San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-15
GRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

Tom Lamb, a notorious colored desper-
ado, who was killed at Fort Worth, Texas,
the other day, confessed, before dying, 10
having killed seven white men since the
war.
in January, 1889, s6Oooco worth OF So
curities were stolen from Boston institu-
ton and the first clew 10 the thieves was oD-
tanned the other day at Philadelphia In
suit to recover n stolen $1,000 bond a
prominent physician OF the Quaker Guy Is
alleged 10 be in possession OF sso,ooo OF the
| purloncd securities
! The Missouri State prison, ut Jefferson
/ City. was the scene the other day. OF
/ formidable revolt Just after dinner the
conyicts at work In the harness shop seized
the foreman and fired pile of loose straw
When guards went in with hose, 1t was
promptly cut While the flames were raging,
the ringleader and seven accomplices were
placed in dark cells The loss is $500, 200,
mainly suffered by contractors
Mrs Casey, of Rosemont, Mimi, muir
dered her 4-year-old child and committed
suicide Insanity.
THE Jury in the Ashland murder case, at
Grayson, Ky, found Craft guilty, and he was
sentenced to he executed on the 25th OF
May The prisoner asserted his innocence
In speech before sentence waspassed.
A gang of seventy five Arkansas convicts,
working on che levee below Helena
mutinied. They killed the contractor, j.
r. CANT, and seventeen Of the party mado
their escape
"A patient in the Western Lunatic Asy-
lum, of Virginia tempered with the medi-
cine used, and FIVE inmates have died and
two are fatally poisoned
Albert j. Howell, q commission mer-
chant Of Chicago having become victim
of chronic nervousness, killed himself with
arevolver He had just completed arrange
ments for pleasure trip to New Orleans
"A sister of Senator Sharon endeavored
to kill herself with apenknife in bathroom
of the Palace Hotel at San francisco.
The Grand Jury at Milwaukee found q
true bill against George Scheller for firing
the Newhall House, and he was remandedt to
Jail in default of $4,000 bail
"A daring robbery was perpetrated at
Joliet the other day, the thieves securing
nearly s3, 900 worth of silks and other goods
Mainly owing to the good sense and prompt
action of q railroad conductor the thieves
were captured on their arrival in Chicago.
An employee of a mining company at
Ishpeming, Mich, accidentally exploded $50
pounds of giant powder, and not fragment
of his remains can be found.
The entire town of Vaughan, Miss, was
swept away by fire.
Mrs. Hennessy and two children were
burned to death in house near the quaran-
tine grounds on Staten Island.
Flames swept away the Catholic church
and parsonage at Riviere du Loup, valued at
$100,COO, and the postoffice block at La
Crosse, Wis, causing loss of s25,0 900.
--Afire on the public square at Washington,
Iowa, destroyed six business houses causing
q loss of $40, COO.
The old Malley cotton mills at North
Adams, Mass, valued at $T5, 900, were burned
The freight steamship Glamorgan,
bound from Liverpool to New York, was
lost in mid-ocean, seven of the crew perish
ing
Montague, Mich, was burned, and his three
children and servant persisted in the
flames.
"A seghing party of thirty-two promi-
nent Germans of Hawley, Penn, were
thrown from an icy road into an empty ca
nal, distance of forty feet, six of them be-
ing seriously injured Reinhard Warg died of
his wounds
Flames destroyed Bellows Moore's
building on Hudson avenue, Albany, valued
at $50, 600, and the tobacco factory of Myers
Brothers & Co., at Lynchburg, Va, worth
$4,000