San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


County Derry, Ireland, on the morning OF
the Cd. The Earl had had considerable
trouble of late with his tenants, large
number of whom were under notice to quit.
There Is no evidence In regard to the killing,
the three dead bodies being discovered In the
road and in the ditch, each with one or more
bullet holes In the head or body. There were
evidences of q severe struggle having taken
place, and the Earl's left arm was broken
and his head battered. Three or four men
were seen lettering in the neighborhood be-
fore the murder.
The Lerdoists have stirred up apother
revolution along the Mexican border. Col.
Salinas, of Tamaulipas, has raised the
standard Of revolt, and on the LIST, with 40
men, attacked the Custom-house guard at
New Laredo, who were overpowered and
two killed. Salinas then retreated, being
closely followed by o force of National
troops.
Largo shipments of horses, for mill
tary service, and also of cattle, are being
made from Canada to England.
Patrick and John Reilly, brothers, of
Chippewa, Ont, were crossing the river
above Niagara Falls, on the LIST, when they
lost control of their boat and were carried
over the Horseshoe Falls.
1t is reported in Chicago that two
English gentlemen are in that city, and have
agents throughout the West, for the pur-
pose of buying 10000 horses, ostensibly for
street-cars in Scotland and England, but,
Judging by the charactero of the animals they
select, they are intended rather Tor active
movements than for draft purposes.
The steamer Dawn, from Shreveport,
with 500 bales of cotton and other freight,
was totally destroyed by fire on the 4th,
about 43 miles above New Orleans. The
passengers saved their lives, but lost all
their personal effects.
A general strike of the engineers and
fremen upon the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad, was inaugurated on the
4th. A recent reduction of wages and the
discharge by the company of two Brother
hood engineers are stated as the cause Of the
strike.
At Pawtucket, r. l., on the night of
the 9TH, during variety performance,
Mdlle. Volante, trapeze performer, held an
apple on her head, and Mrs. Jennie Fowler,
known on the stage as Franklin, was to
shoot it off the recklessness and danger Of the
performance being increased by the shooter
standing with her back to the mark, taking
aim by reflection in u mirror. The rifle
was discharged and Mdlle. Voante fell dead
hot tbro,1r1, tho fOrahaol
Mrs. Franklin was taken into custody byt
police.
A coal train on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, standing on the track at Stating
ton, Pa, was run into on the 9th by an Oil
train going at full speed. The oil cars were
heaped up in confused mass, which took
fire, and several of the tanks exploded,
burning large number Of persons serious
ly and setting on fire the depot and bridge
and also foundry and machine-shop, all Of
which were totally destroyed. Two men
were killed and 10 other persons badly burn
ed, six seriously. A large number of per-
sons, including women and children, were
slightly burned, making the total casualties
about forty.
Henry Crouch, his wife and two chill
dren, were drowned while fishing in pond
near their residence about seven miles west
of Battle Creek, Mich, on the 3D..
At Chester, Pa, ON the 9Th, Clemens
Lloyd, aged 40, killed his wife and himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
An express-car attached to train on
the Texas Pacific Railroad was captured at
about six miles west of Dallas,
on the night Of the 4th, by four masked men.
The robbers got about $50 in express pack
ages, and also took a number of
registered letters from the mail apartment.
The robbers are said to be the same gang
who robbed the Central train some time back
at Allen, and latterly at Hutchinson, both
places near Dallas. 1t is supposed their
headquarters are at Eageford. The passen-
gers were not disturbed.
The German Emperor's letter to Pope
Leo XIII, while extremely courteous in the
expression Of willingness to entertain
friendly relations with the Vatican, gives no |
indication of basis for negotiations.
The boiler of a 50-horse power engine
in the Boston Stamping Company's Works
at Cambridgeport, Mass, exploded on the
9Th, killing the engineer and severely injur-
ing several others.
One of the buildings of the Steuben
County Poor-house, near Bath, n. Y,
burned on the night Of the 9th, and Is in
mates persisted in the flames. The fire was
set by an insane pauper. The
building was of hrick-with grated
widows and doors, and the inmates, 60 in
number, mostly insane and idiotic, were Sc
curely locked in and utterly helpless to effect
their escape. The scene is described as
in the extreme.
One thousand spectators witnessed an
arena fight between lioness and a bull near
San Antonio, Texas, on the 9th. The fight 1
la.,.J 10 ,o;putas Of tho and nf which tiua