Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-24

tons Of brown paper, running twenty
four hours day with double sets o
hands. The two large paper machines
are injured. At this hour ten in The
EVENING" gangs Of men are at work by
the light Of Lanterns, clearing away tht
/ ruins, which present 8 terrible appear
| snee. Gilmore's wife, who is on the evC
/ Of confinement, is not expected to rally
/ from the shock, and Bechtel's mother il
thought to be dying.
AN INFATUATED HUSBAND SHOOTS HIS
FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
| Special Telegram to the st. Joseph Gazette,l
RED OAK, Iowa, July ia horrible
/ murder was committed about three
| miles from this place last evening. The
| particulars are as follows: Some time
since DR.. Hatton, q prominent physician
and surgeon of this town, was called to
sttend the wife OF Mr.. Fred Mewherder,
prominent citizen, living q few miles
in the country. She was delivered of 8
child, and Mewherder claims that there
WIS malpractice on the part Of the doc
tor, and that the mother is injured be-
yond surgical aid. On yesterday even.
ing MeWherder was riding along the
road, armed with a Spencer rifle, and
met DIR. Hatton, when he Immediately
raised his gun and fired, shooting him
through the body. The ball went in at
the side and came out near the spine,
and there are no hopes OF the doctor g
recovery. Mewherder fled as soon as he
fired the fatal shot, and has not since
been heard from. DR.. Hatton is respect
ably connected, and has hosts Of friends
here, and they freely threaten lynching
il the murderer is captured. There is
great excitement in the community over
the horrible deed.
A RESPECTABLE MARRIED LADY
browns HERSELF IN HER WELL.
ChiIlicothe Constitution, l5th.l
A most melancholy and distressing
suicide occurred in Rich Hill township,
on Tuesday evening last. About SIX
o'clock on that evening, Mrs. Julia
Green, wife of Mr.. Thomas Green,
during the temporary absence of her
husband, deliberately threw herself into
the well in the yard, and was dead
when found a quartz. OF an hour after
ward: Coroner Perrin went out on
Wednesday morning, and with a jury,
held an inquest on the remains of the
unfortunate lady. The evidence estab-
the act was case OF deliberate suicide.
The only explanation OF the deplorable
tragedy that is reasonable is that the un-
fortunate lady had been in very bad
health for three or four years, and for
the past year had been confined a good
portion Of the time to her bed, which
impaired her mind, and in a fit of des-
pOndency caused Der to take her own
life. Her family relations were Of the
most pleasant character, as was estab-
lished by the testimony of neighbors at
tine inquest, and the only rational cause
OF the suicide is the one indicated above.
She leaves a husband, most worthy
gentleman, and four small children, TO
deplOre her loss.
HORRIBLE INFANTICIDE.
Nashville Banner, 3D.
A horrible case OF infanticide has Just
been revealed in Robertson county,
through the instrumentality of a negro
man. While riding in the vicinity of
COOpertOwn a day or two ago, he WIS
struck with a peculiarly offensive smell
proceeding from the yard Of q man
named Gleaveur. DismOunting from
his steed, he went to the spot, examined
it, and speedily eXhumed the body of an
lIlGsllNs L lGhCluB IL baCh III It's BlLduES
sepuIchre, he rode to Springfield and IN
formed an officer Of his discovery. The
official soon summoned posse OF men
and went to Gleaveur's house. Here
they found him, he having returned
in the absence of the negro. They told
him to pick up his hoe and accompany
them. He desired to know what they
wanted him to do thatfor. Bidding him
to never mind their reasons, they con-
Quoted him TO the grave and commanded
him to dig up the body of the child. He
appeared astonished at first, but made
the remark that they would hang him
or put him in the penitentiary for put
ting the child there. Upon the strength
Of this confession, they placed him IN
der arrest and committed him to Jail in
Springfield. AS he is not married, it is
supposed the child is an illegitimate one,
and that the father consigned it to that
strange place in order that it might re-
main unknown and his illicitlov unre-
vealed.
SAD HISTORY OF A KANSAS SUICIDE.
Correspondent Beloit (Kansas) GazetteI
CAWKER CITY, July Y, 1S75.-Dr.
Joseph s. Walter committed suicide this
afternoon by shooting himself through
the. head with pocket-pistol while Iy-
ing on the counter in Lundy & Clark's
drug store. The sad event has cast a
gloom over the community that will not
be easily removed, as he had made for
himself hosts Of friends, both by his
skill as physician and by his kind and
gentiemaDly manners. He had for some
time past been breeding over the sad
events Of his life, and had worried him
self into the belief that life was too great
3 burden to bear. He was at the time
Of the breaking out of the late war just
starting in his profession in Alexandria,
Virginia. He sent his wife and three |
little daughters to friends in the north, |
and entered the Confederate service as a
surgeon. During the war all commune !
cation was cut off between himself and |
family, and at its close he fastened to !
Philadelphia; thence to New York to |
rejoin them, and all he found |
was their graves in Greenwood |
cemetery. Through the conse- |
luent grief he fell into intemperance,
from which he was aroused only by |
want. Then through the intercession |
Of friends he obtained position ss regi- |
mental surgeon in the Sixth United |
States cavalry, then en- duty on the |
N GSlCLl D1AlllCSs E12LOI ClSul HGdES Ol !
army practice, he resigned his commits |
sion ia the regular army and returned |
to private practice in Red Oak, Iowa;
thence he removed to Beloit, and in 1872 |
relocated in Cawker City. Here he
made for himself an enviable reputation |
As q skillful practitioner. He was inof- |
'ensive as child, and although he had
some Of the frailties of cur human na- |
ure, he possessed some Of the finest at
tributes OF man, noticeable among |
which was his refined manners and gem
srous heart, and more than ordinary
strength Of body and mind. Although |
lis friends may regret and condemn the
asst act Of his life, there was much in
lim to admire, and the community |
nave lost in him a good citizen and !
aithful servant.
COyIe Says He was DFuEged.
PHILADELPHIA, July 23.-COyle, the |
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