San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-08

sowing Is general and prospects for har.
vesting encouraging.
The Coroner's Jury which has been
holding an inquest on the victims Of the mill
explosion ut Minneapolis, has returned a
verdict that the disaster was the result OF an
explosion Of mill-dust floating In the air
kindled by fire In the woodwork Of Wash
burn A Mil, originatingin spark from the
stones running empty.
The Committee on Commerce of the
Senate agreed to report favorably the name
Of st. Gem for Surveyor Of the Port OF st.
Louis.
Henry Roberts, colored, was hang
ed ut Charlotte, N. c., on the oath, for the
murder of Gus Ware, also colored, In Feb
ruary last.
At Columbia, S. G., on the 22d, DIR.
j. C. Cook was shot dead In his house dur
ing quarrel with his brother-in-law,
Charles Martin, aged 20.
Jesse Walker was hanged at Farmers
vile, Union Parish, La, ON the oath, for the
murder of his cousin, Violet Simmons, In
February last. Both the murderer and his
victim were colored.
Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, has
committed the death sentence of Mrs. Kate
Southern, of Pickens County, to imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary for 10 years.
The rectifying establishment of Mr..
Christopher Sandheger, at Cincinnati, one
of the largest in the West, has been seized
by Government officers on account Of alleg-
ed non. cancellation Of stamps.
Three firemen were killed at Hart
ford, Conn.,, on the Oath, by falling walls.
During q severe storm on the night OF
the 2lst, an entire freight train Of IS cars,
together with the locomotive, went through
high trestle on the Kansas Pacific Rail-
road near Denver, into the yawning abyss
below. Three men on the locomotive were
presumably killed, but long search for
their bodies had proved unavailing,and still
more strange to relate, no trace of the loco
motive could be found.
Stockholders of the Consolidated Vir-
ginia Mine have begun proceedings against
the firm of Flood & O'Brien, trustees of the
company, to recover the sum of $35 1884 1888,
alleged to have been wrongfully diverted by
said trustees in their management of the
mine. The defendants claim that the OBJ
ject of the proceedings is simply to bear the
stock by attacking the management Of the
mines.
The Worlds Convention of Good
Templars assembled at Minneapolis on the
9th.
The Stewart Hotel for Women in
New York City has proved failure, and
will soon be opened to the general public.
Fifty Austrian emigrants who re-
Gently arrived in this country ell route for
Nebraska were swindled by sharpers in
Hamburg who imposed upon them some
$4,000 in spurious American bank-notes.
Many of the emigrants are left penniless.
Emile Houillion, who was sentenced
to be hanged at Columbus, Texas, on the
oath of May, cheated the gallows by taking
fatal dose of poison on the night previous
to the day set for his execution. His crime
was the murder of Matthias Masch, broth
err lawyer, in February, 1876, for improper
intimacy with his wife.
James o. Taylor, well-to-do farmer
of GAINESVILLE, West Va, is under arrest
charged with the horrible crime of outrag-
ing his own daughter, beautiful girl aged
II. Taylor is a prominent member Of the
NJ. E. Church. His daughter, who has al
ways borne most excellent character, her.
self preferred the charges against him, the
details of which are almost too horrible for
belief.
Virulent cholera has appeared at
Moran. OF Al Europeans attacked 80 have
died. One hundred cases among the native
population are reported.
The State Savings Bank of Dallas,
Texas, suspended on the 9th. Liabilities
$51 900; assets, $4,000.
At Arlington, Bureau County, ILL.,,
on the evening of the 26th, Samuel Kearney
who had been paying his addresses to Mrs
Elizabeth Shehan, daughter of Judge Cul.
lenbine, upon being refused further permis.
sion to continue his visits, armed
himself, and gaining admission
to Mrs. Shehan's apartment, shot her, but
without fatal effect. She then ran down
stairs, pursued by him, and the father at.
tempting to arrest the assassin, the latter
fired at him, the ball entering his hip
Kearney then seized carving-knife from
the table, withwhich he deliberately cut Mrs
Shehan's throat from ear to ear, and then
with a razor he severed his own jugular,
falling back dead almost instantly. Mrs,
Cullenbine, in attempting to wrest the