Daily Republican., 1885-11-11
News Summary,
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THREE Sk ELE1ONS FOUND

THREE Sk ELElONS FOUND
The wife Of L. @. Sanford, q planter
OF Clay County, Texas, was murdered
By her 14-year-old son Valen tine, during
bis fathers absence from home a few
days ago. The young monster fred e We
shots at his mother with Winchester
rifle, as she was doing some work In q
field. He afterwards assisted his fat her
10 searching for her. The body WAS
found by neigbbors on Sunday evening,
and the boy then confessed his crime.
He said he had also intended TO kill his
father. then sell the plantation and turn
brigand.
Mrs. Martha Wilkerson lived few
miles from Greensboro, North Carolina,
with her only child, youth Of 18. She
became infatuated with young hired
man who worked for o neighbor, and
was about to marry him, but her son
opposed the match. Last Saturday
mother and son had bitter quarrel. On
Sunday morning the neighbors found
mother and son lying dead on the floor
OF their house, each with bullet wound
In the head.
The North, South and Central Ameri.
can Exposition, at New Orleans, was
formally opened yesterday. The cere.
monies began with q civic and military
parade. The program at the building
Included music, prayer, speeches by
the Director General. the President OF
! the Exposition Association, Commits
sion,r General Pitkin, Governor
Emory. Mayor Guillotte. Senior Romero,
Rev. &. II. Werley (colored), and
Major Burke. Ooly q small portion Of
the exhibits are yet In place.
A sensation was caused on Tuesday
= Lincoln, Illinois, by the discovery OF
the bones OF at least three human shele
tons under the smokehouse Of home
cad which belonged TO John Hay es
from 1879 to 1880. Haines was a rough
character, the terror of his Heighbors,
and after participating in several
bloody ARRAYS at Lincoln, WAS killed in
kansas a ear ago. 1t Is generally be-.
uved that the bones are remains OF his
victims.
A letter received In Quebec from
Point Aux EsQuimaux, In the Gulf OF
st. Lawrence, reports sixty families
here threatened with starvation.
twenty five men who left the place TO
got work in the woods at Bersimis say
Il
ploy them.
George j. Fryer, express and tele
Iphone agent at Glencoe, Ontario, is ro
tpDrted to have absconded with abou,
o. 500 left with him by banks to b.
e1pressed. He is said to have slst
| ken q woman with him, leaving hi
~ite destitute.
Sanford Fleming telegraphs from
British Columbia to Bir John Mac
td3nald that the first through train owe
the Canadian Pacific Railroad made
ne journey in five days, and he say
h trip will shortly be made by pas
senaer trains In four days.
Martin Fryer, aged forty years, Q
white Plains. Nav Nork, commitie
II cide in Pittsbnrg on Taosnay "
eft his family at White Plsins and 70
I lowed young woman 10 Pittsbure
and left note saying that "he coul
not i've without her"
rhe last spike IN the Californi
son lhern Railroad WAS driven on MOI
lday, at CajoD Psse. This gives II
4 lantic and Pacific Railroad throus
con aectlon 10 the Pacific coast, VIII
San Diego as terminus.
A freight train on the Memphi
selma and Brunswick Railroad wi
' srccked near Lspillyille, MississipI
on Mond night. running over COZ
Several train men "ere in)ur%i,
eonduc,or, Charles Collins, fatally.
- Their. we're % deaths from smallp
lin Montreal and in Its suburbs
;e Monday. The total number OF deaf
from the disease reported last week "
i, 23g, of which 1853 we're of children unc
i've years of age.
Il The latest reports Of the loss OF
20 steamer Alaoma, on Lake Superior.sh
10 II forty eight lives were lost, OF
fourteen persons, twelve of the or
and two passengers, being saved.
Charles Crocker, Vice President
IN. Southern Pacific Railroad, has gi'
s3l 900 TO the Boy 's and Girl's Aid
= ciety Of San Francisco for the erect
y of their building.
James Gordon, eighty years OF q
ihsugrd Himself in his son-in. laws b
lpear Florence, Ontario, on Tueet
morning, because he was suffering fr
sickness and pain.
n The engine and four cars u lo
no freight train on the Fitchburg X
road, In Massachusetts, were wrec
is. on Monday by large rock which
fallen on the track.