Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-10-13
SAMUEL HALL, who was assaulted and

SAMUEL HALL, who was assaulted and
robbed by John Jackson, near Jackson, Ohis,
a few days ago. died on the 4,h. Jackson
has heen captured and made full confes.
sion. He said he wanted money to give to q
woman. as--
THIRTY incendiary fires have occurred
within the past six months At Youngstown.
Ohio. An investigation resulted In the ar
rest of IN ex-freman and three accomplicea
or charge Of arson.
HENRY C. FISK, clerk Of the Pacific
Railroad Committee of the House of Repre-
senta,ives, disappeared June l6. 1t Is feared
that he lost his reason, as his mother and
brother died in the insane asylum at Utica,
n. Y. He was colonel in the Union army.
ANDREW FRANK, a lame veteran, was
fatally injured by street.car in Omaha.
Neb., the other night.
A TRAIN on the Midland & Northern
Railroad was derailed while approaching
Gofdsboro, n. c., on the 9th. Several
cars rolled down the embankment. One
man is reported killed and several passen-
gers injured.
THE coroner's jury investigating the
disaster in the Harlem River tunnel. New
York, found the New York Central & Hud-
son River Railroad Company guilty of gross
and criminal negligence in failing to provide
sufficient appliances for signaling trains and
sufficient number of employees. The ver-
dict also censures Rawson, the telegraph
operator; Conductor Rood, Engineer Close,
and Brakeman Robbins.
A FIRE on Broadway, New York, on
the 9th, destroyed about $l5O,0OO worth Of
property. Stern & Co., shirts; Adler & Co.,
gloves; NJ. Fisher, dress trimmings, are the
principal sufferers.
LIEUT.. WELSH, commanding the
Pensacola Navy-yard, reports to the Navy De-
partment that an incendiary fire broke out
in Warrington at a. m. on the 9th. Many
dwellings were destroyed, and most Of the
business portion OF the town is gone. The
yard is safe.
The mangled body of an unknown
man was found on the railroad track near
Flemington, w. Va, the other day. Both
legs were cut off below the knees, and the
body cut and bruised. 1t is thought he at
tempted to board moving train and fell
under the wheels. There is no clue to his
identity, except small Catholic prayer
book bearing the name Of j. NJ. Carmichael
OH the fly-leaf.
ALAzY flagman caused collision on
the Baltimore s Ohio, near Pittsburg, Pa,
the other day. Sanders, brakemen, was
killed; Conductor Ruffner lost leg, and
another trainman was badly hurt.
SURVEYOR EIvRET, of Starr County,
Texas, was shot and killed in Rio Grande
City, the other night, by the Lips boys.
Nine bullets were lodged in Eivret's body.
The murder was q cold-blooded one, and
lynch law was generally advocated.
THE police of Dallas, Texas, have ar
rested man supposed to be Charles Saun.
ders, who murdered Officer Printz, of St.
Louis, on June /, 1879. and who has ever
since evaded arrest. the accused, however,
stoutly asserts his ability to prove that jus.
tice is on the wrong track.
SEVEN bodies were recovered from
the wreck Of the Robert E. Lee on the 9th,
some Of which have been identified.
An accident on the stage of the Royal
Operx. House in Berlin caused a panic in
which many persons were severely injured.
In the annual Mohammedan cere-
many of the holy carpet, in Cairo, General
Woiseley and the Duke of Connaught ap-
peared in the procession, following camel
laaded with gifts for the Caliph.
AT a meeting of the American Board
of Foreign Missions in Portland, Me-, the
other day, Rev. DR.. Alden announced
financial crisis which scarcely admitted Of
hope. William L. Dodge electrified the as.
semblage by offering to double his sub
scription, an example which was instantly
by a dozen gifts of $1,000 each. A
touching appeal by DR.. Webb, of Boston,
caused fifteen hundred men and women to
rise to their feet simultaneously and pledge
twice the sum they had previously offered,
the total amount secured being $4,000.
MEXICAN robbers at Tacubaya killed
Frederic Hubbi, the tax collector, mortally
wounded his wife, and took $1,000 from
the safe.
GEORGE ScovILLE, of Chicago, has
filed in the Cook County Court an affidavit
that his wife is insane, and asks that pro-
cecdings may be instituted to determine the
question. Not having the Sc to pay the fees
he swore that he and the patient were
manners