mildred Coffee, OF that
county, one Of the party, and induced him
to peach on Tobe Hendricks, who, Coffee
says fired the Scarborough bridge across
the west fork of Mayfeld Greek, on the
Milburn & Paducah Road. Hendricks was
arrested upon Coifee's affidavit, and is in
Jail at Wickliife He denies any knowl-
edge Of the burning, but it is understood
that both Beard and Coffee viii testify to
the effect that they saw him setting fire to
it. It is hoped that further developments
will reveal the whole dabollcal scheme by
which Ballard County suffered so heavily
in the loss Of bridges, as well as hersCourt-
house, by fire.
VIM. Garlock, late cashier Of the sus-
pended Island Savings Bank of Galveston,
Tex, died q few days ago from paralysis.
John Drake, who murdered his wife at
Thomaston, Ga, has been sentenced to be
hanged.on the Goth of March.
Alice Thomp son, colored, was shot and
fatally wounded by Samuel Reynolds,
colored, at Nashville, Tenn, few days
ago, because she refused to marry him.
Reynolds escaped.
A band Of rustlers raided a stock-yard
in the eastern part of San Antonio, Tex,
few nights ago, and ran Off fifteen head
Of horses, valued at 50 900.
The safe in Pat Byrnes' saloon in Chat
tanooga, Tenn, was cracked few nights
ago by professionals and $4,000 stolen
-, 200 in greenbacks and l,775 in notes. A
diamond drill was used in cutting the hole
into the combination, and 1t was then
shattered with chisel and the door
opened.
The boiler in the Snider Brewery at
Louisville, KY, exploded few days since.
John Bush, an employe, was struck and
fatally injured by piece Of iron. Frank
and Henry Kippers and Rudy Lamleng,
three children playing in an adjacent yard,
were struck and seriously hurt. The cause
of the explosion was mystery.
There are rumors of msnanagemsnt Of
the Marine Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
Charges are made by ex-patients of negli-
gent attention, dirt, and want Of kindly
care on the part os the nurses. Afidavits
have been prepared and forwarded to the
Surgeon General Of the Army, with a
view to having him examine into tho
matter.
The dead body of James Evans, white,
was picked up near the mouth of Dooley's |
Bayou, La, few days ago Evans
started from Mooringsport, in Caddo Par
ish. for Shreveport in skif during the re-
cent cold spell and was last seen alive by |
a passing colored man in the act Of making |
a fire in his skiff, which was moored at the
mouth of the bayou.
The Jail at Abilene, Tex, was set on
fire few days since by prisoner named |
Butler, charged with robbing drummer
named Levy, from Fort Worth Butler
was arrested but short while before and |
swore that he would burn himself out, but