Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-06-18

lie priest, and his brother were smothered
to death at Corcoran, Hehnepin County,
MlnD., on the Sh. The gentlemen were
stopping with friends and slept in a close
room with an impcrfectly burning lamp.
The Solomon Valley, Kansas, was
swept by destructive cyclone on the eve-
ming Of The 9th. Its first effects were noticed
In Beloit and vicinity, where some slight
damage is reported. Passing southeast
along the valley 1t reached the vicinity OF
Solomon City, where 1t wreaked its greatest
fury. Four miles northwest of the town
Dennis Morgan and sister were instantly
killed and their house totally destroyed.
AT Bennington, twelve miles northwest,
farmer named FathiRgham, his wife, and
hired hand were killed, and the house com.
pletely demolished. In the same vicinity
three stone farm-houses were blown down,
but the inmates were in the cellars and es-
capped fatal injury. A large mum.
Der OF houses and barns along
the valley between Solomon City
and Minneapolis, distance Of 20
miles or more, were blown down. The hail
stones. came down very thick; some of
them were larger than walnuts, and con-
tanned in the center small pebbles. The cy-
clone was funnel-shaped, small end down.
ward, and at times as 1t moved in its onward
course the heavy top would careen over to-
ward the east and large Jets shoot out in va
rious directions. The cyclone display lasted
about twenty minutes and the duration of
the storm was abost one hour. The damage
to houses and crops is heavy.
AT Espanola, N. NJ, two desperadoes,
Knowles and Connors, were summarily dealt
with by the viglantes, the former being shot
and the latter hanged.
ANTHONY w. GARDNER has been
elected President OF Liberia, and Rev. w.
f. Russell, Vice-P President. They are
pledged to the education OF the masses and
numerous other needed reforms.
A PHILADELPHIA patent-lawyer, Mr..
Connolly, Is said TO have received $250,0OO
from the Bell Telephone Company for SIM
pie device, of his invention, by which a cen-
tral telephone Office can be done away with.
JOE FLINT, notorious Chicago thief,
received fatal injuries while trying TO escape
from two detectives at Kansas City, Mo. He
was run over by train which he attempted
to board, both legs being severed.
HAYES WHITE, colored, the murderer
Of Sheriff Beattie, Of Crttenden County,
Ark, was hanged at Marion on the 10th.
A NUMBER of workmen were badly
scalded by the explosion of boiler near
Pottsylle, Pa, the other day, three Of
whom can not recover.
GEORGE G. GATLING, of San Fran
cisco, CAL, suspecting his wife Of infdelily,
decoyed her into a beer garden and stabbed
her to the heart.
A HANDSOME female burglar, aged 1S
years, and named Frances Merch, has been
captured by the Cincinnati police and locked
up.
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and several others were stunned by the
shock.
A DISPATCH from Halifax, N. s., says
the Norwegian barque Mette Margoethe was
wrecked off st. Paul's Island. The captain,
first officer, carpenter, two seamen and boy
were drowned.
lT is said the Missouri Pacific Railroad
will build an extension from Atchison TO
Omaha. The route will be through Atchi-
son and Brown Counties, Kans., to Falls
City, Neb., and thence to Omaha.
j. MARTIN, merchant of Belknap,
Tex, was called to the door Of his residence
by three men, seized and carried short dis
tance from the house and shot dead. After
killing Martin they went to his store and
ransacked it.