The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-04
HE CLARION
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DIphtherla has within i've weeks
swept off twenty-five children at Full
Ierton, Nebraska.
In the Nebraska house, the commit
tee on railroads has decided to report
a Scent rate bill.
Mrs. Griffith, sister of General
Grants mother, died 81 batavia, Ohio,
at the age az o. years.
The widow of o. III. Browning. ex-
secretary OF the interior, died Friday
morning, at Quincy Illinois.
AT the HOugh well, in Washington.
pennsylvania, heavy flow of gas was
found at depth of ! 800 feet.
The Western Export association has
established new pool III high wines,
and raised the price to sl.13.
A dynamite cartridge was discovered
anh'ug the klnunng wood at the new
engine house in Racine, Monday.
There were $50 failures in the United
States J; 81 week. Il decrease ct 50 as
c"'p"ared with the preyiou- week.
almsh0use OF Ingham county.
Michigan, situated near Mason. was
eee.' Dyed by lire on Thursday night.
Capt. Phelan declares his intention
10 plost cute o Donovan Rosa and his
gang tor consplring 10 murder him.
IN both house : Of the Wisconsin leg
islature john G. Spooner received q
majority OF votes for United St..-s
senator.
Il. +. Brown, a colored lawyer If
Boston, caused the manager Of skating
rink To be fined $50 Tor discriminating
against him.
G.. j. b. Glidden, commander in
The navy. who won aurels in Mo-
bay.died Of consumption 1t CamDi q. %.
Massachusetts.
Tie winter cainivaI az montreal was
N 'uGurutrd Monday in grand STYLE.
ne cIiy Is = ported To be crowded with
American V.sItors.
IL IS reported that the Elcar Thorn
son steel-works at Braddock, Pa. are
about to resume operations with sever
n thousand men.
John. J. Orton. one of the best
known lawyers of Milwaukee. died
Saturday ui-ht. Leaving $500 000 10 his
wife and two children.
james Comode. an aged miser o.
Delph0s, OHIO. was found frozen Il
death in ms hut. and search for
treasure is being made.
Colonel Joseph Ulley. of Illinois,
has persuaded The New York lenisla-
ture IT, resolutions in favor of the
projected L.eCnepln canal.
Forty delegates are in attendance at
the session OF the national board of
trade in Washington. Frederick Fra
ley was reelected president.
Peter Truck. of Eau Claire, Wiscon-
Gin, paid 50 900 for some scattered
tracts OF pine land on the Chippewa
river, aggregating 1918 acres.
Dr. Pierce, OF " orcesteT, Mass, who
He'd a patient by repeated baths OF
i.elosene oil, was sehtenc, 10 two
5ears in The house of correction.
In consequence of recent cuts, the
trunk-iine executive committee has
reduced the tariff TO so cents for first
class from New York to Chicago.
Indian children TO the number of 40
have arrived at Lawrence, Kansas. 10
attend school. \ scrotulous epidemic
swept off three of them last week.
The late Charles ii. Rogers. a bank
president in Philadelphia, left in trust
an estate valued at S2.O0oO'0 to build
home for iIiirm and aged persons.
An Irishman who has been in the
United States bul TWO weeks has APP
Piled tO the mayor of Chicago for Il
position under the city government.
A special train of twelve cars has
lett Dodge City with "A mule train to
be employed III transporting supplies
from Caldwell to the troops in OKLA
homa.
Two of the pioneers OF Coldwater,
Michigan-Phlo III. CIippen and Ruth
III. CT ppen-Tere married. on Tuesday
evening. Egoh is Sc 7nty-tive years
OF ae.'.
Thankful Tanner, of Cleveland. has
brought suit against Mrs. James A.
Garfield for $500, for injuries sus-
tanned by being run over by her car
riagc.
At Hamilton. Ontario, John Cash
told some policemen that he drove the
cab conveying the assasSIns of Caven-
dish and Burke through ri puiX Park,
Dublin.
Alfred Sheldon an En- dish citizen,
who disappeared last May at Kansas
City, and was believed 10 have been
kidnapped os made his appearance in
A brokeifeau threw a ST. Paul train
from the track, near Hampton. Iowa,
seriously injuring six passengers. who
were taken 10 Charles City for medical
attention.
The Central Trust company of New
York has brought suit IN the circuit
court at indianapolis To foIeclose Il
mortgage Oh ali the lines OF the Wa
bash road.
James w. Brooks, a New York law
yer whose faith was one of the pro-
IrittoTS oi the Express. has made an as
slgnmcnt, having lost fortune ui
SlJJ.t0J.
At Winterset, Iowa, after suffering,
from poverty, Mrs. Mary Dooley pois-
Onpd herself and her son and daughter
Ony the latter survived the effects of
the drug.
A semi-annual dividend of ! per
cent. has been declared by the Ca
madam Pacific road, i'll addition TO the
guarantee OF II per cent. made by the
government.
1t is predicted that New York the
alter managers will draw in their horns
considerably next season. The #ctors'
fund is being called upon pretty heavi-
iy nowadays.
a bill has been introduced in the
Massachusetts senate to unish persons
making or kel ping explosive COM
rounds with the intention TO destroy
lite or property.
During the month of December, 1884,
the value of merchandise exports from
this country WAS SCI, 294, $40, or about
SS0oOOUO a day. This has been exceed
ed but twice before.
Surveys have been commenced at
Omaha, under the supervision of John
A. Barbach, for a raj way and wagon
bridge To Council Bluffs, under q con-
gressional charter
The Chinese in San Francisco are
alarmed IN regard TO the fate OF the
steamer San Pablo, which sailed for
Yokohama forty days ago with nine
hundrt of their race.
Anton l}urster. a wealthy brewer oil
Fort Madison. Iowa, who was driver
10 the verge of insanity by the passage
u. Il lou an
Saturday relieved bv death.
The late Harvey ID. Parker, of Bos.
ton. left an state which is appraised
at Sl..72,OO0. His personal papers
show unpaid loans of over SlOO,0OC tt
impecuniouS acquaintance.
The governor of Lower California
has arrived at Yuma, Arizona, in the
hope of securing the return of the
Mexican mutineers recently captured
by the United States troops.
The committee engaged in arrangins
for the inauguration of Presid9nt-elect
Cleveland expect to have one hundred
thousand men in the procession, will
one hundred bands of music.
n. ii. Paaren, the Illinois veterin.
arian, ordered the slaughter of sil
horses at Taylorville, Illinois, on &C
count of CHAMBERS, and had their man
gers and feeding-troughs burned.
Twenty leading physicians of Bos
ton. when invited to confer with MAY
or O'Brien, agreed that the cholera il
certain 10 make its appearance mex
summer in spite of rigid quarantine.
At the door of Joliet prison. afte
having served term of two years fo
burglary, Michael Murphy was arreste,
bv "A Chicago detective for the murde
of Joel Prescott, the bath-houSe keep
ser.
In building in New York in which
the British consul general has his offic,
there was discovered a round tin DO,
containing a quantity of blue powder
end attached thereto was a Lighted
fuse.
The outbuildings of the insane hos
pitai at indianapolis, valued at $S5,
Coo. We're burned early Tuesday morn