The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-09-02
MISSOURI.
Trngedy at SedaIia.-TwO Horse.
Thieves Hung in Benton COunty--
81. Louis Items.

Trngedy at SedaIias.TwO Horse
Thieves Hung in Benton County,
ST. Louis ltemS'
ST.. LOUIS, Sept. 1.-The RepuJlita
has q special from Sedalia, Mo, glvin
an account oI q horrible tragedy whic
occurred at Knightly's Station, on III
Missouri, Kansas Il Texas railroad, 81!
miles west Of SedHlia, on Saturday last
Il appears that Vim. Knightly, who hsj
been laboring under mental derangemen
for some time, killed or caused the death @
his sister Adelaide, aged forty years. LII!
nephew Louis states that he then set fir
to the house and killed himself. Th,
house occupied an isolated position, ant
when the ncighbors reached 1t, ii was re
duCed 10 mass OF ruins. The CharrC(
remains Of Knightly were found near {
window, with shotgun, partially
burned, at his feet. Tho bodies of hll
sister and stcpsOn were found near thC
front door, but 80 badly burned 1t CoulC
not be determined whether they had been
killed by Knightly or whether they were
suilOCated. The COrOner's jury is in
clined 10 the latter opinion, although the
.ncighbOrs testified 10 having heard three
shots fired while the house was burning
The same special says that. two OF the
horse thieves were hanged by q mob in
Benton county, Saturday, and another oi
the gang has been arrested and is now in
Jail ut SedaliA.
Captain Joseph Widen, one OF the vic
tins Of the explosion Of the steamer Geo
e. Wolfe, died here yesterday. ......
The Convention OF italian HoclGties, In
session here last week, adopted petition
to Congress, asking that body to effect
ually suppress the traffic in Italian chill.
dren, which has been carried on so long
by padrones, and which Is so shameful in
character.
Z. F. Dix, an old and well-knowu
steamboat captain, died here yesterday.
THE GALLOWAY co. LYECuENG- G-ANOTHEH
VICTIM DEAD.
ST. ,LnIIs Sant ,l-ThS1 Rs'.;;;.s. M;
Edlch has special from Fulton, Missouri
which says that W. W. Dundon, another
Of the victims of the Galloway county
lynChiug affair, died this morning. The
grand jury has adjourned, alter indicting
some six or seven men for participating
in the lyuChing, but their names are
withheld. No arrests have yet been
made, but II Is said the county aulhori-
ties are determined on bringing the
guilty parties to speedy Justice.
Captain D. K. Pomeroy, oil the steamer
Duke Of Edinburgh, which runs on the
Amazon river from Para 10 San Antonio,
l 800 miles, was on change today and
left lorthe Ohio river to night for the pur.
pose Of procuring the construction Of
4 steamer, Of five hundred tons to
carry railroad iron from Para to San An.
tonic. A railroad 10 now being built
around the falls at the latter place to
Gusjara, above which steamers will be
run, and the vast country Of Ratevia will
Re opened to commerce and travel by the
Amazon and It's tributaries,
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 1.-The Board Of Po.
lice Commissioners at very late hour
Tonight, after hearing great amount
oil evidence on bothsides, suspended the
Chief Of Police, James McDonough, for
three days for his action In the arrest and
refusal Of bail Tor; Mrs. Carrivan,
Joseph 3. Mccullough has retired from
the managing editorship oI the Democrat
OF this city. .... -..