San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-19

men. No progress was made yesterday
in the work of clearing away the OBJ
structions in the pit"
ADvIcEs from the West reported
that the Shakespeare Guards, of Shak-
speare, n. NJ, were in close pursuit OF
the depredating Apaches, who had
been obliged to abandon their horses
and plumber and take to the mountains
on foot. Capt. Thompson, with n de,
tachment of the Fourth cavalay, would
follow the Indians into Mexico If neces-
sary. Capt. Dougherty, who was In
pursuit of the hostiles, had been order
ed to take no prisoners The boilers
of the towboat Polar Star, plying be-
tween Cairo and st. Louis, exploded
while the craft was of Belmont, Mo-,
resulting in the death of six OF her
crew.
EIGHTEEN miles north of Lsrdsburg,
n. NJ, Judge H. McComas, his wife
and child, formerly of st. Louis, were
overtaken by Apaches and all but the
child killed. The child is supposed to
have been carried into captivity. The
rmarauding Indians are much more
numerous than earlier reports indicat-
ed, and their ravages cover a large
section of country, extending from
Magdalcna to within few miles OF
Tombstone, Arizona. The savages at
tackled Swings ranch, near the ella
river. in Arizona, and killed five men.
The same band attacked Beaches camp
and killed two men. The Western
Export Association have decided to
close their distilleries from June l un-
til the amount of whisky in store shall
have been reduced so that prices may
be readily controlled. In the mean
time the selling rate has been fixed at
$1.l3.
BLUE HORSE, a Sioux chief at the
Pine Ridge, has not found the habits
of civilization altogether pleasant. He
writes to the great father at Washing
ton that he had been trying to live IN
the white mans ways, and that, while
cutting wood for his wife, as q dutiful
husband should, stick flew up and put
out one of his eyes; wherefore he de-
sires the great father to send him an
other eye-a brown one-and q cane,
whereupon he may lean in his declining
years. .Asahel Finch, of Milwaukee,
senior member of the oldest law firm in
the United States, died last week, aged
IA. Fred Ingram and James Green
were lynched at Hastings, Neb., for the
murder of G. H. Millet, q grocer OF that
place Local estimates of the crops
in Indiana range between 80 and roper
cent. of an average crop, based on the
actual investigation of specimen field
of wheat Greeley, Col, has had
disastrous fire, the loss from which is
placed at about $150,00O.
SIX corpses were removed from the
Diamond mine, near Braidwood, Ill,
On the 1st inst, making thirty-tive re-
covered up to that date. The bodies
brought out of the death pit were
Identified as being Ike Pearson, John
Pearson, James Pearson. Thomas Rog-
ers, Hugh Ramsey, and Andy Fulton.
They were not identified by their fea-
lures, as they were unrecognizable.
Wives, brothers, sisters and mothers
we're frantic over the unsightly appear
ance of the bodies. The exploring
party that brought the bodies out were
,tupefied with whisky and quinine.
This was on account of the terrible
stencil that arose from the decomposed
bodies. Another exploring party was
% have gone down on the evening of
he LIST inst, but they refused to re-
inter the mine, on account of the peril
JUS nature of the undertaking.
In the murder case of Charles F.
Irin, plaintiff in error, against the
State of Missouri, the United States
Supreme Court, by majority of one,
eversed the Judgment of the Supreme
Court of Missouri, and remanded the
ase for further proceedings. Eight
-ears ago Kring murdered Dora Broem-
er because she would not marry him,
It that time she had living husband,
While Kring, too, had wife and family.
lie was tried six times, and was three
ines sentenced to be hanged. The /
fleet of the decision is to virtually clear
Iring. The officers of the Govern
nent steamer, Lily, which recently ar
lived at Cairo, after trip down the
Ohio distributing relief to the sufferers
" the late flood of that stream, say
hat 100000 would not cover the
oss sustained by the overflow between
Louisville and Cairo. Hundreds of
arms had ten to fifteen inches of pure
and deposited over their entire area,
md fences, outhouses and other build
ngs, besides grain and other crops have
,een swept away.
An Albuquerque On. NJ dispatch of
he third inst. says: Captain Black and
i've companies of troops are in hot
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