Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-12-10
killed three white men and fatally injured a

Killed three White men ana fatally injured
cOlored man.
A DISPATCH from Gainesville, Texas,
says Col. Payne, with large number Of col
onsts, has crossed the Red River at tho
mouth Of the Little Wichita, thereby getting
into the Indian Territory without trespass-
ing upon the reservations. He made an
address at Gainesville and was joined by
many persons there in his Oklahoma move
ment. He says he has gone to stay this
time.
WHILE several boys were skating on
pond at Leominster, Mass, one named
Walker, aged twelve, broke through the ice.
His father, Arthur Walker, went to his sons
assistance and both were drowned.
The st. Louis & San Francisco Rail-
road has completed its extension of the Ar
kansas division to Benwood, Washington
County, Ark, eighteen miles distant from
Fayetteville. This new extension passes
through the towns OF Greenland and West
fork.
THE junction. of the Texas Pacific and
the Southern Pacific was consummated on
the list, at Cerro Blanco, 80 miles east OF FL
Paso and 6lO miles west Of Dallas. 1t was
announced that through trains to the Pacific
would be running by January l.
DIR. L. G. NARwooD was burned in
I his residence at Whteside, Pa. Mrs. Nc.
Carly and Mrs. Reed met like fate at
Scranton, Pa.
THE farm house of j. j. Farrow, three
miles southwest OF Winterset, Iowa, was
burned the other night. Three daughters,
aged from nine to seventeen years, were
asleep in room over the kitchen where the
fire started, and retreat being cut off by the
flames in the stairway, they were burned
The parents, who slept in the lower part Of
the house, escaped.
In New York City the other day,
three year-old child named Willie Blake
poured kerosene oil over an infant brother
in cradle, then set fire to the fluid. Tit
little one was burned to death.
SMALLPOX is increasing in Minneso
ia to an alarming extent. The wors
scourged localities are Granite Falls and vi
cinity, Sank Center and Melrose. Who'll
families have been swept away by the terri
BILE scourge.
BRADSTREET estimates the decreas
in the cotton crop this year, as compare,
with last at 100000 bales.
DANFoRD, owner of the suspended
Kansas banks, was taken by mob of angr
depositors from the officers at Wellingto
and forced to return to Caldwell. He wa
threatened with lynching unless he dis
gorgcd, it being generally believed that b
had available funds and that the whole thin
, was downright swindle.
! IT is understood that several bills wi
5 be introduced during the present session {
Congress looking to an enlargement Of tn
Q scope OF the Department of Agriculture
; One Of the proposed bills will provide Thu
a the Department shall be one of AgricultuI
. and Statistics, and will make provision fC
n the appointment Of Commissioner of Gee
logical Surveys, Bureau OF Education an
Labor, Bureau OF Manufactures, and
Bureau OF Railroad transportation.
REV. THOMAS BASKERVILLE, Cor
q gregational minister OF Bloomfield, low
+. has fled with his servant girl, Lizzie Co
lier, leaving a wife and two infant childre
A in destitute condition. He emigrated fro
=, Lancashire less than three years ago. II
- former Pensioners are DESTROYS of havir
his ihfamy published to the world.
Il THE barns of the Maxwell brother
near Geneva, N. Y, were destroyed by fir
g Fifty Hostein cattle, fifty hogs and fl
horses persisted in the flames. The loss
~ estimated at $4,000. The fire, it is believe
:. was the work of an ncendiary.
% The Poughkeepsie Glass WorI
!. burned on the 1st. Loss, $25O,OOO. Ince
dinrism