Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-03-22
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

Charles Herbeck and wife, who lived about
10 miles west of Line In, ILL.,, recently sep
arated on account of quarrel, the husband
going to Lincoln to board. On the 11th he
hired livery-msn to take him home. His
wife was engaged in ironing when he arriv
ed, and after few minutes conversation he
drew a revolver and shot her through the
body, inflicting mortal wound. He then
secreted himself in the barn, and when q
party Of neighbors, hearing of the tragedy,
went to look for him, he put the pistol to his
head and blew his brains out.
A. G. Hollan, who with Edward Deal rob-
bed an express-car on the North Missouri
Road, near st. Louis, in the fall Of 1875, and
captured about 5000, was ARRESTED at
Omaha, recently, where heshad enlisted as
private soldier.
The amount of Archbishop Purcell's in
debtedness has been figured up to So. 3.672, 81.
Father Edward Purcell, the brother and
busiIe>>> manager Of the Archbishop, has
made an assignment Of all the property in
his hands received from the Archbishop,
which does not, however, include any
Church property. Suit has been commenc-
ed by certain creditors to set aside
the assignment made by the Arch
bishop to Edward Purcell, and other
creditors have attached the Cathedral and
other Church buildings and grounds. The
accounts of Father Purcell, extending
through long series of years, are said to
have been so loosely kept as to afford no satis
factory explanation of the vast indebted
ness which has accrued. but aside from this
extraordinary and apparently inexcusable
system Of bookkeeping, there seems to be no
blame attached to either the Archbishop or
Father Purcell.
The dead body of woman, inclosed in a
box, was discovered in the baggage-room
of the Union Depot at Kansas City, on the
11th, where it had been remaining for some
days, and begun to give out an offensive
odor. The box was regularly checked from
the West. The body was partially dismem-
bered, and is supposed to have been intend-
ed for some medical college.
The reported massacre of 3s Indians in
Washington Territory, q few weeks ago, by
q party Of settlers, is now contradicted. 1t
seems that the news was stupid hoax, got
ten up for the benefit of some of the "up-
country" papers.
A party Of about go negroes, men, wom-
en- and children, mostly in a destitute con-
dition, arrived in ST. Louis on the 11th, by
the steamer Colorado. They were mainly
from Hines County, Miss, and Madison
Parish, La, and had started for Kansas
where they expected to be presented upon
their arrival with 40 acres OF
land each, pair of mules
and such other appurtenances as are
necessary to stock and carry on q farm. Fol
several months past, they said, handbills had
been circulated in the localities mentioned
stating that free transportation woult
be furnished from st. Louis Il
Kansas, and that all they had to do t.
secure the liberal prizes offered them by thu
State of Kansas was to raise enough none,
to pay their passage to st. Louis. This had
exhausted the capital of the larger portion
of the party, and their condition was repre-
sented as most deplorable.
A fatal tornado swept across the southern
portion of Macoupin County, H., on the
night Of the 10th. 1t came from the north
west, and appears TO have covered spac'
about q quarter Of mile wide. Houses
barns, trees and fences were carried away
Seversl persons were killed and q numbe
wounded. Edward Mcdonald, aged 8
years, and his granddaughter, 2 years old
were killed. His two sons and five grand
children were all very seriously injured
Great damage was done to wheat and farm
property.
John s. Peterson, aged %; VIM. Trainor
4s; and Thomas Burrell, "a, were drownet
by the upsetting of q skiff while crossin
Lake Charles, La, on the 18th.
Columbus, Ohio, has an organized ban
of incendiaries. A number Of fires have oc
= Cured. Rags and paper saturated with COS
oil have been found in numerous bnldb2
: The military and extra police are ON dut,
with orders to arrest persons who can M
give q satisfactory account of themselves
and to shoot those found lurking about alley
and refusing to halt when challenged.
The Kansas Legislature sdjourned sin
die at p. m. on the 18th.
The Ohio Republican State Conventio
will be held at Cincinnati on the 2sth
May.
The dead body of q woman, encased in
sack, was found floating in the liver
springwells, near Detroit, Mich, on Il
18th. The limbs of the dead woman wei
tightly bandaged and handkerchief stuft
into her mouth. 1t was clearly case of d,
liberate and atrocious murder by drownin
The Mayor Of st. Louis has issued a pro
lamation intended to check the tide OF in
pecunious colored emigrants from the Sout
He warns them that there is no prospect
their obtaining employment in st. Lou
that the city has no funds to keep them
to pay their passage elsewhere, and advis
all those who have not the money TO pay the
passage to the West to remain where tn
are.
The bark Sleipner, from Rio, is quara
tined at New Orleans, the Captain, seco
officer and boy having died of yellow fey
during the voyage.