Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-28
CRIME AND CASUALTY.
AtrOeiOus and Brutal MUIR
ders-A Holocaust Of Fearful
0utrages and Crimes.
Executions for Murder-RailrOad Aeci-
dent Near Little ROck-Man
SmOtheTed in an En-.
bankment.
COnsiderabIe UonRagration.

bankment.
Considerable COnnagr ration.
CINCINNATI, November 27.-The fir.
at Somerset, Ohio, yesterday, destroyed
Skinner q Brothers. drug store, NJ
Bowman's grocery, and J. II. GTaves's
boot and shoe store. Loss, twenty thou
: sand dollars.
FIOur Mills Burned.
DAYTON, OHIO, November 27.-The
Dayton View flour mills, valued al
eleven thousand dollars, were consumed
by fire last night. The building con-
tanned sixty barrels of flour and one
thousand bushels of wheat. Insurance
unknown.
Sad Accident.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, November 26.-
While a number of wOrknen were at
work excavating for vault in front OF
a new building, corner of Bank and
Frankfort streets, the bank caved in
and Lewis Heisel was thrown against
the corner of a stone pier and his skull
fractured. He was dead when dug out.
Deceased was about forty years of age,
and leaves family.
A Mexican Marauder CAPTURED.
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, November 26.
Alberto Garcia, chief of the Mexican
bandits who robbed the store of Mr..
SchurEert, at Conception, Texas, some
days ago, of about thirty thousand dol
lars in cash, and arms and other goods,
and fled to Mexico, has been captured
by the authorities, brought to Mata-
/ M ar11 ic hold :,
arrest has been made with more prompt
ness than any previous one for years.
Murderer COnvicted-TrOtting Race.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 27.-
| TOredo MerienO, one of the gang of
PiburiciO Vasquez, Tres Pines murder
eTs on trial for several days at Salinas
City for murder, the jury returned a
verdict Of guilty of murder in the second
degree.
In the trotting race at Agricultural
Park, to-day, Sam Purdy won the first
heat. st. James, on the third heat, lost
his shoe and could not be trotted. The
judges declared the heat and race for
Purdy, but delared the pools off.
Mexican Bides with Texas brands.
MATAMoRAs, November 27.-In le-
gal contest in regard to the validity of
the sale of lot of about two hundred
hides. it turned out that four-fifths of
them had been taken from cattle bear
ing Texas brands, which had evidently
been stolen and crossed into Mexico.
The brands of King and Kennedy, the
largest stock-raisers in western Texas,
prevailed, while the brands of many
other Texas stock-raisers were embraced
in the lot. This is said to be fair sam
pie Of the hide business in this section
of Mexico.
Serious Aecident-shOOtinK-S
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, November o.
B. r. Sulgrove, the well-known journal
ist, formerly editor of the Ddily Journal,
was seriously injured to-day by fall in
a room in the statehouse.
A woman named Thompson was shot
and probably fatally injured at the Cir
Gle house, at two O'Clock this morning,
| by a man named OmarT. Parker. The
latter had dispute with the clerk OF the
house, and fred at him, missing the
clerk, and shooting the woman.
suieIde-Fire.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 27.-COl-
Onel Robert Morrow, paymaster of one
of the Arizona departments of the army,
committed suicide in his room at the
Occidental hotel, with a dragoon re-
volver. He fired three shots, and the
last time put the muzzle of the pistol in
his mouth and blew mis- brains out.
| Colonel Morrow was formerly private
secre .ary of President johnson. No
cause is known for the suicide.
A dispatch from ROcklin, Placer
county, states that this morning the
round-house of the c. II. railroad COM
pany, at that place, was burned, with
nine locomotives and about the same
number of cars. The town narrowly
escaped destruction also.
Murders aud Accidents
! CLEVELAND, OHIO, November 26 -
James BOwnes, who was indicted for
the murder of Susan r. Greener on
Euclid avenue some time ago, was to-
day discharged from custody; the prose-
cuting-attOrney not having sufficient
evidence against him to justify his be-
/ ing brought to trial.
James Cannon, of eight-mile lock,
master of the canalbOat Metcalf, was
found this morning lying dead en- the
deck of the canalboat Palm. Appear
ances indicate that death was caused by
| blows on the head. Captain Stair, of
| the boat Palm, and Alonzo Ellis are sus-
pected as the murderers and have been
| arrested. 1t is stated that Cannon was
drunk Tuesday night and had trouble
with Ellis.
! Mysterious Murder.
| CINCINNATI, November 26.-Joseph
Hormes, an inoffending and respected
German gardner, was shot and moTtally
wounded, at his own house, seven miles
west of this city, near Warsaw, at seven
o'clock this evening, by man repre-
senting himself TO be Fred Kleaver, of
this city. Mr.. Kleaver is baggage-mas-
ter on the Chicago and Detroit railroad,
and at the hour in which the tragedy
was enacted was in the city. This
leaves the identity of the murderer a
mystery. The motive for the deed is
thought to have been to rob Mr.. Hormes.
/ When the shot was fired Mrs. HOrmes
gave the alarm and the murderer ran
away, but returned and shot Hormes
again. Both balls entered the left
temple, but being from a small pistol
did not penetrate deeply. The neigh
bors are intensely excited. Two we'll
| dressed strangers had been seen walk
| ing along the road in the afternoon, but
were unknown to the citizens. HOrmes
had but about seven hundred dollars in
cash in his house. His wounds are con-
sidered mortal. No suspicion rests on
Klesver here, as it is thought he can
prove an Giibi,
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