The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-21
NEWS CT The WEEK

William Ii le. governor Of the terri
;c,V III WAolning. died Tuesday even
inc at CHEYENNE. at the age OF 10.
B,,i Butler has brought suit for
heavy damages against the Boston
Eerold for attacking his war record
4 collision on the Pensacola and At
lan1ic road. near Chipley, Florida,
r. used severe injuries 10 SIX persons.
Twin bows born at Grand Haven on
elerticu ds.y are TO be chrIstened Gro
ysr cleveland and Thomas Hendricks.
4 hoa-cons trictor eighteen feet long
;s sid TO have been found at Fisher
Station. Indiana, troZen into solid
knot.
At the January meeting or the Alton
Horticultural society the members re-
rorted plenty of peach buds Tor good
crop.
Captain c. ". Folger. only son OF
the secretary Of the treasury. died or
consumption, Sunday, at Geneva, New
York.
General J. s. Robinson has resigned
his seat in congress for the Ninth ONO
district and taken the oath as secretary
of state.
General Jaekson's day was celebrat-
ed by democratic banquets at W ASH
ington. Boston, Columbus, and Des
Moines.
4 patent-medicine house in Roches-
TER has contracted with Philadelphia
glass factory for five hundred carloads
OF bottles.
Mine No. ). of the Hooking valley
property. at Straltsvlle, ONO, the
largest in that region, has been hred
ny strikers.
Nashville reports the burning of a
freight and passenger depot and one
hundred loaded cars, the losses aggre-
eating Sl50,0uO.
The auditor of Illinois reports So
| g02. 5Il in the treasury at the end OF
| September, with S23, 900 of bonded
/ debt outstanding.
Horace Richardson, who died Wed.
nesday at Rockford, Illinois, erected
| the first buildings in Winnebago coun-
| ty. where he settled in 1887.
The Hudson's Bay company is alarm.
] ed as to the safety of one of its finest
vessels, the Prince of Wales. carrying
| furs valued at nearly S5OO,Oo
Joseph Rankin, who represents a
Wisconsin district in congress, is Sc
verely i'll at Washington from what Is
| believed to be Bright's disease.
Enoch w. Eastman, formerly lieu
tenant governor of Iowa, author of the
| penal features of the prohibitary liquor
Jaw. died at Eldora on Saturday.
The Pennsylvania legislature ha;
| passed concurrent resolution pledg
ing the state to an appropriation OF
sic, coo for an exhibit at New Orleans.
The widow of Mark Hopkins, the
California railway promoter, proposes
to construct at Great harrington, Mas
sachusetts, residence to cost S5,OOO,'
0Go.
The suicide is reported of Major
Charles h. Brady. of St. Louis, former
lv one of General McClellan's body
guard, leaving wife and two daugh.
tiers.
The defendants in the election fraud
cases in Chicago intend to waive a tTia
by granger juries, and ask Judge Blod
gett to decide upon their guilt or limo
cence.
The 10th birthday of Sir John A
Mcdonald. the Canadian statesman
was celebrated at Montreal, by grand
demonstration without regard Il
party.
A cyclone, whose roar could be heard
for miles from its path, swept through
Georgia and Alabama, early Monday
morning, carrying away buildings anC
fences.
The directors Of the New Orlean.
exposition have designated February
IS as travelling mems day, with free
use of the music hall and committee
rooms.
The wife of Armet Richmond, &
wealthy stationer of Detroit, asks the
| appointment of a guardian for him, or
the ground that liquor has shattered
his mind.
Milton Skinner, a wealthy farmer
near Elmira, New York, having re-
Gently been adjudged incompetent tC
transact business, set fire to his house
and barns.
The mayors of eighteen of the larger
cities of Iowa report an increase III
the number of saloons and no success
, ful attempts TO enforce the prOhibitOry
liquor law.
Flames swept away large building
at Yonkers, New York. occupied by
. manufacturers, valued at $4,000, anC
Parnel's malt-house at Auburn, in the
same state.
An explosion of dynamite at fac
tory near Somerset, Pennsylvania
carried two employees three hundred
yards where they were found burned
10 a crisp.
A battle is reported imminent be
tween the Oklahoma boomers. in
trenched at Saltwater. Indian Terri
ritory, and the military force sem
against them,
: Tradesmen of Toronto, having beer
7, duped to the amount of $4,000 by {
man named Morris Long, take revenge
by sending out the statement that he
has glass eye.
a school teacher in Hickory town
ship, Illinois, after eXpeiling a pupil
and suffering his abuse, struck hin
over the head with base ball bat, in
ficting fatal injuries.
Sylvester McCarter. a well-knowr
citizen of Rochester. Indiana. received
fatal injuries Wednesday by being
struck in the forehead by "A flying frag
ment from an emery wheel.
The deaths are reported of Professor
Henry |. Eustis. of Harvard college
Captain 5. X. Mahon, a retired officer
of the regular army. and NJ. &. kell, Z
leading citizen of Centralia, Ill.
President Arthur has accepted the
resignation of Paymaster William ii
Smyth, who recently became intoxi
Gated III Savannah and temporarily dis
appeared with government funds.
The jury III The Crouch murder tria
at Jackson, Michigan, after consul
tatIon or three hours, acquitted DAME
Holcomb, 1t is not Thought probable
that Jud Crouch Will ever be tried.
-Four hundred Oklahoma boomers
are encamped at Saltwater. Indian
Territory. well armed ana proyisioned.
W. 5. Couch, their leader. sends word
that they will fight until oyeIpowered.
Herman Mack. prominent young
Hebrew of Cincinnati. bookkeeper for
a J0bbing-house. hanged himself on
the stage at the Allemania club-rooms,
and was not discovered for four days.
David J. Clark. son of one of the
famous pioneers of Wisconsin, has
been convicted of passing counterfeit
! bills and altering treasury notes. His
counsel asked the mercy of the court
A train on the Long Island road was
wrecked near Farmingdale by striking
a switch which had been purposely mis-
placed. Engineer Berisell was killed
and Fireman Dotzell was fatally sca3d-
| ed.
The bondsmen of Martin o. Van
Fleet, the defaulting treasurer Of HUI
| ron county, Ohio. mortgaged their
be relieved from contributing the other
third.
George P. Curry. Il banker of Angus
ia. Georgia, who failed last wear. con-
| verted TO his own use bonds placed in
| his cafe, for which off t1se he has been
sentenced to five years in the penten-
tiary.
4 store in Woodward avenue. De-
trolt, was during Friday robbed of
twenty-seyen seaIskin saeques. valued
at over 5000. The thieves threw
aside large number of an inferior
quality.
Edward I. Lowe, assistant general
freight agent of the Erie railway, who
| has been twenty-seyen years in the
employ of the company, died from ty-
phoid fever at his home in Plainfield.
New jersey.