San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


A destructive fire occurred at Hot
Springs, Ark, on the morning Of the 9th, by
which some $50 buildings, comprising about
one half of the place, were laid in ashes.
The fire originated in the lower part of the
city, near the Malvern Road and swept clean
both sides of the principal street to the Big
Iron Spring. The more important buildings
consumed were the Hot Spring House,
American Hotel, Earl Hotel, Valley and
State Bank, Post office, Daily Sentinel Of
flee, Telegraph office, and a number of other
business and lighthouses. The buildings
being all of wood, and the fire appliances
limited, the flames swept their course almost
unoppOsed. The loss is estimated at from
5000, 900 to 100000, and u large number of
people, among whom are many invalids,
were rendered temporarily homeless.
The wife of David Razure, of New
ton, Kansas, eloped with B. c. Arnold, OF
the same place. The guilty pair went to st.
Joseph, Mo-, and took rooms at hotel as
man and wife. RaZurc followed them up,
and upon his confronting them, which he
did in most unexpected manner, apparent
ly, some lively shooting took place between
the two men. Two balls from Arnold's pistol
struck Razurc in the shoulder, coming out
at the breast. Arnold was struck square in
the breast by shot from Razure's pistol,
but a pocket book in his breast pocket stop
ped the force of the ball, which inflicted
merely flesh wound. Razure's wounds
| were considered fatal. Arnold was arrested
but released on bail.
The Mardi Gras festivities at Mem.
phis and New Orleans were witnessed by
thousands of visitors from all parts of the
country, and were very successfully con-
Quoted.
COngratulatory messages passed be-
tween the Sultan and the Emperor on the
Sd, and amicable relations are resumed.
The Miami Savings Society of Gin
cinnati closed its doors on the I'd. Liabili-
ties, $40, 200; assets, $l52, 900.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Distilling
Company of Louisville, KY, the largest dis
tilling concern in the country, suspended on
the 9Th Liabilities not known, but believed
to be much less than assets. The cause of
the suspension is claimed to have been the
agitation of the reduction of tax on whisky
bv Congress. This occasioned less than one
half the usual sales, and, added to the fact
that large sums had to be paid for whisky
coming out of bond, caused embarrassment
Four children of Matthew Lynch, OF
Fort Wayne, Ind, obtained railroad tor
fOr a ,,1nytbinU Tho
torpedo exploded, causing the death of three
of them and seriously wounding the fourth
Tom Spottswood, u notorious desper.
ado, formerly of Missouri, has been arrest
ed as the leader of the gang who recent!
robbed the express ear on the Texas Contra
Railroad.
The Fifth Annual Convention of the
| National Butter, Cheese aud Egg Associa-
/ ton was held ut Chicago, beginning on the
9th.
James Love, farmer residing neal
! Lowell, Henry County, Iowa, did not live
/ happily with his wife and they agreed &c
/ separate and divide their household goods
on the morning of the 9Th the wife, who haC
some time previously taken up her resi-
dence elsewhere, returned TO her former
home to get her portion OF the goods
She was accompanied by her 1-year old son
and Love gave them both an apparently cor
dial greeting. ON some preteXt he put tn,
little boy up through the scuttle-holc on I,
the roof, and then deliberately shot his wifi,
in tie back of the head, killing her instant.
ly. He then left the house, and going to tn,
woods near by, committed suicide.
The steamer City Of Chester, of tn,
Anchor Line, WAS burned AT Memphis or
the morning Of the 18th. She had arrived
from -. Louis about midnight, and had OF
board number Of passengers and a larg,
cargo OF freight. Three lives were lost-JohT
Herman, Of Memphis, mail agent, G.A.Zeller
Of Memphis. passcnEer,and Albert Brown
the colored barber Of the boat. The origin
81 the fire /, unknown. and in i've minute
after it wa discovered, the flzme> sprca,
from stem to stern.
4 tre>ilc platform used in building
the new iron bridge over the Potomac, Al
RowelI's Bend, gave way on the 7ih. preci.
pitating l. men who were Al work into N,
river. distance 81 ~ feet Three men weTi
Killed outright and the remainder seriously
injured.
The failure Of Howell. Gano & Co,