The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-07-17

George Warner, aged fourteen years,
fell into a vat of boiling beer at Heldor
fer's brewery, Baltimore, on the llth,
and died almost instantly The beer was
drawn from the vat and the body taken
out and sent home.
George Ayres, wealthy farmer of
Brown county, Ohio, shot and killed his
grandson, who was asleep, and set the
house on fire He then went to the barn,
set it on fire, shot himself and was burned
up in the building. He was insane.
The Lancet, the famous medical Jour
nal of London, says that there is nothing
in the Queens condition To excite the
slightest anxiety. The Princess Beatrice
will 90 to AK Les Barnes, in Savoy,
where she will remain three weeks
Five pauper Polish Jew families were
brought to New York port on the 10th
by the steamer Syrian Monarch. The
emigration authorities notified the steam
ship company that these immigrants must
be returned to London, whence they came.
"A serious accident occurred on
Dodge's Railroad, near McRae, Georgia,
on the 10th, a train running into burn
ing trcstle. Three negroes were killed
and nine others wounded, some fatally.
John Johnson, white engineer, was
wounded
Telegraph operator Welcb, whose
negligence caused the recent collision on
the New York and New England Road
at PIainville, by which several persons
were killed. has been captured and put
under arrest at Southington, Conn. He
has been held in 81 800 bail for trial for
criminal careleSsncss.
The Iowa Greenbackers nominated
on the lth a full State ticket, headed bv
Congressman James g. Weaver for
Governor. The platform favors a low
tariff, unrestricted coinage of gold and
silver, the abolition of all banks of issue
and the election of President and Vice
President by the people.
The bank OF Franklin. New York,
was robbed on the 18th of e, 900 in sill
YER Two families living near were
bound and gagged, and after two hours
work the burglars blew the safe open.
The explosion tore out nearly the whole
front Of the building and set fire to the
papers. The money Of the bank was in
another safe The robbers were tracked
a considerable distance
A widow lady who runs ferry across
Withlacoochee river, was shot dead on
the 9TH by some unknown person con-
cealed behind clump of trees on the OPP
posite bank, while she was pulling party
across. Later intelligence gives the name
Of the murdered woman as Mrs. Joe
Micklcr, and that of the probable muir
derer as Ducan Morrison, her son-inlaw,
who is in Jail
tx Senator Eugene Casserly, Of Cal
ifornia, who recently died, left his prop
erty to his wife, Notwithstanding he had
three grown children In his will he ex-
plains: " In thus bequeathing all my es-
tate to my wife, to the exclusion of my
children, | am moved by no want of pa
ternal affection for them, but by the belief
that their own interests will be better
served thereby" The property in San
Francisco rents for 81 800 a month.
Last January, Jerome w. Goodspeed,
an old and wealthy Chicago publisher,
was killed by a snowslide in the Rocky
Mountains, and for six months his son
has been searching for the body. His
efforts have just been successful, the body
being discovered by dog that travelled
with the party, about mile west Of
Crested Bluffs, Colorado. Mr. Goodspeed
was buried under two feet of snow, and
was lying, frozen stiff, about 800 feet from
where his footprints were last seen. His
body was well preserved, and his features
wore a calm, natural look
The Light house Board has instructed
the employees Of Ship Island not to leave
the station and not to do anything calcu-
lated to Introduce contagion on the main
land. The quarantine officer at Ship Island
reports that four cases Of yellow fever
have been removed from the Norwegian
bark Vega to the hospital, and that one
of the crew had previously died from fe-
yer. Three vessels arrived at Ship Island
Quarantine Station on the 18th, the barks
Atlanta, from Vera Cruz, and Guldbringa
and Cnydoms Nenncr, which were towcd
from Pensacola by steamtuy They
have yellow fever on board.
About six o'clock on the evening of
the 10th three COW boys mounted their
ponies to leave Dodge City, Kansas, but
before starting they fired parting volley
into a dance house The city marshal
was qnickly on the spot and sent a few
shots after the fugitives when about three
hundred yards of. One Of them fell
from his horse and the other two escaped
across the bridge. The dead man was
John Ballard, resident of Indian Terri
tory, who recently arrived with herd
of cattle from Texas. He had been shot
through the lugular vein and was dead
when picked up. His friends threatened