Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-11-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

take advantage Of. Among those arrested
are DR.. Kenny, member of the Executive
Committee of the Land League; O'Gorman,
proprietor of the Imperial Hotel at Dublin,
and Wall and Haydn, editors of the Ros-
common Herald and Messenger. A priest
near Clare Morris evaded police interfer-
ence by holding the Land League meeting in
his chapel 1t is thought this plan will be
resorted to for future meetings.
The police claim TO have evidence OF aplot to
assassinate Foster, and he is closely guard
ed in all his movements. There
is also some apprehension felt con-
corning the personal safety of Gladstone
and Sir William Harcourt. 1t is reported
that explosive cartridges have been discov-
cred in cotton bales at Liverpool. The Land
Commission are disposing of considerable
business. Notices have been posted In va
rious places threatening death to tenants
who pay rent. The clergy generally are
said to approve Of Archbishop Croke's letter
protesting against the manifesto Of the Land
League, and strong pressure is being ex-
erted to obtain clear and strong condem-
nation from the Pope.
The steamer Jennie Gilohrist, en-
ployed during the high water as a transfer
passenger and freight boat between Rock
Island and Cordoya, on the upper Missis-
sippi River, became disabled by the break
ing of some of her machinery during trip
on the night OF the 27th, and was carried by
the swift current helplessly down against
the bridge at that point. AS she struck the
bridge the steamer careened and partially
filed with water; the safety-valvc was at the
same time thrown open and the steam es-
capped from the boiler, severely scalding
those in its immediate vicinity. The wreck
drifted down past the bridge, and the alarm
being given by this time, boats were sent
out to succor the survivors. or 90 persons
on board, passengers and crew, only nine
were taken out alive and most of these were
badly scalded or otherwise injured. The
night being dark, with strong wind blow
ing, the work of rescuing the passengers was
difficult and dangerous, and it was believed
all on board excepting these nine were lost.
THE Peoria Qll.) Sugar Refinery, an
immense ven-stOry brick building, burned
on the 9th. 1t is supposed that the fire
was caused by hot journal, which ignied
the atmosphere of the house, filled as it was
from the peculiar process Of drying with in
flammable material in small particles. The
loss is estimated at S4OO, 900; insurance,
100000. Two hundred and fifty men are
thrown out Of employment. Eighteen
freight cars loaded with corn were burned
also.
THE dry-goods house of Weschler &
Abraham, Fulton Street, Brooklyn, l.. L.,
was damaged by flames and water to the ex-
tent Of quarter of a million dollars; partly
insured. Jas. Lynch, engineer, was badly
burned, and Andrew McShane, fireman, fell
through hatchway and was very seriously
injured. Spontaneous combustion.
The Adams Mill, Adamsdale, r. l.,
burned on the Goth. Loss, $4,000. John
Hyde, an employee, was killed.
ALBERT FLETCHER, an Adventist
minister of Pomeroy, Iowa, blew out his
brains while temporarily deranged.
DR.. HALL, prominent physician Of
Davisburg, Oakland County, Mich, ha,
been found guilty of the crime of numbering
his wife by poisonlast spring. Infatuatior
for another woman was the cause OF the ter.
rible crime.
EZRA P. Cook and wife, an ole
couple living by themselves at Bellows Falls
VT, were both found dead. Mrs. Cook wa,
partially insane, and it is believed she poi
soned her husband and then took her owl
life.
DAWSON, Treasurer of Beaver Coun
ty, Pa, was knocked down in the Court
house and robbed of $4,000.
j. IIINCKLEY, agent of the Union Pa
cifc Railway Company at Franklin, Utah
was shot and killed by two masked men
whose purpose, it is presumed, was to rol
the station. They got frightened and ran
however, without accomplishing their de
sign.
The Warren Memorial Tabernacle
Presbyterian, at Fourth and Broadway
Louisville, was destroyed by fire on tn
night of the 2Sth. This was the fines
church edifice in the city. 1t was but re
Gently completed and cost 500, 900. 1t wa
insured for $4,000.
MUNCIE BURNS, q well-known st
Louis sneak-thief, burglar and general des
perado, was shot and killed by an officer tn
other night while endeayoring to escape ar
rest.
ALLEN JOHNSON, colored, was hange,
at Charlotte, N. c., on the 2Sth, for tn
murder of an old and blind negro name
Crump. Jack Post, one of the murderer
of d. B. MGDermott. was executed at Ora
and contracting firm at Tucson, Nevada
have failed for large amount, but profes
their ability to meet all claims against tber
in a little while.
THE British steamer Calliope, from
Odessa for Bremen, was totally lost on tn
Spanish coast. Only one person saved.
The Walaczyska court-martial at St
Petersburg sentenced two leaders of tn
anti-Jewish riots in June last to ten wears
exile in Siberia.
THE boiler of a steam thresher ex
ploded at Norway Lake, near Wilmar
Mimi, killing Aufin Strand and seriousl
injuring A. Everson and Christian Solberg
So complete was the destruction that n,
part Of the engine or the boiler was lef
where it stood before the explosion. TIL,
cause of explosion is unknown.
NELSON I. DAVIS, late Tax Collector
for Harris County, Texas, who got away
with $3.50, 900 belonging to the State ant
county and was indicted by the Grand JURY
for embezziement, forgery and perjury, flee
before he could be arrested.
DELL LoCKHART, Kid Coulter, and s