The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-11-28

THs journal NJ NJ, f'efaribnpg advises
Prince Alexander 10 conform with ,he gvl.
ian's reply 20 hls request for assistance.
On the 18th six persons were fatally
burned by the explosion OF an oil tank al
this works of the Lubrleatlng OH Company
at Philadelphia, IA.
On tho 18th a freight train Of eighteen
cars and an engine went through bridge
on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Railway, near indianapolis, fatally injur.
Ing the engineer aud dangerously lnjurlng
the conductor, fireman and brakeman,
On. WILLIAM FsoTHlsoHAM, one OF the
best known physicians OF New York, was
killed on the 10th by tho accidental dis.
charge Of pistol he was cleaning.
POOR deincnted woman named Mrs.
Johnston smothered her child to death at
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 10th.
Two noted horse thieves, John Truston
and Sllas Drove, were captured In tho In.
dian Territory on the 18th, but afterward
released by friends.
THE body of Judge A. n. Sanborn, Of
Madison, Wis, was found In Lansing's
woods near that city on the 10th with evi.
denoe that he had sucded with laudanum,
He was subject 10 temporary fits Of insan-
ity.
On the goth Gottleib Vartz, aged thirty
eight, was scalded TO death In vat Of
boiling malt at the Empire Brewery, New
York.
On the Goth DIR. Allen Cope, prominent
dentist OF Coldwater, Mich, while using q
vulcanizor, had his left arm blown of and
was severely wounded in the breast by the
explosion Of the apparatus.
WILKINSON, the murderer OF Officer Law.
renee, was hanged at Thomaston, Me-, on
the 10th, and died coolly and unrepentant.
On the night Of the 10Th Mrs. Sadie Kirk
and Reeta Emmons, her niece, of Dale
City, Ia, retired at hotel at Creston, Ia,
and blew out the gas. When called TO take
the 3:ij q. IN. train for their destination
both were found to be nearly suffocated,
with slim chances Of recovery.
SEVERAL persons were poisoned by
drinking water from an old well, recently
reopenod, In Chester County, Pa, two Of
whom, Annie Poole and Frank Townsend,
died. The water Is believed to be impreg.
mated with deadly mineral poison.
On the Goth two persons were instantly
killed and several severely injured by an
explosion Of a now boiler which was being
tested In mill which had just been COM
pleted at Rlchland City Ind. The dam
age to tho property Is estimated at 5000.
On the Goth Otto Koblank, drunken
brute, went to his boarding house in Jer.
sey City, N. j., and began to abuse the
landlady, Mrs. Sweeny, and wound up by
pouring kettle Of boiling water over her,
scalding her SO severely that her recovery
Is impossible.
AN attempt was made TO wreck the
Glencoe express near st. Thomas, Ont, on
the Goth, by placing Instructions on the
track of the Air Line Road.
SEVERAL workmon were severely In.
iured by the burning Of tho Rubber Paint
Company's building at Cleveland, o., on
the 22d.
JoHS W. LAsERs, OF Omaha, Neb., shot
and killed his wife on the night on the 2lst,
claiming 10 have mistaken her for burg
lar.
A TERRIBLE cyclsne swept over the
Philippine Islands on the 2lst. Eight
thousand buildings, including numerous
churches and school houses, were de-
stroyed and twenty-five persons were
killed.
SUSIE SxELrzgn, four years Of age, was
burned TO death at Atwood, Pa, on the
22d, by her clothing catching FIRE from q
CRATE.
A DISPATCH Of the 22d from Calcutta says
that 5000 people have been drowned and
100 villages submerged In orissa by cy.
clone, and that l,2il square miles In the
Moonshetabad and Huddea districts have
been devastated.
SAMUEL and John May, farmers, were
robbed and brutally beaten on the night Of
the 2lst by seven highwaymen in Wash
ington County, Pennsylvania.
JosErH McCossAvoHrY, Town Marshal
Of Bridgeport, o., was fatally shot on tho
2lst by silas Conway.
MASKED robbers at Marion, Pa, poured
coal oil on an old man and set him on fire
10 extort money.
A CONVICT In the Nebraska Penitentiary
confessss to the murder Of Colonel Watson
B. Smith, Clerk Of the United States District
Court, at Omaha, whose death has been
mystery since 1881.
MISCELLANEOUS.