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

Frederick Shurer, an estimable citi-
zen of Fort Wayne, Ind, after a few days.
sickness became violently insane, and sud-
denly Selling his two-year-old daughter
threw her out of second-story window,
causing fatal injuries. He then armed him
self with IN AK and drove his wife and family
from the house, after which he locked him
self in and began chopping the furniture to
pieces. A squad of officers endeavored to
capture him, but with his uplifted AK he held
them at bay for three hours. He was finally
oyerpowered and manacled and taken to the
insane asylum.
The family of a Mr.. Roger, at Glen
wood, Iowa, were seriously burned on the
night of the Sth by the explosion of kero-
sene lamp. Two children died of their in
iuries, another was thought to be fatally
burned, and the father and mother were both
seriously injured. "."
George Ellis, United States Deputy
Marshal, on the night of the 9th undertook
to arrest notorious desperate named Tom
Moore, in Casey County, Ky. Shots were eX-
changed almost simultaneously, and both fell
mortally wounded and soon after died.
BY the explosion of steam boiler in
Clark & Bucks machine-shop at Vincennes,
Ind, on the 18th, John Miller and James
Coleman were instantly killed. Several 9TH
ers were more or less injured. ... yi
A continuance has been granted in the
case Of Scott, alias Rand, the st. Elmo Qll.)
murderer, until the February term Of the
Knox County Court. The defense will set
up plea of insanity.
The German-American Bank of Chi
cago suspended on the 18th. Its liabilities
to depositors are $4,000; assets, $1OS,00O.
The stockholders will lose 30 per cent.
Allen Congdon, aged years, of West
field, Mass, died on the 18th of hydrophoba
after three days. sickness, caused by the
bite of a Spitz dog, received six weeks
previously.
A. B. Mccartney, of Mercer, Pa, was
burned to death in the City Hotel at Berlin
ger City, Pa, on the morning of the 18th.
The hotel was totally destroyed together
with several adjacent buildings.
The Newark Savings Institution, of
Newark, n. j., which has been doing bust
ness for over 30 years and has SI1 100000 of
deposits, has been taken charge of by the
State Chancellor, on petition Of its man
ayers, to insure an equal division OF assets
and prevent unfairness from possible run.
Its business will be continued under direc-
ton of the Chancellor.
The Canada Agricultural Insurance
Company has gone into liquidation. The in
solvency of the President, VIM. Angus, is
said to have precipitated the action.
The old-establishedd ry-goods house of
Adriance, Robins e Co., of New York, sus-
pended on the 18th. Liabilities not large.
A business block at Helena, Ark, COM
prising the Post-oflice and several business
houses, was burned on the night Of the 18th.
A portion of the Milburn Wagon Com
pany's works at Toledo, o., was burned on
the 18th. Loss about 81, 900, fully insured.
Watson J. Hildreth and James NJ.
Tighe, two young men Of steady habits and
professed piety, who carried on a Law and
Collection Agency at 2al Broadway, New
York, have both absconded. Their Gus
TONERS have been swindled out Of from So
coo to $40, 900, money which they collected
and appropriated TO their own use.
The Taunton, Mass, Savings Bank