Daily Republican., 1881-06-13
GENERAL NEWS ADRIFT.
SUMMARY OF SATURDAYS AND
SUNDAYS TAKINGS PLACE,
Murders, Suicides, Horrible Ac-
cidents and a Blood CurdIins
Record In General.

The recent tornado in Kansas ex.
tended into Southwestern Missouri, and
did great damage to property The
latest reports show that the village OF
AmericuS, in Kansas, was almost dc
strOyed. Two churches and several
dwellings were demolished, and every
other building was damaged. Part of
the village of Seven Springs, in Mis-
souri,, was swept away by sudden
flood, but no lives were lost.
Reuben +. Brown. farmer, was kill
ed by lightning while driving across a
bridge near Peoria, Illinois, on Satur-
day night. A carriage, containing the
family of w. b. HutchSon, was struck
by lightning near Henrietta, Texas, on
Thursday evening, and Miss Lizzie
Hutchinson and Z. young lady named
Cox We're killed. Mrs Hutchinson was
injured it was thought fatally.
Pleasan: Gray, thirteen years of age,
shot and killed IA cclOred boy Of about
the same age, near Arkadelphta, Ark
&nsaS, on Saturday. Mrs. Alexander
WeStbrook, wife of a well-known guide
and hunter, Of Montague, New Jersey,
nearly opposite Milford, Penna., has
been arrested for the murder Of hcl
three weeks old infant, whose body
was found in a wood pile.
| A horrible plot to kill workmcn was
discovered in the Chicago Stove Works
on Friday night. just as two mould
erS, named Flcure and Sessions, Were
about to pour molten iron into one OF
the mOulds, one of them saw that it had
been tampered with, and an eXamina-
ton showed that two pounds Of gun
powder We're hidden in the mould.
AT the close of the 10Th day Of Girls
CONS fast, yesterday noon, he weighed
la, pounds, loss Of of pound in
twenty.tour hours, during which he
drank - ounces Of water. His pulse last
night was -, respiration 20, tempcra-
tnre 90 1-5. He has now tasted one
third OF the time he set for himself, with
Il loss since lie began Of 25 pounds.
While tearing down the Old court
house at Lafayette, Indiana, on Satur-
day morning, the roof fell in, injuriu.
four men, three of them fatally. Peter
Miller, II miner in Summit Branch Col
!iery, at WilliamStown, in Dauphin
county, was found dead on Saturday
morning under heavy fall OF slate
A heavy thunder storm, with torrents
of rain, prevailed on Saturday evening
from st. Paul to Omaha, and south
ward through Iowa. Telegraph wires
were lcvelled and considerable damage
done to other property. At DeS Moines
and COlfaX, Iowa, several houses were
demolished and persons injured.
w. H. Beardsley, merchant, of Tin
cup and Ashen, Colorado, was arrested
in Denver, on Thursday, ON the charge
OF swindling j. V. Farwel Il Co., Of
Chicago, in a business transaction, and
WAS taken to Chicago ON Saturday morn
ing. The amount involved is said to he
more than 100000.
Andrew ID. Robinson, nephew otCon-
gresham l;obeSon, of New Jersey, was
killed by lightning while unsaddling
his horse, on his farm, at Hunnewell
| Kansas, yesterday afternoon, The horse
was also killed, Mr.. kuhesou leaves a
young wife.
Daniel Moran and Henry LonSberget,
injured by the boiler explosion at Potts
vile, on Friday, died on Saturday
morning. Louis Blankenhorn another
of the injured, was not expected to live
through the day.
Japhet Fennimore, aged Sc years,
committed suicide at Retreat, near
Mount Holly, New Jersey, few days
ago. 1t was his third attempt at suicide
that day, he having twice attempted to
drown himself.
The body of John H. Webster, Notary
Public and Searcher of Records AT Stock
ton, California, was found in the river
at that place on Saturday. He had been
drinking to excess, and may have COM
mitted suicide
The grain stOrehouses and elevator in
the Atlantic Dock, in Brooklyn, New
York, were burned yesterday afternoon,
with their contents. The total loss is
estimated at nearly $50, 600.
John Taylor, colored, accused of an
assault upon q white lady, was taken
from the jail at Greensboro, North
Carolina. early yesterday morning, and
lynched by disguised mob.
A man named Reimheimer, who had
committed u highway robbery and Sc
verely wounded his victim, was taken
from the Jail at Rockport, Missouri, on
Saturday morning, and lynched.
A suit by j. 5. Brown, at Fort
Worth, Texas, to recover $4,000 from
the Western Union Telegraph Compa-
nv, for non-d delivery of message, has
resulted in verdict for $4,000.
John Kline and his brother-n- law,
the latter a boy twelve years, were
,utfocated by foul air in au abandoned
mine near Caldwell, Iowa, on Satur-
lay.
The boiler of Bakers wrecking
steamer exploded yesterday morning
1t Cape Henry, killing the fireman and
severely scaldinG two other men.
The Secretary of the Interior says
there is no truth in the report that As
,istant Secretary Bell and Chief Clerk
Lockwood are to be snsperceded.
William Buchlcr, a prominent citizen
If Harrisburg, was found dead in his
bed yesterday morning, Heart disease
is supposed to haye been the cause.
Eighteen candidates for the priest
hood were ordained at the Cathedral in
Baltimore, on Saturday, by Archbishop
Gibbons.
Hannah Beneway died yesterday
IN Poughkeepsie from burns received
by the explosion of a kerosene lamp.