New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-04-27

express train, ana the engine, tender
and the two forward cars won't down
into the river. Tho locomotive and
tender, with the engineer and fireman,
went to the bottom. The express messenger,
baggage man, conductor and brakeman hap
pened to be in the passenger car, and escaped
by climbing to tho roof, as it was sinking, and
leaping thence to tho sleeper, which remained
on the bridge. The passenger Car, with its
eleven passengers, doated of until grounded
near an island. Five Of the passengers es-
capped. The three passengers in the sleeper got
out without injury.
Frederick Smith was shot and dan
gerously wounded by John Finnick, near Dale
vile, Ind, in quarrel over the possession of
q field. Smiths wife then knocked Finnick
down with hoe aud chopped his head into
slivers.
The printers on the Cleveland Leader
have been granted an advance in their pay.
An Omaha telegram of April o states
that tho food on the Missouri had severed
railway connections between that city and
every point. Several dwelling-houses foated
past the city that day, and half a mile of rail-
road track was washed away. All important
industries were drowned out At Sioux City
both rail and telegraph communication with
the North and West was cut of. -Four hun
bred houses were either submerged OF sur
rounded by water, and communication with
their occupants was had only by RATS. At
Rockford the Wilson ice-house, containing
about 1000 tons Of ice, sunk into the Rock
river.
South.
A negro burglar at Butler, Ga, on be-
Ing sentenced to ten years in tho State prison,
punched out his eyes.
Miss Jane Schell, of Frostburg, Nd,
has been jailed for strangling her two newly
born children, whose corpses were found In q
meadow.
The exodus of colored people from the
South to Kansas has begun again.
A colored assassin was taken from Jail
at Quincy, Fla, by disguised men, and hanged
to tree.
At Uvalde, Tex. shooting ARRAY oc-
Cured between Gen. John r. Baylor and son
on one side, and Mr.. Gillhurst and two sons on
the other. Baylor escaped unhurt, but his son
was wounded. GillLurst was killed; one son
was fatally wounded, and another we'll filed
with buckshot:
Additional particulars respecting the
killing Of her five children by Mrs. Mutt, near
Camden, Ark, mentioned heretofore, ore, that
the frenzied woman called her eldest child, =
boy IL years old, from = field where he was
plowtng, knocked him on the head, and threw
him into the well, where abe had preNodsly
thrown her four other children. Finding that
one Of the children was not drowned, but was
clinging to the side Of the well, she descended
into the well and tore away its grasp and thrust
1t down into the water, thus completing her
diabolical work.
Thomas De Jarnette, the young man
who murdered his sister at Danville, Va, be-
cause she had entered upon life Of shame,
has been acquitted upon the ground Of In
sanity.
A block Of the principal business
houses in Sheridan, Miss, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, $3.50, 900; insurance $125,000
The fire was the work Of an incendiary.
Fifteen men rode to the house Of Mr..
McLauren, Of Edwards county, Texas, and took
the lives Of McLauren, his wife, and young
man named Lease, living with them. Nothing
in the house was disturbed. The whole affair
Is shrouded in mystery 80 far.
Lucinda Fowlkes, Virginia negress
who killed her husband, enjoys the honor Of
beiog the only woman hanged in tho Southern
States in twenty years. On the platform she
trembled violently.
Sheriff W. F. Beattie, Of Orittenden
county, Ark, was killed and Deputy Sheriff
Maddox was dangerously wounded while At
tempting the arrest Of negro burglar.
A sachel of jewelry valued at 1900
was stolen from the room Of travelling sales
man, in hotel at Baltimore.