The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-08
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL
r,s-h. crl.py Cleaning. Of Recent Not

p esh, Cri.py GIeaninEs Of Recent Note
worthy Happenings and Events
The six-round glove contest at Chicago
between Burke and Mitchell was declared a
draw
Five more horse thieves have been strung
up In Texas, making fifteen in the last two
weeks
Kansas wheat crop is 100 per cent better
than was reported some time ago
Three thousand troops are already in camp
at Paramount park, Philadelphia, and within
the next twenty four hours the number is
expected to reach five THOUSAND The drill
has begun
The comptroller of the currency has de-
clared a second dividend of 20 per cent. in
favor of depositors of the Richmond Nation
al bank, Of Richmond, Ind, making in all 50
per cent paid 10 creditors of that bank.
1t transpires that the Maxwell land grant.
which was condemned in a recent report of
Land Commissioner Sparks, was few years
ago approved by Secretary Bayard while
senator. Commissioner Sparks is thus in
the position of publicly criticising a finding
OF his department chief
Franz Jose$ Petmeky is sentenced, at Buff
falo, to be hanged August 81
A stock company has been organized at
Wapakoneta, o., for the purpose of boring
for natural gas
The estimated decrease in the public debt
for June is SO, 900, 900, and for the fiscal
year ended June 80, s65, 00o, 600.
Smallpox is on the increase at Montreal
Five new cases
Music Teachers National association is in
session at New York.
HOLSTERS ara so scarce that the Maine can
ming factories have closed
The German and the Manhattan banks. of
Memphis, have consoh dated.
Hamilton, o.. doctors are carrying Off
skeletons unearthed in putting down water
mains in Forth Ward park, and old Gem
etery.
Two hundred and fifty feet of telephone
wires melted by lightning during Satur
days thunderstorm on Henry Mondys farm,
near Hamilton, O.
The United States Industrial league passed
resolutions declaring against further re-
duction of duties, because the existing bust
ness distress could only be increased by that
course.
E A and G. h Boyd, father and son,
were convicted in New York for defrauding
the government of importations of glass.
The son must pay st,00d, and the father
serve two years in the penitentiary.
One thousand dollars in silver were I'M
earthed by A. Sarvon, near Racine, O.
The remains of child were found in a
paper sack in tree top near Richmond,
Ind
1t is reported that Bshring sea has never
before had such heavy ice as dun ing the past
winter
The -four production of the mills at St.
Paul, MINI, for the week ended June 80 was
600 900 barrels.
The COMMERCIAL bank has been organ
lied in New York to take the place of the
defunct Marine bank
The Baltimore g. Ohio Telegraph company
will lay its wires under ground, beginning
with the city of Washington
The steamship Wisconsin, which arrived
at New York from Liverpool, brought 541
Swedish and Danish converts to Mormon
ism.
Eugene Salisbury, who killed Peter Mil
Ter az Union City, Mich, has been SEN
fenced to ten years in the state prison at
jackson.
powder one and half miles from Cheyenne,
Wyoming, shaking the nsighborhood like
an earthquake.
John A Schuyler of Morris, N Y. be
cause his wife reproached him with being
late to dinner, dashed out the brains of their
two-year-old child.
A battered flag is creating sensation at
the O. \, G. encampment, Paramount 1t
bears this legend: ''Relic of the Cincinnati
Court House Riot, March IS and %, 1so4n
Mrs. Lewis Steele, who had been married
only two weeks, was found dead before the
mirror in her bedroom at lion, N Y, with
a bulle6 wound through her temple. 1t is
bell eyed suicide.
James Russell Lowell has just presented TO
the library of Harvard college collection of
books, numbering 6SS volumes, picked up by
him abroad There are some of the greatest
rarity and value.
A protest has been fled with the supervis-
ing architect of the treasury against award
ing the contract for stone work on the gov
eminent building at Peoria, IL, to a firm
employing convict labor.
James McDaniels, a notorious highway
man, who sentenced to imprisonment
Tor ninety nine years in the psnitentiary for
robbing the mails, and who escaped from
Jail, was killed by officers in the neighbor-
hood of San Geronimo, Tex.
The National military encampment al
Philadelphia is proving financial failure.
the defunct Rich nond Ind. National
bank paid second divid mi of 20 per cent.
Samuel G. Shaffer, land Spectator of
Kansas City, Is charged with embszzling
William Meinecke was hanged at Bing-
hamton n Y, for the mu1d.r of Katie
Brodhof
Remains of the late Capt. Phelps, United
States minister to Peru, will be inferred at
Chardon, o.
Charley Fitzpatrick, Of Cleveland o., was
killed by druggists mistake in preparing
medicine for diptheria.
William Barton, aged Il, of Canton, O.,
suchied by taking Rough on Rats because
his mother scolded him
A Mormon elder says his people now num-
Der 1900 They have about one hundred
and fifty missionaries at work.
Mrs. Dudley, who was acquitted of the
charge of attempting to assassinate Rosa on
the ground of insanity, was sent to the
asylum at Niddletown, n. Y.
A circular issued by the Pioneer mills of
Tennessee suggests that the cotton mills of
the southern states form 'pool' in order to
cut down the overproiuction.
AT Indianapolis Thomas J. Cogan and
Michael Kary, of Cincinnati, were arrested
on the charge of tampering with a witness.
Both were released on giving $500 bail.
The excess of value of the exports of min
erals and oils for the eleven months ended
May 81, 1885, over those for the correspond
ing period ended May 81 1884, was s23S .o61.
James n. Day, bullion clerk of the New
York broking firm of Martin & Runyon,
who pleaded guilty TO Systematically rob
bling the firm for several years, was sen
fenced to two and a half years in the peni-
tertiary.
The government receipts of the fiscal year
ended June 80 show falling of of S26, 929,
063 from the recsipts of the previous year,
while the expenditures have increased over
eighteen million five hundred Thousand dol
lars
There are eleven presidential post-ofices
where the commissions of the postmasters
have expired and no appointments have been
made OF fourth-class offices there arc at
least twenty five hundred such cases
A I'll. Ray, recently conductor on the
Wheeling & Lake Erie railway. is under ar
rest at Allegan, Mich, with a man named
Sam Lightner, for the murder of Ella Sage
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