Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-13
CslSEs AND CASUALTIES
Heavy on louisville GambIers.


LOUISVILLE, August 12.-Wm.
Richardson, proprietor of gambling
hell at ll9 Jefferson street, in this
city, was fined five hundred dollars
in the City Court to-day, for keeping
a gambling house.
The Gun Cotton Explosion.
LONDON, August l2.-The gun-cot-
ton explosion at Slow Market was ter
ribly destructive to life and limb.
Twelve persons were instantly killed
or fatally injured, and forty others
were severely or slightly wounded.
Intense excitement has been occa-
stoned by the disaster, and it is in
creased by the tear which prevails of
a further explosion.
Murder in New York.
New YORK, August l2.-About
o'clock this morning the police
discovered a man lying on the corner
of Eighth avenue and Thirtieth street,
bleeding from a wound in the head.
He died while being removed to the
statiOn-hOuse. His death resulted by
a blow from some blunt instrument,
which fractured the skull. There is
no clue to the murderer.
A H0ary- Headed Villain.
ST. LOUIS, August PA man
named Samuel Bixter, living in
Cherokee county, Kansas, was con-
victed last week and sentenced to
tWenty-one years in the penitentiary
for raping his daughter, fourteen
years old, and repeatedly afterward
fOrcibly Outraging her. He is fifty
two years old, has been married
twice, and mas a family of five chill
dren, all OF whom, it is alleged, he has
attempted to use the same way.
Great Riot in Londonderry, ireland.
DUBLIN, August 12.-At London
derry to-day the Orangemen had a
terrible collision with the police and
military authorities, in consequence
of an attempt to celebrate by process
sion through the streets the anniver-
sary of the siege of that city in 1889,
which had been prohibited by the
government. The processiOnists came
out to the number of several hundred,
but the police quickly dispersed them.
A great crowd soOd gathered and at
tackled the police. The military had
to be called out to quell the disturb
aDce. There were a number of persons
wounded seriously. The police made
many arrests.
A Double Murder.
DENVER, COL, August ia dou-
BILE murder was committed last night,
thirteen miles up the Platte from
Denver. Mr.. George M. Banacina
and Mrs. Newton, his sister, were
a. 4 N. -
TheO. Meyer. Banacina is dead, and
Mrs. Newton is not expected to live.
Meyer is still at large, but a large re-
ward is offered for his arrest. Mrs.
Newton thinks that Meyer was hired
to murder them. 1t appears that she
was married last summer to one Fru-
denhal, who owned the property, but
after the marriage decided It to her.
A quarrel occurring soon after, Fru-
Denial left, and Mrs. Newton and
her brother have since lived upon the
place. Suspicion naturally points to
Prudential as the instigator of the
murder.
Express Rohbers-eOnfessieR.
ST. LOUIS, August I'D. w. San
ter, the United States Express deliv-
CkN mCoSGuE6As NAOoC MoSOh was
robbed here recently, and who is un-
der arrest for being implicated in the
robbery, confesses that he was con-
cerned in it. He tells two or thee
different stories about being ap-
preached some months ago by q man,
whose name be cOnceals, and urged
to assist in r0bbing the company.
This he resisted, but the mans APP
peals were so persistent and c0ntinu-
al that he finally yielded, under an
influence he could not Withstand, and
entered into the robbery. j ScannOn
and Thomas Grady, who are also un-
der arrest. robbed the wagon. Ken
dali. the driver, knew nothing Of the
affair. The party who planned the
robbery and who is supposed to have
the money, is known to the police, but
for reasons deemed sufficient by them
they have not yet arrested him, al
though he Is known 70 be in the city.