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

ana his young son were drowned yeSteT-
day in Irond6quOit bay by the upsettir 6
OF boat.
LARGE STEAMER SUNK.
New YORK, July 23.-Tha ship Law
HON, from New Orleans, reports that
on the fifteenth instant, six miles south
Of Frying Pan shoals, she saw the three
mRst-hesds Of large steamer sunk.
FATAL FALL.
BALTIMORE, July ga man aged
about thirty-fve, who registered as W.
H. Vandiver, Cincinnati, fell from q
fourth-stOry window Of the Fountain
hotel, In this city, this morning, and
was instantly killed.
LOCOMOTIVE EXPLosION-THREE MEN
KILLED.
PORT JERvIs, July 23.-An engine on
the Delaware division Of the Erie rail-
road exploded her boiler this evening,
killing Engineer Jefferson Fuller, Fire
man Stevenson and a flsgman, name
unknown.
POLITICAL MURDERS IN THE INDIAN
NATION.
LITTLE Rock, July 23.-Not a day
passes but reports are received OF muir
ders in the Cherokee Nation, growing
out Of the contest for principal chief OF
the Nation, which occurs on the first
Monday in August.
ACCIDENT.
CINCINNATI, July ga car Oh the
incline at the coal mines at Ashland,
New York, yesterday, broke loose aud
ran Off the track into a house occupied
nv 70 iIxy vnnraoH (lfovfnu tyfIifr,r, 4.
woman and q boy aged ten years
EMBBZZLEMENT.
Charles Denham, book-keeper in the
employ Of William GleDny & Co., was
brought Before a magistrate yesterday,
charged with embezzling some two
thousand dollars, which was made Up of
a series of small populations extending
over year.
$12, 000, 900 COUNTERFEIT BANK OF ENG.
LAND NOTES.
New YORK, July 23.-Secre;ary Fish
has informed Mayor Wickham that an
association OF counteTfeiters, with their
at Barcelona, are pFepar-
ing to issue in this city twelve million
dollars on the bank Of England and
bank OF France.
SAILING UNDER FALSE COLORS.
WASHINGTON, July 23.-The woman
who was assaulted on the tug-boat Mike
Norton, in New York Tuesday night, is
not the wife OF Colonel Merrill, OF the
United States army, as she claimed to
be. She Is native Of Ludlow, Massa-
chusetts, and we'll. known to the police
of this city.
FAST TROTTER DISABLED.
CHICAGO, July 23.-BOdine, the fast
Totting horse owned by II. C.. Goodrich,
of this city, though entered for the race
here to-day, has been withdrawn. 1t is
stated on most trustworthy authority
that he has gone lame, it is feared in
and that he will be unable to
run at Cleveland, Buffalo and other
eastern points, for which he has been
entered this season.
TRIAL OF ALLEGED EXPRESS ROBBERS.
The examination of T. a. Edmunds
and Andrew J. Cochran, charged with
being concerned in the attempted rob-
berry OF an Adams-eXpress car, and kill
ng Engineer Ames st Long Point, on
he Vandalia road, two weeks ago, took
place at GreeLup, Illinois, yesterday,
and after considerable testimony taken
and argument by counsel, Justice
M'COnRah committed both prisoners
without bail.
DESPERATE AFFRAY.
ST. LOUIS, July 23.-The Globe DEM
,cTGt has brief account of a desperate
.tfrsy between the political factions of
he CherOkees in the Indian Nation at
Skin bayou, twelve miles from Fort
smith, Arkansas, on the eighteenth in
tant, in which three men-Sylvester
King, VIM. Sanders and Joseph CoOdy
were killed. Seven men emptied !
Ouble-bRrreled guns into COody. At !
asst accounts the rival factions, number |
Dg thirty on each side, had gathered at |
he scene Of the difficulty, and some |
ring had taken place, but with what |
esult is not known.
HE CATASTROPHE AT NEWARK, OHIO. |
CINCINNATI. July 23.-The Gazette'S |
Newark special Of tonight says that |
persons, Of which number |
iXteen were boys, were badly burned in |
be explosion mentioned in these dis !
atches last evening, and twenty-seven |
ersons, Of whom eighteen were boys, |
we're slightly burned. Willie Frey, !
oy whose hands, feet and head were |
everely burned, died tonight Of his in |
lTies. This is the only death that has |
The accident was caused by |
be too free use of infsmmable fluid, |
Which was used in saturating the build /
1g for ,testiUg the ire eXtinguisher. |
he fluid ran from the building into the |
Ieet, where il was accidentally ignited, |
nd the flames spread so rapidly that |
be crowd were overwhelmed by them.
BANK ROBBERY.
WINTHROP, Me, July 23.-The rob-.
cry of the Winthrop national bank oc-
urred about three o'clock this morn |
lg. The bank is on the second floor Of |
brick building on Main street, near
he Winthrop house. The safes were |
Town open by nitro glycerine. There |
7eTe three distinct explosions, all heard |
y several persons. The robbers left |
7ithin ten minutes Of the last explosion, |
7hich blew cut all the windows in front |
I the bank and caused a general smash
p inside. The contents OF the main
afe were so badly mutilsted and so
lany fragments were left behind that /
is thought the amount secured by the |
obbers could not have been large. The |
ApIldl Ol the DAlh IS one INJURED IlOu-
and dollars, and the amount Of deposits
D the Savings bank was about one hun
red thousand dollars. The safes Of
9th institutions were rifled OF their en-
ire contents. The standing OF the bank,
he directors say, will not be impaired.
our men have been arrested on sus.
icion Of being the robbers.
PAPER-AILL BLOWS UP, KILLING FIVE
MEN AND wOUNDING OTHERS.
Iowa CITY, July 2}.-At nine o'clock
asst night one Of the cooking tanks in
lose & Co.'S paper-mill exploded, caus-
lg the explosion OF four others, and ut
erly destroying the stock in the stock
OOms, the beating engines and more
han half the mill. OF the men at work
D the mill, five were kilIed-Chiha,
remen; Gilmore, foreman, and Smater
nd Trerny, laboTers. Herman Bechtel,
workman in mill near by, had step
ed into the paper-mill a moment be-
)re, and was instantly killed. The
Odies Of Bechtel, Gilmore and China
7Gre blown five hundred feet across the
rect and over the houses, and were re-
0vered. The bodies Of Trerney and |
mater were either buried ia the ruins |
r blown into the river. The mill was
'orth $50, 900, and was turning out six