The southern argus., 1891-10-22
GENERAL REVIEW
Of the Worlds Happenings for
a Week, in Brief.
Foreign and Domestic Pointers About In
divIduaIs-The General Course OF
Events-The Condition of FL
nances and Crops.

Mrs. Emma Gaines is on trial at Vim
cennes, Ind, for the alleged murder o.
her 2-year-old child.
From Beatrice, Neb., comes the rec
ord OF the murder of 6 4-year-old child
by Christian science healers.
Natural gas has been discovered on
the river bank near Cairo, ILL.,, and il
causing great excitement.
Sir Edward Arnold, K. G. |. E. G. S.
J., the great English poet, sailed from
Liverpool yesterday for New York.
Valuable silver deposits are reported
to have been discovered within seven
miles of West Superior, Wis.
Arrangements are being made to or
ganize the First regiment of Illinois
Sous of Veterans at Springfield.
Elmer E. Carpenter has been arrested
at Mulhall, o. T., charged with raping
q 13-year-old girl, named Matte John
son.
Mrs. Nina Mcbride has obtained di-
vOrce from Robert FL. Mcbride, a we'll
known newspaper man of South Dakota.
Samuel w. Mennelly, travelling for a
Rochester, n. Y, shoe house, was as
phyxiated by gas in Omaha hotel.
Cass Hite was placed in Jail at Provo,
Utah, Tuesday, charged with murder
ing Adolph Kohler at Green river, Sep
TENDER %.
Farmer Smith of Wynnewood, L. T..
was called TO his door Monday night by
two strangers and shot dead. No clue
to the assassins.
Ella Martin was awarded $1,000 dam
ages against Charles Collins of Evans
vile, Ind, for promising to marry her
and not doing so.
Three colored men were killed and
two white men seriously injured by the
falling of the cage at shaft No. 2, Mag
ara Falls tunnel, Tuesday.
Edmund Landers, retired merchant
of Brockton, Mass, was strangled and
robbed on the grave of his only daugL-
ter in daylight
DR.. Massie of Owenton, KY, suspect
ed farmer named Jesse Hanover of w.
ing about him, went after him with
gun, shot him dead in his tracks and
then fed
Fireman Ed Clark was fatally injured
by the ditching of freight train on
the Atlantic and Pacific road near Nav
ajo Springs. N. M.
James Sullivan died at Council Bluffs,
Ia, from the effects of injuries received
during fight with A K Belgium, the
of low joint about two
weeks ago.
Miss Mary Mclaughlin, while in
state of sOmnambulism, walked off the
rear end of a sleeper on the New York
Central, near West Batavia, N. Y, and
was killed.
Levi M. Bates, who was drowned
while boating in New York bav. had
over $4,000 insurance on his life, and
had recently applied for $4,000 more.
A gambling house at Sebrees CITY,
KY, was raided by white caps Tuesday
night, and three men, accompanied Nv
three frail females. taken to the woods
and switched into Inconsistencies.
Mrs. Clara Wagner of Newark, Ind,
from her residence several
days since, and no trace of her could be
found, but on Tuesday her body was
found in the cistern of her dwelling.
bearing marks of strangulation.
Fine, foreign made dresses to the val
le of $40, 900 were seized for duties by
the customs officers at New York.
Actor Curtis was held to the superior
court at San Francisco, Cal, for the
shooting of Policeman Grant several
weeks ago.
BY the bursting of a mammoth steel
valve at Park Bros steel works, Pitts
burg, Pa, Z. G. Ehling was crushed to
ieath.
There are only five murder cases be-
'Ore the criminal court at Lexington,
KY, and yet dram shops are licensed.
Frank PeaskOnisky, brutal Pole, is
n Jail at Brooklyn, N. J., for kicking a
in the stomach and causing the
1eath of her unborn child.
At GAINESVILLE, O., Mrs. Charles Har-
lis publicly horsewhipped VIM. Owings
or leading her husband into bad com
Dany.
A couple of affectionate Slavs got
drunk at Leith, Pa, and while kissing
each other one of them bit off about an
inch off the others tongue.
Joe Anderson was arrested in Arkan-
sas City, Kan, charged with the muir
Ter of three men in Bell county, Ky.
He is q years old.
Governor Francis refuses to commute
the death sentence of Thomas A. Will
hanson, convicted of murder at Soda
liza. Mo-, and he will hang on the 3lst
Inst.
The president of the national republi-
ian league has appointed the sub-exec-
ltive committees. f. c. Little OF Kan
sas, is among the members appointed.
Jules Flores. a suspected Mexican
was found swinging from
d tree. his body filled with lead, on the
Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
The Holy Coat is still attracting Wis
Itors to Treves, a large number OF
French pilgrims being on their way
now to pay homage to the gum pre-
served garment.
Playing tie races has separated Dave
Eckel, young New York postotfice
clerk, from his wife and three children,
and placed him behind the bars for rob-
bling the mails.
Jake Bunker, bridge tender at the
Debrosses street, New York. ferry.
wound up spree by jumping from the
bridge into the slip with an iron pipe
sixty pounds attached to his
neck, which anchored him securely to
the bottom.
At St. Louis the only business trans
acted at the Brewer Masters National
convention, Tuesday, was
he reading of the reports of the presi-
lent. secretary and treasurer.
Lucretia Elkins, the pretty 20-year-
I'D daughter OF q farmer living near
Hanco.k. Mo, sent her spirit to- the
,choless shore by the revolver route
No cause assigned.
The dead body of Daniel Wooten was
ound lying in front OF his cabin At San
nY.ap1o (nrinrrS Monday He had