MEMPHIS DAILY A PPEAL Fl 1 1 ) A Y, FEBRUARY 11), 1880. US ARKANSAS TRAGEDY. FAMILY OF KILLED BY SIX PEOPLE A NEGKO. Desperate Attempt of Dronkea Woman to Harder Her Two Children. Lima Rock. Ark.. February IS. Information has reached this city of a terrible crime Hit HlanjihU'r of a fam ily ol six people. The report circulated here is bawd on a private telegram, which bUiUkI that a mensenr had vome to Palarm from a Hettleinent alxiut eight miles from the station with the news of the terrible tragedy. The dinpatch contained only the mea ger facta that six people father, mother and four children had been killed by a negro. From the men on the train yesterday evening, however, it iu learned that a posse wan being organized to fro in pursuit of some one who had killed tno James familv. A passenger on the saiuo train said that the murderer had not been -caught, and the people intended to procure bloodhounds from the peni tentiary to follow him. Tfcer Bad the Drop Him. Galvsto), Tn.t., February 18. A special from Mexia to tho AViisays: . Henry Tickle, a notorious outlaw, who in wanted for murder and horse stealing in Navarro and other counties in this Btate, and who has had re pented conflicts with State officials in various parts of the State, was capt ured at Trinity bottom at midnight last night by riheriff Childs and a posne from Freestone county. Tickle was surprised, and when captured was armed with a Winchester rifle and re Tolvers. The officers, however, had the drop on him. Choked ! Death by Her Hmbinl, Pi(iLAKM'HiA, Pa., February 18. Mrs. Emily Zicnthoubki, aged forty years, was found lying dead in beil yesterday afternoon, and from the cir cumstances surrounding the case it is wipposed that she was choked to death by her husband. The police arrested the husband and a boarder named Theodore Brnisec. A Bboeklag Tragedy. Dks Moines, I , February 18. A shocking tragedy occurred at Kun nells, a small town seventeen miles east of Dea Moines, yesterday. Floyd West, a respectable miner, was discov ered murdered in his bed, with the probable assassin, his brother-in-law, standing over him with an uplifted ax. West's two brothers-in-law, William and Henry Furry, have been living with him. The latter has occasionally manifested indications of mental un soundness, threatening his relatives and particularly his brother-in-law. Tuesduy night it was noticed that Henry seemed more restless than usual, declining to go to bed. His brother kept watch of him, but did not anticipate serious trouble. During the night Henry went frequently to the bedside of his brother to see if ho was asleep. The latter was awakened by a blight noise about 4 o'clock, and rushed into tho room of his brother-in-law, Mr. West, where he saw his brother Henry with an ax raised as if to strike at the prostrate man. He grabbed his brother ad took away the weapon, but found his brother-in-law hail already had his skull smashed. Tho assassin ran to a neighbor's, where ho was soon cantured. Later, he was lodged in jail in this city. When seen last night lie feigned in sanity, or was insane, saying that he had been charged by the Lord for several years to do this deed, and he had only done it by divine request. A Very Serlaa. Bobbery. St. Louis, Mo., February 18. P. P. Anderson of Kildare, Te., represent ing the Littler and Texas Iaiiu Com pany, reported to tho police last night that a valiso containing deeds and titles to 50,000 acres and valued at $123,000 was stolen from him at tho Union Depot. The Ratchel also con tained the charter and seal of the company. He was waiting for a train and left the grin on the seat while he stepped to the ticket office. When he returned it was gone. Ho says the loss may lend to endless trouble and litigation, and offers a reward for the recovery of the papers. A Drunken Woman Attempt to Harder Her Children. Chicago, Iix., February 18. Mrs. Margaret While made a desperate at tempt Inst evening to murder her two children, ami nut for the timely inter ference of James Doherty, a special policeman, she would have succeeded. When crossing the Lake Shore and Itock Island tracks at the Archer ave nve crossing, ho saw Mrs. White with her four-vcar-old boy and six-vear-old girl standing near the train of moving ireiglit ears. lio noticed the woman trying to push the little kiy beneath the wheels of the moving carsj but the little fellow screamed each timo and broke away from the mother's grasp. The train had almost passed, when the woman deliberately shoved the boy under tho slowly moving cars. Doherty jumped to the little boy's rescue, and was just in time to save . the child's life. The woman turned savagely on him