San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

prominent citizens Of Forest Depot, Camp
hell County, Va, on the 2Sth met in the
woods by agreement and fought duel with
knives, the only witness being an old color
ed man who was called in to act as umpire
and see fair play. Both made terrific on
slaught, which resulted in Sliey's receiving
A mortal wound in the left breast, his own
knife striking and breaking against his an
tagonist's breast bone. Sliey fell dead and
Coles fed to escape arrest. The two men
were brothers in-law and had been warm
friends, but quarreled about some trivial
matter, the lie was given, and, in the Opin-
ion of one Of them at least, nothing could
wipe out the insult but blood.
The House Naval Affairs Committee
have agreed to report favorably on the Har-
ris bill appointing Board of Admiralty to
sell the old ships and construct new navy.
It was reported on the 2Sth that the
Mexican town Of New Laredo was besieged
by an insurgent force under Gen. CARA
Aysla, and that the Customs officers had fled
to the American side of the river for pro-
lection.
At Springfield, Mo-, on the night of
the Goth, lady named Mrs. Thompson,
while temporarily insane, cut the throat Of
her daughter Nettie, aged II, and then cut
her own. Both died.
The recent cyclone in Wisconsin
killed so people and injured about $50.
Hundreds are left homeless and without
meal to eat. The survivors along the line Of
the tornado are in great distress.
The west-bound express train on the
Union Pacific Railroad was boarded by
masked men on the night of the Goth, near
Percy Station, who entered one of the sleep
ing.cars and robbed number of passengers
of their money and watches and then de-
camped, being evidently frightened of before
they had completed their work. A posse Of
men started at daylight inpursuit Of the
robbers.
Andy Compagnion, desperate of
Owensville, Gibson County, Ind, who was
suspected of having committed numerous
crimes, on the night of the Goth was taken
from his house by a party Of masked men
and shot dead in the Public Square, his body
being literally riddled with bullets.
Thursday, May 80, was generally OBJ
served throughout the Northern States as
Decoration Day. At Gettysburg, Pa, the
ceremonies were participated in by Presi-
dent Hayes, who made brief address. Gen.
Butler was the orator of the day.
The First National Bank of Dallas,
Texas, suspended on the Goth, after run
lasting three days. Liabilities large and as
sets nominal.
A Boise City dispatch Of the 31st re-
ports that about 200 Indians, under Buffalo
Horn, are encamped in the lava beds, be-
tween the Big Camas Prairie and Snake
River, and have ordered the whites to leave
the prairie on penalty Of death. They had
already commenced hostiities by shooting
two settlers, wounding both severely. The
Indians are well supplied with arms and
ammunition.
The machine-shops of the Indianap-
oils, Pennsylvania g. Chicago Railroad, at
Peru, Ind, were struck by lightning on the
night of the Goth, and, with their contents,
entirely consumed by fire. There were
three locomotives and two stock cars in the
shops. The loss is estimated al 500, 900
no insurance.
The Galveston NeWs's special from
Eagle Pass, 3Oth, says: Escobedo is report
ed to have captured Saragossa, and is ex-
pected to attack Piedras Negras. The Mex
lean Government troops, under command
of Col. Nanoiz, have gone to meet him. A
fight is expected.
At the farm of Robert Linn, four miles
from Hillsboro, o., on the 31st, portable
saw-mill engine exploded, killing three men
and severely scalding several others. One
man was thrown completely over tall tree.
The boiler was found 800 yards distant.
A gravel train on the Prospect Park
and Coney Island Railroad, New York, was
thrown from the track on the night Of the
Goth and four laborers killed. Some mis-
creant had placed an obstruction on the
track with the evident intention Of wrecking
the train.
The body of John Scott Harrison, son
of ex-President Harrison, who died sudden
ly on the 9th ult. at North Bend, Ind, was
disinterred from the family vault on the
night following the burial and taken to the
dissecting-room of the Ohio Medical College
in Cincinnati, where it was strangely and
Unexpectedly discovered on the following
day by Carter Harrison, son OF deceased,
while the latter was making search,in COM
pany with an officer, for the body of a
friend who had died few days previous,
and the robbery Of whose grave was diseov-
cred by him on the day of his fathers
funeral. Fearing that his fathers grave
might be despOiled, as had been that Of his
friend, the son had hired a Waterman to
keep guard over it nights, and his conster-
nation and grief upon being brought face
TO face with his dead father in the dissect-
ing-room are said to have quite overpower-
ed him.
VIM. Springer. who lived with his