Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-07-03
News in Brief.
The war still goes on in Cuba.
~ r,,ror E,rI;nou1 iS dead

EX-Empcror rcTuiilahu II uchu
Aubine Lewis Barge, the French
sculptor is dead.
The crop prospects Of Europe are
reDorted as uniavorable.
The American rife team triumphed
nj ihe shooting match near Dublin
last Tuesday.
The Watson Bridge Works at
Patterson, y. j., have been burned.
Loss $500, 900.
DR.. Harris, health officer at Key
West announces the yellow fever
epidemic at that place.
A portion Of the city of Toulouse,
France, was partly destroyed by 4
terrible food last week.
The United States Treasury sells
100000 gold each Thursday it,
July, making S5,0O0,OO0
The machine shop Of J. Il. Conwell
& Co, Of Grccncastlc, Pa, burned
last Sunday. Loss 100000.
Samuel Chu5quck, pioneer tele-
graph apparatus manufactures, died
in Utica last Sunday, aged 76.
Jacob ROunder attempted to kill
his wife and then killed himself, in
Pomeroy, Ohio, last Saturday.
Col. T'hos. III Scwitt, a prominent
citizen, aged 60 years, committed
suicide in Richmond on Wednesday.
\ negro ravishcd a ten Year old
girl near st Louis on Wednesday.
lie was being pursued at last ac-
counts.
4 man claiming to he the son of
Rev. DR.. Irvine, of Augusta, Ga,
committed suicide in New York last
Saturday night.
c. 4 Merritt, chief cl' rk of Auditor
Clinton, attempted 10 commit suicide
in New Orleans last week. Cause
domestic trouble.
A tornado passed over Detroit,
Michigan, last week, destroying thirty
houses, killing four persons and
wounding many others.
Many Northern States were visited
by damaging storm last Saturday
and Sunday. Several lives were lost
and much property damaged.
Smith, q boy, killed q deputy
marshal in Ottawa, Iowa, on Wednes-
day. on his way from Jail to court.
lie was hung to a lamp post by u
mob.
A government labOrer on the Red
river raft cleaning force, was terribly
crushed by a falling tree about $50
miles above Shreveport, on Friday of
last week.
The Pandora sailed from Ports
mouth, England, last Saturday in
search of the Northwest passage
Another wild-goose chase, more frozen
sailors among the ice-bergs and no
passage found.
The bark l. Borne, Capt. Sawtell,
from Dcmerara, with sugar for Liver
pool, was burned at sea on the Odd
inst. The Captain, crew and one
passenger were rescued by the
Lienbria Wheeler
In Philadelphia last Saturday
night, a man fifly-live years old, who
had been committed to Jail for at
tempting to outrage four year old
girl, put an end to his miserable
existence by hanging himself
4 Boston telegram Of June 2Sih
says: \ steamboat train on the old
Colony railroad tonight ran over
wagon at a crossing in BOwensvillc
AZ Fall River Robert and Thomas
Hynes, Mrs. Hynes, her child, and
john Graham, who were in the
wagon, were killed. The driver,
Henry Frawlev. was pulled away by
the horse and escaped.
Dallas Herald, 10Th June: "A man
named Crockett shot and killed .Hr. !
C. W. Wood, in Decatur, Wise county. !
Tuesday night. Mr.. Wood was
asleep in his bed, when the assassin !
fired through the window, killing him I
instantly. Marshal Peak, on being
notified, issu, d hand bills, Offering q
reward of five hundred dollars for the !
apprehension of the murderer, at the
same time sending out photographs |
in every direction that he might be
recognized.
\ London telegram of June 26th |
tells the following fearful story: a
furious thunder storm occurred at
Buda Pesth; the lightning was inces-
SAINT, and the hail fell in such quanti- |
ties that the roofs of houses and the
surrounding hills were covered two
feet deep with ice. The amount of
water which fell was extraordinary
the torrents swept through the streets
of Buda, carrying men, vehicles and
everything movable into the river.
Many houses were suddenly flooded
and destroyed before their inmates
could escape Five hundred persons
ere missing, and at least one hundred
are drowned or killed by the falling
walls. All the railroads are inter-
rupted.