and exclaimed: "What did you do that for? My hus band is a drunkard ; I am tired of life, but I want to get rid of these children first." Her husband appeared before Judge Meeeh this morning and stated that his wife had attempted to take the life of the children once before with an as while she was intoxicated. The justice sent her to the Martha Wash ington Home, with a fine of W. ratal Harder. Colcmbuw. Ga., February 18. Geo. Davis brutally murdered Arch. Reams in Russell county, Alabama, yesterday. Both were white men, and lived on the Fitzgerald plantation. Davis, who was overseer, sent Reams to look for cows, followed him and shot him twice in the back of the head and shoulders, stabbed him twice in the throat, and broke his skull with the butt of a shotgun. Before committing the brutal murder, he told persons on the plantation about it, and then left for parts unknown, without giving any reasons for the deed. Davis is married, and, it is said, had been inti mate with Iieams's sister. mattered Hlmaoir by lanallnf Claa Nkw Yoks, February 18. Jean Le tersong, a French cook, committed suicide Tuesday night in his boarding house, No. 403 Fourth avenue. He smothered himself by inhaling illumi nating gas, as hundreds had done be fore him, but his method of doing it was singularly unusual. He had not been seen since Tuesday night when he went to his room, a Tittle hall bed room, and locked the door. This morn ing he was found lying in bed dead. He bad attached the seven-foot long hose of a drop light in the room to a gas arm, oyer the lied, passed it under himself and into his mouth from the other side. Then .to make sure that no gas should escape to prolong his ftruirglcK or delay hip pur)Mws, he had pw:tthei his head in bandages, wrap liinir a plieet ii round his hea l, face and neck. Then he turned on the gas. As the coriise rested on the bed it looked like a mau smoking a long Turkish pipe. Ho left a letter stating that he was tired oi lite. BUTTER AND OLEO.YARH ARISE Important Hleroseople Teste to Dl.llnfalah the Difference. ion-Mars, fenruary l. it is announced here to-day that Prof. Weber of the chair of agricultural chemistry, tate University, has just made an important discovery in chem istry in connection with tlie micro scopic tests to distinguish oleomanm rine from butter. Hccpiitly Dr. Thomas laylorol the department of agricul ture announced at a meeting of mi croscopies that butter placed under a microscoe. showed round crystals marked by a plain cross which could lie found nowhere else. When the polarizer or elenite is used with the microscope these butter crystals, which are in reality only globes of fat, show four parts each, two green and two yellow. The chemical test to dis tinguish between butter and oleomar garine is very delicate, the only differ ence between tho two material mat ters appreciable to chemists being that butter contains a small amount of Wiuttric acid, which is lacking iu oleo- margarine, huh iei is not always successful, and as the difference was likely to be wiped out by enterprising oleomargarine manufacturers, Dr. Taylor's discovery was heralded far anil wide, and the test has been adopt ed wherever known. Prof. Weber has now discovered that the mixing of a little water and salt with oleomarga rine, a process it always undergoes, causes the bogus butter to develop under the microscope exactly such "crystals" as are found in the legiti mate article, and the same result can be obtained with pure fallow treated in like manner. This discovery de stroys the usefulness of Dr. Taylor's discover', and strengthens the posi tion of the oleomargarine manufactur ers and venders. BITTER RULR0AD WAR. The maahap or the Traneeoall. ratal Pool. Nkw York, February 18. In regard to the sinashup of tho Transconti nental meeting yesterday, the Timrt this morning says: Yesterday's meet ing was not much better than a farce, though some sharp words spoken before the final adjournment ended every semblance of amicable relations between the roads. As they bade one another good-by at the W indsor last night they talked openly of a war of rates which was to be precipitated forthwith. "You'll be sorry for this ; we'll bankrupt your old road before this thing is over," was the senti ment which each road's representa tive thought it proper to address to each of the others. All agreed that there should be a bitter railroad war at once, but each man tried to make it plain that not his road but its rival's was doomed to some experiences. The Virginia Debt. KicHMOND, Va., -February 18. In tho Hennte, yesterday, tho bill pre pared bv Lieut.