Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-10-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
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AN obnoxious saloon at Palestine,
Hancock County, Ind, was blown up either
with gunpowder or dynamite. A number of
citizens were badly shaken up, but no seri-
Gus injuries resulted.
The business portion of Humboldt,
Tenn, has been destroyed by fire. Loss
about $4,000, on which the insurance will
not exceed $4,000.
GLADSTONE was burned in etligy by
admirers of Parnel in Philadelphia. A
large crowd collected.
THE Coroner's Jury, at Philadelphia,
holding an inquest upon the bodies OF the
nine persons who lost their lives by the
burning OF the Randolph Mills, charge the
disaster to the owners of the mills, in not
providing proper safe -guards against fires
nor means Of escape. The city authorities
are censured for not enforcing the laws.
A BOILER explosion occurred near
Ripley, Miss, by which DR.. Charles Rucker
and Mr.. Jesse Stubs were instantly killed,
and Mr.. A. B.. Simpson so badly injured
that he died the same day. Others were
severely injured.
A DARING robbery was committed at
Fieldon, Jersey County, ILL.,, on the 10Th.
About O'Clock p. m. two men entered the
banking house Of w. 2. Parks g. Son, and
with revOlvers drawn threw. down and Sc
cured the elder Parks, while the younger
one was compelled to open the safe and de.
liver over the contents, consisting of
81, 200 in gold and $500 in currency.
The robbers then mounted their horses at
the door and rode off, receiving as they went
volley from the old gentleman's revolver
which killed one of their horses and COM
PEELED them to pursue their journey on sim
gle animal. They went toward the. Macoupin
bottom, pursued at no great distance by a
posse of citizens. 1t is said the robbers were
identified by DR.. Parks as two young men
named Charles H. Clay and James Bunnis,
who had for some weeks previous been
hanging around the vicinity.
AT Bunker Hill, Smith County, Miss,
in an alteration, Dan Hawthorne shot and
killed II. o. Eaton, and was himself shot
and instantly killed by Dick Yawn, friend
Of the murdered man.
THE mail coach from Gainesville to
Henrietta, Texas, was again overhaued by
robbers the other night and the mail bags
Quilted.
A BROKEN rail on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railroad, near Pewaun-
kee, west of Milwaukee, caused passenger
coach to roll down twenty foot enfbank-
ment and into three feet OF water. Fifteen
persons were injured, three seriously.
REV. ABIJAH GREEN, venerable
Presbyterian clergyman, living at Highland
Falls, n. Y, who was i'm New York City at
tending the session of the Presbyterian Syn
cd, was suffocated in his room at hotel by
blowing out the gas instead Of turning it off.
ENoCH MEGRUE, for over twenty
years Chief of the Cincinnati Fire Depart
ment, died from injuries received while on
duty.
AT Prescott, Arizona, on the Goth,
Deputy Sheriff Briant was killed by des-
perado named Miller. The murderer es-
capped. ~
HERBERT THEIRS, a prominent bust
ness man and well-known citizen of Keno.
sha, Wis, has committed forgeries TO the
amount of $780, 900 and over and absconded.
HIGH water in the Upper Mississippi
has again caused great destruction Of prop
erty.
FIVE men were killed and two others
injured by collision at Mckinney Station
on the Cincinnati Southern Railway, said to
have been caused by drunken engineer.
THE stage between Alma and Fay
etteville, Ark, while descending the Frog
Mountains, came to grief, the team running
away through the carelessness Of drunken
driver, who paid for it with his life. j.
Brown, passenger, was dashed to death
and several others were severely injured.
CAPT. ADAMS, of the whaler Arctic,
says he visited the scene OF the loss of the
Erebus and Terror, Of the Franklin expedi
ton. lie found the house and store Of pro-
visions near the Franklin monument in a
wretched condition. In Fury and Heclt
Straits EsquimauX gave him some particu.
lars which appear to clear up the fate OF the
lost survivors of the Franklin expedition
After the loss of the ships seventeen mel
started overland, hoping to reach Hudson
Bay, but only three of the survivors Jour
neyed to the house of the narrator's father
One Of these Is supposed to be Lieut.. Gro
zier, who died first, and the deaths of The
others speedily followed.
JABEz SMITH, mail agent on tn
Chicago, Milwaukee e. st. Paul Road, wa
drowned at Sabula, Iowa, in attempting t
cross from the Illinois shore. The boa
struck the bridge and was capsized. .s-s
NEAR Jackson, Almador County, Cal.
the dwelling OF Nicholas Jelletich, an old an
respected Austrian, was destroyed by fire
Jelletich, his wife and two children wer
burned to death.
: ID. L. LOVE, a reporter for the Vicks
burg press, was shot and instantly killed Q
Greenvile, Miss, on the 21st, by MI
Ianier, who had recently married youn
lady to whom Love claimed 10 have bee
engaged. The provocation in the case wa
an alleged publication by Love re1ectin
upon the brides character. Lanier VIZ
placed under arrest. His father-in-law aC
= Companied him to Grecnyille and witnesse
; the shooting, but took no part in the affair
THE aeronauts, King and Hashager
who made balloon ascension from Chicf
go, landed Go miles above Chippewa Falls
4: Wis, and were five days getting out of Il
: wilderness.
e In consequence of strike of stril
= pers in the LoriIlard tobacco factory, Ne
e York City, the proprietors announce the
: intention of removing that branch Of the
y business to St. Louis. They employ G.
Q strippers. 49, ~.