Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-10-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

man; Jack Denny, Il conductor on the San
Francisco Road, and O'Neil, stranger,
looking for n job. They were all seated in
the cab of the engine at the time. Their
bodies were picked up at distance of POO
feet from the railroad track in Il horribly
mangled condition. The head of Bailey,
the fireman, was entirely blown off, and
nowhere to be found. Frank Nicholas,
head brakeman, had an arm broken and his
body badly bruised The cause Of the acct
dent is supposed to have been a shortage Of
water, together with defective boiler.
The Chinese quarter of Chico, Cal,
has been destroyed by fire. Three China
men lost their lives.
A HEAVY storm visited Danville, Va,
on the 18th. Trees and fences were blown
down, also the Confederate Military Hospi-
tai, injuring several colored people.
AT Anoka, Mimi, Charles L. Stud
ley, while insane from drink, stabbed his
wife several times, but not fatally, and then
cut himself up in shocking manner, so that
he can not recover.
FIVE desperate men confined in Jail
at Las Vegas, New Mexico, having secured
q pistol and burst the locks off their cells,
made bloody charge on three of their
! guards. One OF the officers blew out the
brains of Thomas Duffy, and the others
were soon secured. The leader OF the re-
volt was Dave Rudenbaugh, OF the gang Of
Billy the Kid.
LABOR troubles at Savannah, Ca,
have become serious. The Governor has or
dered twenty companies of State troops to
report to the municipal authorities. A pri-
vate telegram puts the strength OF the strik-
ers at 1000, and all well-armed and defiant.
The police were repulsed twice while at
tempting to take bridge held by the strik-
ers. Quite a number were killed and
wounded.
A RIOT occurred at Tubercurry, Ire
land, on the occasion of rejoicings at the re-
lease of Sheridan. The police were stoned
and the Chief Constable severely injured.
The police fired upon the crowd and wound
ed several persons.
A DUEL took place near Warrenton,
on the 20,h, between two we'll known Vir-
! ginians, Capt. PeytOn Wise and T. Il. Lew
is, U. S. District Attorney, both of Rich
mond. Gen. Wise is a brother of Hon.
George ID. Wise, Congressman elect, and
Mr.. Lewis younger brother of John F..
Lewis, candidate on the Readjuster ticket.
The meeting was the result OF challenge
from Lewis to Wise, on account of
some alleged libelous personal re-
marks uttered during the heat of
the political canvass. The parties fought
with dueling pistols, ten PAGES apart. Two
shos-were exchanged. LOWS had the nrsU
fire and missed. Wise fired into the air. The
second round was a repetition of the first.
Wise is said to be dead shot and could
easily have killed his adversary, but merci-
fully spared him, as he had become con-
yinced before the meeting took place that he
had acted hastily in the matter, but had
gone too far to retreat. The combatants
shook hands and parted friends.
HENRY G. COLE, Mayor of KOkomo,
Ind, was shot dead few nights ago while
surrcptitiously conveying some flour from a
mill. The owners of the mill had for some
time been aware Of the loss OF flour, and on
the night in question the Sheriff with a
posse had been concealed near by for the
purpose of nabbng the thief should he put
in an appearance. At little before II
O'Clock, as the Sheriff states, figure was
seen steallhly approaching the mill from
the rear The man entered the mill and
had carried out four sacks of flour and de-
posted them near by, whcn'he was ordered
to halt. At this he ran and a volley OF
shots were fired at him. lie ran about 100
yards from the mill and dropped on the
ground. The Sheriff's posse followed him,
and when they arrived at the spot in which
he fell they found Mayor II. c. Cole stark
dead, with revolver in each hand. Coles
previous reputation had not been altogether
unsmrched, but he possessed certain ele'
ments Of popularity which enabled him tC
achieve political preferment at the hands Of
, his fellow citizens. He was elected Mayor
last spring as an Independent Democratic
candidate, owing to split in the Republican
party of the city. Coles friends allege tina
| the whole affair is damnable conspiracy, il
which he met his death at the hands Of bit
ter foes.
AT New York City, on the 22d, Fred
erick Lathamer, aged 26, made an attemp
to murder his wife and her father. Pauline
Lathamer is 26 years old, and her father
Henry Miller, So years. The enraged maj
shot both in the head with his revolver, ant
, then turned the weapon on himself Al
three were taken to the hospital dangerousl.
wounded.
FILTER, Tile UUlUIou LleGIonauU, lit
secured from the Court-martial in Texas
continuance until November, to give hin
time to employ counsel.
CLARE COUNTY, Mich, has been Wis
tied by terrific hurricane, accompanied b.
violent thunder and lightning. 1t did grea
. damage to property in wide extent Q
y country. In the vicinity OF Atwood Station
on the Harrison branch Of the Flint e. Per
D.. Marquette Railway, over 100000 feet
=. timber were blown down, and two men
o VIM. Deaine, of Canada, and Joseph Pep
per, Of Bay City-were struck by fallin
a, trees and instantly killed. Trees were snap
,s ped like pipcstcms, and the work OF dc
- struction was awful in its suddenness an
:, completeness. The men who were kilie
! were in tent, with about twenty Others
- who fled to the swamps and thus escape
-, uninjurcd.
N GEORGE HOWARD, a planter Twin
10 near Little Rock, Ark, whose crop was II
% Gently sold under attachment, has sworn
10 kill every one connected witha1 case. Il
n has left home and is hiding in the Woo
m preparatory to carrying out his thrca
Il Three men whom he singled out as the fir
=. victims have sworn out warrants again
=. him, and posse, including nearly evel
ct man in the township, is hunting for hir
20 A bloody encounter is expected.