-Gov. "Massey was in-trodueet-by Senator Wingtield, to fa cilitate the settlement of tho public debt of the State. A lengthy prcamblo gives the liistoryof the lebt,thenppor tionment of one-third to West Vir ginia, the reasons that compelled the General Assembly to pass the Kiddle berger bill.and the equity of the whole case. The bill authorizes the Governor to appoint three citizens of Virginia as a Board of commissioners to confer with the bondholders and acquaint them with the material and financial condition of Virginia, and explain the facts which make the settlement un der the Kiddleberger act just and equi table, and its acceptance by them necessary for the protection of their interests. The Commissioners are em powered to take steps to adjust with West Virginia a just proportion of the State debt as it existed prior to the lntof January. 18fil. to be borne bv West Virginia and not by Virginia. The bill further provides that the amount received to be paid to West Virginia hall lie divided pro rata among t lie holders of West Virginia certincates which have been issued under the different acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, or which may be issued before the 1st of January, 1 IfU? A Case of Leprosy la Connecticut. Watekbitkv, Ct., February 18. For some time Sing Lee, a Chinaman, has been running a small laundry at No. 122 South Main street. He was as quiet and unobtrusive as most of his race are, and nobody paid any par ticular attention to lu'in until recent ly.. For two or three days the man seemed to be ill. Ho neglected his washing and took to his bed. Strange stories got afloat about Waterbury yesterday, and one of .thorn was that Sing Lee was afflicted with leprosy. I.ast night the curiosity of the boys brought about an investigation, which, so fur as it was made, shows that the laundryman is a victim of that dis gusting disease. Dr. French was called in and made an examination. He found the Chinaman's feet and legs up to the knees covered with great sores and scratches, all in a highly ad vanced stage. The skin between the sores' was discolored, and so thorough ly diseased were the sick man's feet that it seemed as if they must drop off were they removed from his bed. Dr. French is inclined to believe that the case is one of genuine leprosy. The case is causing much excitement in Waterbury, as Sing Lee did a large laundry business, and his patrons are feeling terribly uncomfortable. The Phenomeaal Balafallal Boston. BosTOit, Mass., February 18. Ob servations by the Boston Water Works Boara show that the recent rainfall varied from 4.64 to 6.09 inches. The water gathered in the Sudbury reservoir and washed over the dam during the four days ending February 15th, amounted to 5,120,000,000 gal lons. The total amount rained in Lake Gochituaie was 1.3:0,000.000 crallons. The water received in the lake and Sudbury reservoirs during the four days would furnish a simply for the city for eight months. The total yield of the water shed of Mystic lake for the past five days has leen 2,080,000. 000 gallons, or nearly one-half asmuch as was collected during the whole ot the year 18S3. Displaced by a Woman. Nkw Orleans. La.", February IS. A special to the Timet-Democrat from the Indian lerntory says: Mrs. L. Adair has taken charee of the nostoffice at Thalequah, displacing Jno. W. Staples, who had held the position for twenty yeai. Tho change is occasioned by the decision of tho Attorney-General of the United States to the effect that Indians were ineligible for postmas ters, not lieing citizens of the United States. Mrs. Adair is a white woman, the wife of a prominent Indian. ME RILE FOR IRELAAD TO BE VIGOROUSLY OPPOSED BY THE BRITISH TORIES. Feats That the Kew Gladstone Cabl net Will Mot Work Reasst m bllnr of Parliament. London, February 18. The leading members of the Conservative party met at the Carlton Club at noon to day to confer upon the course the party shall pursue in regard to Irish affairs on tho reassembling of Parlia ment. Lord Salisbuiy, late Prime Minister, presided. Iird Randolph Churchill and 150 other prominent Tories were present. The meeting was very enthusiastic. The speeches made indicate an intention on the part of the Conservatives to offer the most strenuous opposition to any measure presented iiy the Liberals conceding home rule in Ireland. Ixrd Salisbury predicted a union with tho Conservatives of the section of the Lilierals which follows Lord Hartington and Mr. Goschen. Ho urged the conservatives to do all that was possible to bring such a union into effect. Some of the scakcrs com mented severely on Lord Randolph Churchill's attack upon Catholics and his intimacy with tho mcniliers of the Parnellilo party. The