San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-29

has suspended payment. 1t Is reported that
depositors will be paid In full.
Edward Wyatt and Frank WEBSTER
United States special revenue officers, were
seriously wounded in recent raid upon
"moonshners" In Cumberland County, hy.
WYATT lost an eye and Webster was wound-
ed in the head.
The mail coach from Santa Fe, New
Mexico, bound East, with three passengers,
was robbed on the night of the 18th by arm
ed highwaymen. The robbers went through
the passengers, receiving from them and the
driver about 81 900 in cash. They then I'M
hitched the leaders Of the coach-team ana
rode them away.
The University building at Lake For
est, near Chicago, was burned on the 10th.
It cost $4,000, and was insured for $l0,OOO.
The valuable library was saved. The school
will continue without interruption, the Ere
paratory Department, Academy and SEM
mary, which were isolated buildings and re-
main uninjurcd, atfording sufficient accom-
mediation to the pupils.
John A. Van Molt, Sergeant OF Com
pany A, Third United States Cavalry, was
shot and killed by private named Kennedy,
while the command was en- route to the
Black Hills. Kennedy was arrested and
placed under guard, but during the night
the soldiers overpowered the guard and
hung Kennedy to the ridge-pole of tent.
James McLendon, colored, was hang
ed at Bastrop, La, on the 14th, forthe MUIR
per ofC. NJ. Evans in September, 1876.
John Jones, colored, was hanged at
Mariana, Ark, on the 14th, for the muir
der of Joseph Calwell, also colored, about
one year ago. d..
A notorious outlaw and murderer
named Schumme was taken from the Jail at
Georgetown, Col, on the 10Th, and hanged
by a mob. pq ..Nt
Alfred Jones, aged - "a farmerresiding
in the vicinity of Linnville, Licking County,
O. ,on the 18th deliberately killed his daughter
Susanna, aged about AZ, with Ratchet, after
which he walked to town, distance OF eight
miles, and surrendered himself to the au-
thorities after giving them full information
regarding the horrible affair." The father
suspected the daughter, who kept house for
him, of improper intimacy with some OF the
neighboring men, and while in fit OF anger'
caused thereby, committed the murder. He
has lived in Licking County over 43 years,and
was universally regarded as a worthy and
upright man.
Near. Lawrenceville, Dearborn Coun-
ty, Ind, OH the 10Th, Joseph Kuntzlcr was
killed by his own son, boy aged only ID,
who shot him in cold blood rs he was return
ing home from town. The parricide, after
being arrested, confessed to the shooting, but
said that he was instigated to it by his
mother, who deliberately planned the muir
der, and a fter his father was shot she took
the gun and placed it by the side of the MUIR
dered man, in order to make it appear that
he had shot himself, which was the story
that they had agreed to tell. Mrs. Kuntzler
was seeking divorce from her husband.
Mother and son are both imprisoned.
A popular variety singer in New Or
leans was dressing for the stage few nights
ago, when the lamp in her room exploded.
In few moments she was a corpse.
j. D. Easter & Co., of Chicago, the
largest dealers in agricultural implements
in the Northwest, have made an assign
ment. They claim to have quarter of
million dollars in farmers notes, due and
unpaid. ......
Sam. Holmes, noted Kentucky des-
perado, who shot and killed Sheriff Napier
of Lincoln County, in 1869, was captured OH
the 10th and is now safely lodged in Jail.
There was standing reward of 81, 800 offer
ed for his apprehension.
Mrs. Frank Flynn, of Providence, X.
l., was fatally burned OIL the 18th while kind
ling fire with kerosene.
Ham and Mccullough, two of the
Kansas City forgers of Texas land titles,
have been sentenced at Austin-Ham to 10
years and Mccullough to six years in the
Texas Pepnitentiary. Tullis, one of the
Texas partners, has been sentenced to seven
years. imprisonment.
A Tucson (Arizona) dispatch, 18th,
says that Con. Huerato, former Governor of
Sonora, is reported in Mexico with 1900
American filibusters, stationed near the So
nora line, preparatory for an invasion of
Pesquardno. A Mexican man-o f-war had
arrived at Guyamas to look into the matter,
and several thousand troops are cOncen-
trated at MaZatan. ......r %.
Boot Alexander, colored, who muir
dered Thomas Daughty near Murfreesboro,
Tenn, was taken from the Jail by an armed
mob and hanged on the night of the 18th.
The Springfield Qll.) Savings Bank
suspended on the 18th. Its financial diff
culties date back to the panic of 1878.