The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A well OF natural gas has been de-
veloped On farm IN Messea township,
Ontario.
The storm at Newport, Rhode Island,
swept away the sea wall for seventy
five feet.
a woman IN the City Of Mexico gave
birth to seven children In one day. The
babes died, but the mother survives.
Abraham True, who built the Rrst
house On the site Of kankakee, Illinois,
died Wednesday at the age of eS years
William Slater. aged thirty. an in
mate of the Elgin Insane Asylum,
hanged himself in his room Sunday
night.
Major Clark, senior partner in
clearinghouse at Bryan, Texas, killed
himself Sunday evening with a re-
volver.
Eight cases of dynamite were recent
" stolen from magazine in Winches-
ter county, New York. The detectives
are on the alert.
The Minnesota house has agreed to
appropriate 5000 for an encampment
of ex-union soldiers at Lake MinnetOn-
kanext September.
One hundred Democratic Congress
men petitioned Mr.. Cleveland not TO
commit himself on the silver question
in his inaugural address.
John X. MacIver. secretary of the
Detroit board of trade, was stricken in
the street with heart disease, from
which he expired Wednesday.
The scarcity of fuel at Saybrook. H.,
caused the citizens to seize forty tons
from train going through on the Lake
Erie road, for which they offered to
pay.
In Cleveland. Sunday evening, two
men who attempted to cross a railroad
bridge We're cut to pieces by a switch
engine, and lad III their company lost
an arm.
A case of garroting occurred Monday
nirht in Third avenue. New York,
where bank director was robbed of a
tin box filled with securities and
money.
The committee in charge of the leg
islative ball to be held at Madison
next month gives notice that dudes
and claw-hammer coats will be eX-
Guided.
Mrs. Bony. 96 years of age, living
alone near Falmouth, Kentucky, bar
red the doors and windows of her
house, started blaze, and persisted
therein.
The funeral of DR.. Leopold DAM
rosch was held in the Metropolitan
opera house in New Y ork, where Henry
Ward Beecher and Felix Adler deliver
ed addresses.
DR.. Leopold Damrosch, the musical
director and composer, died suddenly
in New York Sunday afternoon. He
was i'll only few days and his death
was unexpected.
jeremiah J. Sullivan, one of the wit
1,..A III, al
acy in Chicago, was arrested by a de-
tective for perjury, and has been lodged
in the county Jail.
The New York assembly, by vote
of II to l, passed joint resolution urg-
ing congress to pass the Edmunds bill
to place General Grant on the retired
list OF the army.
One hundred miners appeared at
Beaver Run mine, in the Tuscarawas
valley, Monday morning, and went to
work at the reduction. Nine hundred
miners are still out.
John johnson started from East
Tawas, Mich, Thursday morning to
walk TO logging camp. Sunday he
was found i'll the snow terribly frozen.
He died soon after.
Canadian acknowledgements have re-
solved to petition for the repeal of the
'tSC competing lIitlu W supply idhe
vessels with fog-horus, which would
cost nearly $4,000.
George Scott, an aged resident of
Gibson City, Illinois, seized young
woman whose clothes were on fire and
carried her to a snowdrift, saving her
life and losing his own.
With the exception of the Pepperell
company, the cotton mills of New En-
gland report a losing business for the
asst half OF 1884, production being still
IN advance OF consumption.
Mr.. Armstrong, of the Crow agency
in Montana, has secured from the sec
rotary of the interior an order for the
imprisonment of three Indian chiefs
who are turbulent characters.
The engine boiler at the east shaft
coal mine, near Springfield, H., ex-
ploded Monday. The engineer and
fireman were instantly killed. The
engine house was badly wrecked.
The striking miners in all parts of
the Hooking valley of Ohio have been
notified that aid is no longer coming
in, and it is rumored that they are adj
vlSed by their leaders to secure work.
William w. Massey, ex-paying teller
of the Bank of Commerce, in Balti-
more. pleaded guilty to the forgery of
$1,000 check last May, and was SEN
fenced to five years in the penitentiary.
Bishop Dwenger, of Fort Wayne,
has been selected to advocate before
the College of Cardinals at Rome the
adoption of the acts and DEGREES of the
plenary council recently held at Balti-
more.
New warrants will be issued at Wich-
tia, Kansas, for the arrest of Captain
Couch and other invaders of Oklahoma,
rN,.,, 1Nln - Il
has gone forward to forestall another
raid.
The weight of the snow crushed in
the roof of a large skating rink in
Plttsburg, Pa. 1t cost $1,000. There
were fifteen persons in the rink, but
all escaped but lad, who had an arm
broken.
The commissioners of the Niagara
reservation have reported to the New
York legislature that the territory
requisite on the American side has
been selected, the appraisal being
81 ,433 600.
Jacob Kazier, farmer Of Middleton,
Del, shot at two unknown colored
chicken thieves. One died from his
wound the next day, and the other in
trying to escape fell over the fence and
broke his neck.
Exchange bank of Bellville, Ohio, and
rumors prevail that the cashier has de-
camped with $4,000. The concern was
managed by David and John Gent and
Harrison Alexander.
In the Illinois House Saturday. the
senatorial joint convention assembled.
the roll-call showing TWENTY-FIVE Re,
puphcans and nine Democrats absent.
Nobody answered save Haines, who
voted for Morrison.
Major Burke is in Washington. hop
ing 10 secure an appropriation of $500
Q0O Tor the New Orleans exposition.
he states that the enterprise is nearly
$4,000 in debt, but the receipts now
cover the expenses.
CITIZENS of Arcata, Cal, have COM
PEELED the Chinese to leave the town.
ana have passed a resolution pledging
themselves to use all legal means to
prevent tnelr settlement within the
corporate limits of the city.
Franklin J. Moses, ex-governor of
ooutn carolina. on being sentenced six
months to the Boston house of correc-
ton, argued that the petty nafure of
his crime showed that his mind had
given way under his troubles.
Lem Ellsworth on Monday rendered
ms resignation as chief of police of
milwaukee,. Mayor Wallber nomin-
ated to the vacancy Colonel T. J. Rice.
superintendent of the house of correc-
ton, who was promptly confirmed.
There is bill before the Ohio legis-
iature authorizing the Cleveland board
OF education to furnish pupils free
textbooks and supplies. Bishop Gil
mour and Catholics generally have
signed petition opposing the bill.
The missing steamer Michigan is
supposed to be in an ice-fioe in the
northern part of Lake Michigan, but
there are grave apprehensions as to the
vessels safety. Captain Prindiville
and a crew of eighteen men are on
board.
1t is reported that the backbone of