San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-05-18

Samuel Smltn during y quuTTcl uDout tho
settlement of board bill. The murder is
said to have been committed without any
justifabe provocation, the landlord being
shot In the back Of the head while walking
away from his assailant. The murderer Is
only 90 years Of age, son Of wealthy stock
dealer. He Is under arrest.
William Baldwin, colored, was hanged
in Miller County, Ark, on the 3D., for the
murder of a negro woman named Melissa
Phillips, in October last.
Hon. Henry M. Darnall, Jr., of Gayo-
so, Pemiscot County, Mo-, was decoyed from
his home across the river into Lake County,
Tenn, on the evening Of April q, and bru-
tally murdered by William Shearer. The
latter had formerly been tenant OF Mr..
Darnall's, but about week previous to the
murder he moved over into Tennessee, from
whence he wrote to Darnall, saying
he was almost dead Of hemorrhage
of the lungs, and requesting him
to come and see him. Darnall
was shot by Shearer as he was getting out
of his boat. The murderer fed, but was
pursued and overtaken the next day, and
WullC ylllS w CsChpC iIohi OhO Suoeouy va
the Sheriff he was fred upon and killed. 1t
is reported that Shearer confessed that he
had been hired by another party to kill OAR
nall. The latter was about "a years of age,
farmer, and was asmember of the last Cen
eral Assembly Of Missouri.
At Charlottesville, Ind, on the Sd,
two young men, G. R. Bailey and G. T.
hot Of Uohoch Cnllona
boarded freight-train for Lafayette, and
seated themselves on the box. car attached
to the locomotive. When short distance
out of town the coupling-pin broke, and
they were both precipitated under
the wheels. The whole train, consist
ing of about 20 cars, passed over them,
mangling them into an unrecognizable mass
of flesh and bones. The heads of both were
found 80 yards off from the rest of the bod
les. Bailey's parents live at Carlinville,
ILL.,, and Dodge's at Fair Haven, o.
Chief Gall, with $50 warriors from
Sitting Bulbs camp, has surrendered to
Lieutenant Baldwin, in camp on Poplar
River. Gall was one of Sitting Bulbs most
sanguinary adherents, and his surrender is
considered by Gen. Miles as of no little i'm
portance.
Contrary to expectations raised by the
recent conciiatory attitude of the Papacy,
those Prussian priests in receipt Of Govern
ment stipends have been asked by Cardinal
Caterini, Project of the Congregation Of the
Sacred Council, either to renounce their
salaries or declare their opposition to the
Ecclesiastical Nav laws
A portable engine, used for hosting
ice out of barge into an ice-house at Mem.
phis, Tenn, exploded its boiler on the 9th,
killing Tom Hoist, the engineer, and serious
ly injuring several others.
An election riot occurred at Weldon,
N. c., on the 9th, in which John Purnell,
colored, was killed, and several Others. white
and colored, wounded.
Contracts have been let by the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Com
pany for the construction of the first 100
miles of its New Mexico extension.
The Treasury Department gives no.
tice that dangerous counterfeit note Of the
denomination of 500, on the Merchants
National Bank, of New Bedford, Mass, has
been put in circulation in the Western
States.