The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-05-29
Crimes and Casualties.
A SOUTHERN MURDER-NEGRo MURDRRERs
LrNoHKD by THEIR OWN RACE.
COLUMBUS. Ga. NAV %.

was murdered by three negroes. They
fred the fences and drew her husband
away from the house. The negroes then
proceeded to the house to rob 1t and were
met by Mrs. Chambliss, a beautiful woman
aged 18 years. armed with a gun. One Of
the negroes, Jerry Snead, took the gun and
shot her dead, They burned corn crib
and fled but were pursued and captured.
Jerry admitted the deed and implicated his
companions, Stephen Abram and VIM.
Booth. They were brought 10 Chambliss'
house and it was unanimously decided by
about 300 whites and blacks present that
they should be hanged. A galiows was
erected and the murderers were hanged
with trace chains The colored partici-
pants In the lynching threw the lfeless
bodies into an old field to rot and 1t was
with great difficulty that the whites could
persuade them to permit burial. The cul-
prits met their fate jeeringly, glorying in
the deed and taunting their executioners.
BORDER MURDERS.
GALVESTON, May 28.
A Corpus Christi special reports the mur-
der of Francisco g. Flores, prominent
citizen of San Diego, and his SOD, by eight
Mexicaps who carried away seven hundred
dollars in money. The same party cap
tured NJ. Scott, president of the Corpus
Christi and Rio Grande railroad, Mr.. Lewis
and driver named May, robbed them of
money and jewelry, and stripped them of
their clothes. The country is alarmed and
hunting for the robbers.
STEAMBOAT LOST.
The following dispatch dated city of
Mexico gives particulars of the loss Of the
Pacific mail steamer City of San Francisco
latitude sixteen degrees six minutes north
and longitude thirty-six west. 1t struck an
unknown rock May 18th, at nine o'clock
a. m, on light clear day, sank and be-
came a total loss in one hour and two min
utes. No lives were lost. The passengers
arrived at Acapulco in the 18th in the Mex
lean gunboat Mexico and leave for San
Francisco in the Costa Rica on the 18th in.
slant.
Walter Van Sternecke, an aged Swede,
said to have been member of one of the
noblest families in Sweden, committed
suicide in New York Saturday by taking
Paris green. He was poverty stricken and
suffering from dreadful disease, the re-
suit of dissipation.
@. T. Carleton, secretary of the Union
trust company, who disappeared in 1873
and proved in default of $4O0, 900, died
recently in Peru. He had become very
dissipated. The embezzled funds we're
sunk in speculation, and he took little with
him.
Manager Hinckley of the Chicago and
Paducah railroad has been arrested,
charged with having defrauded the English
bond holders out of nearly million dollars.
The directors of the road are also impli-
Gated.
Ex-Mayor Lambert of Brooklyn, recently
charged with misapplying his sister-in-
laws funds, made public confession of
guilt and penitence in DR.. Cuyler's church
yesterday, and retained his membership.
The jury in the Saratoga launch disaster
at Chester, Pa, rendered verdict that the
death of the seven victims was accidental,
and that all customary precautions for the
prevention of accident was employed.
A stranger arrested for intoxication yes
terday died. in Yew York station house.
An examination disclosed that he had not
been intoxicated but was suffering from
serious injuries.
Sergeant Albertson died at Fort Hamil-
ton recently In convulsons, after brief
sickness. Physicians attribute the death
to an overdose of nostrum known as vim
egar bilters.
Veronica Mil. an unmarried German
servant girl with no relations in America,
hung herself In New York Saturday night.
She was about to become a mother.
oohh buSh'oioJ1 prosperous uusiucbe
man, hanged himself in New York because
his wife went to decorate the grave of her
former husband.
On Saturday night four masked burglars
gagged and bound the clerk in Townsend's
store, at Milton, Ulster county, N. Y, and
ransacked the premises.
Thomas Brown in diving from dock in
New York recently, struck his head against
a spile. Death resulted on Saturday from
q fractured skull.
A young child of John Dunn was fatally
burned last night while playing around
bonfire at Binghampton.
Finley Verify Of Roslyn, L. l., eloped
with his wife's sister, aged fourteen.
A British National Team for Creed.