San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-09

Three men, named England, Triplett
and Crawley, were killed by the explosion
of q boiler In steam sawmill owned by MI
Shields, two miles from Palmyra, Mo-, on
the 10th. The mill was entirely demolished.
The Insane Asylum at Winoski, She
boygan County, Wis.,, was totally destroyed
by fire on the night Of the 10th, and four in
mates, Lucretia Toothaker, Mrs. Mcdonald
August Althrop, and Billy Doe, an Indian,
perished in the flames.
Ambrose, negro, who was arrested
upon charge of beating white boy so that
he died, was taken from the jail at Column
bia, Texas, on the Goth, by mob Of masked
men, and hanged. =
Col. Joseph M. Hanks, OF Lawrence
burg, Ky., was shot three times and fatally
wounded by Joseph Fraser, on the 2lst'
The shooting was the result of quarrel.
The boiler of the Mound City Flour
ing Mill, situated east of Bigelow, Holt
County, Mo-, on the 22d exploded with ter
rife force, entirely demolishing the mill and
instantly killing j. McWilliams, M. Ackley,
j. II. Caldwell and VIM. Anderson, and, it is
thought, fatally injuring James Dawson.
Doc. Shockey, notorious desperate,
charged with the murder OF a mail contract
or at Lake Charles, La, was being taken
from Texas under Governors requfsition,
when he was rescued from the Sherif's
posse by party Of several masked men
heavily armed. 90,
Lewis Hill, alias Henry Williams,
was hanged at Isle Of Wight Court house,
Va, OH the 22d, for an outrageous assault
upon respectable young white lady OF that
county. 4.,-s
The revolution in San Domingo con-.
tinues and President Baez is besieged in
San Domingo City. ol q ., rI..
A daring express robbery was COM
mitted at Allen Station on the
Texas Central Railroad, about %
miles north of Dallas, on the night Of the
22d. Just as the train halted at the station,
at $3.50 p. M, five masked and armed men
boarded the express car, while another
jumped upon the locomotive and covered
the engineer with his revolver.
The express messenger showed fight, firing
several shots at the robbers, and it is be-
lieved wounding one of their number. He
was finally overpowered, however, and,
covered by the muzzles of two revolvers,
was compelled to open his safe, from which
the robbers took the money packages,
amounting to about $4,000, and rode off.
None of the passengers were molested, nor
did they make any show of resistance.
The Jury in the Rand murder case,
on trial at Galesburg, ILL.,, rendered ver-
dict of guilty of murder in the first degree,
the penalty assessed being imprison-
ment for life. The prisoner was at
once removed to the Penitentiary at
Joliet, on account of threats being freely
made to lynch him by the eXasperated citi-
zens of Knox County.
j. w. Barron, Treasurer of the Dex-
ter, Maine, Savings Bank, was found lying
senseless in the bank, with rope around
his neck and body, and wounded in the
head, on the night of the 22d. He died in
few hours. It Is supposed that he refused
to open the safe and was killed in conse-
quence. The robbers secured less than 500.
Charles Hayward, Bourbon, Ind,
photographer, on the 23d shot his wife three
times through the body, wounding her IA
tally, and then shot himself through the
head, causing instant death. They had been
married over year, and it was supposed
lived happily together. They left young
babe. -t~f
Three deaths have occurred at Rich
ford, VT, from the use of poisonous well
water, and others are reported hopelessly
i'll. One of the dead is Walter d. Estes, a
well known lawyer.
An explosion of dynamite at Parma,
Italy, on the Esd, killed six and wounded 63
persons.
A double tragedy occurred at Hunts
vile, Ala, on the 23d. X. j. Harrison, son
of p. L. Harrison, Tax Collector Of Madison
County, a student of the University Of Ala
bama, shot and instantly killed one Ostell.
Harrison was subsequently attacked by Os-
tell's brother, who shot him twice, MORALLY
wounding him. The cause of the trouble is
not stated.
A horrible affair occurred at we'd
ding at Choctaw Bluf's, Ala, a few days ago.
Two men named Smith and johnson got to
quarreling over toast. johnson was knock
ed down several times and Smith stabbed
in the abdomen, and the bridegroom was
MORALLY wounded by bullet from Smiths
pistol, which was intended for johnson
Smith then leaned against the wall, faint
from his wound, when johnson stealthily
approached him and blew his brains out.
At West Point, n. Y, on the oath,
Michael Tobin shot and killed Peter Albers.
Both were enlisted men, and jealousy re-
garding woman was the cause.
THE leading ladies of New York So