The southern argus., 1891-12-03
GENERAL REVIEW
or the Worlds Happenings for
a Week, in Brief.
Foreign and Domestic Pointers About In
divIduals-The General Course Of
Events-The Condition Of FL
nances and Crops

lyn, and that b'bulous burg drink
again.
Rev. James P. Brownson of Washing
ton. Pa, will celebrate his fiftieth min
lsterial anniversary to-day.
The amount of At per cent bonds re
deemed Thursday was $4,000, makin
total to date of $2l, 780, 900.
The Chicago board of trade was tn
scene of lively scrap Tuesday, il
which blood was drawn. but 40 arrest
made,
The Monon block, Chicago, sixteel
stories high, has been sold to a syndi
cate OF four, representing Chicago, New
York, San Francisco and Topeka, foI
1915, 900.
Advices from Canton, China, state
that the anti-foreign Chinese in the in
terror are numbering and otherwise per
scouting those friendly to foreigners OF
missionaries.
Melbourne. the rain maker says he is
In no way identified with the GOodland
(Kan. company, which announces the
purchase of an interest in his rain pro-
ducing secret.
Robert Carter, alias Fulton, is in jail
at Guthrie, O. T., charged with the Sc
duction and ruin of 15-year-old Agnes
Springfield, daughter of a farmer living
near Mormon.
The proposed Seviere-H Harrison duel
at Jacksonville, Fla, has been post
poned by the would-be duelists, and
placing them under bonds of 81 900 and
70, 600 respectively, to keep the peace.
Wilson Walker and Joe Thomas of
Preston, Ca, were rivals in love, and
Monday night Thomas called Walker
out from a dance and shot him dead.
Thomas was arrested, but escaped dur
ing the night.
Joseph w. Kelley. an old soldier of
Kosciusko, Ind, has been missing since
he had his pension check cashed at Wa
bash on the 18th INST, and his friends
suspect that he was murdered for his
money.
The remains of Mrs. Gay, widow of
the late Congressman Cav of Louisiana.
were shipped from New Orleans for St.
Louis Tuesday, to be Inferred bv the
side of her husband and his father. who
are buried there.
Representatives of English capital
have obtained an option on all the brew
cries in British Columbia. and will
change some of them to lager beer brew
cries, all the lager consumed there now
being imported.
The women Of New Bremen, O.. raid
ed disreputable house in that neigh
borhood Sunday night, and nearly kill
ed four frail sisters by whipping them
On their bare backs with switches. caus-
ing blood to run in torrents.
Litigation between the Jaybird and
factions of Fort Bend coun-
ty,. Tex, was ended Tuesday by the ac-
lulttal of Hope Gannoway, charged
with the attempted murder of Ell. III.
Frost, leader of the Jaybirds.
a report has reached Yokohama, Ja-
pan, that body of Russian troops has
crossed into China by way of Siberia.
War between those countries is not an
lclpated, but Russia will insist on large
concessions.
Edward S. de CObain, member of par
lament, and deputy grand master of
rish Orange lodges, is rusticatinc in
3oulOgne Sur Mer, France. eyadinp
prosecution for beastly crime. Par.
lament will now be called upon to ex-
el him at its next session.
J. L. Lee and A. J. Hansen, the 16.
ear-Old kids who attempted to rob a
Dubuque street car Monday night. and
rounded the driver, Locker, were ar
ested in box car at Oelwine, Iowa.
'ocker is very low, and it is thought he
ill die.
A farmer named Little, living near
[ayden, Ind, while digging a we'll, re-
emily, discovered at a depth of forty
'et, unmistakable evidence of the gla,
lal period, in the shape of we'll pre-
erved trunks of trees, the likes of which ,
D not grow in that section at the pres
Mt time.
Storekeeper Blair of Rio, Ill.,, has
cen robbed so often by burglars that &
9 keeps no money in the safe, and {
aves it unlocked. A couple of profcs |
onals visited the store Monday night. /
rilled holes in the door and then blew I
open, only to find that it was empty.
Id that the safe had not even been t
cked. Y
Wilkes James, the son of a promi- |
ont farmer living near Atlanta, Ga,
as shot and killed Tuesday by his
alOus rival, Ned Jenkins. Both Young I
en- were suffers for the hand and heart 1
a young lady of the neighborhood.
ID meeting on the highwry, engaged /
a duel to the death. Jenkins surren-
ered to the authorities. I
The "Frcnch colonel" Captain An !
,rson, and other aliases. has been con. .
cted OF completely in forgeries com
tilted by his partner in crime, Ever :
d Smith, at London, England, and
ntence postponed. He is supposed to
a noted American criminal, who has q
0rked the confidence game in this !,
untry and the European continent for =
ars.
The latest Washington report is that :
ssistant Secretary of War Grant is \
rely to be promoted to Secretary Proc. e
RS place. 4
Lord Lytton, known in the literary
,rld as "Owen Meredith" was strick- Il
by death while writing poem in his W
droom in Paris, Messages OF condo Il
nee have been sent from all parts of RI
lrope. W
It Is stated that the famine district in
lssia is half as large as the United
ates, and contains 1000, 600 people
Neither President Harrison nor Sec h
tary Foster are expected 10 have any
ing to say officially about the silver
gotiations.
The remains of the late Governor Ho- " "
. 0f Indiana have bean roTnnvad frOr, t .