The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

David Davis celebrated his 10Th |
birthday by entertaining party OF |
relatives at his home IN Bloomington,
There were ODD failures in the United
States last week. a decrease of thirty
two as compared with the previous
week.
The New York chamber Of COM
merce, as special tribute of respect,
elected Chester a. Arthur an honorary
member.
Nellie Koran, of Whitewater, Wis,
who was charged With poisoning her
sister, mother, and father, has been ac-
quilted.
The Dakota council passed the wo-
an's-snffrage bill, with an amend
ment submitting the question TO pop
ular vote.
Two of the largest collieries in the
PittSburg district have conceded the s.
cent rate TO the miners, as have also
two smaller concerns.
The prospects for the fruit crop in
Arkansas are not catering. In Mis-
sissippi and Texas the outlook is fair,
but the crops are backward.
a hotel at Bradford. Pennsylvania,
was set ON fire by the explosion of
lamp. Two men We're burned to death
and two others were injured by flames.
Mark Hopkins, of ST. Clair. Michi-
gan. who ten years ago inherited ST.
COG. 900 from an uncle, has been sued
for divorce on the ground OF extreme
crulty.
George W. Dean. a grain broker of
Boston, was awarded 5000 against
the Berdta. of that city. for stating that
he habitually gave short weight TO his
customers.
The movement of ice along the Des
MONIES river has caused considerable
damage at various points, including
the loss of $4,000 bridge at Pitts
burg. Iowa.
The Catholic and Protestant clergy
men of Lasalle, H., have succeeded
during the Lenten season in nearly
cutting off the attendance at the roller
skating Kinks.
The employees of the Missouri Pacific
shops at Parsons. Kansas, struck IN a
body Saturday afternoon. The move
ment is general on the Gould roads In
the southwest.
Pickpockets at the Pennsylvania
railway station in Washington took
1907 from Hon. John II. Regain, Of Tex
as, and $40 from Hon. Charles Is.
Lore, of Delaware.
1t is rumored that Governor Oglesby
will nominate for Illinois railroad COM
missioners w. I. johnson of Chicago,
John /. RiHaker of Carlinville, and Is
F. Marsh of Warsaw.
A bill recently introduced in the New
Jersey legislature to govern foreclosure
| proceedings proved to have originated
in the interests of bondholders of the
| West Shore railway.
The Royal Irish rifles, nearly nine
hundred strong, the only regiment at
| Halifax, has been ordered to make
| ready for active duty, and expects to
| be sent to the Soudan.
Judge Moore. of Brooklyn, sentenced
a Coney Island hotel proprietor to three
months in the penitentiary and fined
him $3.50 for pool-selling. a Brooklyn
landlord was given two months.
Henry Stull, los years Of age, who
| war of 1912 at Lundy'S Lane and Chip
pewa. He went to the polls last No
| vember and voted for Cleveland.
jeremiah Holden, belonging to a dis
| tinguished family of Virginia, was
placed in the prisoners dock in Louis
| vile, where he took poison and was
carried out in a dying condition.
President Cleyeland's first official
act after the nomination OF his cabinet
was to affix his signature to the COM
mission OF Gen. L. 5. Grant as an Of
ficer on the retired list of the army.
A NJ. O'Brien. tax collector of Sador-
us township. Illinois, started for Ur-
bana, last Wednesday. to deposit 50 900
with the county treasurer. since which
| time nothing has been heard from him.
Officers from Otsego county. New
York, went to De Soto. Missouri. and
I'D Ech lAo1 nh
president, for the embeZzlement of q
| large amount of money seven years
| ago.
Three of the convictS who escaped
from the Michigan State prison were
| tracked through the snow from Mosh-
erville to Jonesville, faded and hungry,
and sent back to serve out their SEN
| fences.
A tramp was found in haystac@ on
| farm near Lawrence, Kansas, i'll d
| comatose condition from cold and hum
| ger. After being resuscitated he said
| that he had not tasted food for eight
cen days.
The republican state convention of
Michigan renominated Judge Cooley
for the supreme bench. and placed in
the field for regents of the university
Charles S. Draper and Judge A. v.
McAlvay.
AT veneer factory in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, an employe entered the
steam-boX when the temperature was
| 200 degrees, to make some repairs.
The wind blew the door shut, and he
soon persisted.
A large consignment of articles man.
ufactured by prison labor in the United
States has been seized at London, On
tario, under the new Canadian law
prohibiting the importation of goods
| made by convicts.
Johnson Letson, one of the direc-
tors of the wrecked bank at New
Brunswick New Jersey, witnessed the
suicide of President Runyon, which so
Frustrated him that he, on Monday,
died from its effects.
OF the 1900 coal miners in the Pitts
burg district more than 10000 struck
Monday for the Scent rate, The op-
orators are determined not to WELD.
and struggle of unprecedented bit
terness is predicted.
The st. Paul road reports its gross
earnings for 1884 at S23, 40 ,99S, and its
net income at S9,6l1 .369, a decrease of
Sz70,4l5. The bonded Indebtedness is
500, 254, 600. and the common and pre-
ferred stock S47. A, 244.
The promoters of the Canadian Pa
cific road sent out the surprising state
ment that inquiries have been made by
the British military authorities when
the line can be used to transport troops
between England and India,
There was visible. ON Tuesday morn
ing, marked improvement in the con-
dltion of General Grant. to whom the
physicians bad administered stimulants
instead of anodynes. Mrs. Sartoris will
sail from Liverpool this week,
A horse disease which carries of
more than half the animals attacked
prevails over wide area of Western
Ohio. Pleuro-pneumonia has appeared
among herd of Jersey cattle belong
ing to the Missouri lunatic asylum at
Fulton,
1t is estimated that the railroad lines
leading East from Chicago are behind
on their orders for freight-room to the
extent of more than 10000 cars. Most
OF these have been ordered to carry
flour. the greatest part of which has
been sold for export.
Cattle in Illinois, according to re-
ports received by the agricultural de-
partment, have come through the Sc.
we're winter in very healthy condition,
The amount of feed necessary TO bring
them through has been about 80 per
cent above the average.
A cleveland newspaper, the Herald,
win soon disappear, It has been pur.
chased by two OF its contemporaries
The circulation and goodwill 90 to the
Leader, while the material and ma
chinery will be used by the Plain Deal
en- for morning edition.
"A fatal row occurred in Bellaire, o.,
Wednesday night, between Casper
Glass and Henry Venison. neighbors,
over a family difficulty. The men
were intoxicated, and Glass struck
Venlson with piece of metal, crush
ing his skull 80 that he will die.
A delegation of Illinoisans. Tuesday.
secured from the postmaster-genera a
promise to riva fho raorfofsno Of