Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-03
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ChIoroforned in DayIiuht.

New YORK, August 2.-Mr. John
Lapgenbahn, g Seventh street grocer,
was chlorofOrmed in Wall street in
broad daylight, on Monday, and
robbed of $500. He was then carried
TO Staten Island and left there insen-
sible.
IHceHdiarism.
CINCINNATI, August 2.-The sheds
of Virgins & Co.'s tannery, at Rich.
mOnd, Indiana, with four hundred
cords of bark, were burned yesterday.
Loss, SIC, ,000; insurance, $7,400. 1t
is supposed to be the work of an in
eendiary.
A Negro Family Fuss.
PrrBBURG, August 2.-Wm. Alex
ander, cOlOred, living at Allegheny
City, suspeciing his wife's infideLity to
him, visited her at the house Of q
neighbOr to-day and proposed a final
separation upon her returning certain
articles Of jewelry, clothing, ETC.,
which she agreed to. Alexander then
stepped into an alley, and, as his wife
came by, struck her several times on
the head with paving stone, crush
ing in the skull and inhicting fatal
wound.
A Singular Case.
LEAVENwORTH, August "A lady,
giving her name as Wells, gave birth
to a healthy male child in the saloon
of a passenger car on the Kansas Pa
cific railroad, near Topeka, yesterday.
The infant was found by the conduc-
tor of a construction train, who
wrapped the little screamer in his
shirt, backed his train to Topeka, and
delivered his charge to its mother,
who had gone to the Gordon House,
in that city. The lady says the event
was unexpected, and suppOsing the
child to be killed, she had said MOTH
ing about it, the conductor attributing
her illness to other causes.
Muscle vs.. Pistol.
NEW YORK, August about q
O'Clock this morning, the pugilistic
Joe COburn became engaged in a dis
pute with a gambler, named George
McClOud, in Motifs saloon, No. 21l
BOwery. They soon came to blows,
when McClOud drew a pistol, which
was seized by Coburn and in the strug-
gle the pistol went OF, the bail strik-
ing COburn in the temple and prOduc.
ing a scalp wound. The police, at
tracted by the explosion, arrested
them both and took them to the
tenth police station, where Coburn's
wound was dressed. A man, named
John Clarke, who was passing in the
street at the time of the ARRAY, re-
ceived the bullet from McClOud's pis-
tOl which glanced from Coburn's head.
Clarke was wounded in the thigh.
The ball was extracted.
After the Nathan Murderer.
NEW YORK, August 2.-The Times,
tomorrow, publishes an interesting
account of the pursuit of Forester,
the Nathan murderer. by detective
PinkertOn. When superintendent
KelsO's proclamation was issued,
Offering reward for the arrest of the
murderer, Forester was in Chicago.
He subsequently fed to Galveston,
Texas, and thence to Scotland, where
his parents reside. Pinkerton
followed him to Scotland.
His efforts to secure his arrest were
unsuccessful, but he ascertained be
yOnd doubt that Forester was within
the limits of Great Britain, and
his escape next to impossible. The
British police are on the alert, and
PinkertOn considers the murderer's
capture almost certain, though some
time may elspse before it is effected.
Disastrous Fires In ST. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, August Six fires have
occurred in this city in the past eigh-
teen hours, the most disastrous of
which was the burning OF the Excel
siOr brewery, No. 2SlS South Seventh
street. owned and occupied by KeOh-
Ter d 90. Loss on building and stock,
about fifteen thousand dollars. In
sured in the German, three thousand
five hundred dollars; North st. Louis,
fifteen hundred; Citizens, st. Louis,
two thousand; Brewers Protection,
seven thousand; Anchor, st. Louis,
three thousand; Washington, twenty
five hundred; Htna, Hartford, four
thousand. A saloon and dwelling ad-
Joining were badly damaged. Insured
in the Franklin, st. Louis, five thou
sand dollars; Brewers Protective,
one thousand.
A small iced store and cigar manu-
factory on Broadway was also burned,
the loss on which is probably four
thousand dollars. Insured in the Ger
man Mutual for fifteen hundred dol
lars; st. Louis Mutual, seventeen hum
dred.
The grocery and box factory of Kel-
man Il Sons, on Seventeenth and
Biddle streets, and several frame and
brick houses, were also burned. Loss
about seven thousand dollars. Par
TALLY insured. The other fires in
vOlVed but trifiing losses.