Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-30
Disastrous Fires Yesterday y-InFanticide
Burned 10 Death-A Murderer
and His AccOmpIice shot
Through Their Prison
Window,
The COspatrick Disaster-0Ter FOsr
Hundred Lives IOst-TRO of the
Gadshlli Robbers Done For
"A CelOred Girl Kill
ed In Cincinnati.
a Father Murdered and Cremated by
his EOns-SegrO Highway Rob-
bers-Tragic Affair at Boil
tOn-DOuble Tragedy
-Fatal Duel, Etc.
FamIIv Burned 20 D,n,h.

a Family Burned 10 Death.
CINCINNATI, December GA Times
special says Richard BsrnuE1, his wife
aud two children were burned to death
at Shannon, Mississippi, last night. No
particulars are given.
Murdered his wife.
NEW YORK, December 29.-Patritk k
Wallace, q labOrer, residing at 20 North
Fifth street, Williamsburg, murdered
his wife Margaret last night by knock
ing her brains out with a hickory stick.
Arrested on charges OF InfantIeide.
NEW YORK, December 29.-.Dr Chas.
DeMoor and his brother have been ar
rested charged with killing an illegid-
mate child OF the former. The mother
Of the child, who caused the arrests, is
also in custody.
hallway Bridge burned.
OMAHA, December 29.-The train
due hear from the west tomorrow, left
Green nver sixteen hours late. Deten-
ton caused by the burning OF a bridge
over Black fork, which was fired by
freight engine.
The ottawa OPerahOuse Destroyed by
R1re.
CHICAGO, December 29.-Fire at Otta.
wa, Illinois, to-day destroyed the opera
house, valued at sos coo, and Russell &
Sons furniture store, loss $4,000 In
surance on the operahouse, S25, 600; on
the furniture store, $1,000.
a Son charged With RTurdeyfuk mis-
Father, and BurnlDg the Body.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, December 29.-Al-
N8YV ~ n np At tafa
on suspicion of being connected with the
supposed murder and cremation OF his
father, was released to-day. AN elder
brother is still held No new facts have
been developed in the case.
A Murderer and his AccOmpIfee Shot
through their PEisOH window.
ST. LOUIS, December 29.-At Lamar,
Barton county, Missouri, night before
last, an unknown man rode up to the
county Jail, and through one OF its win
dows shot and killed Hyronemous, the
murderer of Colonel Harris, and fatally
wounded Dions, his accOmpliCe, and es-
capped.
Bold aud sueeessfui Robbery.
TOLEDO, December % "A bold rob-
berry was committed about two o'clock
this afternoon, ia an auction store, cor
proprietor, A. Williams, was alone in
the store, when three men entered and
knocked him down, gagged snd bound
him, and took forty dollars from his
pocket and decamped. A farmer COM
ing in soon after found Williams, and
released him, The thieves have not yet
been apprehended.
Two of the GadshIIi Robbers Fixed.
De- -
men captured in this (Pulaskil county a
few weeks ago for robbing a store and a
boat in Yell county, and who shot and
wounded the sheriff in his attempt to
capture them in this county, were tried
in the circuit court to-day, convicted,
and sent to the penitentiary for five
years. These two men belonged to a
gang OF four, who were supposed to be
the Gadshill robbers.
A CoIOred Girl AssRssiuRted.
CINCINNATI, December 29.--In Gam
bic alley, back OfCenJral avenue, n this
city, about ten O'Clock last night, Mary
Lee, colored girl eighteen years old, |
was murdered by some person unknowp
to the authorities. She was working at
the house of Mrs. Grant, a colOred WO- |
man, and about twenty minutes previ- |
Gus 20 the discovery of the murder she |
had started out alone, saying she was
going to the drug store and would re-
turn in few minutes. She had been |
gone about twenty minutes when Mrs. |
Grant heard a frantic knock on the |
door, and upon opening it Mary Lee was /
found leaning against it with her throat |
cut from ear to ear. Retreating foot |
steps were heard by Mrs. Grant when !
she opened the door, but it being dark |
and rainy night nothing could be seen. |
1t is thought the motive OF the murder |
was jealousy.
More About the COspatriek Disaster.
LONDON, December ga special
from Madeira to the London morning |
journals gives the following additional |
particulars Of the burning Of the emil |
grant ship COspatrick: Fire broke out at |
midnight, November 18th, and within |
half al hour enveloped the vessel nearly |
its entire length. The scene was one 1f |
the widest confusion; but two boats sue |
ceeded in getting away, each Of which |
contained thirty persons. These re-
mained alongside the ship until the
nineteenth of November, when the hull |
was completely burned and the vessel |
sunk. Tie two boats then started for
land. They Kept together for two days,
when a gale separated them. One OF
them has not since been beard Of. The l
other was fallen in with by the British |
ship Scepter. At that time it contained
five persons, two of whom died before
the Scepter reached st. Helena.