Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-12-11
shocking Accident.

ton is made on behalf OF several OF the mem
bers of Or. Cheeney's church, who have OPP
posed his course for some time past
Shocking Accident
COLUMBUS, o.. December IO.-The latest fatal
result OF the accidental discharge of gun
occurred here this morning young son of
Charles Hof was placed in charge of young
baby, and, and was sent up stairs to play with
his sister, four years old. While at play the
little girl ran against shelf on which a
loaded gun was standing, knocking it down
when it was discharged, the contents lodging
in the girls head. The top Of her skull was
knocked completely of. The boy and the
baby were uninJured.
Further Developments I'm the Boetfech-
er Murder.
ST. LOUIS, December I0.-Further develop
ments regarding the murder OF Richard BOet-
techer by young Cronenbold, yesterday, are
to the effect that Boettec her had SeCuced Miss
CrOnenbold, that their marriage was favored
| by Mrs. CrOnenbold on this account, and that
the son murdered Boettecher TO avenge the
/ wrong done his sister. Boettecher was Prus-
! sian, was thirty years of age, had been
employed by Mrs. Cronen bold as coachman
aud man-of-all-work about the house, and Is
alleged to have won the affections of NJ iss
CrOuenbold and effected her ruin last sum-
mer during the absence of young Cronenbold
in Europe. Miss Cronenbold is only sixteen,
| and her brother twenty-five years of age.
MtseeIIaneOus.
Several Philadelphia manufactures
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San Francisco dispatches say that
Booth, an anii-monopolist, is gaining strength
every day.
A fire at Springfield, Ohio, night
before last, OccssiOned loss of forty-hve
thousand dollars.
The steamer Aberiz has arrived at
Liverpool from Cape Coast. Thirteen or the
crew died Of yellow-fever.
Martin +. Conway has been indicted
for assault with intent TO kill Ex-senator
POmeroy, in Washington, October 10Th.
Baron Reuter- has not began internal
Improvements in Persia within the time
fixed. The shah has declared the convention
VOID.
John T. Irving, the self-accused Ma
than murderer, has been. n.sentenced to seven
years and six months in Sing Sing on the
charge Of burglary.
A dispatch from London says the city
was again enveloped in fog yesterday, and
that numerous accidents occurred during the
fog Of the day previous.
Goss, the Pittsburg Water company
bond deiaulter lamounting to half million
dollars) yesterday was imprisoned in that
city for refusing to testify.
The Democrats of Manchester, New
Hampshire, elect mayor by five hundred
and eleven majority. HeretOfore they scarce
ly ever carried more than one ward in the
city.
Al a H6tIluS VI railway OHlc6fSJ Helu
yesterday at Chicago, IL was resolved so TO
modify the pass system as TO allow passes be-
tween the roads represented to actual railway
| employees.
The British war-steamer NiObe ar
lived at Havana yesterday. 1t was the heroic
conduct OF her commander that prevented
| further executions of the NIrgtnius crew at
| Santiago de Cuba.
The State temperance convention OF
| New Hampshire adopted strong prOhibitory
resolutions yesterday, and nominated DIR.
| Heold for railroad engineer.
LOehard, the counsel for Bazaine,
| finished his address yesterday morning. He
declared the marshal did not surrender In
| open field, and was guIltless Of violating ar
| ticle two hundred and ten of the army code.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Eng
land, says serious collision occurred on the
| railroad, near that city, yesterday morning,
and thirty persons are reported killed and in
jured. A heavy fog prevailed at the time OF
| the disaster.
At New Castle, Delaware, great ex-
/ cItement existed all Tuesday night, caused by
| a report that thirteen hundred men were on
| their way trom Philadelphia. to rescue the
| convicted bank burglars. The citizens turned
out well armed also, detachment of police
The Cincinnati acelimatization so
| ciety yesterday morning received three thou.
| sand dollars worth of birds from Germany
| comprising many varieties never before
I
tered in burnt woods, and turned at large
| next spring.
| John n. Whitney, a prominent Sail
| Lake mining operator, was arrested there yes
| terday and taken east on a requisition from
| the governor of Michigan. on charge o
| fraud in the sale of the Eureka mine. Requis
| itiOns are there from governors of other State
for Utah mining swindleTs.
The national colored convention was
| organized in Washington yesterday by the
1 election n ET-frOvarFaor
dent. Colonel Robert Harlan was appointed
chairman of the committee TO wait on Presi
dent Grant and ascertain at what time l
| would be convenient for him to receive tn,
! convention in body.
A dispatch from Salt Lake says tha
a Fort Bridger party of ladies and gentlemen
who left Piedmont Tuesday evening to attenC
q dance there last night, were lost. The team
| was exhausted and the party camped, an
one of them, II. NJ. Mitchell, a railroad agen
and operator at Piedmont started alone 4
find the fort and get aid. He was lost ant
frozen to death. The rest of the party, amOnl
them the wife of the deceased, arrived safel,
this morning.
Bids were opened in Cincinnati yes
for the construction of the Kings mountain
tunnel, in Lincoln county, Tennessee, on tn
line of the Southern railroad. The tunnel il
to be four thousand feet long, through lime
, stone and sandstone rock. The indication
are that several bids have come under tw,
hundred thousand dollars for the complet
work. The exact result of the bids are no
made public yet, and the contract will not b.
awarded for several days.