Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-07-26
Startling News by Way Of fexas---
(, General Grant Kills President
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4n5 NIArAsVIHe Ie4asJL DtaHGu'
has the following: lErE ari-
DEATH OF PRESIDENT Johnson

The GAINESVILLE 6Texas) Standard
has the following: 7fTE eriE
j i DEATH OF PRESIDENT Johnson Sc
The mails discontinued, we are under
the necessity of reciting from report an
event of magnitude, perhaps pregnant
with Importance, to the people of the
South. Fl 49, ~ ~ IS. :.
2 From several sources--one of them
being Glenn. Thompson, formerly resi-
dent9f our county, and just from OAR
danelle, Arkansas-we learn that he
saw in Fort Smith and Little Rock pa.
pers, and in the Memphis Argus. ae-
counts of the death of President JUhn.
son, who was killed on the 9th inst, at
Washington City, by Gen. Grant, in a
personal alteration, arising from John
sons uuwillingness to maintain in good
faith the terms of the convention en-
tered into by 6faut and Lee, and by
Sherman with Johnston az AfJkf
The event is so astonishing, and the
occurrence so extraordinary, of two
Chief Magistrates of the United States
carried off by violence, that we should
hesitate to credit it, were it not that Mr..
Thompson saw il in papers from differ
ent locAlities-saw the papere in mourn
ing, and heard the event discussed By
Federal officers at Dardanelle. The
story is corroborated by other persons
who have passed through town within the
past week. The irst reporters, how-
ever, we're scarcely listened TO, the story
seemed so improbable.
The killing is said have occurred in a
private room at the State Department,
and without witnesses; and ali we hear
is, that General Grant said be was COM
PEELED to kill bin. AS President john
sons habits are known tohave been very
irregular, and he was a man of strong
will and denunciatory mode of express
sion, these may have brought on physi-
cal contest, and in a measure, COM
PEELED the result.
We write this on Friday, quite uncer-
tain whether we shall have more definite
information to lay before our readers,
yet hoping that we may.
ATRAIN SAVED FROM DEsrRucr!oN =
On Wednesday tremendous rain fell in
the neighborhood of Elizabethtown, on
the Nashville Railroad All the streams
overlooked, and bridge with a portion
ofthe track, was entirely swept away, a,
short distance below town. Captain
Tom Berry, with his passenger train
crowded with people, came laundering
along at lis usual speed, and would, ne
doubt, have been thrown into the wreck
of the bridge, and the stream, had not
two young ladies walked about one mile
down the road and stopped the train.
They told Captain Berry that the bridge
had been swept away, and had it not
been for. them the accident would have
been attended BY a serious loss of. life.
The names of the young ladies are Miss
Leiitia MeIntire and Miss Lizzie Vititoo,
to whom the company and all the pas
sengers should be grateful for their no.
BILE conduct Lou .Democrut, 2lst.,
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Cold BEO6DED MURBEK---A most coId.
blooded murder occurred about noon on
board the steamer E. G. HiIlman. ed
The facts elected at the inquest are as
follows: On Saturday, as the hands had
finished dinner, Patrick Morgan told
colored man named. George Reese to go
into the hold and. take up some beer.
Reese told him to wait awhile until the
help would be ready. Morgan again
spoke to the colored man, who in reply
grumbled-4 Morgan then said that If he
(Reesel did not go he would strike him.
The deceased told him to "pisch in. y
They grappled each other and a scufie
ensued- -Another deck hand By the.n name
of james Haiarhan, who was sitting
down on the larboard side, Of the boat,
aft, eating with a large pocket knife.
jumped mp and wentto the right of the
parties who were scuffiing, and without
any intimation or a word from Morgan.
stabbed Reese three times, causing his
death instantly. AG1 ls Z =
A postmortem examination was made.
The knife pierced the left side of the
chest, passed between the fourth and
entered the cavities of the heart Auo@
tier wound penetrated the cavities of
the Abdomen and the third madea large
flesh wound on the left thigh.
HaIarhan was from New Orleans had
entered the rebel sersice in tbs com
mencement Of the war as a member of
the 10th Mississippi, at Jack sonszgas nm
der young Lee. and serYed with Lees
army until the capture of Petersburg;
where he was captured. He had shipped
on the boat at Memphis, about ten DAYS
ago. be was arrested by police ofi-
Ger, and is in prison on charge of
murder-AissOtlr Democrat sig
$3.50 Fsag - =
Doc SL4rGHrERING- The process of
killing dogs in St. Louis is going for
ward with great vigor. and many fne
dogs, fayorites in the city, are falling
victims through the negligence of their
owners and the zeal of she police.
win cur authorities enforce the dog
law here before they or their children
become victims Of bydrophobia2 sees
Any man owning good dog should
keep him nuEzlsd; bad dogs should die
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