San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-27
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Thirteen frame buildings on Market
Street, Galveston, Texas, were burned on
the 9th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $50, 600.
Chapman, tho notorious land-title
swindler, who has been in Jail nearly year
at Urbana, ILL.,, awaiting trial on charges
against him, pleaded guilty to five counts
and has been sentenced to 90 years IN the
Penitentiary. He has operated largely IN
the Northwest.
The trouble in England's South Afri-
can territory has broken out afresh, and Sir
Bartle Frere has another campaign on his
hands on the Kaffrarian frontier.
The Earl of Leitrim was buried in st.
Michael's Church, Dublin, on the 10th. A
crowd of about 800 Kissed, hooted ana
cheered outside the church. The LORD
Lieutenant Of Ireland has proclaimed the
district comprising Lord Leitrim's Dom
egal estates under peace preservation.
G.. X. Clark, Jr., the Detroit gram
speculator who lately fled to Canada, has re.
turned to that city, and effected satisfac-
tory settlement with his creditors.
A negro named Dening, employed by
farmer named Mcclure, in Walker Coun-
ty, Texas, induced his employers daughter
handsome girl of II, to elope with him to
Houston. The girls brother, accompanied
by an officer, followed up the fugitives, and
they were brought back, the negro being
lodged in vacant house and secured by
chain around his neck attached to staple
in the floor. On the night of the 9th mob
of about 20 armed men proceeded to the
temporary Jail, and forcing it open, fired the
contents of their guns into the body of the
prisoner, which was entirely riddled with
buckshot.
George Heaton, a prominent and
wealthy stock ERASER of McLennan County,
Texas, was shot and killed by an unknown
assassin, near his home, on the evening OF
the 9th. The murderer escaped,and no rea'
son for the crime is known.
Fifteen masked men captured Texas
and Pacific express train at Mosquito Sta
ton, II miles east of Dallas, on the night of
the 10th. After some firing by the robbers
the engineer and fireman surrendered. The
conductor fired several shots, wounding one
of the party, it is thought, when he was
placed hors de combat by bullet in the arm,
and crawled under car for safety. The
express messenger and guard intrenched
themselves in their car and showed fight,
but the robbers finally saturated the car
with kerosene and threatened to burn
it, when they surrendered. The robbers
then went through the mail and express
car, carrying off such valuable packages as
they could find. The express messenger
says that he only lost $3.50, having hid away
81, 100. The passengers were not molested.
The United States Consul at Tientsin,
China, telegraphs: The famine is spread
ing, Cannibalism exists. There is no rain.
Worse next year. Will the indemnity bill
pass?" The latter sentence refers to the
bill now pending in Congress, providing for
the return of the unused Chinese indemnity
fund to China.
Launcelot Fogarty, aged 43, of 80
West Forty second Street, New York City,
on the 10th, killed his wife, aged 80, and
then killed himself. A quarrel about prop
erty was the cause of the tragedy.
Sam Steenburgh, under sentence OF
death for murder at Amsterdam, N. T., has
made most blood curding confession. lie
says he has committed II different murders
in his lifetime, the first when he was only
IA, and has besides been guilty of innumera-
BILE other minor crimes.
John E. Lyon, President OF the Bos-
ton, Concord and Montreal Railroad, was
burned to death at Plymouth, N. H., the
night of the 10th. He was stopping at ho-
tel and being ill he arose during the night
and fell, the lamp in his hand breaking,
which set fire to his clothing.
John Shallington, colored, aged p,
was hanged in Green County, N. c., in the
presence of 1900 spectators, on the 18th, Tor
the murder of his step-daughter, Senera
Thompson, aged is, in August last. He
maintained his innocence to the last.
A destructive fire occurred at Clarks-
vile, Tenn, on the night Of the 18th. Fifty
seven houses were burned, including some
of the best buildings in the city, among
them being the Court house, bank, news
paper office, two public halls, and several
stores. The loss is estimated at about $500,
900, with insurance of not over $4,000.
William Thomas, Wilmington,
DELI blacksmith, the other night when
crazed with drink killed his wife and then
terminated his own life.
The annual race between the Oxford
and Cambridge crews on the Thames was
won by the Oxfords.
Minister Foster, upon his return to
Mexico, was clothed with full power to Of
tcially recognize the Diaz Government
should the situation of affairs in his opinion
render it desirable to do so.
A tornado struck Cottonwood Sta
ton, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad, at about O'Clock on the afternoon
of Saturday, April 10. The Cottonwood