Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-29
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.
Distinguished Physician Dead.

Distinguished Physician Dead.
GENEVA, November 2S-Auguste de
Larine, a distinguished physician, died
to-day, aged seventy-twO years.
The spanish Army Disabled by Disease.
BAYONNE, November lS.-The Carl
lists report that typhus fever and small
pOx prevails to such an extent in Gen
eral MOriene's army that it is unable to
make any offensive movement.
IngersOIrs Estate.
NEW YORK, November 2S.-Applica-
ton was made to Judge FancheT this
morning for the appointment of trustees
Of the estate of Ingerson, as a
debtor imprisoned for crime. The ap-
plicatiOn was declined for the present,
as the statute refuses unless there be ac-
tual imprisonment.
Homicide and Fatal Accident.
EVANSVILLE, IND, November 28.-
William Williams, ex-sheriff of WaTick
county, shot and killed William Thorn
berg, desperate, who drew pistol to
resist arrest, at Bonneville, yesterday.
Mrs. Klohd, German woman, while
showing how it was done, shot and
killed Jacob Buttiger, three years old.
How the Paper-MiIIs are Running.
LOUISVILLE, November 28.-The two
extensive paCeT mills Of this city, repre-
sented at a meeting Of twenty-five paper
manufacturers of the west at Cincinnati,
on Wednesday, are running half time,
as per agreement at the meeting. The
Falls City mill is paying high wages for
skilled labor, and is the only mill in the
west which is doing so, dischar9ing no
hands. Both mills here are running on
special orders only.
Another MfII', Proposed.
ST. LOUIS, November E8.-Tom Allen,
pugilist, will publish a card tomorrow,
offering to match Jack Madden against
Ben Hogan for one thousand dollars a
side, to fight in Canads, fifty miles from
Detroit, in ten weeks from the day of
signing the articles; or he (Allen) will
fight Hogan anywhere in Canada for
from five hundred to one thousand dol
lars, in from two days to ten weeks,
each party to be accompanied by only
five persons, to prevent magisterial in
reference.
The Ohleers of the "sunrise" Sem
fenced.
SAN Francisco, November 2S.-In
the United States circuit court to-day.
Robert X. Clarke, captain of the ship
Sunrise, was sentenced, on the convic-
ton of cruel punishment to seamen, to
fourteen months imprisonment in the
county jail and to pay a fine of one
thousand dollars. Frank Harris, his
first mate, was sentenced to the State
prison for four years, and Dennis Ma
lOney, second mate, was sentenced to
sixty days in the county Jail.
COLUMBUS, November 2S.-Charles J.
Hess, general agent of the Protection
life-insurance company, of Chicago,
against whom a suit has been brought
to recover about twelve thousand dollars
Of the company's money, stated, in an
interview this evening, that he sent in
his resignation two days ago, to take
effect on the first Of December. He
does not deny having money of the
company in his possession, but says that
the Protection has collected the amount
OF several death-lOsses in this State and
now refuses to pay over the money so
collected to the claimants, in cOnse-
quence suits have been brought against
the company at Portsmouth, Scott cOun-
ty, and writs have been served upon him
by the sheriff directing him TO pay over
no moneys belonging to the company
until such suits have been determined.
The public now have both sides of the
story.
Desperate Attempt 20 Bresk Hail Des-
peraiely ThwaTted.
LITTLE Rock, November 2S.-On
Tuesday last, the prisoners confined in
the Clarksville Jail overpowered the
guards and took possession of their
arms. The alarm was given before
they goa out, and the citizens sur
rounded the Jail. One OF the prisoners, sid
Wallace, under sentence TO be hung on
the twenty-third of next month, fred q
double-barrel shotgun at two citizens
in the street, severely, If not fstally,
wOundiDg both. The citizens then took
possession Of the fist floor of the
] all, put Eve kegs of powder in it, laid
a train for some distance and notified
the prisoners that unless they surren-
dered in thirty minutes they would
blow up the building. After a little
parley they surrendered, throwing their
arms out at the window. As one of the
guns struck the ground 1t went of, the
shot slightly wounding three persons.
Wallace and another one of the prison.
ers was brought here last night and
lodged In the penitentiary. He will be
taken out and hung next month. He
has killed quite a number of men,
among them the late Hon. Elisha
Meers, circuit judge, and is the most
desperate character In that section OF
country. Two brothers were in the Jail
with him at the time, and are under ia
dlctment that will send them to the
penitentiRrY.