The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1889-12-28

An unlawful state of affairs has been
discovered in Oklahoma and Indian
Territory, criminals having been unlaw-
fully punished and court expenses un.
lawfully incurred.
Mrs DEHART, Of Templeton, Ind,
has secured new lord and master in
such a way as to make an early and
lively visit of the White Caps very
probable event.
IT is reported from Tangiers that ow-
ing to the action Of Consul Lewis in the
seizure of firearms, the government has
cabled to Washington demanding that
he be recalled.
JoHN j. COULTER, Appointment farmer
and horse-dealer, OF Churubusco, Ind,
shot himself on the 18th. He died in
twenty minutes. 1t is not known wheth-
er the shooting was accidental or with
suicidal intent.
The trial of the negro, John Williams,
for the murder of Dan Cronin at Colo
RADIO, Tex, October so, came up in the
District Court on the 18th. Insanity was
the plea put up by the defense, and the
jury gave him thirty years in the peni-
tentiary.
Miss GRACE PEDLEY, an English act
ress, claims that Edward ]. Henley, who
recently married Miss Mary Hampton,
and is now in California, is her husband,
and she applied TO New York police
court, on the 18th, for warrant for his
arrest.
THE small village OF ELLINGTON, Tenn.
is considerably stirred up over the pres
ence there of two strangers, who, it is
said, are searching for large treasure
buried near there during the war by a
| party of soldiers, all OF whom except one
subsequently lost their lives
AT Gate City, Ala, on the nth, blast
prematurely exploded, instantly killing
Irving Owens and fatally wounding Bob
Crawford. The men were working in
ike quarry under the impression that
the dynamite had been exploded the
night before.
GREEN BRAXToN, colored, was convict
cd Of murder in the first degree at the
City Court at Montgomery Ala, on the
nth. Judge Arlington sentenced him
to be hanged January IA. Braxton MUIR
dered and robbed J. $. Pugh, an old man
living near Montgomery, last summer.
On the 18th, Judge David j. Brewer
was confirmed as Associate Justice OF
the Supreme Court of the United States
TIE Sampson Low Publishing Com
pany of London is preparing to publish
in one volume the letters Of Stanley
and Emin Pasha, many of which have
never been alluded to in the press
though among the most important of the
series.
THE affection Of the ear from which
the Emperor Of Germany has suffered
more or less for several years, has as
sumed phase more alarming than an!
of the attacks he has heretofore expe
rienced. He is being subjected to con
slant treatment for the disorder, ant
suffers excruciating pains
The students of the Russian universi
ty at Odessa indulged in riotous demon
strations, on the 18th, which it was nee
essary for the police to use extraordi
nary force to quell The university wa
; ordered closed.
EMIN PAsHA's physicians announced
on the 18th, that their patient was cor
valescent.
A PORTUGUESE South African Con
pany has been definitely constituted t
develop the possessions of Portugal j
that country.
ARTICLES Of incorporation were file
at Mitchell, S. d.. on the 18th, for ne'
railroad line from Omaha to Fores
City. The name Of the line will be tn
Omaha & South Dakota Railway Con
pany; capital stock, S5,OoO,OOO. Th
length of the road will be about 81
miles,