Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-05-27

burned. The Alleninia society, occu
pants of the hall and other rooms, loss
ten thousand dollars; insurance, ter
thousand dollars; loss on building, foul
| Thousand dollars; fully insured. MIR
Derby, owner Of the painting destroyed
estimates Its value at one hundred thou.
| sand dollars, and was insured for twenty.
| five thousand dollars in Cincinnati COM
| panies. The original lst Of the picture
is placed by Mr. Deroy at thirty thou
sand dollars. Other smaller Losses in the
building are estimated at ten thousand
dollars, caused Chit fly by water. The
names OF the insurance companies can
not be ascertained tonight
Charged with Numbering his Mother.
CHICAGO, May 26.-James Campion
was arrested yesterday under circum.
stances which led to the belief that he
had murdered his mother, residing near
Portland avenue and Sixteenth street.
he was to-day held over to the criminal
court, the cOroner's inquest having
shown that the woman was badly
bruised and that the two had been en-
gagged IN drunken quarrel shortly be-
fore her death.
Mabel YOung's Murderer Hanged.
BOSTON, May 26.-The execution of
Thomas A. Piper, formerly sexton of
Warren lavenue Baptist church, in this
city, took place at the Charles street jail
this morning. Piper was convicted last
February, on a second trial, for the muir
der of Mabel Young, aged five years, in
the church, on the twenty-third of May,
1875. The crowd outside the Jail hailed
with applause the announcement of the
execution.
Sensation at u Hanging.
NASHVILLE, May 26.-BurreI SPHINX
alias Beggsrly, colored, was executed at
Lebanon, at one o'clock to-day for the
murder Of Robert Hamilton, peaceable
white citizen OF Wilson county, q year
ago. The hanging was witnessed by
five thousand people, and the accidental
discharge OF guards gun caused an
exciting stampede. He died from strRn-
gulation in twenty minutes. 1t was the
first public execution had in that county
for forty years. He died game.
Hanged for Numbering his BrOther-in.
Law.
WORCESTER, MASS, May 26.-Samuel
Frost was executed this morning at the
county Jail in this ci.y, at half-past ten
o'clock, for the murder of his wife's
uAOLDSII f. l. AOunci July II 1000 III
barn on farm at Fetersham, owned by
Toune. When the drop fell q terrible
scene was enacted. The fall was so
great that the head OF Frost was jerked
from his body and hung only by ligs-
ments. Blood spurted in every direc-
ton over the scaffold and floor.
Theater at Louisville Burned.
LOUISVILLE, May 26 The vaudeville
thester of this city was discovered On fire
between one and two o'clock this morn
ing. The flames had made great head
way when first seen, al d by tae arrival
of the engines the entire structure was
on fire, and is almost total loss, amount
ing to fifteen thousand dollars. The
building was owned by w. Judah, who
has seven thousand five hundred dollars
insurance. The thester was under the
management OF FL. J. Chapman; his loss
is three thousand dollars. Twenty actors
and actresses alsl lost heavily. Among
them were A. u. Chapman and Marsh
Adams. who were starring. The water
works office on oneside, and Herndon's
theatrical boarding house on the other,
and other residences near by, were more
or less Injured. John Lane, the proper
lyman OF the theater, was asleep, and
so completely surrounded by the fire
that when he endeavored to escape the
flames touched every part OF his body,
and his Injuries are very serious. Rich
ard BachP, Charles Hunt and William
Raggio, ali three firemen, were badly
hurt by the breaking Of aladder.