Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-01-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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son, aged IA, named Charles goode AZ
three had their brains beaten out with club.
Information of the crime was first ascer-
tanned from colored man named Robert
Garnctt, who came into town and reported
the affair in an excited manner. He was at
once suspected OF being the murderer and
placed under arrest. Garnett formerly
worked on the Scott place, and three months
ago left in anger because the widow would
not rent him the farm.
In Cuilford Township, 10 Daviess
County, H., the other morning, 17-year
old son Of Martin Ehredt, prominent farm
er, took upa rifle, supposed to be unloaded,
and pointing it at his elder Brother, in bed,
ordered him IN joking manner to get up
or he would shoot him. The latter, entering
into the spirit of the joke, told his brother to
fire away. He did, taking deadly aim, and
bullet penetrated his brothers. neck, pass
ing through and lodging in the base of the
brain, causing instant death.
CAPTAIN HENRY Nj. SHREvE, of st.
Louis, in 1920 invented and put IN operation
the steam snag-boat now in use upon the
Mississippi and tributaries. In 1884 he APP
piled TO the Government for compensation
for the use Of said patent, and since that time
the claim has been theoretically pressed,
and nine different Congressional committees
have reported favorably on the claim. Cap
tain Shreye died in 1851. His heirs have just
received the sum of $4,000 awarded upon
the claim by the present Congress.
The young wife of Adolph Buettner,
Of Detroit, Mich, being advised to take an
alcoholic sweat bath, placed a saucer full OF
alcohol on the floor and deliberately stood
over it without taking any precautions rela-
tive to her clothing, which took ire. The
unfortunate woman was terribly burned,
and alive at last accounts, but in critical
condition.
MISS BESSIE WERTs, daughter of
William Werts, living near Prosperity, New
berry County, S. c., was brutally assaulted
and murdered the other evening while going
from her brothers house to her home. Two
negroes were arrested on suspicion, and
lodged in the guard house. They confessed
their guilt, and at night large body of men
took them out to lynch them. One was shot
to death whore the crime was committed
the other made his escape, but was subse-
quently recaptur9d and hanged near Pros
perity by crowd of whites and blacks.
A BIG lumber fire occurred at Mich
igan City, Ind, on the 10Th. The principal
losers are Peck & Son, $4,000, and Wilson,
Martin e Co., $13,O00-the former insured
for $35, 900, the latter for $4,000.
Two more fatal coasting accidents
were reported on the goth. At Woodruff,
n. j., Harrison White was almost instantly
killed by his sled striking stump; and at
! Port Jefferson, Long Island, Frank Tooker,
a college student, and J. Samuel Ackerly, q
printer, were both seriously injured by a
similar accident. 1t was not thought either
could recover.
By the explosion of a boiler at Dews,
bury, York County, England, eleven persons
were killed and sixteen injured.
The young son of farmer named
Longwell, who lives eight miles from Han
nibal, Mo-, shOt'a companion named Harvey
with revolver with which he was playing
causing death almost instantly.
RUssIAvILLE, Harvard County, Ind,
had $25, 900 fire on the night Of the 10Th
supposed to have been of inccndiary origin
THE regular Milwaukee passenger
train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pau
Railroad, on the night Of the 18th, ran into {
delayed accommodation train near Glen Oaks
The most seriously injured of the passen
gers were Mr.. and Mrs. Miller, OF Liberty
vile, Cook County, ILL.,, and Mrs. A. b
Cook, of Chicago, neither of whom wa
likely to recover.
THE Lancashire Eng.) coal miners
to the number of $4,000 are on strike. Dis
turbances are feared, and a regiment Of Hus
sars has been dispatched to the scene of tn
strike, to be ready for any emergency tina
may arise.
A FATAL railway accident occurred
on the morning Of the Dist, on the Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. The eX
press train from Council Bluffs was throw
from the track by broken rail, near POM
Creek, ILL.,, three passenger ears being badl
wrecked and one of them burned, caused
by the overturning Of stove. All the pas
sengers in the forward car were more or les
injured, and one, an old lady, Mrs. King, 0
Wyandotte, o., was so badly burned befor
being eXtricated from the wreck that sh
died within a short time. Eight other pas
sengers were badly injured, but none, it wa
thought, fatally.
LEMUEL FREEMAN, aged %, book
keeper for Sawyer, Goodman & Co., lumbe
dealers, Chicago, accidentally shot himsel
while dressing to make a call upon youn
lady to whom he was engaged to be married
He died few minutes afterward.
FRANK MEYER & Co.'s furniture fac
tory, Clinton and Secor Streets, Chicago
burned on the DIST. A falling wall buried
number of firemen in the ruins. Capital
Edward Murphy, Captain Joseph Donahu,
James Conway, VIM. II. Van Osdel, jaime
Tobin and Tom Howard were all seriOusl,
and probably most of them fatally, injured
) Eight or ten others received minor injuries
ED. BACKUs, a prominent young a
torney of Independence, Iowa, shot himse
, and feb dead upon the grave of his youn
, wife, recently buried. lie was missing fC
several days before his body was discoy
I cred.
r FANNIE NEPHER, aged II, committe
: suicide at Brownsville, Neb. The your
| man to whom she was engaged to be marie
t had proved false to her.
. Z. A. SoTHERN, actor, the famou
pcrsonator of Lord Dundreary, died in Lon
don on the Dist.
WILLIAM VAN BLARCOM, a farmer I
, Geneva, Mich, killed his wife and then con
j mitted suicidc. Intemperance and fami