San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-05-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A meeting of master cotton-spinners
and manufacturers, held at Manchester on
the eth, unanimously resolved to issue q CIR
cular to mill owners throughout the strike
district, recommending that mills still open
be closed Immediately, and advising that no
individual arrangements for re-openlng
mills be made with workmen. The adoption
of this resolution caused great anxiety NJ
Manchester. 1t is believed 1t VIII rehaer
general lock-out inevitable.
Miss A. S. Stewart, teacher IN the
Clifton Academy, near Norfolk, va, was
found dead in her room on the morning OF
the 7th. A medical examination showed
that she had been fatally drugged. Her
room was robbed of many valuables, includ-
ing diamond engagement. ring, gold watch
and chain, besides some money. Miss Stew
art was a beautiful and accomplished lady'
and was to have been married this summer
to a Norfolk gentleman. Several negroes
who had been lurking around the nelghpor-
hood are suspected Of the crime.
On Sunday, the 9th, $4,000 persons
visited the Paris Exposition.
The President has signed the act
amending an act to aid in the construction
of railroad and telegraph line from the Mis-
souri, River to the Pacific Ocean.
Near Oxford, Miss, on the night OF
the 9Th, three tramps went to the house OF
Mr.. Warner, n planter, and brutally assault
ed Mrs. Warner, who was alone in the house,
so that her life was despaired Of. The
scoundrels were all captured and lodged in
iail, and were threatened with lynching.
A tornado and water-spout occurred
at Canton, China, on the 18th ult. Some
500 lives were lost and a large number OF
buildings destroyed.
The Cuban sugar crop it is estimated
will fall short 80 to IS per cent. as compared
with last year.
bennington, the noted stallion, sire
of Enquirer, Longfellow, Parole and other
noted horses, died at Chestnut Hill, Phila-
delphia, on the 9th.
The Allan line steamship Sandman,
from Liverpool, May 8, for Quebec, with
AGO passengers, took fire at the entrance OF
Londonderry Harbor, caused by an eX-
posion of gas, which killed three persons
and seriously injured some 40 others. The
passengers were transferred to lighters and
taken to Londonderry.
Isaiah Evans, colored, was hanged at
Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, La, on the 10th
for the murder of Edward Bowen, white, in
July last.
Another party of Russian naval Off
GERS arrived at New York on the 9th on the
steamship Salvador. Lieut.. Rodnocof, one of
the party, being iHterviewedby newspaper
reporter, said: 81 have not the slightest
hesitation in tellingyou the object for which
the Cimbria came to America. She has on
board q number Of Russian naval officers
who are to take command of certain num-
Der of ships that we intend to purchase
here, if we can find suitable ones. L and
my brother officers have come direct
from St. Petersburg. We intend visiting
all the dock yards to see if we can find the
kind of vessels we require, and then, if there
is prospect of war, we shall buy them inn
mediately and have them fitted up. We eX-
pect to getas many volunteers from Amerl-
can ports us will be necessary to work the
ships until we can receive crews from Rus
STA. We shall get the ships out Of American
waters before war is proclaimed, and then
the United States Government can not in
terfere with u.s."
At Rockport, Ind, on the 9th, a per-
former belonging to Whalen's Variety Com
bination, of Louisville, undertook the feat OF
shooting an apple from the head OF a woman
The aim miscarried, and an S-year-old boy
named Wiegel, who was playing outside the
canvas, was shot in the forehead and almost
instantly killed.
Near Augusta, Me-, on the 18th, ia
son Scribner, small farmer, killed three Of
his children and then attempted suicide.
His wife and eldest daughter escaped from
the house, or they too would have been
murdered.
Porter Brown was hanged at Nanny,
Sabine Parish, La, on the 18th, for the MUIR
der of DIR. Evans in March last. Brown
made full confession of his crime and asked
forgiveness.
There was a slight snow-storm, fol-
lowed BY hail and rain, throughout portions
of Iowa on the 18th. No serious damage to
fruit or crops is reported. There were also
severe frosts throughout Central and North
ern Ohio.
A young desperate named Ernst
Whitehouse, who in June last, at Terre
Haute, Ind, shot Deputy Sheriff John Cleary
and escaped from his custody, and upon be-
ing pursued by posse Of citizens turned and
fired into their ranks, keeping them at bay
until he had made good his escape,
was captured in Terre Haute on the
18th inst, after most determin-
ed resistance against five officers,
one of whom was Cleary, the victim of the
former shooting, and who was again twice
wounded by the pistol of the assassin.
whitehouse is only 20 years Of age, Of slen-
10. h,,;d opd bos Seryad two vaars in tho