Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-20
Destruction of Forests in Wis
cOnsin by Fire-General
Canby's Funeral
AmeS's VIII.
COe, the Boston Paper-Raiser An
Elevator and Large Amount
of Grain Consumed
Miscellaneous.
Powder-nIiIl FxnIosIon.

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several other houses in the vicinity. No
! lives were lost.
Arkansas River 10 ne BFidged at Little
Rock.
WASHINGTON, May 19.-AttOrney-
General Williams to-day decided that
the Cairo and Fulton railroad company
has the right to build bridge across the
! Arkansas river st Little Rock, if it shall
not Obstruct navigation.
An Old Journalist Dead.
! PITTsBURG, May l9.-HOnOrable E. T.
! Cox, father of General S. s. Cox, died
at his residence III GAINESVILLE, Ohio, yes
terday, after a protracted illness. Mr..
Cox for many years edited the .Zanes-
vile Gazette, and several times repre-
sented Washington county in the State
! legislature.
In Quarantine at Havana.
HAVANA, May 19.-The authorities
having given the passengers on the
steamer YazOO permission to leave on
] another vessel for New York, they sail
| ed on the steamer of Saturday. The
YazoO remains in quarantine. The
steamship Liberty has arrived here from
New Orleans, and is detained at quaran-
tine.
Forests on Fire.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 19.-Reports
! from Green Bay say the woods are on
fire around Big Cedar, and are running
along by the side of the railroad track.
The new hotel and store at Big Cedar
were burned on Saturday. A big fire is
reported at Isbpeming, and fears are en-
tertained that the town will be de-
| stroyed. -
| Grain Elevator Destroyed by Fire.
TOLEDO, OHIO, May l9.-The Wabash
Elevator company's elevator number
! two was destroyed by fire this morning,
| together with its contents, consisting of
about one hundred and twenty-five
thousand bushels of corn. Loss on the
! building, eighty thousand dollars; in
surance, sixty-five thousand dollars.
Loss on grain, about ninety thousand
dollars, fully insured. The insurance is
mostly in eastern cities.
Patriotic Toast &c Germany.
WASHINGTON, May I9.-Baron
SchlezeT, German minister, responded
tonight at the May festival of the
! Schutzenverein to the toast, Germany,
the land Of our birth, may our actions
as COMMUNICATIONS ever prove
worthy of her great renown, and may
| ker latest triumph not be her last"
/ -NDlOUtl DuuCdu AGIsdS - " uGllhGI
a lecture for the benefit of the Mercan-
tile Library association, at the theater,
Wednesday week. His subject will be
Ireland.
The Accident at Siug-Sing Prison.
SING-SING, May 19.-The fall of
gallery in Sing-Sing prison yesterday
caused the death of one convict and the
serious woUnding of the keeper and two
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sixteen others.
The verdict of the coroner's jury in
the case of JeTrett, killed by the falling
of a gallery at Sing-Sing prison, is that
he came to his death by the falling Of
/ a gallery, whereby his skull was frac-
! tuTed, and adds: We,furthermOre eX-
press our conviction that the legislature
of the State of New York has exhibited
| culpable negligence in refusing the
necessary appropriations TO remedy the
| insecurity of the galleries"
Preparations for General Canby's Fu-
neraI.
! INDIANAPOLIS, May ia meeting
to take preliminary steps toward prepa-
rations for the funeral Of General Candy
was held in the United States court
room this morning, at which Mayor
! Mitchell presided. a committee of citi-
zens was appointed to act in cOnjunc-
ton with the city council and with the
military preparations for the funeral. A
memorial address was reported and
adopted, paying very touching tribute
to the great qualities, unObtrusiveness,
gentleness, and tragic end of the de-
ceased. The time for the funeral cannot
be announced until it can be definitely
ascertained at what time the remains
will reach here. General Sherman and
other distinguished officers are expected
to attend the funeral.
A vIIlaiuOus Murderer Confession.
HUDSON, n. Y, May 1S.-Joseph
| Waltz, in his confession OF having muir
dered Hulcher, the scissors grinder,
, states that the deed was done about ten
! o'clock in the evening on the fifteenth
of May. He went to the room occupied
by Hulcher, whom he found asleep,
and struck him three times with 3
hatchet, the first time with the blaht
part, and twice with the sharp side. He
| only groaned, and all was over. Walt
then took the body to stone wall,
where traces Of blood were found, and
covered it up. Then he left it until the
next night, when he took it down into
, the orchard and buried it. The officers
( having learned all they could, took him
out, at his own suggestion, to the place
where the body was buried, in the or
chard, a few inches below the surface
The body was found wrapped in Q
blanket. The head was horribly man.
{ gled. Waltz also confesses to having
, burned three schoolhouses in this
place, and says he buried the books,
which had been found at the place ht
| HaGf urraafaI NNhnn QClraH NUhN hn
mitted the murder, he replied, al done
1t for mischief, and not for gain. The
bad spirit was in me, and l wanted t.
do something bad"
Z Oakes Ames's VIII.
e BOSTON, May 19.-The will of Oakei
1 Ames was admitted to probate on Sat
e urday. The witnesses were NJ. Dillon
, n. q. Ordway and Philutus Sawyer
z The bequests are as follows: To hi:
S wife, Eveline o. Ames, one hundred
. thousand dollars, all his household fur
niture, horses and carriages, and the use
: OF his dwelling g-hOuse during her life
] to bis daughter, Susan T.. French, two
thousand dollars year during her life;
; to each grandson now or hereafter to bt
born, twenty-five thousand dollars; to
r each grand daughter, twenty thousand
, dollars; to his son, Frank NJ
Ames, all his interest in the
2 Kinsley iron and machine company
!, and in all houses and lands and build.
i ings bought or received from the estate
of Lyman Kingsley, in Canton; to hi,
3 sOns, Oakes A. and Oliver Ames, all
e his real estate i'm eastern Canton, Bran.
tree and West BridgewateT, with all the
, machinery, tools and fixtures pertaining
e to, or that are in any way connected
S with the shovel business; an income
D OF fifty thousand dollars from seven pc
}, cent. railroad bonds, to be used for tn,
I support of schools in district numbe
S seven, in north Easton. All the re
: maindel to be diviyed among his som
Oakes A, Oliver, and Frank NJ. Ames
s and Oakes A. and Oliver Ames, his sons
q are appointed executors.
e Exploits of COe, the Boston FOFger.
BOSTON, May 19.-PrOceeding hav
{ been instituted in the United State
: bankruptcy court by " arren & CO., th
: largest sufferers by the forgeries of Jane
A. COe, against the estate of that indi
vidual. On Saturday provisional war
rant was issued for the attachment 0
the property, real and personal, of Coe
The warrant was served by Unite,
{ States Marshal Usher, who recovered
tin trunk in which COe kept his sscuri
ties, and which he removed from tn