The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-04-07
GRIMES AND CASUALTIEs.
Nh 70 In .yaii.

Safe In Hall.
Especial telegram TO The Dispaich.I
PETERSBURG. Va, April 6.-James Black
was safely lodged in Jail by his guard with
out any interference.
The veuire for the April term OF the
Hastings Court embraces several coored
men.
Outrage Upon COiored Cadet at
West Point.
PoUougEEpsfH, N. Y, April 0.-At @
O'Clock this morning Johnson G. Whitaker
(coIored), cadet OF West Point. class OF
1876, was found. bound hand and foot, In
his room at the barracks. In q baIf-uBcon.
scious condition, with piece OF one ear
cut of, the other slit, aud his head bruised.
He stated that three masked men attacked
him while he was In bed, some time after
midnight, and committed the outrage. Gen.
eral Schofield and Commandant Lucille are
investigating the affair. 1t is believed that
the outrage was committed by cadets.
Express-Train Wrecked.
MERIDEN. Conn, April 6.-The night-ex-
press train that left Boston at 10 O'Clock last
night for New York via Springfield was
partially wrecked by the caving in Of an en-
bankment three miles north OF this city at 2
O'Clock this morning. The train was com.
posed Of two express, two baggage,
two passenger, and three sleeping.cars.
The locomotive remained on the track,
but the balance OF the train left the
rails. The first express-car fell on one
side OF the track; the second one tum-
bled twelve feet down the bank; the
mail-car followed he baggage-car and rear
ed on the end OF the mal.car. which saved
il from going down. The balance OF the
cars We're crushed against each other, but
not much damaged. Strange tn say, no per.
son was Injured. The mal-car had stove
i'm it, which set il on fire, but the flames
were extinguished without doing much
damage. The accident was caused by the
Hartford Ice Company drawing water of
their ice pond, which adioins the track.
This caused the emDankment TO give way,
when the train dashed upon 1t at a speed OF
thirty miles an hour.
FrightfuI Accident.
NEW YORK, April Cdr. &. VI. ii. Sayreh
son OF the wellknown surgeon DR.. Lewis
A. Sayre. was terribly II not fatally in
jured last night by falling down the area OF
the Gilsey House, distance OF about
twenty-five feet. His left thigh was broken,
the bones pro;rudng through his clothing.
lie was carried TO his home, in Fifth ave.
nue., where most difficult and delicate sur
gical operation was performed by his Ia
Their, assisted by several other surgeons.
He lies in a critical condition.
Killed by n Policeman.
SANTA FE, N. NJ, April Blast night
William Robinson, while intoxicated, shot
Policeman Sunday twice, without provoca-
ton, blowing off two Of his fingers. Sum
day returned the fire, killing Robinson in
stanty.
Serious Result Of Family Qunrrel
in New York.
NEW YORK, April DR.. Theophlus
steel, prominent physician, was shot in
the nose lat night by wellknOwn cleo
trician, w. E. Sawyer, caused by quarrel
between the wives OF the two men, in which
the husbands became evolved.
AbscOndcd with $4,000 CT Government
Money.
GALVESTON, April "a special dispatch
from Macon says Postmaster Faddermqn, Of
Bolton, has absconded with $4,000 OF Gov
ment money.
Fatally Injured with n Biiliard.Cue.
GAINESVILLE, April 6.-In difficulty
Saturday night John Seigni struck Captain
Rely with a biliard-cuc. inflictng probably
Il mortal wound.
Negro Killed I'm Quarrel.
MARSHALL. TEXAS, ApIil 6.-George Cox
(col)red) killed JEFF. Jefferson (colored)
during a row about woman yesterday.
Chastain Cox's Death Sentence AT
6rmed.
ALBANY, n. Y, April 6.-The Court OF
Appeals to-day affirmed the judgment Of
the court below in the case of Cbastain
Cox, sentenced to death for the murder OF
Mrs. DR.. Hull in New York city last year.