Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-15

Bill Rodifer, attempted TO escape
with 8 others from penitentiary, JEFF
fersonYille, Ind, locked in 4 guard and
attempted to knock out a hole in the
wall, but was caught.
Receipts from internal revenue for
May, half million dollars per day. Es-
timated revenue for the month Sl2,
| 900, 900. Customs Revenue estimated
/ at S1l, 500, 600. Quarterly payments
to be made; for pensions g., 500, 600.
Unknown man, about 10 years old,
with short gray beard, ) feet 9 inches
in height, and shabbily dressed, laid
his head on r. r. track in Louisville
KY, and was killed by freight car.
Passenger train from Louisville TO
Lexington, KY, run over a COW meas
| Quicker station, uPsetting smoking car.
Conductor Green badly bruised. The
smoker was wrecked, but Of % passen-
gers in it none were seriously hurt.
Attorney General Williams thinks
| is best not to prosecute cases in the
South in advance of the decision Of the
| Supreme court on cases appealed which
bring up the cOnstitutionality of the
enforcement act.
Taylor's Touring mill near Spring
I field, Ohio, burned by lightning during
a thunder storm on Sunday morning.
Loss $4,000. 2 or 3 dwellings in
| Springfield struck by lightning. At
Bucyrus the storm blew the roof from
Goemleys Block, and dwellings shatter-
ed by lightning
Tornado passed over Green Springs,
Ohio, blowing down three houses,
killing two children, and demOlishing
all the chimneys in the place. The
storm was attended with destruction
of houses, barns, trees and fences.
Paris, KY: Jacob Almond age so
years quarreled with sOn-in-law Allen,
age 65, and knocked latter down, who
plunged his knife in Almond, disem-
boweling him and killing him Instant
ly.
Alexander Fuqua, Superintendent 9Th
street r. R., St. Louis shot John Good
rich and Charles Mcdonald, discharged
drivers on the road, who abused him
after he had left them, when he sus
pected violence and shot them.
At Chiffon, Wis. one armed soldier,
Geo. Miller shot hotel proprietor and
the ostler, and then went to the Gene
terry and shot himself Neither can re-
cover but the stable-man. Cause of
quarrel, board bill.
L. A Benton, jeweler, Cleveland, o.,
knocked senseless by masked robbers,
in his store, at 9 o'clock A. NJ, Sunday.
Safe rifed of diamonds and watches.
A 5000 breast pin taken from BIS shirt
bosom.
Long standing boundary question be-
tween Maryland and Virginia to be
settled at Washington by arbitrator,
and counsel of respective states. Arb
TRAITORS: Judge jerry Black for Mary
land, General Graham ofNOrth CARROLL
ma for Va, and Gov. jenkins of Ga.
umpire.
August Bloss, of St. Louis, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the forehead withe a large pistol in a
Pullman ear, Just before the train
left Omaha Wednesday for St. Louis.
He had been there for ten or twelve
days, supposed harmlessly insane, and
was going home in the care of a
police officer. He had $1,000 or $1,000
on his person.
Boston, New York, New Haven and
st. Louis have had base ball this week.
The game at st. Louis between the
Chicago Whites and St. Louis Reds,
is said to be the most remarkable ever
played:
Whites-O-l-0-O-0-O-0-O-l
Reds-O-0-0-0-O-0-0-O-0
VIM. Embry, editor appeal" and
D. r. Anthony of the Times" Leav-
enworsh, Ks, quarreled in their pa
pers. Monday night they met on stair
way of opera house, while Janauschek
was playing Deborah" Anthony
struck Embry a blow on the upper lip,
the latter fired shots, taking effect
in Anthony's breast, supposed to be fl-
tai. Several women tainted and 9th
ers trampled under foot by the audi
ence rushing to the door.