Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-03
GENERAL NEWS.
Correspondence Between COsnts Fer
BulOW and Ven Arnim-Pekin and
YeddO More Pacific.
An Entire Village Destroyed by Fire
Bloody Murder-R Race News-ROb.
berry and Arson.
The GrayshOppor ShOp-Lift-
ers Lifted Disasters on the Lake
The Stevens Battery, Etc.
Txphoia Fever Epidemic.

/ LONDON, October 3t.--There are If
teen hundred persons sick with typhoid fever
/ in DRrwenoyer, county Limerick, more than
one-sixteenth of the entire population.
Residence Burned-LOss, ESQ, 900.
/ CINCINNATI. October d1.-The resi-
dence of Lewis Miller at Akron, Ohio, was
burned Yesterday. Loss, about thirty thou
sand dollars; insured for i've thousand dol
lars.
Thanksgiving Day.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 2.-Gev-
ernor Allen to-day issued a proclamation
designating Thursday, the twenty-sixth OF
November. as a day for thanksgiving and
prayer in recognition of a custom older than
Ohio, and responsive 10 the religious senIl-
ment of the state.
From Pekin and YesidO.
LONDON, October ga dispatch
from Hong Kong saysthe latest advices from
PelKin ami YeddO are Of a pacific nature. The
general Oeliei is that war will be avoided.
The japanese government has intimated that
Chinese residents in Japan will not be molest-
ed If war Is declared.
Ven BaIOw and Won Arnim.
BERLIN, October 3l.-The Post says
the published correspondence between heIr
Won Bulow and Count Won Arnlm contains
numerous inaccuracies, and recalls that part
OF the letter attributed to Won Arnim when
refers TO the alleged conspiracy with a near
relative of the emperor.
A Town Destroyed by Fire.
PrrTsBURG, November 2.-St. Joe, a
small Oil town in Butler county, Pennsylva-
mia, was destroyed by fire this evening.
Twenty-Five dwellings two drug stores ana
several livery stables were consumed. Ths
mate OF the loss can be formed at present
Important Decision.
TOLEDO, OHIO, November In the
court of common pleas to-day, Judge Collins
presiding, a decision was rendered in . the
Gus dispatch, refusing to grant the I'M uDctlon
applied for by John Winn TO prevent inter
ference by Father O'Reilly with the burial in
Si. Francis de sales cemetery OF Winn's vile,
ainon-communicant.
Female Sh0pIifters Lifted.
COLUMBUS, o., October 31.-Two wo-
men stole i've hundred dollars worth OF silks
from Osborn, Kershard d Co. S dry goods store,
yesterday morning, by The shoplifting plan.
BY the use OF the telegraph Sarah Albert and
Mary Ellis were arrested this morning at DO- |
gansport, Indiana, and the goods were reeov-
cred The women escaped from an officer, |
however, while eating breakfast at q hotel.
about Sixty Buildings DesIroyed-Loss. |
SI2O,OOO.
SUNBURY, PA, October 31.--A fire in |
Selma Grove last night burned over two
81 mares in the central part of the town in. |
vOlving destruction OF about sixty build !
legs, Including the Keystone and National
hotels, Central schOolhOuse, Methodist church,
and the Times printing Office The loss Is es-
timated at one hundred and twenty Thousand
dollars.
Death Of Ex- Minister Wing.
LOUISVILLE, November 2.-Informa-
ton was received here to-day by his family,
that Hon. e. Rumsey Wing, United States
18th. He had been IN bad health for some
time past, and several months ago resigned
his position, but was unable TO start upon his
journey home. He was the youngest man
that ever represented this government in a |
foreign mission, being only thirty at the time
OF his death.
Race Eews-The stevens Battery.
TRENTON, N. j., November 1.-The |
race at the Fashion stud farm, to-day, between
Jay Gould and sensation, was won by the
former. Time, 2; 2314, 2s2I1l, 2:27. Goldsmith
Maid trotted against time, with running
mate, in 2:l8.
