Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-07-16
MMINNVIILE, TENNESSEE, SATURDAY, JULY 1e 1881
SOLOMON MrRRrcK, James H. White


and James Alexander Bartum, the latter
colored, were killed outright; James Cox,
colored, mortally scalded, Edward Sheehan
badly, though not dangerously scalded, and
four other hands badly injured by the ex-
plosion of a portable engine on the farm Of
Edward Sheehan, in Talbot County, Nd,
on the 9th.
FRED HYLAND and Mark Folsom,
both about - years of age, were drowned
in Coon Creek, near Des Moines, Iowa, on
the 7th.
The Governor of Kentucky has ap-
pointed Thursday, July IA, day of fasting
and prayer for the recovery of the President.
A TERRIBLE wind-storm passed over
Sioux City, Iowa, on the Oh. At Perry VAL
ley, seven miles north, the house OF farmer
named Coe was entirely demolished, and his
wife and two children seriously injured.
The house Of George w. Chamberln was also
wrecked, and the occupants fatally injured
riie sVviin inoyeu eastward. Its path was
but 100 PAGES wide.
GIUSEPPE EPosITo, alias Radazzo,
an Italian bandit, has been captured at New
Orleans and sent home in an Italian man of
war. He has been running a fruit schooner
TO the Mexican Gulf islands for twelve
months past.
AT Rangely, Me-, fifteen men were
injured by the falling of a new roof they
were putting on meeting house.
DISPATCHES to Tunis say the French
commenced shelling Sfax on the 9th inst.
and the fire was returned from the town.
PROF. G. V. RILEY has been appoint
ed Entomologist OF the Agricultural Bureau
by Commissioner Loring, in the place of j.
II. Comstock, resigned.
THE creditors of Mrs. Howe's Wom-
an's Bank at Boston will receive five cents on
the dollar.
LIGHTNING struck barn near Deca-
tur, Ala, where a number of people sought
refuge. Four were killed outright and eight
seriously injured,
LEROY, who murdered Gould on an
English railway and threw his body out of
the window, has been arrested and has con-
fessed.
MRS. PRETEBARD, of Asbury Park,
N. j., committed suicide the other day, it is
said in consequence of mental anxiety for
President Garfed's condition.
A DAUGHTER of Ma jor-G General Fyres,
of England, recently fell overheard at
Hyenes, France. Her mother and two sis
ters sought to rescue her, and all four were
drowned,
THREE Montreal strikers were
wounded by the police, who were obliged to
use pistols in dispensing a mob.
SAMUEL TRIvIAs was hanged in AL
exandria, Rapides Parish, La, on the Sth,
for the murder of A. j. Hanna
POSTMASTER G. L. Carman, at Lyons,
Mich, accidentally shot and killed his IA
year-old son the other night. The boy had
wandered out on the roof in a fit OF somnam.
hIIliSm and his father miStoot him fora hur-
glar.
The large feeding barns of j. Ter
minch, near Buffalo, n. Y, containing about
800 cattle, burned on the Sth. Nearly one
half the stock perished.
The British bark Beatrice, Captain
Stewart, for Rouen, with oil, was struck by
| lightning while off Reedy Island. The fluid
ran down the mast into the hold and fired
the cargo. An explosion followed and the
main hatch was blown into the river, carry
! ing sailor with it, who was drowned. The
captain, steward, mate, and two sailors were
injured by the flying timbers. The vessel
burned to the waters edge
AN erroneous statement has been pub
lished that Judge Sherman, the Republican
nominee for Governor of Iowa, is brother
OF General and Senator Sherman. They are
no relation.