The southern argus., 1891-12-10
GENERAL REVIEW
Or the Worlds Happenings for
a Week, In Brief.
Foreign and Domestic Pointers About In
divlduals-The General Course Of
Events-The Condition of I'll.
nances and CropA


At Paris recently the factories, plan
and good will of the SOciete des Metau1
were sold at auction for s., 900, 900.
At Madisonville, KY, burglars blew
open the safe of the Hopkins County
bank and secured s6, 500 in cash.
The mystery surrounding the decom
posed body of the man recently found
In cornfeld near Bloomington, ILL.,, i:
still unexplained.
I The trial of ex-City Treasurer Peake
accused of embezzling $4,000 of the
cltys money, is progressing slowel al
Kansas City.
James Moore and George Smith and
wife were arrested at Houston for {
burglary committed in Sherman, Tex.
recently.
Castleton, VT, has organized vigi.
lance committee for the protection ol
the town from frebugs, who have start
ed six fires in as many days.
News comes from the Navajo reserva.
tton of the killing of Navajo SAM" a
trader on the reservation, by his clerk,
who got the drop on him during quar-
rel.
Marion Wood was landed in the Paoli,
Ind, Jail, on a warrant sworn out by the
widow of J. F. Webb, charging Wood
with his murder on the 18th of Novem-
Der.
David Ball, saloon keeper, Jim La
rue and Jack Wright are in Jail at Co
lumbus, Ind, charged with robbing
cars on the JeffersOnville, Madison &
| Indianapolis road.
Another married fool, Charles +.
Smith of Johnstown, n. Y. attempted
to kill Miss Welsh of that place, be-
cause she did not reciprocate his I'M
| hallOwed passion.
Will Adkins, alias big Foot Bill"
undertook to run a colored dance at
Wharton. Tex, and the result is that
he is under medical treatment with his
body full of lead.
The attempted enforcement of an at
tachment on the cotton crop of a man
named Cox, near Hemphill, Tex, re-
suited in the killing of Cox and another
man named Travis.
Mrs. Elizabeth Simmons, widow liv-
ing near Tranquility. O., was robbed of
S3, 600 by three masked men. who bound
and gagged her, her son and her daugh-
ter
A rumor is current in London that
the bank of France has agreed TO loan
Russia e24, 600, 900 in silver at 81 per
cent. the loan being made payable in
gold at the end of seven years.
Mrs. Tousley, who avenged the de.
bauching of her daughter by shooting
her second husband, Albert J. Touslev,
In the Austin, Tex, Jail. last May, has
been discharged from custody.
John Pryor. his brother George, the
Collins brothers, Ed. and George. are
under arrest for whipping Charles Gray
near Pennington, Ky. The prisoners
are white caps.
Henry T. Johnson was shot and dan
gerously wounded in the Buckingham
theatre, Louisville, KY, by d. p. Neg
ley, whom Johnson was abusing on ac-
count of gossip about his (Johnson's) |
wife.
Charles Bisson, who narrowly escap. |
ed lynching at Indianapolis, Ind, for |
q criminal assault on young girl, has |
been convicted of the crime and sen.
fenced to q years Imprisonment.
Labanon, Mo-, Jail has the distinc-
NAOAA w
puted slayer OF fourteen men. The par
ticular crime charged against him this
time is the killing of deaf mute named
in Maries county.
Frederick Mcguire and his reputed
mistress, Mrs. Sarah A. Brown, Charg-
ed with the murder of Mrs. Amelia J.
Gregory at Middletown. N. Y, have
been arrested near Galeton, Pa, and
taken back to Mlddletown for trial.
Anthony Comstock, the suppressor of
obscene publications. swooped down on
an antiquarian bookseller named Cas-
per at Milwaukee and confiscated 81. 900
worth of books and photographs besides
landing the bookseller in Jail.
W. s. Taylor, the real estate man.
who disappeared from Kansas CITY four
ago with his Swear -old son, was
found in Cleveland, O., by his wife. who
effected reconciliation and will remain
there with him.
John F. Gross, variety actor, was
fatally stabbed at the Phoenix theatre,
Durango, Col, by Maggie Montgomery
his former mistress. who became ieal-
Gus by reports that Gross was about to
marry an actress.
The Marquette club OF st. Louis gave
B notable reception in honor of the gol-
den cubIlee of Archbishop Kenrick.
BY an explosion of dynamite at Hav-
erstraw, n. Y, four men were blown to
pieces and fifty instantly killed.
Fl. J. Dean OF Dallas. Tex, was abdu.
Gated Tuesday while driving with two
other men.
Five members OF a Detroit family
were burned to death in their home the
other night.
Justice Woodman has fined the anar.
chists recently arrested by the Chicago
police.
Facts lately learned in regard to the
St. Louis & San Francisco train robbery
put peculiar light on the matter. The
oss is about 100000.
Yale university received S343, 934 in
gifts during the last year.
Four English Quaker delegates have
arrived in Russia TO visit the famine {
stricken districts. 4
The Mexican government has en-
cred into q contract with the colonizer,
Reeves. to establish agricultural colon s
sts in the state OF Pueblo. {
The car has refused TO receive a
leputation OF noblemen desiring TO pre-
ent an address asking him TO grant
TO Russia "a