The southern argus., 1892-01-28

huAk HLS Vi y IHldS CHCdmpmCHss WHICH
will meet in that city in August
HEPLER, who recently smashed the
heads of Mrs. Cooley and her son to q
jelly, was taken from the Jail at Ne
vada, Mo, and hanged by mob at
Lamar.
o. A. WILLIAMS, a luuatic in the Dix
mont insane asylum at Pittsburgh, Pa,
choked an old imbecile to death and
tried to kill another insane man.
Dun & Co.'s weekly review reports
trade as unusually bright this week.
The sit"Etion was excellent In every
direction.
In collision between an excur sion
and regular passenger train near Blue
Water, N. NJ, on the 22d five trainmen
were killed.
THE Pittsburgh, Pa, Post was found
guilty of libeling Senator Quay. The
paper denounced the verdict in the hot
test terms
IT was lately reported that plan for
the reorganization of the whisky trust
was being considered It was proposed
to unite the distillers not in the whisky
trust on basis of a capitalization of
$35, 600, 900 and then unite with that
combination the eight distillers now
controlled by the trust making grand
joint stock company, part American
and part English, with a capitalization
of $75, 600, 900 or SEQ. 900, 900 with abso-
lutte monopoly of the manufacturing of
spurious liquors.
Two of the leaders in the recent
outbreak in Ascension, Mexico, have
been sentenced to be shot. Others are
being tried and other executions will
follow.
DURING services in a church at Slobod-
skoi, Russia, the roof gave way upon
the worshipers and fifty were either
killed or injured
1T was learned on good authority that
this government is endeavoring to ar
range for an international silver con-
vention and that negotiations to that
end are now in progress with Great
Britain, Germany and France.
A CHICAGO, Rock ISLAND s. PACIFIC
train which left Chicago for Davenport,
Ia, left the track near Blue Island and
rolled into ditch through the rails
spreading. Six passengers were injured.
A REPRESENTATIVE audience filled
Lenox Lyceum in New York on the
22d and watched Schaefer and Slosson
cross cues for the cham pionship of the
billiard world. The result was:
Schaefer, 500; Slosson. 500.
The Russian government with the
view of averting a repetition of the
famine, has decided to make expert
ments in cooperative farming in the
provinces OF Saratoff and Samara, and
if the enterprise proves successful other
plants will be allotted in other provin-
ces-
MARSHAL FIELD & Co.. of Chicago,
have fled an appeal in the United
circuit court against the government
board of general appraisers assessing
duties at 60 per cent on big importa.
ton of veilings used on ball dresses for
wells The importers claim the duties
| should be assessed at but so per cent
| The case will involve such large sum
that it will be taken to the supreme
court of the United States for final de.
| cision.
| TWENTY counties of South Dakota
have agreed to pay Raiumaker Mel
bourne $500 each next fall if he pro-
duces supplies of rain next summer.
| ALEXANDER LEWIS, for the murder
of Ben C. Travers in June, 1888, and
Sheppard Busby, for killing Deputy
Marshal Barney Co1nelly, in August,
1891, have been sentenced by United
States Judge Parker at Fort Smith,
Ark, to be hanged April 81, next
Lewis killed Travers during the Verdi
Girls train robbery on the Missouri,
Kansas g. Texas