meeting re solved to make homo, rule a test ques tion in the House of Commons, and for this purpose will Bupport the Par nellites in their demand to have it pre cede the land reform in the considera tion of the House. IS THE COMMON'S. Parliament re-assembled to-dav. Mr. Gladstone stated in the House of Com mons that after tho government had concluded tho financial business they had to place before the House, they would be ablo to state a part if not the wholo of the Irish measures they in tended to introduce. He expected, he said, to bo through the financial busi ness about the 22d of March. Mr. Gladstone announced further that tho government had no intention of re newing coercion in Ireland. Alluding to the foreign policy of the new gov ernment Mr. Gladstone said he would follow the Kastern policy inaugurated by his predecessor, Lord" Salisbury. IN THE HOUSE OP LOltDS Earl Granville Secretary of State for the colonies announced that the gov ernment would not introduce .any Irish measures into Parliament before the 1st of March. TROUBLES OF THE NEW CABINET. The impression is gaining ground that the present Cabinet will prove unworkable ,J and that it will be im possible to hold it together. The 1'all Matt Gauile states that the resig nation of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, President of the Local Government Board, from Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet. is but a question of a few hours. The resignation will be made, the OateUe says, ostensibly because Mr. Chamber lain cannot bring himself to acquiesce in the government policy of coercion toward Greece; but, in reality, be cause he is unwilling to mar wliat ho believes to be his political futuro by identifying himself with the home rule policy decided on by a majority oi ins colleagues. IMPORTANT TEXAS LAND SUIT. The Title to Neveral Million Acres EatabllHbrd. San Antonio, Tev., February 18. V very Iintiortant land suit has inut been decided by the district court of tins ( Hexarj county, which establishes the title to several million acres of land in Texas. The suit, which was a test cose, was brought to recover lands embraced in what is known as the "eleven-league irtant." This was ono of the smallest of over fifty grants of large sections made Dv tho States of Coahuala and lexas, whilo Txos was a part of the Mexican republic. The grants were made Hist prior to th Texan revolution, and Messrs. Hillard, Caruthers, Busard and Dr. Taylor, tho defendants in the suit pending, ac quired title to some 35,000 acres in the "eleven-league grant." These lands lie between this city and tho Kio Grande, and are valuable for grazing as well as being first-class agricultural lands. Ihe lexas and Mexican Kail rood Company located its subsidy cer tificates on land claimed by defend ants, and asked for a writ of manda mus to have the land surveyed. This brought the question of titlo to a di rect issue, and every land-holder in half a dozen counties was interested, as the combined grants asreTeiratinir an area beside which tho famous Califor nia Spanish grants are insignificant in extent. Judge Noonan, one of the ablest jurists in Texas, after carefully hearing tho evidence, decided in favor of tho defendants, thus confirming the Coahuala grants. The ralue of land directly involved in tho suit was over -:ou,000. Singular t'ateof HUtaken Identity. Pittsburo, Pa., February 18. A singular case of mistaken identity was developed in the Criminal Court to day. Mrs. Bauers applied to the court yesterday for a writ ot habeas corpus to compel Mrs. Myers and her hus band to produco the body of a four-nionth-old child in court. Mrs. Bauers claims the child was born at the City Home, and that Mrs. Myers obtained it from her with the promise that it should be returned. This statement was enrmtinrntA Kv ITia mi tM r. t nn ,1 ' j . .u BUjJVIlUKJIU' entofthe Home and some nurses. On tne other hand, both Mrs. and Mr. Myers swore positively that the child was theirs and had been bom at thoir house. They called the physicians and several neighbors, who corrobor ated Mm Mvnra'a ptinr Tim Hnnrf gave the child to Mr. and Mrs. Myers. only in MOST PERFECT MADE Prepared with tpecul nmrt to baWU). No Ammonia, Lime or Alum. PRICE 8AKINQ POWDER CO.. CHICACQ, ST. LOUia. St. Agnes Academy. THE SPRING cKSSION will (-ran M0S DAY th. lit of F.bruary. T.roii-IA X0,t9U and 1100, atenrdinc to th. Me and elui of the pupil. For further particular, ppl? te the Ldj Superior. - ai i MEISTER'S. MASONIC TEMPLE. CI. H. HEEBIES, G. H. Herbers & Co. WZXOIiZiaAZiB GROCERS & LIQUOR DEALERS 33S AXu 310 FItOXT 8TKEET, HEMPIIIK. 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