The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1890-01-04
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

-feis oNefpOMtFeu Lufee OulclalS IN the
bake-shop, scaled the walls and escaped.
Had they desired, they could have Sc
cured the keys, which were on the per-
son of Keeper Brennan, and let 500 des-
peradoes loose.
THE United States war-ship Enter
prise arrived at Gibraltar on the 10th.
Several of her officers and crew we're
suffering from influenza, and the ship
was consequently quarantined, where
upon sho proceeded westward,
THE influenza, which is almost epi-
demic in Paris, is assuming more seri-
GUS type than that which characterized
it at the outset. Many cases have de-
veloped into pneumonia with fatal re-
suits.
THE Provincial Government of Para,
Brazil, has established in its own inter-
est monopoly of the India rubber trade
against which many exporting houses in
Para, chiefly American and French,
have emphatically protested.
THE Russian influenza has reached
the Rocky mountains. Three-fourths
of the citizens of Denver are suffering
from il. Reports from Cheyenne are to
the effect that that city is similarly af-
fected.
LATE reports from the scene OF the
rioting at Jessup, Ga, place the num-
Der killed at ten.
The city solicitor of Philadelphia has
decided that the Eight-Hour law is APP
plicable to the departments under con-
troll of the city government The law
was enacted by the Pennsylvania Legis-
iature twenty-one years ago, but has re-
mained dead letter until attention was
recently called to it by the United
Labor League.
THREE workmen were injured, one of
them fatally, by the falling of scaffold
at the new building of the Thompson
Houston Electric Light Company at
Omaha, Neb., on the 2sth.
TIE United States cruiser Charleston
went into commission, on the Goth, at
San Francisco, Captain George c. Remy
taking command. Commodore Benham
and his officers and many citizens wit
messed the hoisting of the flags, and the
band played 'The Star Spangled Ban
ner." The Charleston will probably
not be ready for sea until February.
A SEVERE shock of earthquake oc-
Cured at Acireale, Sicily, on the Goth,
throwing down several houses and bury
ing their occupants beneath the ruins.
ZAALBERG's immense carpet manu-
featuring works at Leyden, Holland,
were destroyed by fire on the Goth The
loss is very heavy and large number of
operatives are thrown out of work.
DURING the temporary absence of
Mrs. Lena Schip from her home in
Omaha, on the Goth, the house caught
fire and her three children, boy OF
seven, girl of four and six-months-
old baby boy, who were locked in the
house, were burned to DEATH A hun
dred people witnessed the casualty, but
were unable to save the imprisoned
children.
THE Pope has sent an autograph let
ter to Dom Carlos congratulating him
upon his accession to the Portuguese
throne.
The National Bank of Mexico has de-
clared dividend of six per cent. on ac-
count Of the current years profits, and
will probably declare nine per cent. ad-
ditional later on.
THE Auditor and Public Examiner of
South Dakota are looking into the af-
fairs of the livestock insurance COM
panies of that State, and the latter are
rapidly dropping out of existence.
JAMES SMITH, the New York letter
carrier who shot and killed his two
children, aged respectively two years
and eleven months, on November % last,
was placed on trial, on the 27th, before
Judge Gildersleeve. The jury adiudged
him insane, and he was committed to an
insane asylum.
THERE have been several deaths in
Vienna from diseases that began with
influenza.
THREE nuns of the order OF st. Fran
els have been imprisoned at Munich for
cruelty to their pupils.
THE Brazilian Consul General, Saliva
dore Mendonoa, telegraphed G. r. Flint
& Co, of New York, on the 2Tth, that he
had received cables from Brazil prepar-
ing him for bad news. He continued,
however, to have confidence in the
strength Of the government.
THE stockholders of the Bells Gap
and the Clearfield & jefferson Railroad
companies voted, on the 27th, to consoli-
date under the name Of the Pennsyl-
vania & Northwestern Railroad Com
pany.
w. DAVIS, day telegraph operator at
Peach Springs, Ariz., was shot and
killed, on the night of the Goth, near the
telegraph Office in that place. o. L.
Abrose, the night operator, has been ar
rested, charged with the shooting.
PoRrteAL, Germany and Italy will
shortly send a circular note TO the Pro
visional Government of Brazil protest
ing against that governments scheme in
regard to the naturalization of foreign
ers residing in Brazil
HENRY LoHMANS, aged seventy years,
prominent German Turner and free
thinker of Baltimore, Md, died on
Christmas. and the remains were Gre
mated at Loudon Park on the 27th.
Two THOUSAND persons in Lisbon
have the influenza, including the Queen
and Senior Gomez, the Foreign Minister.
IN a freight wreck on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad near Altoona, Pa, on the
2Tth, sixteen cars were demolished, four
engines wrecked and Fireman Charles
English injured so that he died The
wreck was caused by one of the trains
parting on the mountain.
PRINCESS THERESA CHRISTINA MARIA.
ex-Empress of Brazil, died atEOporto,
Portugal. on the 2sth. She was z
daughter Of Francis l.. King Of the Two