Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-20
Fatal Fires and Explosions - Horrible
Murders and Brutal Outrages-A
Grandfather Caught i'm the
Act OF Attempting to
Rape his Grand
daughter.
Robbery Of Employers by CIerks-Sui-
cides Of UnfOrtunates Tired OF the
RObbers-COn-
fessiOn of a Murderer
Chapter OF Accidents
in California.
Suicide OF a Member of the .EvanRe-

Suicide OF a Member of the "Evange-
line" Troupe.
| NEW YORK, July 1S.-Ellen M'Call of the
disbanded Evangeline troupe, took prussic
| acid last evening, and died.
Suicide.
LITTLE Rock, July 1S.-Mrs. Johannah
| Hurlburt committed suicide last night by
taking an overdose of morphine.
a small Blaze.
NEW HAVEN, CONN, July 1S.-Snow' s
confectionery factory was burned last night.
Loss not stated, but the stock, machinery
| and building were all insured.
A Naval Ofcer Fatally IDjured-His
Wife and Another Lady Also Hurt.
WASHINGTON July 16.-Lieutenant Com
mander w. II. Huff, of the United States
navy. was probably fatally lnjured-by the
breaking down of his carriage. Mrs. Huff S
arm was broken and she was otherwise in
jured. Another lady and the coachman were
also hurt.
The Texas Train-R Robbers Sentenced to
Prison for Life.
NEW ORLEANS, July 1S.-The Galveston
NeioS'S special from Austin says Piper and
HerndoD, charged with robbing a train on
the Texas and Pacific railroad some months
ago, were convicted to-day and sentenced to
imprisonment for life. Several alleged ac-
cessories were acquitted.
Fatal Boiler Explosion.
WHEELING, July 1.-THE boiler in Da-
vis's planning mill, at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, ex-
ploded at eight o'clock this morning, destroy
ing the entire building and killing three per-
sons outright, and three more were fatally
and several badly injured. Loss about TWEEN
ty-fve thousand dollars.
A Railroad Bridge and Train Wrecked,
with Loss of Life.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, July 18.-As the
east bound freight train on the P. G. and St.
l.. railroad was passing over the bridge at
Monticello, yesterday, the bridge gave way,
precipitatIng the engine and twenty cars into
the Typreano river eighty feet, killing the en-
gineer. Louis Beam, and the bridge watch
man, Jerome Durfee.
Fatal Fall of a Scafold.
JAMESTOWN, n. Y, July 17-At the new
State insane asylum, at North Warren, Penn
sylvanla, yesterday afternoon, a scatfOldIng
gave way, and eight men at work fell upon a
mass of IRON and stone. ALA severely in
Jured, the sharp material cutting deep gashes
in their heads and bodies. Enos Rees had
his back broken, and a Mr. Rafferty, had his
head cut open so that his brain protruded. 1t
is thought they cannot live.
Employers Robbed by Clerks.
New YORK. July 1S.-Henry N Phillips,
William Hines and William Pearson, re-
spectlvely cashier, book-keeper and superin-
tendent of the cloak department in the estab-
lishment of Wilson d Grug, a dry goods firm
lately suspended, have been arrested, charged
with the systematic robbery of their employ
ers. When the firm went into bankruptcy it
found itself, on taking stock, one hundred
dollars behind.
San Francisco Items.
SAN Francisco, July 1S.-The San Jose
mill and lumber company has filed petition
In bankruptcy. Liabilities, two hundred and
thirty three thousand dollars; assets, one
hundred and 6fty-seven thousand dollars.
A servant girl named Roam was burned to
death at Oakland to-day by the explosion of
turpentIne.
Three children at Liberty were fatally
burned by the explosion of lamp.
Rich placer diggings have been discovered
In the Colorado river in Arizona, about
twenty miles above the town of Aubrey.
Disastrous Fire.
PITTsBURG, Pa, July IA special from
KipponiDg says that about half-past one
o'clock this morning Il fire broke out and,
owing to the delay in applying water, gained
great Roadway. the following are the losses
and insurance as far as known: J. E, Brown,
dwelling $6000 insurance 5000 ontents
saved; James Mccullough. hardware, build
ing $4,000, stock $4,000; Z. R. Mcconnell,
hardware, building $500. insurance 5000
stock $4,000, insurance $4,000; Anderson &
Maysall, timers, $4,000; Mcconnell & Camp
bell, dry goods, building $1,000, insurance
$3500-stock $4,000, insurance $4,000; j.
A. Gault a. Co., dry goods, building SIS, 200,
insurance $S000-stock 5000, insured;
Gault d Caldwell, building $4,000, insurance
$4,000.
A MISUNDERSTANDING
WATERFOWL, N. Y, July 18.-Peter