Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-09-10
MEANWHILE, TENNESSEE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 49, 1881.

a terrible accident in Fayette County, west
Of Patoka, caused by the explosion OF a
steam boiler attached to a separator. Six
men and one woman were killed,
WILLIAM +. MARTIN, a condemned
murderer, who escaped from the Lebanon
(MoD Jail In November last, through the
connivance OF the Sheriff's niece, who accom-
panied him in his flight, has been recap
tured in Sullivan County, Tenn, and taken
back to his former quarters. His compan-
ion, whom he claims to have subsequently
married, has stuck to him to the last and re-
turns with him to her old home.
AT West Gloucester, Mass, James F.
Jeffs was shot and probably instantly killed
by his wife, who had armed herself with
revolver, as she claims, to protect herself
from her husband, who attempted to cut
her throat with knife. The woman is UNI
der arrest.
GEORGE w. KNowLTON, with several
aliases, noted gambler and confidence OPP
orator, has been arrested at Chicago on a
charge of numbering one David Rauck at
Fort Pierre, in Dakota, in 1878. Knowlton
was confined in the Atchison Jail, from
which he escaped about year ago.
HENRY LAWSON, colored, was hanged
at Chattanooga, Tenn, on the I'd. His Of.
Tense was an outrageous assault upon
white woman.
Hon. HENDRICK B. WRIGHT, for sew
eral terms Democratic Representative in
Congress from the Twelfth Pennsylvania
District, died at his residence in Wilkes
barre on the I'd, aged 70.
FRANK JONES and Henry McKibbins
met with a terrible death while cleaning a
well on the farm of Widow McKibbins,
near Zaliski o. McKibbins went down into
the well and was overcome by damps. Jones
had the courage to go down and to save his
friend, but he had scarcely reached the bot
tom before he, too, was stricken down.
THE Georgia Legislature has defeated
the bill approrriating S3OO0,OOO for the ercc-
tion of Il new Capitol.
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires are raging
! in various parts of Ontario, and many farm
buildings, crops, etc, have been swept
away. The prolonged drought has rendered
every inlammable thing as dry as finder,
and there is no water with which to fight the
fire. Several people have persisted in the
flames.
A PARTY engaged in raiding for arms
in Cork, Ireland, encountered a police pa
troll, and in the conflict ensuing a farmers
son named IIckie was shot dead and three
! other raiders and policemen wounded.
THE residence of Mr.. Edward Cherry
at Charleston, S. c., was burglarized the
other day by pegroes, who commenced an
| infamous outrage ON Miss Cherry. Her
brother Drained one of the brutes with an
| AK,
AT Chicago, on the I'd, John C. Neal
suddenly jumped out of bed with wild yell
and shot David Fagin, room mate, in the
! head. Rushing down stairs he fired shot
into VIM. Springcord. lie then jumped out
OF window and ran down Clark Street,
shooting negro who attempted to stop him.
After swapping his revolver at several other
persons the lunatic was captured by pc.
liccman and subdued by clubbing.
A PARTY OF men went to the house of
w. A. Hardy, says a dispatch from Lake
City, Fla, TO release Miss Keen, held
for child murder. Hardy fired on the crowd.
They returned the fire, shooting Hardy
through the breast, his child through the
skull, and wounding a colored man. The
Sheriff called out the light infantry to guard
the prisoner. The suspected parties were
arrested. =
THE Downing, Love and Still fam
lilies, in the Cherokee Nation, assembled at a
wedding recently, at which an old feud was
revived, and the head of each family took
part with knives and revolvers. Three were
slaughtered and several others injured.