San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

was arrested on the 14th at Rainsboro, High
land County, o., where he had recently
married and settled down rs u farmer. His
last and most famous exploit was on June
90, when $4,000 was taken by party OF five,
ali of which they got away with.
McKenna left the Hills Immediately after
getting the dust, and has been tracked
through Texas, Arizona, Missouri and ILL
nois by Bullock, former Sheriff of Dead
wood, who finally succeeded In etlecting his
capture McKenna's wife Is said to be a
very handsome and intelligent young lady,
and he Is respectfully connected.
John Appel & Co., pork-packers, and
James II. Snodgrass & Co., wholesale gro
GERS, OF Cincinnati, o., have made assign
ments. Amounts involved not given.
There have been several additional
failures among the New York druggists,
brought about by the suspension of Dun
ming, note broker.
Davis Bros. & Co., leather dealers,
and Chas. Richardson 4 Co., paints and oils,
are among the recent Boston failures.
In new York City on the 10th, James
W. johnson killed Mrs. Anna Surnam and
then shot himself. johnson was formerly n
resident of Chicago and in good circum-
stances. He had lost all his property and
become reduced to extreme poverty. The
murdered woman formerly lived with him
as his mistress, but had left him for another
man. Destitution and jealousy combined
are therefore supposed to have actuated the
double crime.
A heavy snow-storm on the Pacific
coast was reported on the 10th, blocking all
railway travel and breaking down snow
sheds.
The Danville Bank of Danville, ILL.,,
suspended on the 18th. Condition not made
public, but reported as bad.
ADeadwood dispatch of the 10th says
that the mining town of Lead City, three
miles from DeadwoOd, was taken possession
of by mob Of roughs from outside camps,
who ousted the regularly constituted au-
thorities and were running things to suit
their own sweet wills.
The real name of the New York mur,>
derer and suicide is jacques, not johnson.
He was an Englishman, and from 1868 to
1873 kept hotel near the corner of Lake
and Madison Streets, Chicago. In the latter
year he sold his hotel, and eloped with
Mrs. Surnam, the woman he murdered. He
left wife and nine children; Mrs. Surnam
a husband and four children. Since that
time both had been going very fast on the
down grade, until at last they reached the
bottom.
Four lads, named Washington Russell,
Spencer Mitchell, Walter Goodall and Jesse
Ingham, went over dam in skitf, near
Huntington, w. Va, on the 18th, and all
were drowned.
Col. Lew. Meade, prominent citizen
Of North Alabama, living 16 miles east of
Huntsville, was shot and killed, on the night
of the 14th, by man supposed to be one of
his tenants with whom he had trouble, and
whose arrest he had caused.
Two negroes, accused of being Access
sorry to the murder of Jacob Shootman, were
taken from the officers by gang of masked
men, near the line between Fayette and Jes-
samine Counties, KY, on the night OF the
10th, and hanged by the roadside. The same
mob then went to the cabin of negro named
Tom Turner and shot him in the presence of
his wife. A Sherifps posse went in pursuit
of the murderers.
A strong party of illicit 'distillers,
known as moonshiners," recently repuls-
ed Government force Of 30 men in Wayne
County, KY, seriously wOunding an officer,
killing horse, and running the posse out
Of sight. They are very strongly organized,
and announce their purpose to resist arrest.
The Government has commenced
suit against the bondsmen of John Near
thur, late Postmaster of Chicago, to recover
the sum of 100000, charged as being def
eient in his accounts. A portion of this
money was lost by the failure of the bank in
which it was deposited, and no inconsidera-
BILE sum was lost by Macarthur in private
business speculations.
The banking house of j. M. Patterson
4 Co., at Sterling, ILL.,, temporarily suspend
ed on the 18th. The assets are claimed to
be largely in excess Of the liabilities.
News has been received of an Indian
raid into Mason County, Texas. Two men
were killed and large number of horses
and cattle were driven off United States
troops and rangers were in pursuit.
Mark M. Palmer's private banking
house, at Yankton, D. T., has closed its
doors. Liabilities 100000, which Mr.. Pal
mer claims. can be fully met by the assets.
Three children were drowned by
breaking through the ice at Dixon's Mills,
near Portsmouth, o., on the 18th. They
were Sallie, aged IA, and Johnnie, aged s,
children of George Dixon, and Mollie, aged
IL, daughter Of George V. Dixon.
Mr.. John Snow, a respectable citizen
of Allen County, Ky, was murdered in his
bed on the night Of the l4th. An AK was the
instrument of assassination, and the vic