The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-11-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A GREAT fire occurred at Manchester,
England, en- the 18th, involving loss of
$500, 600.
L. G, WILSON, of Fredericksburg, Va,
sued James Gordon Bennett, of the New
York Herald, for $50,0eO damages for libel,
which Bennett's lawyers settled in court
on the 18th without fight.
THE military attache Of the Russian Con-
sulate at Philippopolis, who was recently
recalled, has been ordered to return.
A DYNAMITE explosion occurred in the
house Of Jacob Dhein at Rockfeld, Wis,
on the 18th, killing little girl, fatally in
juring Mrs. Dhein and less seriously hurt
ing all the family. The child had found
stick of dynamite and after playing with
it awhile threw it in the stove.
A WRECK occurred on the Baltimore 81
Ohio Railroad near Connellsville, Pa, ON
the 18th, In which sixteen persons were in
jured, among them Congressman Boyle, of
Pennsylvania.
THE proposed International Exhibition
at Berlin in 1888 is to be abandoned if an
International Exhibition is held in Paris in
1889.
MR.. PENDLEToN has protested to the
German Government against the expulsion
of the five German Americans from the
Island of Fohr.
EIGHT young men, hitherto esteemed re-
spectacle, were found guilty at Ottawa,
Ont, on the 18th, of rape, and were all sem
fenced to life imprisonment. The scene in
court, while the sentences were being pro-
nounced, was ngonizing.
FITZPATRICK, Riel's counsel, arrived in
Toronto on the 18th to urge Communication
of Riel's sentence. Several influential
French Canadian members of Parliament
were also there in the same connection.
WAR has been declared against Bulgaria
by Servia.
THE smallpox cases in Montreal on the
11th numbered thirty-two. Total deaths
since the outbreak 2,641. Two cases oc-
Cured OF Quebec.
A FAMILY named Blanchette, consisting
of a woman and five children, belonging In
St Luce, Quebec, arrived there lately from
Montreal, where the head of the family
died of smallpox. Shortly after their ar
rival the mother gave birth to another
child. Smallpox broke out among them
and they all died on the 18th. The whole
family is extinct.
CHINESE merchants of New York have
addressed letter Of thanks to President
Cleveland for his efforts to protect their
race.
A GREAT fire swept through the resi-
dence portion of Galveston, Tex, on the
morning of the 18th, burning over an area
of 100 acres, destroying 400 houses, and
rendering thousand families homeless.
The loss will reach over 50 100000.
SIDNEY DILLON has subscribed $1,000 to
the Grant monument fund, and Jay Gould
h hs,
sufferers.
j. D. PALMER, a mail agent, was arrest
ed at New Orleans on the 18th for robbing
| the mails.
EX-SENATOR SHARON died at his home
| in San Francisco, Cal, on the 18th, sur
rounded by his family and friends.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN BEN FRANKLIN, of
Kansas City, Mo-, will go as Consul to
| Callao, Peru.
HowARD's cotton mills at Bolton, En-
gland, burned on the 18th.
| A BOILER exploded in fouring-min at
Hopkinsville, KY, on the 18th, killing
three persons.
| FAILURES in the United States for the
| seven days ended the 18th numbered 227 /;
for the year to date, 9,627.
THE Toronto, (Ont.,) Sentinel, an Orange
paper, violently opposes communication of
Riel's sentence.
THE efforts of the sculptors to get plas-
| ter cast of John McCullough's face were
highly successful.
| REPORTS are in circulation that Russia
intends to withdraw her consuls from Bull
garia.
1 THE President, it is stated, will make the
4 silver question one of the principal fea-
lures of his message.
A DIVORCE has been pronounced between
Nine. Nicolini and M. Nicolini, by the
French courts. Now Nicolini's heart will
| go piti-pat-ti.
EDWARD CoFFEY was convicted at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 14th, of murder in the
| first degree for killing John Evans in Au-
| gust last.
THE Grand Rapids (Mich.) Furniture
Company's factory fell on the 18th, killing
Henry Epping and seriously injuring three
others.
| wiser, was awarded one cent damages in his
libel suit against the Washington ID. c.,
Star.
DETECTIVE A. M. POUND, of Omaha
Neb., was convicted Of manslaughter OF
the 18th for killing James Griffin, who
robbed the Treasury of Nebraska last Feb
| ruary.
THE Paris municipal authorities have
adopted resolution in favor of the am
nesty of political prisoners.
PARsoN Downs and Mrs. Taber wer
held in $500 bail each to appear at the Su
preme Criminal Court at Boston, Mass, OIL
the charge of adultery.
AT meeting of the Minneapolis (Minn.
millers and the st. Paul railway cfficial
ON the 18th the latter declined to reduce tn
tariff on -four and wheat.
THE steamer Arthabaska arrived at Owel
Sound, Ont, on the 18th, with the bodie
of two of the victims of the Algoma disas
ter.
STEPHEN C.WnsoN,of Indiana, has suet
the indianapolis, Decatur &c Springfield
Railroad for $4,000 damages for killing
his wife and daughter.
THE Vienna National Press is publishing
in serial form 'sAustria and Hungary il
Word and Picture" under the personal di
rection of the Crown Prince Rudolph.
IT is announced that the souvenirs givel
John Mccullough by citizens of New York
Memphis and st. Louis are missing anc
are supposed to have been stolen.
DURING heavy storm on the morning
of the 18th, Frank Johnson and his wife
living eight miles from Hopkinsville, KY,
were killed and their child fatally injured
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