San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-01

Okubo, Japanese Minister of the In
terror, has been assassinated. The murder
er was arrested.
The Cincinnati Musical Festival was
opened on the evening of the 14th, and was
in every way successful. The exercises In
cluded the dedication Of the new Music
Hall. =,
The recent cold snap caused consid-
cradle injury to fruit and vegetables In
large portion of the country.
Mrs. Flynn and her infant child were
brutally murdered near Atoka, Indian Ter
ritory, on the 10th. Her husband Is sus-
pected of being the murderer. The family
were on their way to Cofeyville, Kansas,
where Mrs. Flynn's father, Henry Meyers,
resides.
Serious rioting has occurred ut Black
burn and Burnley, England, caused by the
failure of negotiations between the masters
and striking operatives Of the cotton mills.
The residence Of ColJackson, at Blackburn,
Chairman of the Masters Association, was
burned to the ground, and an attempt was
also made to burn Jackson's Mills'
The residence of Alderman Horribly was
partially wrecked, and the windows OF all
the mills in town demolished. A strong
force of infantry from Preston arrived, and
cleared the streets. Col. Jackson and wife
barely escaped with their lives. One mill at
Burnley was burned. The disaffected dis
tricts were strongly garrisoned by armed
militia.
The Senate has ratified the treaty be-
tween France and the United States, pro-
yiding for convention at Paris the present
summer with view to the adoption Of a
metrical system Of weights and measures.
The National Temperance Associa-
ton met at Chicago on the 14th.
The St. Agnes Academy, a school for
youngladies, at Memphis, Tenn, was burned
to the ground on the morning of the 10th.
There were As boarders in the school, all OF
whom lost their wearing apparel. The
academy was owned and managed by the
Sisters of St. Dominic, and was fully in
sured.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad Company have effected lease Of the
Keokuk and Des Moines Valley Railroad for
a term Of As years. The transfer will be
made on the first Of October next.
Joe Fore, the notorious St. Louis des-
perado, who was serving out 10 years. sem
tence in the Missouri Penitentiary for an at
temptto kill his wife, was set upon and
stabbed to death by a fellow convict named
Billy Rogers, with whom he had quarreled,
on the night Of the 18th.
Brown Bowen was hanged at Con-
zales, Texas, on the 18th, for the murder OF
Thomas Holderman. Bowen protested his
innocence to the last, and charged the COM
mission of the crime upon his brother-in-
law, the notorious John Wesley Hardin.
The Dime Savings Bank of San Fran
cisco has suspended, with deposits amount
ing to about SAT, 900, and assets nominal 1t
turns out to have been a sham affair, not
regularly Incorporated, and its depositors
were principally children. Joseph Davis 4
Co., pawnbroking firm, were at the bot
tom of the swindle.
Frank Houlton, a well-to-do farmer
of Hamilton, De Kalb County, Ind, was
shot dead by burglar whom he discovered
in his house and attempted to capture on
the night of the 18th. The murderer fled
but was subsequently arrested and proved
to be neighbor Of Houlton's, who had re-
Gently been discharged from the Peniten-
tiary.
The boiler Of a portable engine in use
on the farm Of David Waggard, near New
Frankfort. Ind, exploded on the 18th, in
stantly killing John Wsggard and John Jen'
kins.
It is believed the Pope, yielding to
the advice of his physicians, will spend the
summer at Monte Cassido, the celebrated
Benedictine abbey Of Naples.
Senior Zamacona, the Mexican Minis
ter at Washington, says his advices from
Mexico show that the revolutionists have
utterly failed, and have no support whatcv-
er In any of the States of that Republic.
William B. Walls, the Prosecuting
Attorney in the famous murder trial OF
Nancy E. Glenn, in Indiana, has made con.
fession and allegation that 81 900 in cash
was paid to Judge Truman H. Palmer for
granting the nolle prosequi by which she
was set at liberty.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman, known as the
Connecticut Borgia," who confessed to
the killing of nine persons by poison-two
husbands and seven children-died in the
State Penitentiary at Hartford on the 10th.
The banking house of Joseph Brown
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, has closed its doors,
causing great distress to the poorer classes,
who are the principal dspositors.
Forty lives were lost by the burning
recently of the theater at Ahmedrugger, in
In India.
From Richferd, VT, comes the news
that 600 Fenians are drilling at Chasey, n.