Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1882-02-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IHoMASDALToN, an Irish lahorer, OF
New IorhCiiy, died recently from HYDRO
phobla' lie was bitten by dog In Novem-
Der last receiving slight ~oahds on the left
Harm and band. The dog was killed, AL
though there was no iAdication that It was
mad. The woHn6s inflicted by theanimal
soon healed, and Dalton suffered no trouble
from them until the 10th, when he was at
lacked by numbness and violent pains in
has arm. During the night and until his
death he continued to suffer intensely. EIis
throat was parched, and, altheughSse was
constantly afflicted with burning thirst,
the sight Of water threw him into convul
sions' lie had neglected to have thewouuds
on his arm and hand cSaterized.
JOHN LANAHAN, q farmer of Siblev.
Iowa, was murdered few nights ago While
standing on his own hearthstone. Maggie,
his Oldest daughter, has not only confessed
that she did the shooting, but duplicates
her mother, her'slster Anna, and the latter's
lover, young man named Birch. The girl
testified that it had been agreed between
them some time ago to "pdt the old mar
out of the way" at the earliest oppattH utSv.
Birch furnished the PISTOL, and when her
iather came home from farmers club
meeting and was about 70 sit down she
stepped up behind HIM and Aired till-
ng him instantly, She then arranged the
ooIy so as to, make it appear that some one
nau snoV I'm Through the window, while
Anna we at cut and broke the glass. Mar.
g'e saySl Birch wanted to marry Anna and
Nc, AMER refused, Ho also did not pro-
VIZ well for them, Birch at one time lived
| '%th The family, and was driven from the
house by Lanahan, who suspected him Of
criminSl intimacy with his Wife and daugh-
ter,
HE Pennsylvania Military Academy.
at Chester, burned on the 10TH The entire
loss will foot up 100000; insurance, not
over $4,000. All State and Government
property was saved. The students saved
most of their personal effects. Fire origi-
mating in Meisenhemer's clothing store,
Robinson County, Kans., on the same day,
destroyed every business house in the town
except one, twelve stores, two hotels, the
post-office and one dwelling being swept
away. Loss estimated at 200,
DIPHTHERIA has within four days
swept away four children of John Wander.
an, OF Cleveland, o., and they were placed
in one grave at Riverside Cemetery.
MAGGIE MOORE jumped from Lake
Shore train running thirty miles an hour,
near Ripley, Ohio, on the 18th. She man
aged to walk to the station, however, and
took the next train for Cleveland, where she
was taken to the hospital. The young
woman explained her desperate leap by say
ing she feared two men on the train were
about to assault her. She appeared to be
suffering mentally, but seemed 70 have re-
ceiyed no serious physical injury,
FATHER O'FARRELL, an esteemed
Catholic priest, committed suicide in Peo-
ria, H., on the 18th, BY cutting hts Throat
and vein in his arm. For several years he
had suffered from painful dropsical COM
plant, and got into the habit of taking
drugs TO relieve the pain. The doses were
recently reduced by his superiors because
they thought he was taking too much. 1t
is supposed these circumstances produced
temporary insanity.
JOHN HIGHwARDEN. of Marion, o.,
died on the 10th from an overdose of chloro-
form administered by surgeons who were
about to remove an injured eye.
ROBERT WILSON, Mrs. Jennie Schnull,
and Mrs. Jane tastes were seriously injured
by runaway horses in indianapolis the other
day.
, THE brothers Charles and Christian
Sundemeyer, prosperous farmers of
Pmckney Township, Warren County, Mo-,
recently quarreled about the sale of some
land. Charles used his fists, but Christian
drew knife and stabbed his brother in the
abdomen, INJECTING fatal wound.
A MASQUERADE ball at indianapolis
the other night ended in disgraceiu riot.
Morris Dalton, a railrOader, insulted
young woman named Howard, and was
assaulted by her friend, 5. Eaglen. The
fight spread until every man in the hall was
engaged, and the police were unable to
quel the tumult. Afterward three Of the
ringleaders, William Walls. Charles Chatter
son and Morris Dalton, were arrested and
committed. A score of people were more
or less injured by the flying missiles.
THE village of Constantine, Mich, is in
, a state of great excitement over a little cpl
, sode that occurred the other day. A young
married lady of that town drove out alone to
her fathers farmhouse and administered a
r horse whipping TO q lady visitor whose
r actions have been the cause Of scandal.
| JAMES G. ALLISON was hanged at
Indiana, Pa, Feb. 18th, for numbering his
r father in 1880.
TIE car works at Gainesville, Ga,
were destroyed by an exploding boiler, Feb.
18th. Six colored men were killed and two
fatally injured. E. l.. Wood, the engineer,
can hardly recover, and Superintendent Lu-
cas- was severely bruised. Seven or eight
others were slightly wounded. The men
killed were warming at the boiler when it
burst, and Wood was turning on steam.
THE town of Haverhill, Mass, was
wept by fire on the 18th.