The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-21
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Assassination I'm Missouri.
A GREEYBACK EDITOR MURDERED IN HIS OWN
HOUSE.

OkEBNBACk EDITOR MURDERED IN HIS OWN
HOUSE.
NEW YORK, September 20 "A special
from Maryville, Mo-, gives the following
particulars OF the shooting OF p. II. Talbot.
editor and proprietor OF the Greenbdck
Standard. OF that city: The Doctor was
last seen in Marysville on Saturday evening
at 6 O'Clock. after which hour he departed
for his home. lie reached his home safely,
and there found neigh Dor farmer waiting
for him to 60 and see sick child. This be
did, returning home at about 0 O'clock
According 10 the statement OF his son Al.
bert, young man aged twenty-four, after
coming home his father went into the
chamber where his mother was lying on the
bed, and after taking his coat and vest OF
sat down on the bed. Albert says that he
was at this time sitting by a window read.
ing, with his arm resting on the window.
At the moment his father had bis hand VI
10 his side, and bullet shot from outside
came whistling into The room, SCATTERING
the pane OF glass and striking his father
| first, cutting of two OF his fingers and then
passing into and entirely through his side,
grazing the leg Of Dr.. Talbot, and lodging
In the wall beyond. Immediately upon be.
ing shot the Doctor sprang TO the floor and
! raise a gun that was standing in the room.
He could not do so. and fell back on the
bed. The son then grasped the gun
and went to the door, where be
heard hurried footsteps passing by
the front OF the house. He opened the
door ana saw a retiring form. at which he
fired, but without effect. This is all the
family appear to know about the matter,
and no clue TO the perpetrator OF the horri.
bic crime is known. DR.. Talbot was q
Greenback speaker and writer OF considera-
bic prominence, and during the past two
months has been editing the Greenback
Standard, which he has owned for a year
past. The deceased leaves wife and q
large family OF children. His death has
cast a gloom over the entire community,
and no effort will be spared to bring the
perpetrators Of the deed to speedy justice
Railroad ACKNOWLEDGING OF Muir.
derers.
CINCINNATI, September 20.-A special
from Nashville. Tenn, to the Times StQT
states that serious accident happened this
morning on the Nashville and Chattanooga
railroad between Tell Springs and Tulla-
bona. The second section OF a south
bound freight train ran into the rear Of the
first section, destroying the engine OF the
second section and the cab0ose and three
cars OF the first section. Thomas Haley, a
brakeman on the first section, was serious
ly injured.
William Taylor. George TAYLOR, and John
Smithey escaped from MurireesbOro' Jail by
saving the bars OF door. They were un-
der Indictment for murder.
a Fraudulent FIeecy Operation.
ST. LOUIS. September 20.-David Trieber,
member OF the firm Of BienstOck, Trleber
Co., commission merchants, has been ar
rested on the charge Of unIawfully di-posing
or 80, 900 pounds of wool for which the Val
ley National Bank holds warehouse receipts.
The wool was valued at $4,000, but the
bank probably does not lose more than
81 900. The case is quite complicated, and
everybody connected with it is very feti-
cent. Trieber was admitted TO bail in 20, 900.
Queiling Illicit Distiliing In Virginia.
WASHINGTON, ID. g., September 20.-Col-
lectOr Riyes, having reported to Commits
sloner Raum that party OF revenue officers
under Deputy Collector Latham bad been
fred upon near Floyd Courthouse, Va, by
parties concealed in the woods, has asked
for carbines 10 use in repeling such assaults,
which has been granted, with authority also
10 employ as many men as shall be deemed
necessary. The distllers are reported law
less and determined.
Drowned While Boating.
CHICAGO, September 20.-A special dis
patch to the Inter- Ocean from Coldwater,
Mich, states that yesterday four young men
went boating on the lake west Of the city,
and the boat upsetting young man named
w. X. Joyce, formerly Of Potsdam, n. Y,
was drowned. The body has rot yet been
recovered.
wreckage Picked Up.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, September 20.-A
part Of the stern OF vessel with the name
"Camden" on it, and quarter-board OF
another vessel with the name "Umea,"
have been picked up on the beach near ST..
Johns bar.