San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

j. & G. Ritterhausen, of Hamburg,
Germany, cotton importers, recently failed
in business, and both members of the firm
committed suicide.
At Carpentersville, Putnam County,
Ind, during services in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church on Sunday evening, Jan. p, Il
man named Harris created disturbance,
and refusing to desist at the request Of the
minister, the Rev. Mr.. Mason, from Balm
bridge, he was forcibly elected by the latter.
Harris lay in wait at the church door, and
when Mr.. Mason came out he struck him
down with club and then stabbed him
with large knife, killing him almost in
stantly. Harris was arrested, and is now in
the Greencastle Jail.
The First National Bank of Kansas
City, Mo-, II. NJ. Holden, President, sus-
pended on the 3Oth, caused, as alleged, by
the withdrawal of over $350,OOO in deposits
within few days previous The officers,
in published card to the public, say that
all depostors may rest assured of being paid
in full in due time. The Commercial Ma
tional Bank followed in the wake of the First
National and closed its doors, attributing its
inability to pay to a similar cause. The latter
was only small concern.
The Secretary of the st. Louis Cotton
Exchange warns cotton dealers and pro-
ducers in the Southwest against certain
parties who have mailed circulars from that
city soliciting consignments of cotton, and
using the name of the st. Louis Cotton EX-
change. The names printed on the circu-
lar are S. H. Bransen, President, Joseph
Pollock, Vice-President, and d. II. Rupert,
Secretary, none of whom are known to the
business men of st. Louis.
A surplus of $500 of the Brandon,
VT, National Bank has been wiped out and
its capital of 100000 impaired 10 per cent.
by the action of the late cashier, D. c. Bas-
com, in letting j. c. Batchelder have about
100000, part on raised notes. Bascom has
left town.
Rumsier, one of the proprietors of a
saloon and boarding house in Bloomington,
Ill.,, which was burned on the morning of
the 3Oth, lost his life in the burning build
ing. Tommy Howard, the bartender,
barely saved his life by jumping from an
upper window, after his right arm and side
had been burned almost to a crisp.
Two masked men robbed the stage
between Fort Worth and Weatherford,
Texas, on the 10Th. Five passengers handed
over three gold watches, 500 in cash, and
other valuabes.
The Topeka Bank and Savings Insti-
tute, of Topeka, Kansas, State bank, closed
its doors on the 3lst; also, the Merchants
National Bank of Fort Scott, Kansas.
William Wieners was hanged at st.
Louis on the 1st, for the murder Of A. V.
Lawrence, barkeeper at the Theatre
Comique in that city, in January, 1871. Be
fore he was swung of he made short
speech, saying: my Friends-l have
to bid YOU all goodbye. l
committed a rash act, but not cold-bloOded
one, As God is my witness; but it has at last
led me to the scaffold. l hope that all men
will take warning by my fate and let bad
whisky alone. hope that shall be the last
one that perishes on this scafiold. am very
glad-good-bye."
Philip Watson, colored, who muir
dered his wife with Ratchet, last Septem-
Der, was hanged At CoyingtOn. ky., on the
lsi, in the presence Of 5000 spectators.
Previous TO the execution he made an ae-
Acknowledgement Of the crime and expressed
repentance.
Joseph Woods was hanged st Malone,