Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-05
Political and Social Movements
ShipWreeks The Train Rob
bers-Fires and
Murders.
TIE Saints Of I0Wa-The MasSa.
chasetts DemOeraey-But-
ler's Chances-Elee-
tions.
CRIME AND CASUALTY.

2 LtNttN' EDttlal lGUul IllSWOllLlg Aahlnd1
4 says that Happy Jack, the policeman
who killed Cad. Pierce, Texan cattle
dealer, some days ago, was himself killed
to-day by Officer Brown.
Paper MilIs Burned.
HAGERsTOwN, Nd, Septem Der A.
/ A fire occurred tonight in the Antie-
tam paper-mills, owned by Stone,
Breaker d Dushane, two miles east OF
/ Hagerstown. Loss eighty thousand,
insurance forty thousand dollars.
More CoaI.OI Victims.
Fort SCOTT, KANSAS, September -
At PleasantOn, Linn county, yesterday,
while q Miss Willis was ironing, she
I either poured kerosene on the fire, Ol
upset the lamp. Her clothing caught
fire, and she was burned almost TO 8
crisp, and died this morning. Hel
! mother was badly burned in trying tC
rescue her daughter, and their house
was burned TO the ground.
An InferHaI-Revenue GObbIsr.
CHICAGO, September A special
from Springfield. Illinois, says thai
John T. Harper, United States collector
Of internal-revenue for that district, has
been discovered to be a defaulter to the
/ government in a sum estimated at fifty
thousand dollars. 1t appears that Har-
per wrote out his resignation Friday,
and left il with a CLERK TO be forwarded
Z to Washington. He then left for parts
/ unknown. He is said to have lost heavily
( IN real-estate speculations in Chicago.
schooner wrecked supposed loss Of
! Lffes
PORTLAND, Me. September News
| has been received here that on the
! twenty-seventh of August, sixty miles
/ southeast from Mt. Desert, was picked
/ up the fragment of a craft, with an in.
scriptiOn dated August oath, to the effect
1 that the schooner Eliza Frances was
waterlOgged and upset; that she after
/ ward went TO pieces, and that SIX men
I had been two days on raft without
| food. 1t is believed they were all lost.
A Celebrated Hotel Burned.
ST. LOUIS, September 4-The Mas
sasoit house, in this city, a famous
stopping-plaee during the days of travel
by stages across the continent, and one
I of the best-known hotels in the Mis-
souri, valley, was totally destroyed by
fire last night. The house was owned by
| Mr. Cannon. Loss, S25, 900. Insured in
| the German American for $4,000; in the
/ Hartford for $1,000; in the Franklin for
| S30O0; ia the Orient for $1,000; in the
/ Imperial for $1,000; in the Germania for
I $1,000, and in the Fire and Marine of St
! Joseph for $1,000; total, Sl7 600.
More Wrecks Heard From.
! HALIFAX, September At is sup
I posed that the schooner Angels Friend
was lost in the late gale, with all Oh
| board, some eighteen or twenty persons.
l n Tv,4
4 into port, and when she was righted her
7 crew of five men and two boys were
| found drowned in the cabin. It would
I appear that the crew, when they had
/ given up all hope of saving themselves,
/ repaired to the cabin to engage in devo-
/ tional exercises, and there met their sad
end. They we're Frenchmen. The new
bark Commissioner is believed to have
| been lost, with ten men.
/ quite a asmash-Up.
/ PITTsBURG, September 4.-Quite q
smash-up occurred last night near the
/ Pennsylvania avenue crossing Of the
| Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago rail
road. A heavy freight train, propelled
with considerable power round the curve
between Liberty street and the avenue
went off the track and dashed into tht
new brick building lately erected there
The walls were broken through, thu
breach being sufficiently large to admit
two cars. A number of the cars were
wrecked, and the track was covered
| with the debris. Men were at once
placed at work, and after few hours Ia
Dor the track was made clear.
Pursuit of the Iowa Train RObbers
Abandoned.
