Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-29
CRIMINAL.
Attempt 30 Break JaiI-A Persuasive
Argument i'm the Shape of Five Kegs
of Powder.

Attempt 10 EbrchA JULIA EcESUtsShNc
Argument i'm the Shape Of Five Kegs
of Powder.
LITTLE Rock, ARK, Nov. 2S. - On
Tuesday last the prisoners in Clarksville
Jail overpowered the guards and took pos
session of their arms. The alarm was given
before they got out, and the citizens of the
town surrounded the Jail. One OF the
prisoners, Sid Wallace, sentenced to be
hung on the 23d of next month, fired
double-barrel shot gun at two citizens i'll
the street, severely if not fatally wounding
both. The citizens then took possession
of the first floor of the Jail, put five kegs Of
powder in it, laid train for some distance,
and notified the prisoners that unless they
surrendered in thirty minutes they would
blow I'D the building. After a little parley
they surrendered, throwing their arms out
at the window. As one of the guns struck
the ground it went of, slightly wounding
three persons. Wallace and another of the
prisoners We're brought here last night and
lodged in the penitentiary. He will be
taken ont and hung next month. He has
killed quite a number of men, among them
the late Hon. Elisha Merse, Circuit Judge,
and is the most desperate character in that
section of country.
Suicide of an Army Paymaster.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 2S.-COl. RObt.
Morrow, paymaster of one of the Arizona
departments of the army, committed sui
eide at his room in the Occidental Hotel
with a dragoOn revolver. He fired three
shots. The last time he put the muzzle OF
The pistol in his mouth and blew his brains
out. Morrow formerly was private Secre-
tarv of President Johnson. No cause is
known for the suicide.
A Border Bandit.
BROWNSVILLE, Nov. 27.-AlbertO Car
Ella. chief ofthe Mexican bandits, who rob
bed the store of Mr.. Shurbart at COncep-
| tion. Texas. some days ago, of about $780,
| 900 in cash and arms and other goods, and
| fed to Mexico. has been captured by the
Authorities. brought to MatamOraS and is
held for eXtradition. This arrest has been
made with more promptneSS than any pre-
viOus one for years.
Hanged.
| WASHINGTON. Nov. 23.-HenIy Dung
alias Charles Williams Young, the cOlOred
man convicted of the murder in March
last of Frank Hahn, Virginia droyer, was
hanged to-day in the Jail yard, to which but
few persons, besides a strong police force,
were admitted
Not Hanged.
ATLANTA. GA, Nov. 2S.-Milton Ma
lone, sentence to be hanged to-day, died
this morning from the effects of opium
taken last night.
An appropriation"
COLUMBUS. o., Nov. 2S.-CharleS j.
Hess, general agent for Ohio of the Pro
lection Life Insurance Company of Chica-
90. was yesterday removed from his posi-
| ton, and a suit brought in the Common
! Pleas Court to recover from him eleven
thousand seven hundred and forty-seven
dollars, being money belonging to the COM
pany, which it is alleged, he has apprOpri-
| ated to his own use.
A Desperate Killed i'm Indiana.
! EVANSVILLE, Nov. 2S.-Wm. Williams,
eX-Sherriff of Warrick county, shot and
| killed A. NJ. Thornberg, a desperado, who
| drew pistol TO resist arrest, at Bonneville,
| Yesterday. Mrs. KlOhd, a German woman,
while showing how it was done, shot and
killed Jacob Buttiger, three years old.
| The Sunrise Case.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2S.-In the
United States Circuit Court to-day Robt
| X. Clarke, captain of the ship Sunrise, was
sentenced, on conviction of cruel punish
ment to seamen, to fourteen months i'm
prisonment in the county Jail, and fine OF
| one thousand dollars. Frank Harris, his
| first mate, was sentenced to the State
prison for four years. Dennis MalOney,
second mate to sixty days in the county