Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-11
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Ten Thousand Dollar Fire-Railread
Aceident-TwO Men KiIIed-An-
sl- other Fatal Accident at
st. LOuis.
The " One Great Question in the Vir-
ginius CaSe-A Jealous Young WO-
"a man Commits Suicide at
Terre Haute.
4 Petition for Protection to the Jewish
Sabbath in Chicago = Additional
from the Wreck Of the
2 - WaWassetf.
JeaIousx ana suicide

IERRE hAGTE, IND, August IO.-A
girl, named Amanda Davis, recently
from st. Louis, committed suicide in
this city to-day by taking morphine.
Jealousy is supposed to have been the
cause. An inquest will be held in the
morning.
The Usual Fatal Run-OVer from So.
Louis
ST. LOUIS, August 10.-A train on
the Jacksonville division of the Chicago
and Alton railroad, ran into a wagon
containing gentleman and lady near
Little Plaza bridge, Madison county,
last evening. Both parties were in
stantly killed. Names unknown.
Railroad Aceident-TwO Men Killed.
ORELLIA, ONTARIO, July IO.-A
gravel-train running through the swamp
between Orellia and Otherly, ran over
two cows, and the van containing num-
Der of workmen was badly broken I'D.
Two men, named Stephens and Torrell.
were instantly killed, and six others
fatally wounded.
Fire In So. LOuIs-sIO, 600 Loss.
ST. LOUIS, August 10.-The tea and
coffee store of James H. Forbes, No. AT
Franklin avenue, the sale stables of
James Jackson & Co., No. 916 North
Fifth street, and the rear of several
dwellings, fronting on Fifth steet, were
burned this morning. The loss is about
$4,000. Insurance-S2000 in the North
American, of Philadelphia; $500 in the
Phoenix, of Brooklyn, and $500 in the
Hibernia, Of Cleveland.
Protection Asked for the Jewish Sab
bath.
CHICAGO, August 10.-A number of
Israelite citizens have addressed a petit
ton to Mayor Medill, asking for protec-
ton from disturbances on their Sabbath,
beginning on Friday and ending on
Saturday evening, by prohibiting the
carrying on of trade in the vicinity of
their places of worship. No action has
yet been taken upon the petition.
Another Fatal Accident at st. Louis.
ST.. LOUIS, August 10.-As George
Lynch was driving one of Barnumis
ciTcus-wagons down Olive street this
morning, in attempting to cross the
street-railToad track to let a car pass, he
was jolted off the box and the wheels
passed over his head, killing him. His
parents reside in Brooklyn, New York,
and he has wife and child in Kansas
City, Missouri.
the Money?
WASHINGTON. August 10.-There
is only one question connected with the
Virginius which is considered of suffi-
cient Importance to justify an examina-
ton, namely: whether that vessel was,
about two years ago, sold to one of the
South American republics, as stated at
that time. If so, the Virginius is Low
sailing under papers Of the United
States, to which she has no right, and
for which Offense she would be liable to
capture by our own authorities.
Fire and Fatal Accident.
CHICAGO, August 10.-A fire at half
past one o'clock this morning destroyed
the foundry of Kuntz Brothers & Bur-
man, S26 to $50 Hubbard street, and a
dwelling at S2S Hubbard street. The
loss on the foundry is twelve thousand
dollars, insured for one one thousand
dollars each in the Girard of Philadelphia
and the Germany of New York. The
loss on the house is seven hundred dol
lars, insured in the National of Phila-
delphia.
An unknown man was run over by
the switch-engine and a train of cars, at
the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne railroad
depot, in this city, to-day, and instantly
killed, his body being cut completely
in two.
Additional from the Potomac Wreck.
WASHINGTON, August IO.-The steam,
er Vanderbilt arrived tonight from the
scene of the Wawassett disaster, with
six more bodies of the victims. Four of
them were identified as the bodies OF
George Cooke, a grocer of Washington;
Richard Murray, a colOred passenger;
George Tibbs, a cOlOred deckhand, and
Mary Blackwell, a colOred passenger. The
little girl, about twelve years of age, is
to be the daughter of Mrs.
Lucinda Trout. The sixth body
was that of coloTed woman not yet
identified. 1t is said tonight that the
total number of bodies so far recovered
is fifty-six, though not over twenty have
been identified. Another steamer went
down this evening, and is ex-
pected back tomorrow with more
bodies. Many of those recovered
to-day have been partially eaten by crabs,
and badly disfigured. The latest esti-
mate of the number of those lost on the
Wawassett is that it will reach seventy,
at least. Many of these will, in all
not be identified, particu-
larly in the case of the colOred persons
who fell victims to the disaster.
Miscellaneous.
Only one death from cholera in Louis
vile during the past week.
The foreign consuls at Cartagena,
Spain, have been forced to take refuge
on board the frigates.
All the newspapers, with but one ex-
ception, in western Kentucky oppose
the "new State" project.
G. G. Allen, a well-known journalist,
aged about fifty-five years, died at
yesterday after few days
illness.
The marriage of boy aged thirteen
and a girl aged eleven years is reported
to have occurred in Warren county,
Kentucky.
An accurate estimate shows the loss
by the fire at Portland, Maine, to be six
and fifteen thousand eight
dollars.
William w. Clark, formerly professor
of natural science in the State normal
school at Albany, New York, died at
Rochester yesterday morning, aged for
ty-nine years.
The funeral of four members of the
Reed family, victims of the Wawassett
disaster on the Potomac river Friday
took place at Washington
City yesterday.
A sleeping-car on the Wilmington,
Columbia and Augusta railroad was
thrown from the trestle near Hamburg,
South Carolina, yesterday morning. Two
passengers were badly bruised and the
car wrecked.