The bids for the Stevens battery were opened
at the statehOuse by the governor, to-day. An
agent OF the government put in bid OF one
hundred ana fOrty-fve Thousand dollars, with !
the condition that IL shall be ratified by con-
gress John Roach bid one hundred and tive |
thousand dollars. No award was made.
The Grasshopper Sufferers.
OMAHA, October 31.-Tbe officers and |
branch secretaries of the Nebraska relief aud |
aid society, in behalf of the grasshoppel suf-
ferers,are receiving contributions to meet i'm |
mediate demands. 1t is proposed to send |
carload per week of provisions and clothing |
10 each OF the six principal stations in the |
western counties, where the crops were de- |
strOyed, II the liberal contributions now ar |
irving continue. Nine carloads of supplies |
~. X
are taken TO see that they go only to the |
needy, and that in fair proportion, and to |
obtain such facts as will prevent extravagant
ruInOrS being sent abroad. General James q. |
Brisbon is travelling and soliciting for the So
eiety. The executive committee in Omaha, |
authorized officers of branch associations,
where such are formed. are alone authorized |
to receive contributions. There is already |
much want and suffering.
l bloody Murder.
ST. PAUL, MINI, November 2.-Last |
night a bloody murder was committed on
Tenth street, in this city. James Lick and |
vile, while returning home about half-past
ten o'clock, were set upon by George LAUGH |
tenschlager and George Rapp, and brutally |
murdered ON the spot, the instrument used be- |
Ing Ratchet, which was afterward found. |
Mrs Lick was terribly mutilated. Mrs. Rapp |
ana husband set upon Mr.. Lick, the woman |
with q knife and the anan with a timers |
soldering iron. Lick was PROSTATE and was |
turned over on his face in a small creek rum |
ming through the yard, and Rapp stood upon |
under the water nn2iA Htrangulati0n should en- |
sue. Rapp was fgighfBned away by approach |
ing footsteps, and Lick was picked up insen- |
sible, and may yet die from his wounds. He |
does not know that his wife is dead. the cor |
oner's jury returned a verdict OF wilful muir
der against all OF the assailants, VINO are in
custody.
Robbery and Arson.
PIrTsBURG, Pa, November lone |
of the most startling cases of robbery and |
arson on record, was perpetrated early. this |
U. II
City, in a dwelling house occupied by Jacob |
Fell. Mr.. Fell awoke at three O'clock and dis /
covered the house on fire. He alarmed his |
family, consisting of his wife, two sons and a l
servant girl named Margaret Lynch. Find |
ing escape by the stairway impossible, Mr.. /
Fell and his wife escaped by means of a rope |
from the seconds DRY front window, and his /
son, Solomon jumped from second STORY |
back window unharmed His son Joseph, /
however, rushed down the stairway through |
the flames and was seriously burned. The
2irl Margaret Lynch, while attempting to es-
cape from the third-story was overcome by
the smoke and suffOcated. Her body, black
ened and disfigured, was found after the fire /
had been eztinguished. The burglars carried /
away silverware and other articles of value,
aud then fired the house In two places. Mrs.
while escaping, bat during the excitement II |
was dropped and lost. Loss by fire, twenty
five hundred dollars which was covered by
insurance. No clue TO the perpetrators has
been discovered.
Lake Disasters.
DETROIT, MICH, November 1.-The
harbor tug FavOrite,after towing the schooner
Willie Keller TO Lake erie, last night attempt
ed to throw of the line, but IL became jamEied,
ard the schooner moving on rapidly capsized
drowned. The schooner Queen City has been
got of, and arrived at Maiden this morning.
The second mate was accidentally killed on
Friday night, A vessel, name not ascertained,
laden with lumber, is ashore on Green island
shoals, MackiDaw straits The barge II. II.
Brown, which was sunk at the lime-kilns on
Detroit river, arrived here today
ST.. PAUL, MINI, November 2 THE
steamer Lolita Bernard, Captain Morris, OF
lanf -