The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-12-04
MAGNOLIA, MISS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 1886
THE British expeditionary force had a
successful fight with the Burmese at Pagan
and have captured Mingyan.

THE British expeditionary force had a
successful fight with the Burmese at Pagan
and have captured Mingyan.
APPLICATIONS have been received at the
Interior Department from the Globe and Bell
Telephone companies asking for an extern
sion of the time during which briefs may
be filed In the telephone case. An extern
sion OF few days has been granted by the
Secretary of the Interior.
TWO ladies, Mrs. Woodward and Miss
Phillips, were induced to go from Chicago
TO Dallas, Tex, on promise of employment,
which they found to be work in a variety
dive. This they refused and are stranded
there.
THE United States Supreme Court me
on the 30th and adjourned until the Sd
inst.,. in respect to the late Vice. President
Hendricks. Justices Matthews and BlaSch-
ford attended the funeral.
Work is practically suspended in the
Fourth Pool mines on the Mononpahela
River, the workmen being intimidated by
the strikers.
The Porte has asked Prince Alexander
to stop the advance of the Bulgarian
army.
SENIOR NICOLAS AvALLANEDA, express
ident of the Argentine Republic, died at
sea while en- route to Europe.
THE steamship Greyhound, trading be-
tween Hong Kong and Pakhoi, was seized
recently by number of Chinese pirates
who had taken passage on board and
watched for favorable opportunity to
carry out their plan. The Captain was
murdered and thrown into the sea, the
ship plundered and the pirates and their
booty taken off by three junks, two of
which were afterward captured.
JOHN j. KELLY, former employe of
Lord & Taylor, New York, has been ar
rested charged with embezzling S11 ,O0O
from that firm by means of false entries.
AN attempt was made early on the
morning fthe 2Sth to assassinate Mr.. Sam
uel Britain, aged seventy years, at Pitts
burgh, Pa, in the office of his son, where
ne slept. He was found later uncon-
scious in pool of his own blood from two
pistol shot wounds. The affair is shrouded
in mystery.
MARcHEsE RITA CANDIcE, daughter OF
Mario, the tenor, and Grisi, has been SEN
fenced to eighteen months Imprisonment
at Berlin for swindling.
NEWS is received of the killing of Gran.
ston Gregg, formerly of Milwaukee, Wis.
by Charles F. Wahl, at Tin Cup, Col.
The body of Warren g. Yates, of Oma-
ha, Neb., the Yale student who was blown
out to sea while duck hunting few nights
ago, was found at Batting Hollow, N. Y.
on the 28th.
The boiler of the Tropic Furnace coal
shaft at Jackson, o., exploded on the 2Sth,
killing Andrew Dobbins, day engineer, and
Lincoln Ingles, night engineer. A son OF
Dobbins' was blown fifty feet, but he was
not seriously injured.
SENATOR MILLER, Of California, is too
Ill to go to Washington at present.
A SPECIAL messenger, bearing dis
patches from Queen Victoria to, Prince
Alexander, is said to be on the way to
Sofia.
MR. GLADSTONE made q speech at Car
Isle on the 2Sth, in which he expressed en-
couragement over the prospect.
THE Jones Hotel and several other build
ings at Omaha, Neb., burned on the 29th
and several persons came near losing their
lives.
MARSHALL CLEMENTS is to be hanged at
Saguache, COL, on the 3D., for the mur-
der of his brother and sister -in-law.
ELECTION riots are reported from many
places in Ireland.
A CURIOUS story comes from Portland,
Me-, of the failure of a firm caused by
supposed robbery. Investigation showed
that one OF the partners sleep walker,
hid the firms funds, which were after
ward found.
KING ALFoNso's remains have been
placed in the palace of the Escurial.