Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AN express train on the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern Railroad ran off the track
at Nottingham, eight miles east of Cleve.
land, on the night Of the 22d, while running
al nigh rate Of speed. Engineer John
Lace and fireman Henderson were killed.
messenger August Schneider was severely
but probably not fatally injured. No pas
sengers were injured, though all the for
ward cars were considerably shaken up. and
the express and baggage cars were badly
wrecked.
THE large three-story brick building
OF the Rochester IN. " Hydraulic Com.
pany fell in ruins on the 21st. The cause
is believed to have been an explosion of the
steam boiler used for heating the building.
Joseph Schell, aged 20, was killed Instantly
on the sidewalk by a falling wall. -Four or
five other men we're iniilred, none FATALLY.
The Chicago & Atoms elegant new
dining-car Occidental took fire about forty
miles from Kansas City, on the night of the
23d, and was entirely destroyed.
A MOST brutal outrage was recently
committed upon lady near Evening Shade,
Ark, the wife Of Mr.. l.. Royal, County
Treasurer of Sharp County. Three young
men who'have hitherto borne good reputa-
tion are under arrest charged with the terri
BILE crime.
GREAT excitement prevails in Madrid
on account Of mysterious bomb explosions
occurring in the public streets. A bomb,
with fuse attached, has been found in front
of the Duke Ossuna's palace. The police are
investigating.
CHARLES L. IBACH, of Indianapolis,
expired after suffering torture from trch-
inosis for eleven weeks.
COLONEL F. G. ROCKWELL, class
mate Of President Garfield at Williams Col
lege, has been detailed Superintendent of
Public Buildings and Grounds at Washing
ton.
PAT. EBERT, who came to Rolla,
Mo-, about month ago, with the ostensibe
purpose Of opening saloon, was detected in
trying to burglarize the Rolla National Bank
Oh the morning of the 23d, and, refusing to
surrender to superior numbers, was shot
dead. For three nights Pat had
worked unmolested in tunneing
an entrance to the vault from a
vacant building adjoining the bank, and on
the fourth night, just as he seemed about to
reach the coveted prize, he was pounced
upon by the City Marshal and bank officers,
who had been secreted in the bank. 1t is
not known that he had any confederates.
A NEW steamboat line from Dubuque
to st. Louis is being organized, to run in
connection with the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul Railroad.
FOUR unmasked men stopped the
Corpus Christi stage, seventy miles south Of
San Antonio, Texas, the 22d, and robbed six
passengers and the mail About $400 and
three watches were secured from the passen-
gers The robbers were all young men.
Mr.. T. M. SINCLAIR, head of the
great pork-packing house of T. NJ. Sinclair
Il Co., died on the Oath from injuries re-
ceived on the previous day by falling through
the hatchway Of his packing house at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. Mr.. Sinclair controlled the
largest pork packing business in the world,
the firm having branch houses in several
American cities as well as in Europe.
VIM. l.. EWING is the Republican can
didate for Mayor of st. Louis.
AT Sioux City, Iowa, on the oath,
Gustav Friederich, German saloon keep
er, 46 years Of age, shot and instantly killed
a girl named Helen Eberhardt, aged IA.
Friedrich then shot himself through the
heart. The girl's parents lived in
a house adjoining Friederich's sa-
loon, and he had become very fond OF
her, frequently calling her his daughter.
He left letter by which it appears he fully
contemplated suicide, but as no reference is
made there to the girl, it is conjectured that
the killing Of her was sudden impulse with
him.
PLANO, Ill, had a $4,000 fire on the
night of the 23d.
INDICTMENTS have been found against
Nicolai Roussakoff, Andrai Telejkoff, Timo-
fei Miehaeloff, and a woman named Hesse
Hoffman, for completely in the assassination
of the Gear. Another arrest has been made
of female Nihilist named Sophie Pieoffsky
the daughter of a Councillor of the Ministry
of Domains. She is reported to have con-
fessed giving the signal to Hartman for ex-
ploding the mine under the imperial train
near Moscow, and also the signal to Roussa.
koff to throw the bomb which shattered the
Cars carriage. The Government has as.
signed to the defense of the prisoners able
counsel.
The Mexican Chief Engineer has sur
veyed the Tehuantepec route and report.
Capt Eads's project entirely practicable.
CONDUCTOR j. II. CURRY, of the At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, wa
shot and instantly killed by Joseph 4
Bright, a saloon keeper, at Las Vegas. Tn,
general impression is the shooting was un
called for, and threats of lynching were free
ly INDUCED in.
AT Cambridge, Mass, Mrs, John H
Healy was sitting in room with three chill
dren, when her dress took fire from bit o
burning paper in the hands Of a little boy
and ere the flames could be extinguished tn
poor woman burned to death in the presenc
of the little ones, who were powerless +
render any assistance. The scene when tn
husband and father returned to his HON
was heartrending in the extreme.
SEVEN masked men entered the hous
of John Connor, aged 81, who lives alon
with his wife at Catfish, Clarion County
, Pa, bound and gagged both, compelled tn
old gentleman to give the combination q
the safe, and stole $1,000 Government cou
pom bonds, unregistered, and from S., 900 t
$4,000 cash. The old people were roughl
handled, and may nos survive the shock q
the outrage.
Col. Z. a, L. ROBERTS, the inventor q