Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-02-19
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The five-story building of the West |
ern Electric Manufacturing Company, on
New Church Street, Now York, burned on
the 9th. Over 240 employees were at work
in the building at the time the fire broke
out, and the flames spread 50 rapidly that it
was necessary to rescue. a number of the
women by means of ladders.
THE town of Pass Manchac, La, on
Lake Ponchartrain, was demolished by
tornado on the 9th. Every building in the
place was swept away, but no lives were
lost.
IsoM CARTER and his daughter, Of the
ChOctaw Nation, were drowned while at
tempting 10 cross the river at Fort Smith,
Arkansas.
THE steamship Josephine, from Hava-
ma toNew Orleans, was wrecked on the 9th
near Ship Island. The passengers and crew
took TO the boats and were picked up after
seven hours. They lost all their baggage.
THE Gum Block, at Denison, Texas,
occupied by the Daily Herald and the
wholesale grocery house of Marx Kuehn &
Co., was burned Oh the morning of the 9th,
with its entire contents. Losses nearly COW
cred by insurance.
JAMES HICKEY, noted thief and
desperate, was killed at Colliersville, Tenn,
while resisting arrest, having first fired at
the Marshal and a second time at young
man who came to the officers assistance.
Hickey was stranger in Colliersyille, but
was well known to the police OF Memphis
St. Louis, Chicago and other cities, having
figured prominently in a number Of extern
sive robberies.
Miss ELLA +, GILBERT, most esti-
mabe young lady of Norwak, o., who oc-
cupied the position of Deputy County Re-
corder, was run over and killed the other
morning while crossing the railroad track,
on her way to the Courthouse.
The ice blockade of the Mississippi
at st. Louis wns broken on the 9th and navi-
CATION resumed, after close of seventy -one
days. Steamboatmen apprehended no little
damage from the great fields Of ice coming
down the Missouri, but fortunately their
fears proved groundless on this occasion.
CHARLEY HARPER, colored man at
Fulton, Mo-, drank about one and half
pints OF whisky at drugstore on wager,
and died soon after from the effects.
The Cleveland Bar Association passed
resolutions favoring the confirmation of
Stanley Matthews as Supreme Court Justice.
MEssRs. Dillon and A. M. Sullivan
addressed large Anti-coercion meeting at
Manchester on the 9th.
The Chicago Board of Health's re-
port for January gives go deaths for the
month, against III deaths for the same month
in 1880, and 6G4 in 1879.
Four thousand cotton weavers have
struck for an advance at Hyde, England, and
1000 looms are idle.
A TRAIN on the Central Railroad of
New Jersey was thrown from the track near
COmmunipaw, on the 10th. One car over
turned and caught fire. Thomas Daven-
port, of Bound Brook; Edward Reeves and
Miss Nellie Haynes, of Elizabeth, were all
probably fatally injured. Others were badly
hurt.
THREE children--a son of Jonathan
Allison, daughter Of Joseph Arnold, and a
swollen stream on their way home from
school, near Washington, Pa.
AN explosion of ire-damp in the Rock
Hill coal bank at Robbins, near Lee
tonia, o., on the 10th, caused the
death of Thomas Logan and his
son ohm, james Meehan, Edward Smith,
VIM. Haley and James Crouch, and the seri-
Gus injury of several others, some of whom
could not recover.
THE Southern Oil Works at Memphis
burned on fhe 10th, together with 1900
barrels of oil, 1000 tons Of oil cake and
1000 tons Of cotton seed. Total loss, $500,
600; insurance, $l23,0O0. One hundred men
were employed in the works.
JOHN p. LEIsT, assistant weigher in
the Chicago Post office, is under arrest
for robbing the mails. Proof agaist him is
said to be conclusive. From $12, 900 to $4,000
Of his plunder has been recovered.
A SHOCKING accident occurred the
other day at the State Capitol, Lansing,
Mich. Robert Clippenger, messeng r boy
twelve years old, was carelessly sliding dowr
when he lost his balance and fell to the mar.
BILE floor. eighty feet beneath, killing him in,
stantly, his neck being broken.
Mrs. ELLEN EDWARDS CoRsE, wife
of Maj. Gen. John NJ. Corse, died at Bur
ington, Iowa, on the 18th. Mrs. Corse wa,
widely known throughout the country fol
her connection with various reform move
ments, and highly esteemed both for hel
literary and social accomplishments.
ANNA REED, lady medical studen
at Ann Arbor (Mich) University, commit
ted suicide by drowning herself. No caus
assigned.
A HORRIBLE crime is reported il
New Mexico. At Canada de los Amosa, thir
teen miles from Santa Fe, Julian Vigil
Mexican, killed his wife and young daugh
ter. chopping them with an AK, and severe
ly wounded his son, leaving him for dead
The man then hung himself to a rafter il
the same room. Cause, insanfty produce,
by liquor.
GREEN JACKSON, colored, was hange,
at Marion, Crittenden County, Ark, on tn
1lth, for the murder Of another negro, com
mitted last spring.
Two grandchildren of farme
named Wagner, living near McHenry, Ill.
pershed in his house, which burned on tn
night Of the 9th.
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