Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-07-23
during the war, died at Penn Yam, N. Y.

on inc loln, hseu O4.
Mrs. REvAN and her daughter, aged
II, were killed by lightning stroke in Spar
tanburg, S. G. Mr.. Reyan, who was in an
other part Of the town during the storm, was
al5o struck by the same flash which proved
so fatal TO his wife and daughter, and was
injured very seriously.
AT Rockport, Me-, Willie Cain, aged
10, was drowned by Ralph Richards and Ed
ward Il. Gross, aged "A and 10 years, 10
whom he refused to give up % cents.
WILLIAM DoDsON, Pleasant Adams,
Richard Bates and Joe Fenton, colored, con-
yicted of burning the Academy of Music at
Greenville, S. c., December 7, 1879, have
been sentenced to be hanged.
Mrs. SADIE STEWART, wife of Theo-
dore Stewart, of Silver Creek, N. Y, COM
mitted suicide by plungng into Niagara
Fails. She had domestic troubles.
A BERLIN dispatch says the official
estimates of the probable yield of the Ger
man harvest are not sanguine. Scarcely a
medium yield is anticipated.
Mrs. MARY KRAY and daughter, Mrs.
Alice Monahan and Hattie Doane, aged 12,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, were fatally burned by
the explosion of can containing kerosene.
They were using it in lighting the fire.
A DARING MONDAY robbery was COM
mitted in New York City on the 10Th. AS q
man and boy from Reppert's brewery, Nine
ty-second Street and Third Avenue, were
going down town in a light wagon to make a
deposit in the Nassau Bank, vender's
wagon containing three men was run into
the brewery wagon, apparently by accident,
at Forth-seventh Street. Immediately one
of the three men seized the brewers horse,
another pounced upon the clerk, while the
third seized the money package, containing
$1,000 in bills, and bag of silver, the latter
OF which, however, was dropped as being toe
heavy. They all brandished reyolvers dur.
ing the foray, which was over and the rob-
bers far away before the alarm could be
given.
Mrs. DAMARE was fatally burned al
Great Falls, N. H., while kindling the fire
with kerosene.
BoNESETTER, a well-known trottine
stallion, dropped dead on the track during 6
race at Pittsburgh, Pa. He was owned by
NJ. " Bemis, of Chicago, and valued at $15,'
600.
The Mexican Central Railroad il
opened to Tua, about fifty miles from thu
Capital.
FRANK Brown and Jesse Meyers, the
last of the so-called "New Madrid outlaws p
were executed at New Madrid, Mo-, on tht
10Th.
The Hardin House, at Mexico, Mo.
burned on the night of the 14th. The fire il
supposed to have been the WORK % al, iaean
diary.
THE Italian Minister at Paris has pre-
sented his letters of recall. 1t is understood
that, owing to the ill-feeling existing be
tween Italy and France, his successor vii
not DO nominated Tor somo time.
THERE are now 200 persons imprison
ed In Ireland under the Coercion act, in
Guiding one member Of Parliament, on
priest, one Magistrate, several Town Coun
ciilors, and many POor-law Guardians.
TIE prosecution of offenSes unde
the anti Socialist laws continue in Saxon
with much vigor. All of Herr Bebel's agent
have been imprisoned and seventy Social
lists were banished from Leipsig in singl
day.
A LARGE portion of Bradford, Pa.
burned on the 10Th.
ISAAC GREEN and John Hardin, col
ored, were executed at Mariana, Ark, o.
the 18th. The execution of Willis Reeves
for the murder Of Joe Drake in Februar
last, took place at Van Buren, Ark, on tn
same day.