San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-06
A dispatch from Hutchins, Texas, 18th,

says: Train No. 4 on the Houston and Texas
Central Railroad, due here at 1905 when on
time, was robbed by four masked men. The
express matter was taken, the mail plum.
dered, and the express messenger, Thomas
wounded. About 10 or 20 shots were eX-
changed. The leader Of the gang was 20 oil
81 years of age, about 8 feet high, square
built, dark complexion and hair. All APP
peared to be young men. They made the
engineer, fireman, agent, and negro who
was on the platform, stand In front Of the
express car door, so the messenger could
not fire when they made of. They took q
northeast direction, going towards Trinity
Bottom.
O'Donovan Rosa, the Fenian orator,
lectured in st. Patrick's Hall, Toronto, on
the night of the 18th. Trouble being ap-
pretended, the hall was guarded by nine
companies of troops and large force of
policemen. A mob Of 1000 gathered in the
vicinity of the hall, but the lecture was
concluded without interruption. During
the hight the mob attacked Cosgrove's
Tavern, where it it was believed Ros-
50 was stopping, and considerable
fighting took place in which several men
were shot. All the windows in the hotel were
broken and the furniture smashed. A SIM
liar attack was made upon Collins's Tavern,
the policemen clearing the streets with their
batons. There was fighting in various quar-
tiers of the city all during the night, the
number of casualties reported being % per-
sons wounded. 1t is said that Rosa was
secretly driven out of the city by his friends
Immediately after the lecture.
The house of a farmer named Hurley,
living few miles south of Adrian, Mich,
caught fire on the morning of the 10th, and
his wife and two children were so terri
bly, burned that they died soon after being
rescued. Hurley and three other children
escaped. The fire was caused by the eX-
plosiOn of lamp.
The bill passed by the Mississippi
Legislature, a few days before adjournment,
in aid of the Ship Island, Ripley and Ken
lucky Railroad, donates a large body of lands
held by the State to assist in its construction,
and provides for the employment of convicts
along the line of the road. The act requires
the company to begin the work of construc-
ton at both ends of the road within six
months.
The United States will have 625 ex-
hibtOrs at Paris, exclusive Of the Agricul-
tural Department exhibits. More than one
half of the exhibitors are from Pennsylva-
mia and New York. a
The nomination of Mr.. Reed for Post
master at Toledo, Ohio, has been again-the
third time-reported unfavorably by the
Senate Committee.
Joseph and Edgar Hall and John G.
Thorp, white, and Gordon Rollins and
Burke Thomas, colored, were killed by the
explosion Of q saw-mill boiler about eight
miles from Richmond, Va, on the 22d.
Several others were injured.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
Company have begun the extension of their
Ell Moro branch southwark, and will COM
plete it to Cimarron without delay. Work
on the Alamosa extension will be pressed
With those two extensions the
Rio Grande will have four hundred and two
miles of road in operation.
Three brothers, Jerry, Isaac and
Jacob Childs, colored, were hanged togeth-
er at Abbeville, Henry Comfy, Ala, on the
odd, in the presence Of 10000 spectators.
They were convicted of the murder Of a
poor widow woman named Yore, in order
to prevent her appearing against them as
witness in a corn stealing case.
Samuel Chambers and George Col
Inns, colored, were hanged at Newcastle,
DEL, on the 22d, for the crime Of rape.
The National Bank of Tarrytown,
N. Y, suspended on the odd
John Wallace has confessed to the
killing of his brothers. wife and babe and
Miss Church, near Littleton, West Va, on
The Goth. The only reason given by him for
thc triple murder is the improbable one that
his brothers. wife had "talked badly about
him and his WIFE" 1t is generally believed
hat he killed the women to close their
mouths against teslifying to a previous crime
or attempted, by him upon
hem.
The Liberian schooner Azar was con-
,ecrated at Charleston, S. c., on the 21st, by
Bishop Brown of the African NJ. L. Church,
n the presence of 5000 colored people.
Five men were drowned while at
emptng to cross the James River from |
Albermarle County, Va, in small skitf, on
he Goth.
Dispatches from Rome say the Con-
istory will be held on the 2Sth inst. No |
,ncyclical will be issued,the Pope not wish
ne TO commit himself to any definite poll
" in the present complication of European
ltlairs. His Holiness will only deliver an
lllocution, avoiding all political illusions.
The head Jesuits recently proposed to re-
urn to Rome, but the Pope received the |
proposition coldly. The Jesuits are, there
ore, opposing the Pope's general policy.
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