ST. LOUIS, September 3.-The Demo
crQt' s special from Sedalia says that tht
Lafayette county vigilant committee,
who has been in pursuit Of the Iows
| railroad train-robbers, returned here Oh
( Friday and disbanded. They traced the
robbers to johnson City, st. Clah
county, and surrounded the house.
where they supposed they were hiding
but the birds had flown. The band con-
sisted OF the three Younger and the
James brothers. McCay was not with
them. The reported fight between the
robbers and the vigilants day or two
since, and the wounding of one of tht
/ YouDgors, is a canard. 1t is believed
that the robbers have started for Texas
I but this rumor is doubted, and it is af
firmed they viii be again heard from
within ftrty-eight hours.
Couple OF Murders.
ST. LOUIS. September Two men,
named J. Douglass and r. S. Hayden,
went into a saloon st Montgomery City,
Monday last, created n disturbance and
were ordered out by Patrick Cain, the
baTkeeper. WhereUpon Douglass drew
a pistol and shot Cain, killing him in.
stantly. Douglass escaped but Hayden
was arrested.
Two farmers, named Lafayette New.
kirk and Robert Muer, between whom
an old feud had existed, met on the
road six miles from Mexico, Adrian
county, last Monday. One of Sew
/ kinks horses became frightened and in
terfered with Muer's team. The lattel
drew a revolver, and jumping from hi
wagon advanced toward Newkirk
threatening to shoot him, when New
kirk shot him dead, and then went u
Mexico and surrended to the officers o
the law.
More RumOrs of Fraud.
NEW BRUNSWICK, September A.
The greatest eXcitemeIt has prevailed
since Monday last, on the rum0reC
dafalcatiOn of q. w. Appleton, cashiel
81 the State bank, for two hundred thou
,tDd dollars, and Mr. Underhill is *
mining the books. It was rumored
ast night thSt the cashier loaned one
hundred and ninety thousand dollars Il
r n. Woodwork, president of the New
Brunswick carpet company, without
authority. The president or directors o
the bank and Mr.. Woodworth's failure
to nav the money was the cause of tb'
banks disasters. 1t is well known how
aver that Henry Richmond, vice
nresident of the bank, also 4
director in the carpet company anC
a member of the bank directors
are stockholders. James Short, super
intendent of the carpet company, say
the money was never used IN the com
papy, as il was not needed there, anC
the impression is that it was lost il
stock s,lsculation in Wall street. An
other Tumof 10 that Woodwork ha,
come forward and furnished security fol
the whole amount The bank men arr
very reticent on the subject.
stahlsS sRd Ntne Valuable Horse.
RgFped.
TRENTON, n. j., Septembe. 4.-Tbt
Fashion stud and farm stables to0k fir.
about eleven O'Clock this morning, ant
a building fifty BIZ one hundred ant
]
together with nine horses out of nine
teen, which it contained at the time
/ Among the horses burned were twS
brood maxes, belonging to Presiden
Grant; L0jed, vals.able horse belong
, i TO Mr.. ButteFworth, OF Phiiadelphia
Henry 3. Gray, a horse belonging q
:, 3. DOble, valued at four thousand dol
laEs, end five other horses, not ratet,
Tbe hoFsss G. d. Aide, Lucy Rosaline
Hotspur, and Galis0fnss mare wer,
among the saved. Mr. Doble loses teI
srlkies, three fall-top carriages, thirt,
sets of harnesses, and other traps wortl
thousand dollars. Charles Cochran
an old man, loses a trunk containing
three Thousand dollars iB gold and notes
Trunks belonging 10 al} TIE noted horse
were lost, together with tne eaetnibK 0
ali the boys, and about one hundre'
! halters, and a large number Of saddle
and brides.
The following horses were burned il
addition TO those sent in the former dis
patch; Lizzie Perry, owned by Edwar'
Perry, and 3 Vaiuatle SOCK horee frQl
! ! Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Yhefe wef
eight horses in all burned. Lapieg wa
valued at $1,000. A valuable horse be
longing 10 VIM. Hutchinson, valued a
/ Ssi %, was among those burned. In
} stittaace, 80 coo.
t horrible ::tEsgsay E;'ifs.MHrsieF an
! sr. LOUIS, September 4.--Archibsl
/. Duncan, q labOTipg man living at th