The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-18


tory 8 miles south of Bradford, Penn
svlvania. Two men were killed, one Of
them being scattered In fragments all
over the neighbprhood. Thesite of the
building Is marked by an immense hole
in the ground.
Governor Pierce has vetoed the bill |
for the removal of the capital Of Da.
kota from Bismarck to Pierre. holding
that it impairs the obligations Of |
contract. On charge of bribery in con- |
nectinn with the bull. three members
Of the territorial legislature were ar |
rested and held TO bail.
In the Illinois house of representa- |
tiyes. q resolution for a committee TO
investigate the payroll of employees
caused Speaker Haines to declare that
he would discharge the whole OUTFIT.
Another resolution was offered 10 re-
duce the number or lanltors from
eighty-four to twenty-five.
In the Joint session at Springfield.
H.. Wednesday there were four ballots
for United States Senator. Morrison
received ninety-eight of the 100 votes
cast in the first ballot, and nInety-nlle
ont of l0l in the second. The third
and fourth ballots were the same as
the second, and there was no choice.
A committee of the Massachusetts
legislature, ON Monday, listened to ar
guments against woman suffrage oy
Judge Lowell. of the federal bench;
Kate Gannett Wells, who claimed that
her sex did not desire TO vote, and Rev.
Brooke Herford also discussed the phys
ical questions connected with the
scheme.
Investigations by a Pittsburg jour
nal show that not over dozen actual
citizens among the workingmen belong
| to the socialistic organizations. The
meetings of the anarchists are enllv-
1 ened by songs and speeches by Misses
| Molke and Reno. A man named
| Schmidle is said TO be the keeper or
/ the magazine.
A laborer in Louisville, named Perry
! Garrison, beat his wife to insensibillty
| on Sunday last, bound her to the floor
| of the cellar, and left her without food
or water until Wednesday morning,
when a neighbor heard her groans and
the police burst in the door. She beg
| ged that the brute be not arrested, but
he was locked up.
Sergeant Plunkett, of the 21st Massa-
chusetts volunteers, who lost both arms
| in heroic work at Fredericksburg and
made brilliant record in seven other
battles. died Tuesday. In his 18th year
/ Since the war he has been messenger
y in the state house at Boston. With his
pension and money presented to him he
bought farm in West Boylston.
Jay Gould and his associates were,
on Tuesday, reelected directors of the
Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific
roads. The Lehigh Valley road has re-
duced its quarterly dividend to Il per
cent, The supreme court of New
York has given the Union Trust COM
pany decree of foreclosure against
the Rochester and Pittsburg road.
For killing A. II. Murphy in the
street some time ago Pat Ford and
John Murphy were sentenced Tuesday
at New Orleans to be hanged Judge
Ford, w. E, Caultield, and William III.
Buckley, who participated in the assas=
sination of Murphy, were sentenced to
twenty years Imprisonment. An APP
peal will be made to the Supreme
Court.
In order to fill the vacancy in the
United States Senate created by Gar
lands acceptance of cabinet portfolio
the Arkansas legislature has extended
its session TO the q inst. Balloting
will begin the 18th. Among the avow-
ed candidates are PoindeXter Dunn,
Ex-Governor James III. Berry, William
NJ. Fishback, John J. Horner. ex-Sena-
tor Walker, and General Robert G.
! Newton.
1t was stated yesterday by the di-
lCOAOlO VI lhO AN0h 4 YIN &NAilaA letAAN
road that nothing was earned on the
| stock III February on account of the
snow blockade, loss on Western bust
ness, etc. The dividend was accord
| ingly reduced to per cent. The state
ment for the quarter ending March 81
| 1885, shows decrease on the net earn
| ings of 1906, 69S as compared with the
corresponding quarter last year.
The citizens of Shelbyville. Indiana,
complain of being oyerrun by tramps.
| One of the latter recently notified the
township trustee that unless pilgrims
received better treatment the place
would be burned. Another deliber-
ately broke large plate of glass with
| tin box filed with gravel, by which
means he succeeded in getting into
| Jail. Now it is proposed to take the
fellow to the limits and cowhide him.
Judge Gresham, of Chicago. denied
motion for an injunction asked by
the Lehigh Valley coal company of
| Pennsylvania against an Illinois cor
poration which had assumed a similar
title, because the foreign corporation
was entitled to no relief in the courts.
The judge expressed the opinion that
the local organization intended to per-
petrate fraud, and he pointed out as
the remedy an application to the Hi
nois secretary OF state to forbid the use
| of the name,
Gov. Martin, of Kansas, signed the
! temperance bill which passed the State
Legislature last week. The bill con-
County Attorney with ali the powers
of grand jury. Citizens are required
to appear before him and testify on
oath concerning their knowledge of the
purchase and sale of liquors. He be-
comes both the Judge. and the Prose
cutting Attorney, and is allowed fee
of S25 for each conviction. This pro-
vision was disapproved of by the Gov
| ernor, although he signed the bill. on
the ground that it was dangerous TO
rest such powers in any man.
The bottom lands in Clark county.
Missouri, bordering ON the Des Moines
and Mississippi rivers, are sea of wa
| ter and ice, and the country for seven
| miles west and farther south is flooded
10 q depth varying from one to five
rect. Three miles of the Egyptian
| levee on the Des Moines is gone. and
the water of the river finds an outlet
over the farming lands. st. Francis
vile and portion of Alexandria are
| flooded, and the inhabitants have NOV
ed out. The Wabash has three miles
OF track under water west of Alexan
| dria. The bulk of the ice from 100
| miles of the Des Moines is packed in
the lower thirty miles of the river.
Michael P. Sullivan. one of the in
dlcted clerks of election st Chicago,
VINO fed to Canada Immediately after
the frauds were discovered, has told all
he knows of the events of election-day.
tie has made sworn statement. He
says that Hansbrough took from him
an uncompleted tally-sheet. remarking
that IT would not be used. This sheet
was short certain tally-marks, and the
same shortage appears on the forged
paper found in the ballot-box. which
would seem to indicate that it had
been used as q copy. Sullivan saws
positively that no republican ticket
bearing Brands name was seen by the
Judges or clerks. and the fact that
Brand was behind was talked of and
thoroughly understood by them. Fin
ally he declares that Hansbrongh adj
vlsed him to leave the city. The mar
ratlve is detailed and authentic, having
been revised by Sullivan himself, and
is the first statement made by him as
to his connection with the election
frauds in the Eighteenth Ward.
Acting upon the suggestion of Presi-
dent Cleveland, Gen, Weaver. of Iowa.
and the Hon. Sidney Clarke, of Kan
sas, representatives of the Oklahoma
settlers, held lengthy conference at
Washington Tuesday with Secretary
Lamar. The Secretary was made &C.
quainted for the first time with the
condition Of offofVo in J,.l;o- m