Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-06-04
JAMES WEsrAuRER,s vouny dauohtor

l. youhS uduSHIcT, I,
aged 10, living at Markesan, Wis, poisoned
herself with strychnine, because her father
had forbidden the house to her lover, Daniel
). Murray, aged IS. 4 The latter, learning of
the girls death, committed suicide in a sim
liar manner.
/ REFERRING TO the Malone movement
In Virginia, Washington dispatch says the
President and Secretary Blaine have both.
taken very positive grounds against any sort
OF coalition which would In the least I'M
pair the Republican organization of that
STATE. They want that organization kept
intact, and the straight-out Republicans as
sure them that any fusion with the Read
lusters will split the Republican party in,
twain. N NJ
A TELEGRAM from St. John, N. b..
says Ell Martin, Napoleon Martin and James
bouchard, breaking jam of logs on Fish
River, We're carried over the falls and
drowned. ~
MORMON missionaries who have been
trying to make proselytes in Germany are TO
be expelled. ~ W.
PI I~osSory 10
the agreement with Austria. NAS
HENRY GRAFT, q German, went into
Chicago saloon and drank pint Of whisky
lie then closed wager with the barkeeper
that he could drink quart Of whisky before
leaving the bar He accomplished this feat
in few minutes, but upon turning round
to walk out, fell dead.
The Executive orders recommended
by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
have been signed by the President, trans
ferring the Indian Territory from the Fifth
Collection District of Missouri to that OF
Kansas, and remodeling the three collection
districts OF Texas so AS to conform to the
judicial districts.
THE new Jail at Tyler, Texas, was
suddenly vacated by all the prisoners the
other night, they having in some manner OBJ
tanned keys to the doors. At last accounts
none OF them had been recaptured.
The F'ra,,kturter Zettttng has again
been prosecuted for disrespect to Bismarck,
and its editor sentenced to one months i'm
prisonment. s--tt e@ -ts
ADENvER & Rio Grande freight train,
suddenly rounding a curve near Granite,
Colo, crashed into the caboose of con-
struction train, containing twenty men, kill
ing one and injuring ten others.
JAY GOULD has organized man.
moth express company, to compete with the
Adams and American Express Companies.
A consolidation has been effected, it is said,
/
between the United States Express Company
running from New York to the West and the
Union Pacific Company, which monopolizes
all the business on the several lines of the
Union Pacific Railroad.
CRUZ DOMINIC was hanged at Ba.
kersfeld, CAL, May 81, for the murder of
Francisco Cuneo. He died protesting his
innocence. John B. Douglass was hanged
atyirginia City on the same day, for the
murder of Mrs. Alice carp.
IT is reported that Prof. Riley will be
reinstated by DR.. Loring in his old place as
Entomologist of the Agricultural Depart
ment.
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Volney V. Smith, OF Arkansas, United States
Consul at st. Thomas.
JUDGE CRozIER, of the District Court
Of Leavenworth, Kansas, has rendered a de-
cision in the case of druggist charged
with violation of the Prohibito-
ry law, to the effect that
the law is unconstitutional, inasmuch
as it undertook to prohibit the
sale Of articles which under the
amendment it could only regulate,
and that the act was further in contravention
of the Constitution because it undertook to
confer judiciary powers upon the Probate
| Court.