The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-22
A CHAPTER OF HORRORS,
Loss of the Emma No. 8.
Twelve Passengers and The
Entire Crew Perish.
MURDERS AND SUICIDES.
The Lynching of a Murderer
A WOMAN BURNED TO Death.
MURDERS AND SUICIDES.
The Lynching of a Murderer

MEMPHIS, Tenn, February 1.-The
steamer Emma No. 3, which left here
on Friday evening for Cincinnati, while
going through tie chute at Island No.
IS, struck suag and careencd, the
s,oye in the ladies' cabin setting the
boat on fire and totally destroying her.
Ten or twelve lives are reported lost,
but nothing definite is known. A ter
rible gale prevailed az the time, aud the
water was intensely cold. She landed
400 bales of cotton here on her arrival.
The Alice Dean with particulars IS
anxiously looked for. The officers OF
the Mary Forsythe, who brought the
news, could give ~ particulars, but was
from New OlsGus aud mad a full pas
sepger list. ,
CHICAGO, February 2l.-A special
from Cairo gives the following as loss
by the sinking OF the steamer Emma
No. 9. near leland So: Twelve pgs'en-
gers, among them five ladies, six officers
and the entire crew. The Columbia
No. 7 brought the survivors to CaiIo,
where they are kindly cared for.
PROyIDENCE, February 2l.-Wl!ilam
Booth, while drunk, shoT his brother
dead, at Fall River, last night, for pre-,
venting his beating bis mother, ana
then drank bottle Of poison, dying six
hours afterward. Bo IL have families.
CHICAGO, February u -Thursday
last at Beardstown, Ill, man named
Wilcox entered the saloon of Yeck q
Becker, during their temporary absence,
and assaulted y drunken man who was
in the saloon and beat him badly. Ia
few minutes Yeck and Becker came In,
when the rough drew u revolver aud
shot Yeok dead, AID then turned aud
fred at Becker, the hall INJECTING an
uely and supposed dangerous wound.
The murderer was arrested ana pat III
fail on Friday. Yeck was bUicd,
and there was q large gathering
at BearIst0wu. Just after dusk IA
large crowd Numbering full five
hundred gathered around the jail.
without employing force they took tho
KEYS from the sheriff and put aim unde-
guaId. The mob then entered the jail
and seized pr .soner whom they SUP
posed to be the murderer, got ropr
round his neck aud then discovered
that they had the wrong mau. la the
meantime the murderer, who was in
another cell and chained to tho floor,
when aware Of the designs Of the
mob, he got possession of an iron bar
aud as the leaders Of the mob proposed
TO open the cell door he told them that
he would sell his life dearly. This res.
oIute demurrer pyoduced a change OF
action but did not defeat the purpose OF
the leaders. A pistol shot through the
head killed the murderer instantly and
his body was taken out doors aad hung
by tie neck to u tree.
ST. LOUIS, February GA. +. Cham
berlsin, a merchant of Genesee, Illinois,
while laboring under temporary insanl'
ty, produced by whisky, took, yesterday
ut the Laclede Hotel, what he supposed
TO be an ounce of laudanum and then
shot himself twice in the region of the
heart, but both balls glanced from his
ribs aud he still lives though dangerous
" wounded.
CONCORD. y. II, February 81 The
dwelling Of James Green, at South
Che ,ter was burned last night. dis
,yife psrished in the flames.