Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-07-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Auh1 UP " buN
CHARLES COLEMAN, Sheriff of Pepin
County, and N Coleman, Under Sheriff 0t
Dunn County, Wis.,, were recently shot and
killed by two horse thieves and desperadoes,
brothers, named Williams, said 10 be from
Illinois. The murderers escaped A large
reward is offered for their capture.
GRIsCoM, the Chicago faster, COM
pleted his task on the 18th, and tasted food
for the first time in forty-fve days at the
Olympic Thea'er in presence of thousand
persons.
TIE police have seized nearly all the
leading Vienna journals for publishing the
resolutions passed by the Constitutionalists
belonging to German club.
Two men were killed and three others
terribly mutilated by the explosion of dry
ing cylinder in a Staten Island On, " dye
ing establishment on the 18th.
A DARING bank robbery was perpe-
trated on the 18th at Riverton, Fremont
County, Iowa. just before the close of
wel-to-do cattle men, rode up in front of
Davis & SeXton's banking house and, dis
mounting, entered the building. One of
them, producing 800 BILL asked tC have /.
exchanged for smaller bills. Mr.. Sexton took
the bill and stepped back to the safe TO get
the money, when the two strangers jumped
over the counter, drawing revolvers at the
same time, and in a twinkling took posses
sion of the contents Of the vault, AMOUNT
ing to about "a, 600 in currency. Having
secured this they went out cOolly but expe-
diliousy, one covering the retreat while the
other mounted, and the other then brandish-
ing his revolver for the benefit of any one
who might think of interfering. They then
rode leisurely off, none of the bystanders
being prepared TO obstruct their progress.
Parties were instantly organized for pursuit
and the telegraph was used to try and head
them off from other points, but at last ac-
counts no capture had been effected
The passenger coach of train on the
New Jersey Southern Road jumped the track
approaching the bridge over Corasly's Lake
and, dashing against it, demolished the
structure and pitched into the water, A num-
Der OF persons were seriously injured.
HENRY SMITH, the negro who mur.
dered Lucy Webb, agedfourteen, near DeS
Are, Ark, captured on the 11th, was taken
} from the jail by mob and hanged. The
} body was cut down and thrown into the
river.
THE recent unparalleled rise in the
Iowa River caused great destruction o.
property in various localities.
Two missing whaling vessels, the
Vigilant and Mount blalarston, have beer
> discovered by the Indians near East Cape, il
the Arctic regions. Three corpses were OF
| board the vigiant. From their appearance
it was evident that they had died in the firs
year Of the captivity in the ice. No one
dead or alive, was found on the Mount Nal
larston. The revenue eutter Corwin ba.
sent sedge party after the Indians to re-
cover the articles named and obtain further
information. No news from the Jeanette
MAUD s. trotted mile at Pittsburgh
. on the 18th, in 2:10 10, beating her owl
time and all previous records by one-quar
ter of a second.
, THREE fatal cases of sunstroke occur
red at a picnic at Elgin, ILL.,, on the 18th
The victims were young men named Ham
mond, Botsford and Richards.
The toy pistol got in its work will
; such good effect In st. Louis on the Fourth
that three boys have since died in a singl
day from locljaw, caused by wounds receives
from this source.
MteI 7 Il EnXzTT Il a mtsitoYs nn ~
: ing matters, was drowned at Rockawa
= Beach, Long Island, on the 18th. He wen
: in bathing at an early hour and was seizet
" with cramps.
THE Right Rev. John Barrett Ker
/: foot, D. D. LII. D., protestant Episcopal
: Bishop Of Pittsburgh, is dead.
IS THE works of the Excelsior Manufac
Is turing Company, at st. Louis, Mo-, burne
h on the 18th. Losses estimated at $3.50, ,00t
/. The Company announce that most of thei
e patterns and machinery were saved an
It work will be resumed at once.
1t JOHN A. APPLETON, of the New Yor
II publishing house, is dead
A NUMBER of gambling houses at He
K Springs, Ark, have been broken up by tn
% authorities, and their gambling implements
furniture, etc., were publicly burned.
% AT Jerseyville, H., on the 14th, JC
n seph Voorhees, shot and instantly killed TIT
J. man Landon. The murderer gave himse
h up voluntarily. Landon was the uncle I
d Voorhees, wife. Both men were about
# years OF age, and of good standing. LandO
,e was unmarried. A family difficulty led
ia the shooting, the particulars of which ha
\ not been made public. Mrs. voorhees, ha
n recently made an Intellectual attempt to con
nit suicide.
I. KRING, the murderer of Mrs. DoI
Is Groemser in st. Louis, sentenced to
r hanged on the 10th of July for crime con
Of mitted nearly eight years ago, has again e.
1t capped the gallows through the interVentic
* Of the State Supreme Court, Chief-Justi,
X Sherwood having at nearly the last hol
c. granted a supersedeas in his case.
as DR.. W. d. CUBAGE was killed by or
Burnett, near Silver City, MontgomeI
County, Ark, for undue familiarity with Il
n wife Of the latter.
IL The Wabash has established a ne
r, line from St. Louis to New York, via Tol
~ do, the Lake Shore and New York Cent?
T. Railroads.
" ALLAN RUTHERFORD, lately employt
- in the City Stables, Toronto, has been il
u formed by letter from Scotland that he
:, " Earl of Teviot and master Of rent roll
" eco, 900 per annum.
GREAT damage was occasioned
oil Swift County, Mimi, by a tornado viii
II occurred on the 14th. In Mayer Townsh
%, q bridge, church, and number Of hous
vvoro dastrovad and sevpral nnrsous had