The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-02-12

WE IN august last.
FRANK MEYER & Co.'s furniture fac.
tory, Clinton and Secor Streets, Chicago,
burned on the 2lst. A falling wall buried
number Of 6remen in the ruins. Captain
Edward Murphy, Captain Joseph Donahue,
James Conway, VIM. H. Van Osdel, James
Tobin and Tom Howard, we're all seriously,
and probably most Of them fatally, injured.
Eight or ten others received minor injuries.
En-. BAcKUs, q prominent young
attorney Of Independence, Iowa, shot him.
self and fell dead upon the grave Of his
young wife, recently buried. He was miss
Ing fdr several days before bis body was dis.
covered. t@a
FANNIE NEPHER, aged II, committed
suicide at Brownsville, Neb. The young
man to whom she was engaged to be married
had proved false to her. Jr.s = A..
HENRY YARNELL and q friend named
Howe, while pursuing barn. burners in Ken.
lucky, were .6red upon by unknown parties
In . wood, The former dropping dead and
the latter receiving dangerous wound.
Suspected men named Brooks and Griffin,
being arrested and confined In . blacksmith
shop under guard were killed by ride.shots
during the night. .2b i 7sfr. ~ -,
DANIEL BLAKE, second clerk of the
steamer Annie r. Silver, was shot and III
stantly killed on the ed, by an insane pas
senger named Kirk Merch, as the boat was
nearing New Madrid. Msrch got on At Mem.
phis and bought ticket to New Madrid.
He became very siokisoon after getting on
board andwas given the best attention. Just
before reaching New Madrid he rushed out
on deck with his valise in one hand and q
revolver IN the other, and insisted that he
hsd been carried past his destination.
Meeting Blake he first fred It him, the ball
striking him in the forehead; be then aimed
at the pilot, but Captain Silver seized the
maniac and after desperate struggle dis.
armed him, Inthe scufle the revolver was
discharged, The ball striking ono Of the Cap.
tain's Fingers and grazing the pilots head.
Aslah 10 . farmer and resides near New
Madrid, whore hs h~ the reputation Of be.
Ing IN indpstsious md quiet citizen. The
murdered man was about IS years Old ana 4
resident Of st. Louis. ~ " zoo 81
AHosT terrible accident to an expires,
train took place o. tho New York, Lake Erie
&WsstsEn Railroad, at On early hour on the
morning Of Tie I'd, 1t Tioga Center, near
Oswego, n Z. The breaklng Of an axle on
thp locomotive while going st I high rate Of
speed caused conclusion which wrecked
Tie entire train with the exception Of
tie reaf sleeper1, which fortunately
became uncouplsd and 10 were saved
nom destruction The -postal.car, next
to the locomotive, turned completely
over tho sembustible / material with
which II wss filed caught Ars from Tho
f0!erturnsd lamps and the whole oar WAS
soon in flames. / There wsrs four postal
clerks .atwork N the car, whose escape was
Ell Of By the locked doors and they were
literally roasted 70 death. They were Daniel
=. 6eybolt, Of Mount Hope, n. r.; joseph
Rsidengsr, y Elmita, y. 81; George ".
tlng1shsm, q Binshamtoh, n. r, and Henry
,. Fox, q New Ysrk. Il. G. Brewer, Is &.
ppsas messenger, met . similar fate BY the
burning of The expgsss.ear. A number Of
passenger md employees were injured by
~ ooacusston, but none Il wss thought
|faeally. s,tgI !, = :
seDR. RuDoLpH ScHAR1AcH and Lii
eop Herman, u Mexico, Mo-, were both ,ftun
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