The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The saloons OF MclrlegOr. IOWA, nav
closed their doors and taken down tnelr
signs. p.n;
died at Monroe. M1cmgan, Ater pio-
longed illness.
s daughter of J. Fenimore Cooper.
aged 6S years. passed away at .Coopers-
town, New York.
Miss Ida NJ. Rusk, the second daugh,
ter of the governor OF Wisconsin, dled
Tuesday at Madison.
NJ j. Cantwell, a democrat was
elected to succeed Colonel Villas III the
assembly of Wisconsin.
On the ground of cruelty, the wife of
\. H. Paareu, the Illinois veterinarian,
was granted a divorce.
The New York assembly has passed
bill providing for reservation
around Niagara falls.
A. A. Kendall, postmaster at st.
Paul. Nebraska, has been arrested as
defaulter for 81 500 or more.
Thomas W. Thorne, a well-known
inspector of the New York police, fell
dead in store on Broadway.
A bill to punish wife-beaters with
thirty lashes on the bare back has pass
ed the New Jersey Assembly.
The Hon. Joseph E.. Mcdonald, OF
Indiana, SAYS he was offered one of the
foreign missions. but declined 1t.
President Cleveland is said to have
offered ex-President Arthur a foreign
mission, which the latter declined.
The sheriff at LeavenwoIth, Kansas,
publishes notice that $50 saloons IN
that city must be closed by May l.
Robert Perry, postmaster at Ring
gold, Pennsylvania, has been arrested
for a deficit of $500 in his accounts.
James III. Berry was on Friday elect
ed senator from Arkansas, Poindexter
Dunn having withdrawn from the
field.
on the notification of the county at
torney. every beer and whisky saloon
in Atchison, Kansas, has ceased TO
sell.
The idle coal-miners in the Pittsburg
district number ten thousand, and sew
eral factories are closed Tor lack OF
fuel.
The property of the Rock River Pa
| per company, at Beloit, which original
| " cost S35O,OO0 was sold at auction for
| SIS, SEQ.
A gas well at Bowling Green, Ohio,
| having been charged with nitro-giycer-
inc, Yields about a half million feet
per day.
A fire at Urbana, o., roasted thirty
| seven horses. A block of eight stores
was burned at Tompkinsvile, Long
| Island.
Rev. William Harris, treasurer. OF
Princeton college, New Jersey, died OF
| apoplexy at railway restaurant in Sa-
wanna, Georgia.
Austin Blair, the war governor OF
| Michigan, has accepted an independ-
ent nomination for prosecuting attorney
of Jackson county.
The governor of California refused
to sign bill to tax railroads ~ pei
cent on their gross earnings instead OF
on their property.
The Ohio legislature has resolved &c
submit to the people a constitutional
amendment changing the time of state
election to November.
General Grant receives daily abou
twenty applications for autographs, ant
his son gives notice that these requests
cannot be complied with.
Jerry Woodruff, of Shelbyville, In
diana, who has used the knife on fiv'
men, is to serve ten years IN the statt
prison for his last adventure.
Ed. Clark, of Vicksburg, Miss.
who was recently appointed Assistan
Secretary of the Interior, died early
Monday morning of pneumonia.
Charles W. Gould, of Elgin, Illinois
proprietor of eighteen cheese factories
, in that region, has made an assign
ment, with liabilities of 100000.
A skating rink at Girardsville, Pa.
/. was blown up with dynamite by SOM
! local moralist. The rink was fille'
with people, but no one was hurt.
Jay Gould and Russell Sage have re
! tired from the directory of the Uniol
t Pacific Road. Charles Francis Adams
: Jr., has been reelected president.
/ f. G.. Obear, a veteran real estat
agent of st. Louis, has been indiote'
, for embeZZling 5000 from an eastern
t man for whom he sold some property.
The Mormons express great dissatis
' faction with the ruling of the suprem
court that inhabitants of the territorie
, are under the sovereign control of con
gress.
The Illinois board of health is ad
vised that there are fifty-One cases o
e smallpox at Mound City, caused b
p infected negroes attending revivs
$ meeting.
| Six Texas convicts fled from a rancl
9 in Grimes county, Saturday morning
r Two of them were shot down by tn
{ guard, and four are being pursued b
$ bloodhounds.
An Anglo-Russian company wit
, abattoirs in Libau, has entered tn
London market to furnish fresh mea
in competition with Australia and tn
United States.
: John Neil, a burglar lying in Cleve
: land Jail awaiting sentence to the per
itentiary, was married, Wednesday,
: servant who desired something
: worry about.
/, The wholesale indictment of electio
t judges and clerks in Chicago has bee
D followed by the entering of noll
prosequi, there being no evidence G
: criminal intent.
Y During the winter season the tota
hog-packing of the seven large cite
; of the West is estimated at 4,621 ,05
= hogs. This is an increase of LOSS, II
: over last season.
.. A disease identical with that affect
ing General Grant carried off a pionee
of Montague, Michigan, named jaime
i Dalton, after several operations ha
e been performed.
v The Texas legislature passed a bi
e to compel railroad companies to kee
/ their principal offices in the State, III
e der penalty of 81 600 fine for eac
;. month of neglect.
n Louis Riel, the hero of the Red Rive
n rebellion, who was exiled from Man
. toba, is said to have created serlOJ
4
Northwest territory.
. The National bank of Schoharie
: New York, which closed its doors Fri
y day, owes $4,000 to its depositors
Franklin Krum and his relative
: owned most of the stock.
The attorney general of Iowa ha
T decided that Cattell, the new ap
}, pointee, is de facto state auditor, ant
that warrants drawn by him must b.
/ paid by the state treasurer.
e The Green Bay. Winona and ST
/ Paul road has been handed over to tn
q representatives of the first-mortgag
E bondholders. in consequence of a de
fault in 81 600, 900 of bonds.
! BY the explosion of a boiler in tn
shoe factory of the South Carolina pen
1tentiary, a life convict and cripple,
prisoner were killed, and seventy fee
a of the prison wall were blown out.
4 Mrs. E. b. Croker offers to Sal
5 Francisco an art gallery and her fam
} Gus collection of paintings on condition
that the public subscribe 500, 90
5 speedily to sustain the enterprise.
Two ballots were taken in the join
$ session of the Illinois legislature Wed
$ nesday. The Democrats refused t,
vote. Gen. Logan received 80 votes OF
the first ballot and 100 on the second.
The Central Pacific road. being de
sirous to place $4,000. 900 of new
bonds, is said to have backed squarel-
down and agreed to receive freights a
rates proportionate to the new tariff.
Rev. Elias Bray, who said he wa
ordered from heaven to kill the new
president, was taken from the Brook
Ign insane asylum and shipped TO