The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-07-23
west and South

AT the meeting Of the American Hebrew
union in Chicago resolution was passed TO
raise $500, 600 for the endowment OF college
WILIAx DoDsoS, Pleasant Adams Richard
Bates and Joe Benton, four eolored men con-
Yicted at Greenville, S. C., OF burning the
Academy of Music at that place on December
I, 1879, have been sentenced 10 be hanged on
September 9.
REPORTS from the flooded districts in Iowa
report unprecedented damage to crops and
railroad property.
WHILE working al the mouth OF railroad
tunnel near Cincinnati gang Of laborers were
overwhelmed by g landslide which killed two
2 men and injured four others.
The 18th was generally observed in
Arkansas as g day of fasting and prayer for the
recovery Of President Garfield, il having been
set apart by Governor Churchill for that pur-
pose.
TERRIFIC tornado las wrought death and
desolation in Minnesota. At Birds Island,
the new Baptist church, with several other
buildings, was totally wrecked Near orion
vile four buildings were demolished. Then
the tornado swept farmhouses along its course
for thirty miles, increasing in fury as it went.
Horses, barns and farm machinery were strewn
in all directions, and stock killed by the whole
SALE a small hamlet called Fairfield was in
the track Of the cyclone, and nothing but the
stone foundations of the buildings remain to
show where the village stood About fifteen
persons were killed and wounded The people
were left in the most pitiable plight without
shelter or clothing
FIVE persons were hanged the other day al
different places At Van Buren,, Ark, William
Reeves was hanged for the murder of William
Drake last December, and made desperate
attempt on the scaffold 10 escape, knocking his
guards right and left and for time creating
scene of wild discord. At Mariana, Ark,
Isaac Green and John Hardin, both colorel,
were hanged, each having killed q man. Al
New Madrid No., Meyers and Brown, two
desperadoes, were hanged for having murdered
young man and then killing one OF the
sheriff 9 posse sent in pursuit of them.
IL less than twelve minutes cyclone de
stroyed tue town of New Ulm. Mimi, killed
upward Of thirty persons and did damage to
property of every kind amounting TO at least
$3.50, 600.
GANG of outlaws captured a train on the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad. be-
tween Cameron and Winston, No., killed the
conductor and passenger, robbed the United
States Express company's safe of several thou
sand dollars and escaped on horseback The
outrage is attributed TO the notorious James
brothers.
In one week there we're 2sf deaths in Gin
cinnati from s1nstroke and $50 from the ex-
cessiye heat
The town of Wallace Mich, consisting OF
saw-mill and twenty-one buildings, was totally
destroyed by fire.
PAUL HELD a Swiss emigrant who recently
bought farm In Eagle Greek Valley, Mimi,
becoming insane through homesickness and
the failure of his crops, killed. his wife and
Eve children, mortally wounded his remaining
two children and then committed suicide
HENRY s SMITH was hanged at Corinth Miss,
for the murder of James Burt.
BILLY THE KID the notorious outlaw,
who has killed from fifteen to twenty men, has
at last met his fate at the hands of plucky
deputy sheriff, who overhauled him in cabin
in Lincoln county, New Mexico, and shot him
dead
GREESLEAr, near Fort Gibson, in the Chero-
kee Nation, has been the scene of q horrible
tragedy. The Creek and Cherokee Indians
were having barbecue preparatory to nomi-
mating their candidates for the ensuing election
next month, and whisky flowed freely. Two
full-blooded Indians, Bill Lovett and Deer
Track, became drunk and in their frenzy made
an onslaught ON party. Seven men were
killed and others MORALLY wounded,