San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-15
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

The Virginia rivers rose so high on
the oath and 25th that great damage resulted
in many parts of the State. At Richmond
the water was 18 inches above the high-water
mark of 1870, all the streets in the lower part
of the city being inundated. The gas
works were submerged, the water-works
badly damaged, and large number OF
bridges were swept away. The property
lost was estimated at over 81 100000. At
Danville, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, and
other places in Virginia, as we'll as at vari-
Gus places in North Carolina, Maryland, West
Virginia and Western Pennsylvania, much
damage was done by high water. The Bal
timore and Ohio, Virginia Midland and other
railroads, and the James River and Kanawha
Canal were all seriously damaged in various
places. The aggregate losses by the flood will
amount to several millions.
A late Guatemala dispatch says: A
topic of absorbing interest is q conspiracy to
murder the President of Guatemala and his
advisers, and to overthrow the Government,
which was discovered on the LIST inst, in
time to prevent it, by the arrest and execu-
ton of II of the ringleaders, including Maj.
Kopesky, in charge of the artillery barracks,
Capt. De Leon Rodas, second in command,
and Gabriel Aquilar, rich priest.
The murderer Rand was removed
under requisition from st. Louis to Gales
burg, Knox County, ILL.,, on the 9th, where
he will be tried for murder.
Mrs. Z. P. Shall, clearinghouse
keeper at Columbus, o., was fatally burned
on the 2Sth while kindling a.fire with coal
oil.
The desperate Rand has been identi
lied as man known as Charles A.Vanzandt
who was sentenced to the Northern Indiana
Penitentiary in 1872, for the term Of five
years for burglary committed at Lafayette,
Ind. He was discharged in May last, upon
the expiration of his sentence.
A colony of about 80 persons left
Pittsburg on the 2Sth, on flatboat, intend
ing to go to Arkansas by water. just as
they entered the Ohio River the flatboat be-
came unmanageable, and, striking fleet Of
coal barges, was completely wrecked, the
whole party being thrown into the river.
A Swiss family named Rife, consisting offa-
Their, mother and two children, and another
man, name unknown, were drowned. All
the others were rescued.
Roper, alias McGhee, negro, was
hanged by mob at Columbia, Tenn, on the
9th, for an attempted outrage upon a white
lady named Miss Bette Templeton.
The Second National Bank of Lafay-
cite, Ind, suspended payment on the 18th
The Cashier, Mr.Charles +. Mayo, acknowl-
edges himself defaulter TO the amount Of
So, 900, which he had squandered in outside
speculations.
Three colored children, aged 10, s
and years, were left alone in house in Sc
dalia, Mo-, on the evening Of the 10Th. In
some way the house took fire, and the two
younger children were burned TO death.
The eldest barely escaped.
A saw-mill boiler exploded near Gar
land, Pa, on the ssth, killing two men and
injuring another.
At Bridgeport, Conn.,, on the morn
ing Of the SOth, Daniel Stillman and wife,
aged invAlids, were found in their dwelling,
murdered. A colored man was arrested on
suspicion.
At Cincinnati, on the %, Charles X.
McGin shot and killed a young woman, his
paramOur, named Mary Kelly.
At Norfolk, Va, on the I'd, Benjamin
Godfrey, aged u, shot and instantly killed