The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1890-01-04
MAGNOLIA, MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY, JANUARY A. $780,


THE steamers Ovington and Queen
Victoria collided, on tho Goth, during a
fog on the river Clyde. The ovington
was so badly damaged that she sank al
most instantly. Five persons were
drowned. The Queen Victoria was
damaged, but remained ahoat.
The Emperor of Germany has ratified
the scheme for lottery the proceeds Of
which are to be used in acquiring site
for monument to the late Emperor
William l. There are to be 200, 600
tickets, at 200 marks each.
GEORGE w. SWAIN, an instructor in
mathematics at Harvard College, died,
on the goth, at the Massachusetts,
Hospital in Boston, of the Russian in
fuenza.
IT is discovered that the force Of
secret agents of Austria in Italy has
been considerably increased OF late, the
special objess Of watchfulness being the
movements of the Irredentist party.
GENERAL VAN NovsKy, Russian Min
lister Of War, recently proposed that
only members of noble families should
be made officers of the army. The Car
has rejected the proposition.
The situation in regard to the infu.
enza epidemic in Paris shows no sign of
Improvement. The epidemic is increas-
ing at Munich. In Berlin the disease Is
accompanied by dengue fever. The or
dinary symptoms affecting the nose,
larynx or windpipe are absent, but the
patients suffer from rheumatic pains,
and the temperature is high, often reach
inc 10+ degrees. These symptoms dis
appear after three days.
THE body of Miss Sarah II. Nichols
was found frozen in the ice of the Merri-
mac river near Lawrence, Mass, on the
goth. Miss Nichols, whose home was in
Belvidere, was recently swindled out OF
$1,000 by Charles Metcalf. She had
been despondent over this fact and un-
doubtedly committed suicide
NJ. CoNsTANs, French Minister OF the
Interior, has been elected Senator for
the Department of Haute Garonne.
WESTMINSTER, British Columbia, suf-
fered loss Of s64, 600 by fire on the Goth.
A SHOE factory at Portland, Ore, was
burned by an exploding lamp; loss $780,
900.
JERRY O'NEIL and wife, OF Mount
Sterling, Mich, were shot dead in bed
by an unknown assassin.
THE wife Of Judge Barrett Of the New
York Supreme Court,is in an insane asy.
lum at Dresden, Saxony.
VICTORIA MISUNDERSTANDING who
created sensation in New York few
years ago by clipping with her fathers
coachman and finally adopting the,stage
as profession, is dying with consump-
ton in her fathers home.
EXTREME suffering is reported as ex-
isting in Stevens and adjoining counties
in Southwestern Kansas owing to the
failure of the crops and scarcity of fuel.
Unless aid is speedily rendered many
families will perish from cold and hun
ger.
HENRY o. TRUBENBAcII, of Fort
Wayne, Ind, has just presented to the
German Military Society of that city a
magnificently framed live-size photo
graph of the King Of Saxony which His
Majesty forwarded to him from Dres-
den.
In an Oakland (cal.) boarding house,
on the Goth, Mrs. Jane Erwin and her
two daughters, Mary and Bessie, aged
sixteen and twelve respectively, were
found dead in bed, having been asphyx-
lated by gas. They had just arrived
from Cole Camp, Mo-, en- route to Ven
tura County, Cal, where the husband Of
Mrs. Erwin has ranch.
JAMES A. BYRNs, an inveterate cigar
cite smoker, aged twenty years, COM
mitted suicide at Terre Haute, Ind, on
the evening of the 29th, by putting a
bullet throug b his head.