The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1889-04-25
THE WEEKS HAPPENINGS
Picked Up And Pat Into Pointed Par
agrapl,s by Our Patient Pencil
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For a week past the street carmen
Of Minneapolis have been ont on
strike. The service Is utterly de-
moralised in consequence.
A large cotton factory Is amongst
the '.to hes" at Meridian. Northern
capitalists are at the helm and. no
doubt, the factory will soon be an en-
tity. We hope il may.
Thos +. Scanlan, otherwise the new
England Piano Co., doing business at
Boston and New York, threw up the
sponge last week. They are "out Of
tune" to theamount Of 100000.
New York on Friday had the big
gest blaze in its history. Eight COM
plete blocks were burned down and
the damage is enormous. Several
lives were lost in the confiagration.
The little principally Of Bulgaria is
threatened with invasion by cxiles
who have been banished from the
State in late years. Rather odd for a
handful Of men to take the law into
their own hands like this.
Perry Wiene, a well-known citizen
of BrocktOn county, w. Va, was on
Wednesday telling a tree, when il
broke across the stump and fell, de-
molishing his house and killing his
wife and three children.
Goals from the firebox Of locomo.
tive caused the destruction Of a
bridge on the International Railroad
near Austin, Tex, on Thursday, and
several trains were DELAYED in conse.
quence. No lives were lost.
Last Wednesday 5000 emigranti
embarked from Liverpool for the us
Some more "boomers7 for Okla.
homa. The Cherokee territory will
certainly have TO be taken in, for non,
Of them win ever dream Of coming
South.
A new iron foundry started up a
] steubenvillel Ohio, s3weck. which
gave employment to sod men. Af.cI
working three days they Kicked
and came out on strike It is mor
than likely that the strike will caus'
the shutting down of the foundry.
The Paris exposition win be a granC
affair, the far-famed Eiael tower
the modern rival Of the Biblical tower
Of Babel-is now completed and hai
already been visited BY thousands o
sightseers. At 50 ahead the towel
alone will afford handsome revenue
Things in the horticultural portions
Of our State are beginning to hum
making considerably more noise thi
season than heretofore, owing to thl
most propitious season on record
Hope they maygo on and prosper, fol
it all helps the great cause Of upbuild
ing our State.
As Mrs. A. II. Lucas, Of Carthage
Missouri, accompanied by her tw,
daughters and a hired man, were at
tempting to ford a swollen creek tw,
miles below that city in a wagon Las
Friday evening, the rushing water
carried the whole outfit down the rag
ing stream and all perished, as wei
as the horses. No bodies have We
been recovered.
A crazy negro prisoner Of Raymond
Miss, on Wednesday, while engage
on the prison farm cutting weed
murderously assaulted his iailol
Robert Harris. Harris was engage0
mending the negro's hoe, when tn
Ilunatic seized an axe, crept up behin
Harris and nearly severed his hoa
from his body The negro aod, bu
was caught and locked up.
a large transatlantic steamer, ID
Danmark, has recently been passe
in sinking condition in mid-ocean b
several steamers. As all her boat
were gone it was thought She ha
been in collision with some vessel an
that her passengers had boon iake
of. Up to the present however D
news whatever has been heard of th
700 passengers Of the ill-fated vess'
and It Is feared all hands are lost
later telegram says the passengers an
crew are safe.
Considerable excitement has bee
occasioned in New York during Oh
past week, the occasion being the tai
ing down Of the telegraph and tell
phone poles. which for number ,