The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TWO miles,
Farmers in the vicinity of Grand
Haven, Michigan, report finding in the
woods great numbers of frozen robins.
\ stock train ON the Alton road was
wrecked at Sag bridge by broken
rail. killing one hundred head of cat
tie.
There were 254 failures in the United
States last week. decrease of nine
teen as compared with the previous
week.
John r. Mclean has been appoint
ed receiver of the Cincinnati and East
ern road, and has sent forward his
bond.
A train on the Burlington road was
wrecked near Charlton, Iowa, last Sat
urday evening, injuring six persons Sc
yerely.
Francis E. Warren, nominated by
the president to be governor of Wy0m
ing. is a merchant and banker in that
territory.
Lionel Levy, a prominent grocer of
New Orleans. was killed on the shore
of Lake Pontchartrain by stumbling
upon his gun.
Paul Holman, the irrepressible son
of the Indiana congressman, has been
sent to Texas with field party on a
geological survey.
B. f. Nadal, an elocutionist, was con-
victed by a jury at Winterset. Iowa, of
marrying three women, and viii repent
in the penitentiary.
4 medical journal of New York
states that all alarming symptoms in
General Grants tongue and throat
have entirely disappeared.
Stephen Klais, mine superintendent
at Galena, H., has discovered in Rice
T.,
eXhaustible vein of lead ore.
OIL speculations are responsible for a
defalcation of $4,000 or more by Ed
ward Vogely, bookkeeper of savings
bank at Butler, Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Crandal, of Bloomsbury, n. j.,
died from a fast of forty-eight days,
during which time her weight de-
creased from $50 pounds to l25.
President-elect Cleveland has written
| to Representative Warner expressing
| fears of a financial crisis unless the
coinage of silver dollars be stopped.
4 constitutional amendment was
passed by the California assembly pro-
viding that railroads shall pay a tax of
24 per cent ON their gross earnings.
A medical college at Des Moines
| bought from his mother the remains of
| Cicero Jefferson, who was recently
| lynched for the murder of his father.
| An article written by John r.. Nc
| Lean, casting ridicule on fashionable
! shoemaker of Cincinnati. cost the En-
| Qetirer 81 900 as damages in libel suit.
The annual report of the Illinois
| Central railroad fT 1884 shows a de-
| crease of 1878 $40 in gross revenues and
| in net revenues a decrease of S443,-
| 613.
Mr.. Hendricks, accompanied by his
| wife, private secretary, and half-doZ-
en- personal friends, left Indianapolis
| for Washington in private car Thurs
| day.
The Dakota council has passed a
| bill for a constitutional convention for
the southern portion of the territory,
| to be held next September Mt Sioux
Falls.
The grand jury in New York. with
! out summoning O'DOnOyan Rosa to
testify, found an indictment against
Yseult Dudley for assault with intent
| tokill.
The Mountain institute, at Chappa-
| qua, New York, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being S50,0 900. Seventy-five
children were safely removed in their
| night-clothes.
Thomas Navins. the absconding
mayor of Adrian, Mich, has disap-
peared from Port Townsend, Washing
ton territory, where he has been living
under the name of John b. Voorhees,.
G.. NJ. Todd, who pleaded guilty to
embeZZling Sll5,0O0 from a trust com
pany at Philadelphia, for which he was
| bookkeeper, received a sentence of
| thlrty-two months in the penitentiary.
The petition of Chinese artist of
! Chicago to be allowed to adopt white
| haha was daniaH Inv Iu6na Dranda
for the reason that the child would not
receive suitable education and nurture.
Some wood-sawyers at Gallon, Ohio,
| stopped their work on finding that they
had cut the head from a corpse in a
hollow log. They soon discovered $500
| in money, pair of revolverS, and some
| burglars tools.
Orth Stein, who slew George Freder-
| icks i'll Kansas City, is said to have
| been the leader in a general Jail deliv-
cry at Independence. but colored
prisoner divulged the scheme.
Pitts, one of the mail robbers who
| killed Marshal Casting and his deputy
near Braunfels, Texas, fell dead within
one hundred yards of the train. Y eager,
| his accOmplice, was pursued eight miles
and shot dead.
| The Burlington road has completed
a survey for line of sixty miles from
| Louisiana, Missouri, to Brighton, Hi
/ nois, to secure direct track between
st. Louis and st. Joseph.
a young lady from Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, named Elsa Stebbins, trav-
cling westward with her parents, was
at Detroit treated by a physician with
morphine, from which she died at Kali
amaZoo.
| A train on the Ohio and Mississippi
Road struck broken rail near North
Vernon, Indiana. The rear sleeper
| was thrown down an embankment, a
passenger and the colored porter losing
their lives.
Luis Gonzales, editor of newspa-
per at Morelia, Mexico, who was re-
Gently arrested and released by the
government, was on Tuesday night
killed on the street by five soldiers in
| citizens dress.
| A meteor of enormous size, throwing
| off smoke and flames, passed over Vic
| toria, British Columbia. Monday morn
ing, and was seen by many persons to
| sink into the Sea of Haro, sending up
| cloud of spray.
A Frenchman claiming to be men,
Der of the original Bonaparte family
| has applied to the governor of New
Jersey for protection against people
| who seek to kill every remaining rela-
| 1--WE OF \ apoleon.
Fred Becker, treasurer, of Chippewa
county, Wisconsin, has been missing
for week. His accounts have been
examined. and reveal a deficiency of
nearly $4,000, half of which he is said
to have taken away.
Thomas jackson, crippled veteran
or the Union army, who lived like a
hermit near Jackson, Michigan, being
unable to give his stove proper atten-
ton, died from freezing, with plenty
of wood at his side.
A sewer in the heart of the business
district of Chicago. at the corner of
Clark and Madison streets. eleven feet
DeioW The surface, was found to be
frozen solid, and the ice was removed
with axes and picks.
George NJ. Pullman is said to be still
personally negotiating with W. III.
anderbllt for the transfer of a control
ing interest in the West Shore road
and the harmonizing interests of the
sieeplng-car companies.
In Mcdowell county, West Virginia,
ana the territory adjacent, citizens and
1--we stock are said to be starving. ON
account of the failure of crops last
summer The region is one hundred
miles from railroad.
Arthur p. German, in his effort to be
reelected senator from MARYLAND. will
nave as competitors ex-senator William
PInckney Whyte and Governor Robert
NJ McLane, although the chances are
In favor of the first named.
Mrs. John L. Sullivan has filed an
appllcatlon Tor divorce from her pugi-