Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-11-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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from the well with pail of water. Their,
is no clew to the assassin.
DANIEL IL. GERcI, apostal clerk run
ming between Kearney and Sidney on tn,
Union Pacific Railway, is under arrest fol-
stealing a registered money package con,
tanning $1,000. He has confessed and turned
over $3.50, all he had left of the stoler
money. Robert Rich, mail messenger be.
tween the Post office and railway station al
Burnside, KY, has also been arrested fol
stealing and rifing registered letters. His
appropriations amount TO over 500, 900 in the
last six months.
The new limited express on the Penn.
sylyania Road, running at high speed near
East Liberty, Pa, crushed the life out OF
two men on the track.
W. S. BROOKS, a well-known mer-
chant of Wheetey, Ark, has suspended
with liabilities of $50, 900, placed chiefly in
st. Louis and Memphis.
A YOUNG man named Edward Dough-
erty, employed by farmer near Dubuque,
Iowa, was SHOT through the heart and killed
instantly by Miss DAILY. lie had been out
shooting, and returned with a rifle loaded.
The girl picked up the rifle and playfully
snapped it at him, sUpposing it to be I'M
loaded.
RUFUS MCPHERSON walked into the
hlmbal House, at Atlanta, Ga, on the ID,
and after talking short time with num-
Der OF gentlemen, moved to the middle of
the floor, drew pistol, and raising it over
his head, said, cts there now, and now
it's here" with which exclamation he placed
the barrel against his right temple and fired,
dying in an hour. Mcpherson was about 90
years OF age, and was as well connected as
any young man in Georgia, being the grand
son of Campbell Wallace, one Of the Rail-
road Commissioners and President of the
Mechanics Bank of Atlanta.
A PASSENGER train on the Missouri
Pacific struck broken rail about four miles
west of Jefferson City on the I'd, and seven
coaches and the engine were derailed. One
car turned a complete somersault. No in
jures save a few slight bruises were sus-
tanned by any of the passengers.
JACOB ECKHERDT, eX-member of the
Wisconsin Assembly, dropped dead in the
street at Milwaukee.
FIVE workmen were seriously injured
by boiler explosion at Stephens Branch,
Ky.
BRIDGET MURRAY and Thomas Ma
lone died from burns received at fire in
Lowell, Mass. Policeman O'Donnell, who
jumped from a window, is thought to be
fatally injured.
The Wabash will put on a limited ex-
MIR. D. Z. LINDSAY, Chief Head Clerk.
has been placed in charge of all mail routes
in Texas.
The annual report of the Pension Bu-
reau shows that on the 3Oth Of June, 1881.
lheFe were 2GS,S3O pensioners; net increase
during the year, 1S,O2S; aggregate annual
value OF all pensions, SOS, 769, 067. The an
hual disbursements Of the office, however
largely exceed this sum. For instance. the
total amount paid for pensions during the
year exclusive Of certain arrears in claims
allowed prior to January %, 1870, was 49,
40, la, the difference being accounted for
IN arrears Of pensions, or "accrued pen. |
SONS" covering period dating back to the
discharge, in each case, Of soldiers still liy-
ing and soldiers deaths in the claims Of
widows or minor children.
GOVERNOR SHELDON is preparing TO
break up the cowboy and "rustlerD element
IN Southern New Mexico. This lawless
element is said to number about $50 persons
They nfest the southern part Of Grant
County, and have their principal camps at
san Simon, Cloverdale and Carsealillo
springs. Their leaders are Russian Rnl
curly Bill and Chris Moesner. Somethiny
Ike ooO horses and 200 head of cattle have
)ecn stolen during the last nine months
ma driven to Texas and Arizona and there
odd. Horses and cattle stolen in
arizona and Texas are run to New Mexico
ND sold. The southeastern portion Of Ari-
ona is completely under the heel of these
ustlers. Governor Sheldon intends to pro-
ure indictments, offer rewards, and then
end armed and mounted militia companies. ,
rom ilfty to one hundred men strong, with 8
ne Sheriffs OF Dona Ana, Lincoln and Grant !
COUNTIES, to execute writs. Matters are
ow being put into shape for the movement.
w. ii. GURNEY, prominent attorney =
Buffalo, N. Y, committed suicide by r
rowning. He had been for some weeks in q
n unsound state Of mind.
EMMA BECKMAN, aged twenty-five I
ears, jumped from a fourth-story window.
columbus, o., and sustained injuries O
hich will no doubt prove fatal. !,
MISS JESSIE RICE, of Newark, Ohio. :,
irving acrosss the track in buggy, was r
lied bya Panhandle express train.
JOHN DAVIS was fatally and David II
riiliths seriously injured by the explosion II
boiler near Cotton, Jackson County, O. k
1T is estimated that the recent over al
wv of the Mississippi has caused damages ell
tween keokuk, Ia, and Louisiana, Mo-, ca
both sides Of the river, amounting TO
100000 90
HERR j. Won SCHOONER, at present e,
pIomatic Agent and Consul General Of FIR
lstria at Alexandria, has been appointed be
lstrian Minister at Washington. to
COL. &. M. MURPHY, a leading attor- 1
y OF Hot Springs, Ark, shot George 70
dler four times, inhicting fatal wounds. w
lrphy was one Of the principal attor- 'n
US in the prosecution of Sadler in his
cent trial for the murder of DIR. Lyon re
December last, which is said 10 have mi
'used m him great antpathy toward Muir XII
y, and it is alleged he had threatened to ov
| him. MI
FLOODS in Dalmatia and Croatia fO
lsed the River Keika to burst its bounds.
uses are inundated, crops damaged roads by
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