Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-11-19
BILL LITTENBERN and Sandy King.

BILL LlTTENBERN ana SANDY hlng,
members Of notorious cowboy gang, were
taken from Jail at Shakespeare, Arlzoaa,
and hanged by mob.
ONE man was killed and several others
were injured by the falling OF the passenger
elevator in the Belvidere Hotel, New York
City.
A. MADDEN, postal-route agent be-
tween Des MOines and Keokuk, Iowa, is
under arrest for robbng the mails. He was
caught by means Of decoy letters.
A DAUGHTER of Alvin Moore, residing
near New Madrid, Mo-, was instantly killed
byapistol in the hands Of her sister Laura.
The shooting was accidental.
A DETROIT (Mich.) young man
named Sylvanus Howe attempted to cut his
wife's throat with a razor, and inflicted
severe but not fatal wound. lie then i'm
mediately took a large dose of prussic acid,
and died in fifteen minutes. The cause was
the result of long course of drinking, as
he was strongly attached to his wife.
HORACE SPooNER, editor of the
Transcript, Greenfield, Iowa, has been dam
gerously sick a long time. The other day
his wife, who had become Respondent, t,swal-
lowed large dose of carbolic acid, dying
instantly.
THE Foreign Missionary Seminary at
Paris has a telegram from Hong Kong stat
ing that terrible typhoon rayaged Western
TonQuin. Two hundred churches, thirty
four parsonages and colleges, and 1000
houses were destroyed. Six thousand
Christians were ruined and are without re-
sources. The losses are immense. The
distress is terrible. The telegram begs for
the promptest help.
THE prisoner held at Grand Island,
Neb., has been fully identified as Ed. Max
well, the elder Of the two notorious brother
outlaws. The younger brother, Alonzo,
who made good his escape when Ed. was
arrested, is known to be secreted somewhere
in the vicinity, and it is believed will be
captured.
NEAR Fremont, o., son of Norris
Gibson, aged seven years, while playing
with loaded revolver which he had taken
from a drawer, shot it off, hitting his aunt,
Minnie Russell, aged about fifteen, in the
forehead. The wound was thought to be
fatal.
THE Cape Coast Castle reports that
the King of Ashantee killed 200 young
girls for the purpose Of using their blood for
mixing mortar for the repair of one of the
state buildings. The report Of the massacre
was received from refugee chosen to be
one OF the victims. Such wholesale mas
sacres are known TO be the custom with the
King.
FIRE record for the 11th: Six hotels
at Old Orchard Beach, York County, Me.
loss, $4,000. W. L. Tanner & Co. IS Metro.
pOlilan Works, Richmond, Va. loss, 500,
900; insured. Modesto, Stanislaus County
Cal, to the extent OF 100000. Orphan
Home, Womensdorf, Pa; loss, $4,000
Woodstock, Carleton County, N. b., tow
of five thousand inhabitants OH the ST. Jnhr
River, almost totally destroyed.
DR.. X. w. SHAW, an old and well
known practcing physician of Macon, Ill.
was shot and instantly killed by james T
Ward, aged 81, son Of Robert Ward, o
Blue Mound. The shooting grew out of
family difficulty.
HANGED on the 1lth: Joe Harris
colorcd, Greenborough, Ga, for completely
in the murder of +. G. Langston, a conyic
guard, last spring. Felix Munshour, con
yicted Of the murder Of his cousin, James I
Wetzel, in August, 1879, at Frederick
hn
Winfield Saunders, at Fayetteville, w. Va
A SEVERE snow storm prevailed OF
:, the 11th throughout portion of Wyoming
= Nebraska, New Mexico, Colorado and West
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