Western cyclone., 1886-12-30
NEWS SUMMARY.

ing his CdICIe, were released on $4UO
bail. They were caught by mob on
Wednesday, taken to scene Of the MUIR
der and riddled with bullets, each re-
ceivlug not less than forty shots. Sandy
Smith and George Moss, the other MUIR
derers, are in jail awaiting trial
Mrs. Juliet Cunningham, who was
seriously injured some time ago by
jumping from street car Of the Peo-
Plies line, which was in imminent dan
ger of colliding with railroad train at
South and Popular streets crossing, St.
Louis, was awarded $4,000 damages,
Friday, by tie jury of the circuit court,
G. NJ. Hamlin, station agent at Penn
Yam, n. Y, and his plramour, Muriel
Alderman, before retiring Thursday
night, each took morphine with suicidal
intent and slept foI twenty.fonr hours,
when, being aroused from his stupor,
Hamlin shot the girl in the breast and
sent bullet into his OVID head. Tie
woman was killed, but Hamlin still
lives.
The house and barn Of Widow Keane,
at East Cairo, were burned Monday
and Johnnie Stone was burned to death.
The house was insured for 1000. The
barn is said to have been full Of corn.
An intoxicated man giving his name
as James B. Cleveland, and claiming to
be a cousin of the president, was fined
SO at Cleveland, Ohio, Monday, and
sent to the work house for thirty days
in default.
Mathieson s. Co., London bankers.
have placed for King Kalakaua, a new
loan of 100000 at per cent. pre-
mum.
Mrs. Nellie WEIGH, widow of Water
bury, Conn, who went to New York
with ard married James Egan, and was
upbraidcd by her brothers for the act,
cut her throat Wednesday night aid can
not recover. She is pretty and has some
property.
l.. r. Herson & Sons tannery, at
South Berwick, Me-, burned, Monday
morning. The loss is estimated at from
$4,000 to 100000; insurance, s $4,000
Charles Hamilton, wealthy farmer
living near Lynp'Station. Ind, went to
COnnorsville last Tuesday, drew large
SUN OF money from the bank, and has
not since been seen.
George Rice, of Marietta, Ohio, began
suit Friday, at Louisville, against the
Standard Oil company and the Louisville
e. Nashville railway, claiming 100000
damages, and alleging that the defend
ants conspired to secure freight discrim-
nations against him.
Between and o'clock Friday morn.
ing the people living along West Coal
street IN the northwestern section of
Shenandoah, Pa, were aroused by
creaking noise and swaying houses, pro-
duced by a cave-in, which took fnl,r1
four acres of that section Of the town,
upon which stand upward of fifty
houses. The greatest alarm prevailed
from o'clock until after daylight. At
ter the surface sank, houses swayed and
tottered and frightened the people.
Many of them, with children in their
arms, ran IN search Of places of safety,
while men collected their most portable
property and conveyed it from the
doomed district. The surface settled
from two to four feet and damaged
property To the extent Of $50, 300 to
$4,000. The cave.in was caused by the
workings of KOhinoor colllery which is
located under that portion of the town.
The freight conductors on the entire
line of the Louisville, New Albany &
Chicago railway went on strike Mon
day, demanding an advance of 2! to 5
per mile and allowance for lost tine
wAich was refused. Freight trains from
one end Of the road to the other were
tied up.
Commissioner Coleman, of the de
partment OF Agriculture, received a tel
egram from his agent at Dallas, Texas,
in relation to the recent outbreak Of the
cattle disease in that state. He claims
that the disease is tuberculosis and that
he has seen no evidence of the Conta
gious pleuro- pneumonia.
Eleven prisoners from the Indian
country, among them Sandy Smith and
George Moss, charged with murder, and
William Alexander, charged with rape,
arrived in FIT. Smith, Ark, Monday. The
latter committed his crime on the per
son OF his 10.ycar-old step-daughter
while they were picking cotton in a
field. Smith, Moss, Dick, Butler and
Factor, on the Goth of last month, went
to the woods in Red River county, Choc-
taw nation, TO steal beef, with the I'M
deritanding thSt if any one should come
upon them while they were skinning it
they would kill him. They shot beef,
and about that time George Taft, farm
er, came up, and they killed him. But
Ter and Factor were citizens of the Choc-
taw nation and were arrested by the
Choctaw authorities, and it is reported
that they have been lynched. Sandy
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