San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-03
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

AU hiCuOS LII, VII oihS Atshf -
lady, daughter of Mr.. j. Il. Harcount, while
handling toy pistol, accidentally shot her.
self, the ball passing through her lung
causing instant death.
Ten thousand English nail-makers
are on strike for an advance Of 30 per cent
in wages.
The planning mill of Davis & Starbuck,
at Barnesville, o., on the 18th, was leveled
to the ground by the explosion of the steam
boiler, burying the workmen in the ruins
James Podgett, j. w. Burchard and Charles
Etsler, Sr., were killed, four others were
seriously hurt, and several more slightly in
jured.
Mrs. Bowers was burned to death at
Rochester, Ind, on the 18th, by kindling the
fire with kerosene; and Mrs. Eliza White, OF
st. Louis, came to her death in the same
manner and on the same day.
Three fatal cases of yellow fever had
occurred on the 18th, on the United States
steamer Colorado, lying off the Brooklyn
Navy Yard.
Fipes and Herndon, Texas train-rob
bers, have been sentenced to life imprison-
ment.
Sam Bass, the train-robber, and his
gang, said to number 80 men, on the 10Th
had fight at Round Rock, Texas, with
Sheriff Grimes, of Williamson County, and
a posse. Sheriff Grimes was killed and also
one of the robbers, and Moore, a Deputy
Sheriff, was fatally wounded.
At Harrisonburg, Va, on the 10Th,
Mr. Abe Richie and his son, a young man,
were both killed by lightning, while stand
ing under q tree in the harvest-field, where
they had taken refuge during shower.
At Abingdon, Va, on the goth, Wal
ter Preston, young man, shot and killed
John Styles and then killed himself. Styles
was superintendent of Prieston's Brothers.
farm. Walter had ridden a favorite
horse to death, and being uphraided by
Styles, became enraged and shot him. In a
fit of remorse he then shot himself.
A fatal case of yellow fever occurred
at St. Louis on the Goth, the victim being a
young man who, it is supposed, contracted
the disease on q South Sea vessel at New
Orleans.
The name of the Independent Order
of Workingmen has been changed to that of
the Independent Order of Mutual Aid.
Chief Joseph's band of Nez Perces,
numbering all told 433, have been transfer
red from Fort Leavenworth to the Indian
Territory, where they will share the reser-
Walton now occupied by Captain Jacks
band Of Modocs.
From July 10th to Goth, inclusive,
there were 1853 deaths from sunstroke in st.
Louis, beside many others indirectly at
tributable to the excessive heat. The total
number of deaths from the 1st to the Goth of
July was G66, against 40 deaths for cor
responding period last year.
Sam Bass, the Texas train-robber and
desperate, was finally captured, after being
fatally wounded on the Goth, near Round
Rock. One of his gang, named Barnes, was
killed; another, named Jackson, escaped.
The capture was effected by Major Jones
and party OF State troops and citizens.
There was a standing reward of 5000 for
the capture of Bass, dead or alive.
Nose Kerkendall, colored, was
lynched in Boone County, Ark, on the 18th,
for an attempted outrage upon white lady.
North Albany, N. Y, was struck by
cyclone on the 2lst, which caused damage
to the amount of 100000.
1t is reported that the wheat in Wis
consin and Minnesota has been severely in
jured by rust and blight, caused by the in
tensely hot weather. The damage is esti-
mated at from % to so per cent. on the total
crop.
Miss Julia McPhee and Mrs. George
Byers were kiledby lightning at Gloucester,
Mass, on the DIST.
John Shackley, Frank Jones, Patrick
johnson and John Clauhence were killed by
the explosion of the boiler OF steam
thrasher near jamestown, Ind, on the 18th.
Seven other men were seriously injured.
The wife of James Trump, of PITTS
burg, Pa, kindled the fire with kerosene.
Eight hours afterward she died in great
agony.
Nearly the entire business portion of
Catlettsburg, Nv, was burned on the 22d.
The fire originated in the Sherman House.
Losses about $4,000, with but little insur-
anee.
l.. ID Aichison, aeronaut and aero
bat, who has been making ascensions for
several years clinging to 4 trapeze bar, was
instantly killed st ElmwoOd, Peoria County,
ILL.,, on the 2lst, by IA ling from the trapeze
to the ground, distance Of go feet.
sam Bass died from his wound on the
2lst. He refused to reveal the names Of any