The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-07-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

EDWARD WETHERs, Of the Halifax IN.
S. Custom-house, killed his daughter and
himself on the 10Th. He was insane.
EARTHQUAKE shocks of great force oc-
Cured at midnight of the 14th at Smyrna
and at Chesme, in Asia Minor
EXCITEMENT is intense in Ecuador over
the Santos case. Threats are made to blow
the American fleet out of the water.
THE number of new cases of cholera in
the whole of Spain on the 14th was 1,66S;
the number of deaths was 673
A FIRE at Oakdale, CAL, the night of
the 14tb, destroyed eight business build
ings with their contents. Loss estimated,
$50, 600; partially insured. Much excite-
ment prevails, as it is believed the fire
was the work of IN incendiary.
JOSEPH PALMER was hanged at Cincin-
natl on the 18th, for murder. Hereafter
all executions in Ohio must take place at
the Pepitentiary at Columbus.
j. w. STOUT, a farmer living six miles
southeast of Greenfield, o., was shot and
instantly killed by Elijah Nevin, a neigh
Dor, during an alteration, on the 18th.
GENERAL HOWARD reports an intensely
bitter state of feeling at Salt Lake be-
tween Mormons and Gentiles. He says
bloodshed may be looked for.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE. of the United
States Supreme Court, is ruraliz ing in
Scotland.
THE first session of the Master House
Painters Association of the United States
and Canada convened at Chicago on the
18th, with sixty delegates in attendance.
A MRS. JONES, of Buffalo, who was with
party of ladies at Bath Island, Niagara,
on the 18TH, fell into the stream and was
carried over the American falls.
ON the afternoon of the 14th,. at De-
busk's ranch, twenty miles from Trinidad,
Col, twelve out of herd of eighteen
horses in pasture were killed by light
| ming. A hail-storm had driven the horses
against a barb-wire fence, which con-
Quoted the lightning through the herd.
DURING the first quarter Of the year 1885
the net earnings of the New York Central
| decreased 25.5 per cent; Pennsylvania,
1913, and Erie, 1876 per cent, the effect
| produced by the rate war.
| THE Directors Of the Illinois Central
Railroad Company have declared the
usual semi annual dividend of four per
cent. payable in cash, on September 1st,
to the stockholders, as registered at the
| closing of the transfer books August 11th
The books close August 11th and open
| September 4th.
| GoRsUcH, the Communist who was ar
rested in Cleveland on the 18th, was re-
leased on the 10Th on $4,000 bail, and it is
said he in stigated the attack on that day
which brought on the fight.
| JOSEPH TAYLOR was hanged at Phila-
delphia, Pa, on the 10th, for murder.
REPORTS received at Cairo say the
Mahdi is really dead.
THE buildings of the Philadelphia Rub
/ Lee w Wo,-lrs .aAstrosrad hv fire on the
10th.
THE relations between Engl and and
Russia are growing critical again.
J. N. LYNCH, of Gibson County, Indi :
ana, is suspected of poisoning his children
by scattering arsenic on a pie. He can
not be found.
A TERRIBLE famine is said to be raging
in Kordofan.
Two Norwegians were suffocated in dig
ging well at Pleasant Valley, Wis, and
third came near losing his life in recov-
ering the bodies.
AN incendiary fire on the lumber docks
at Bay City, Mich, on the 10Th, was
checked in it's incipiency.
THE Pail Mall Gazette continues to fur
nish evidence in support of it's exposition
of vice in London.
JEROME HILL, of st. Louis, No., was
elected Vice President Of the National
Cotton Exchange.
MISS AGNES Roe, John Hedden and
William Tickenor, of Patchogue, L. l.,
were accidentally knocked from a yacht
on the 10th and drowned.
A PUBLIC meeting at Toronto, Ont, OF
the 18th, protested against the further ad
mission of Chinese into Canada.
A CHAIR car in the Denver &c Rit
Grande yards at Denver, COL, was
wrecked on the 10Th and the switchmer
slightly injured. Dynamite had beer
placed on the rails, and caused the acci.
dent.
RUSSIA promises to in gestigate the re-
cent fiogging by Russian officials of 9
British Consul's clerk.
The Dresden police summarily stopped
Socialist project to raise funds for So
cialist candidates in French elections.
HoLMAN's Indian investigatingl com
mi ttee will recommend the concentration
of the unsettled Sioux and Crow tribes il
the Indian Territory, and the purchase o
th Sioux reservation in Dakota by tn
Government.
AT Covington, Ind, on the 10Th, fire de
stroyed most of the buildings on the north
east side of the public square. The tota
loss will reach about $4,000. Insured TO
very small amount.
In accordance with the finding of
court-martal in New York, the Presiden
has dismissed from the service Ensig
Jefreys Of the navy for appropriatin
$500 which did not belong to him.
Two members of the South JAmerica
Commission, who were saved from tn
Guadiana, have arrived in London. The,
lost nothing in the wreck
THE Mothers house of the Holy o rde
of st. Joseph, at Delhi, eight miles beloy
Cincinnati on the Ohio River, was total,
destroyed by fire on the 10Th. Loss, $75,
900; insurance, $4,000. No one was in
jured. The building was the result of th
savings of the Sisters for many years.
FIVE clerks in the Second Comptroller
, Office of the Treasury, whose salarie
ranged from $3.50 to $1,000, were dis
charged on the 10Th to reduce the force.
IT is reported from st. Petersburg tina
!, Russia counts on the assistance of Franc
, in case of a contest with England.
The lumber mills at East Saginaw
Mich, are shutting down for the seas OF
ALBERT LoNGsTRETH was murdered b
/ tramps at Union City, Pa, on the 17th.
, TURKEY is Strengthening the defense
, of Tripoli.