The clarion., 1885-01-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Robert c. Haney, one Of the pioneers
II Milwaukee. q wholesale hardware
lealer. died Wednesday morning.
In a billiard contest in Chicago Mon
isv evening. Schaefer beat SloSSon at
he champion game" by 500 10 SO.
samuel Wade, bank president at
alfon Illinois. who has several times
been mayor of the city, died Friday.
Leland Stan ord can have the Cali
foTnia senatorship for the asking. Bal
Yofiur is TO commence on January -.
7. G. Scrugham, teller in a national |
hank at Lexington, Kentucky. Is de- /
faulter for $4,000, and has lied TO Can t
ada. /
Special reports from various parts of |
Illinois and Indiana say that the wheat |
crop is large one and IN good condl- |
ton.
The mavor of New York reports the |
funded debt 1t S92 047 ,0G0, and the !
rate OF taxation Will be nearly 2.35 per |
cent.
Potters at Trenton. New Jersey, to
the number OF one thousand, have re-
solved TO strike If a reduction be made
in wages.
Tie Muncie undiana) National bank
has decided to go into voluntary hqui-
dation this month, on the expiration of
its charter.
AT birmingham, Alabama. Samuel
!. Randall inspected coal mine which
has an average daily output OF twenty
five hundred tons.
DIR. !. III. Harris died Friday in In
djanapolis. and. in accordance with his
r, quest. his body was taken directly 10
the dissecting-table.
Andrew Elchenbrecher, founder OF
the geological garden OF Cincinnati.
died from heart disease, saturday, leaV-
ing large fortune.
The Grand Army of the Republic
in New Mexico has erected over the
grave of Kit Carson. in Taos county,
an appropriate tablet.
DIR. John Maxwell, who was lodged
in jail at Springfield. Ohio, for poison
ing his three young daughters, hanged
himself in his cell.
symptoms Of revival in the iron trade
are reported from Pittsburg. Several
mills which recently suspended Work
are starting up again.
Canadian millers are peudoning the
government to double the duty on
American -four, because 100000 barrels
were imported last year.
A venerable citizen of Trenton.
New jersey. named Isaac Allen. iell
in the snow from a stroke OF apopleXy.
and was frozen 10 death.
The amputation of a toe developed
blood-poisoning which caused the
death of Rev. Or. Noah Hunt Schenck,
of Brooklyn, in his Goth year.
The reduction ordered in the iron
works of Oliver Brothers at Pittsburg
will ace the wages of a number of
employees at IS cents per day.
The governor of Ohio renews his
recommendation that IN presidential
years the election of state and county
officers be held in November.
The funeral of Russell Hancock, the
place FRIDAY at st. Louis, the remains
being placed in the family vault.
Mrs. George I. Chambers. of New
York .45 years of age ard holding prop
erty valued well up in the millions, has
married her stepson, q years old.
Under orders OF tie United States
court. the bankrupt Toledo, Cincinnati
and ST. Louis narrow-gauge road has
been restricted to one mixed train per
dav.
Ahner Cohurn. ex-governor of Maine,
died Sunday evening at ShoWbeCan,
| aged So years. His illness WAS contract
| ed at the session of the electoral col
| lege. \
Over one hundred citizens of Hazel
! ton Indiana, are searching the woods
| for a Mexican lion which escaped from
a circus, last summer, at AlleGdale,
! Illinois.
/ James Z. Mallory, formerly promi-
nent in the oyster trade in Maryland
AID Connecticut died at New Haven,
of creeping paralysis, leaving large
! fortune.
six large iron establishments at
/ Pittsburg have resumed operations, at
| Ter weeks OF idleness, and other con-
! Germs announce that they will soon fol-
! low suit.
At jackson. Michigan, hack con-
| tanning Jud Crouch, the murderer. was
! demolished and the horses killed by a
| locomotive, but the passenger escaped
uninjured.
Rain caused the flood in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, to gain in force
/ Tuesday. Tie scheme of sending
tugs to break the ice gorge has been
abandoned.
The coal walls of Bristol tunnel, one
thousand feet long. near New LeXing-
ton, Ohio. were set on fire by incendi-
aries, and lis speedy destruction seems
quite certain.
Rev. Mr.. Newman. of Ripon. Wis
consin, will probably be called to the
pulpit of the Congregational church in
Washington, cOmittee having made
the selection.
John S. Wise. a republican member
Of congress from Virginia, will proba-
bly, be called TO the law rrofessOrship
Of the state university. lie is a son OF
Henry a. Wise.
The money package lost by the
Adams Express company at Indianap-
)lis was in some mysterious manner
replaced in the safe, probably by the
frightened thief.
a historical sermon was preached in
Buffalo Sunday evening by Bishop
! Coke, to celebrate the twentieth ami
veTsary of his el, Ction. lie is vigorous
at 81 years of age.
/ Dr. Shillock. of Cha ka. Minnesota.
has been arrested Tor grave-robbing
! His brother and a feliow-student were
! forced by the sheriff to abandon a
/ corpse on the road.
The yOr OF Brooklyn reports that
! The big bridge must earn S225, ,OO0 per
| lnnum TO provide the sinking fund
| for The construction bonds, and that it
| las failed to do so.
| Louis Fedier, night watchman at
| spoke factory III Bloomington, Indiana,
Was murdered for money early Sum
day morning. his skui. having been
crushed with 4 spoke.
Sales of leaf tobacco were reported
Dy the Secretary Of the 1ynchburg To-
bacco Association to have reached
| 2.16D Coz pOun1s. An active revival in
business IS expected.
DIR. Tauszky IF New York. an ex-
pert in cases Of insanity. attempted TO
Kill his wife and himself. early on Sun
day morning, bat succeeded only in in
hicting severe wounds.
James Tillinghast has resigned his
connection with the New York Cen
lrai road and the presidency of the
wagner Car com any, to take effect at
the end OF this month.
Coburn & Ewing, of Kansas City,
have paid $4,000 for the Munson
anch in the Panhandle OF Texas.
which comprises l00 600 acres of land
and 25,Co0 head of cattle.
Jacob Miciaels, prominent church
member OF Hardenburg, Ind, forged
an order for siU0, and being found out
saot himself III the presence Of The con-
stable sent to arrest him.
L. 5. Grant. Jr.. testified in a New
1 ork court that the day succeeding the
collapse of the family banking-house
Ferdinand Ward made to him a full
confession of his raseality.
General Grant has written to CYRUS
W: leiu decilnlng to receive cbe purse
being made up for his benefit. H ex-
presses the regret that he did nor make
The announcement earlier.
A train on the Indiana. Blooming
ton and Western road was thrown into
ditch near Lilly, Illinois, Monday |
morning. Twelve persons in the smok- |
ing-car were bruised or cut.
One of the BuzZard gang of outlaws
was arrested at Columbia. Pennsvlya- |
MIA. while attempting to steal n ride
on train. In a satchel he carried |
twenty-eight stolen watches.
Gen. Sherman said Mnndar nirht thnt |