San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


posts amount to about $250,0O0, and assets
as claimed, sufficient to pay all demands
The managers promise to pay depositors IL
full at the expiration Of 20 days. time.
A fire at Philadelphia, on the night o.
the Gath, destroyed the business houses from
Nos. 100 to 1872 North Fourth Street, and ,
number Of buildings on Cherry, North Thirt
and North Second Streets. The total loss Il
estimated at 81 100000.
AT Columbus, o., on the night of the
oath, George Weiman shot and instantly
killed his son, George w. Wieman, and i'm.
mediately blew out his own brains. The "a.
ther was between 60 and 70 years old and
the son IS. They had been engaged in O
partnership business, manufacturing pumps
and the only explanation of the terrible
tragedy is that it was the result of bust.
ness quarrel.
Dexter McCreary and Fortune Bush,
cOlored, were hanged at Barnwell Court
house, S. c., on the 22d, for the murder OF
Stephen Enicks, his wife and two children.
After killing the parents, the murdGers
fired the dwelling and the children biifned
to death.
Joseph and George Brassell, brothers,
were hanged at Cookville, Tenn, on the 9th,
for the murder of Russell Allison in Putnam
County, in November, 1875.
The dead bodies of two hunters, Geo.
P. Burrell and Sylvester Rees, were found
on the 26th IS miles north of Cheyenne, Wyo-
ming. They were lying close together, hav-
ing been frozen during the late storm. Their
pack-mules were feeding close by,with their
packs still on their backs.
Near Piper City, Ford County, ILL.,,
the other day, 15-year-old daughter of
John Ryan picked up an old gun, and play
fully pointing it at her friend, Miss German,
aged IS, said, "Look out, 1 will shoot
you," and pulled the trigger. The gun went
off, tearing away one side of the face and
part of the skull of Miss German. tits al
most needless to add" She didn't know
it was loaded"
The suspension of the Sixpenny Saw
ings Bank, New York, is announced, with a
deficiency Of about 100000.
Thos. P. Fisher was hanged at Mauch
Chunk, Pa, on the 2Sth, for completely in
the murder Of Morgan Powell, mining
boss, in December, 1871. The murder was
committed by order of the Mollie Maguires,
Of which order Fisher was member.
Samuel Goodwin, colored, was hanged
at Live Oak, Fla, on the Goth, in the pres
ence of 1000 people, for the murder of a
colored man last May. He died without q
At Chillicothe, Iowa, on the Goth,
Matthew Burns, a farmer living near town,
drove into the village, put his team in sta
BILE, and taking his AK over his shoulder,
went where Geo. N. Bullin, an old resident
and highly respected citizen, was at work
on the foundation of building, and, with
head with the AK and ran away. Twenty
minutes later Burns was found in the barn
where he left his team, hanging by the neck.
Bullin's injuries were fatal. The cause Of
the act is supposed to be dispute about the
division of fence.
At Eastville, Northampton County,
Va, on the 2Sth, Sidney Pitts and A. p.
Thoms fought with pistols, to settle a dis
pute. Two rounds were fired by each, aud
as they stood only six feet apart, Pitts was
killed, and Thoms received a ball in the
head, which it was thought would undoubt-
eddy end his existence.
The Bank of South Pueblo, Col, was
entered by masked robbers on the night Of
the Goth, who gagged the Cashier, Fl. N.
Banks, and obliged him to open the safe.
They took $1,000 in currency and gold
watch and chain.
Mr.. and Mrs. NARROW, an inoffensive
old couple who lived in what are known as
the West Woods, six miles back Of Louis
vile, KY, on the morning Of the LIST were
found dead in the smoldering remains Of their
burned cabin. The husband and wife had
been summoned to attend Court in Louisville
on the following day as witnesses against
Cook and Bracket, two desperadoes, who,
by their testimony, would have been sent to
the Penitentiary, and there is strong reason
to believe that they were murdered and
their cabin set on fire to destroy all evidence
of the crime.
Madame Restell, who for over 40
wears has been infamous for her criminal
practice in New York City, by means of
which she had amassed an immense
fortune, on the LIST committed
suicide by cutting her throat with carving
knife in the bathroom Of her well known
marble palace on Fifth Avenue. She had
been indicted in the Criminal
Court, and was extremely apprehensiye of
the result of her trial.
TIM HBaby,s Best FRIEND IS the most ap-