San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-05-11
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passed over Central and Northern Iowa on
the 2Ist, doing great damage. At Pomeroy,
Storm Lake, Rippey, Wall Lake, and other
Railroad, many buildings were blown down
and the inmates killed or injured. The
force of the storm was terrific, destroying
fences, uproOting trees, overturning corn
cribs, etc. Horses and cattle were picked
up and carried considerable distance. The
track of the storm was half mile to mile
and q half wide.
Three negro murderers, Jackson Ed
wards, Alexander Brown and Wesley Tur-
ner, were hanged in the town of Franklin,
Parish Of st. Mary, Louisiana, on the 22d,
in the presence Of 5000 people, mostly col
ored.
Capt. Fortley, planter, two brothers
named Moran, and another man, name I'M
known, were drowned in Bolivar County,
Miss, on the 18th, while employed in repair
ing levee.
A Manchester (Eng.) telegram of the
22d says that from $4,000 to 10000 operatives
are engaged in the strike in Lancashire. At
Preston the strike is ended, the spinners
having resolved to 60 to work on the best
terms obtainable. 4s. Isl
A Bismarck special to the St. Paul
Pioneer Press transmits an account Of three
distinct shocks of earthquake at Glendove,
on the Yellowstone, on the 10Th. They
occurred at intervals Of half an hour. The
ground opened for distance of 500 yards,
with sitting smell of sulphur. The
creyice revealed coal vein five feet thick.
The Erie Railway was sold in New
York City on the oath, under the foreclosure
suit of the Farmers Loan and Trust Com
pany. 1t was purchased for $6,00O,0 900 by
ex-Gov. Morgan and others, acting as trus-
tees for English bondholders.
The recent Iowa cyclone did greater
damage than was at first reported. In the
vicinity of Wall Lake hardly house or
fence escaped injury. The Catholic Church
at Carroll was completely demolished.
The house of Daniel LietZ was blown down,
and child, torn from its mothers arms by
the wind, was found in a marsh east of the
house, while Mrs. LietZ was found half
mile west. The ground was strewn with
disemboweled and dead ducks, geese,
etc. Many head of cattle were killed.
Peter Anderson's house, barn, and gran
airy, well stocked, were demolished, and
not thing of value left on the place. A
number of other barns and houses were also
destroyed in the same vicinity. Heavy loss
of property and life is reported at a Swedish
settlement in Crawford County, but partic-
ulars are wanting. VIM. Hollen, while try
ing to drive cattle from his barn, was borne
up into the air with barn and cattle and has
not been seen since. A boy, last seen driv-
ing cattle home, has also mysteriously dis
appeared. VIM. Beach and two sons, near
Sac City, were killed; Peter Lampman, near
Ida City, was instantly killed. In the same
locality 10 houses were destroyed and five
persons killed and 10 wounded.
Up to the 25th the Syndicate had
taken $15,OOO,OOO of the 1-2 per cent. bonds
under their recent contract.
The Windsor Hotel, at Coburg, On
tario, burned to the ground on the morning |
of the 25th. The front wall fell outward,
burying a number of firemen in the ruins,
four of whom were killed.
DR.. R. P. Grayson and wife were re-
Gently murdered in Anderson County,
Texas.
John Runk was hanged at San Fran
cisco on the Goth for the murder of Police
man Coots about one year ago.
Newburyport, Mass, is excited over
the recent discovery of fraudulent or
forged issue of stock of the Newburyport and
Amesbury Horse Railroad Company.
The amount of the fictitious paper in exist
ence, or when or by whom issued, is not
known.
H. J. Jewett has been elected Presi-
dent of the reorganized Erie Railway Com
pany, the name of which is to be changed to
New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad
Company.
A dispatch from Norfolk, Va, says
j. B. Weeks, keeper Of drinking saloon,
just before his death few days ago, con-
fessed to the murder and robbery of five
persons.
The National Executive Committee of
the Socialistic Labor party are out in card
denying that any branch or section of that
party is supplied with arms or undergoing
military drill in Chicago or elsewhere as
charged in recent dispatches from Chicago
They claim their organization to be purely |
political.
A valuable deposit of phosphate of
lime has been discovered near Wakeeney,
Kansas, on the line of the Kansas Pacific
Railroad. 1t is very valuable for fertilizing
purposes.
1t was reported from San Francisco,
on the 9th, that Russian privateers were be-
ing fitted out at that port to prey upon En-
glish commerce in the event Of war being
declared. A Russian corvette is now lying
there, prepared for instant action.