The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-03-19

SAMUEL RUSSELL, coachman, and
two children, Carlos III. Blackman,
eight years old, and Willis T. Black.
man, Jr., ~ years old, were killed, and
Marguerite Blachman, ten years old,
was seriously injured, her right leg
being broken and her body bruised, by
their carriage being struck by train
at Hinsdalc, a Chicago suburb, on the
night of the 10th.
CHARLES c. HAYS, a boy, died OF
smallpox, on the night OF the 10th, at
the Eruptive hospital in Louisville, KY.
Two other children in the house in
which he lived on Frankfort avenue,
were reported down with the dis
case.
MIR. GLADSTONE arrived In London,
on the 10th, from his trip to the Ri
viera. in excellent health.
SENATOR DAVID b. Hill. and Benja-
min Dos Passos, of New York, acting
as attorneys for the state, have hled an
appeal in the matter of the jay Gould
estate. They make four separate counts
of s., ,OOO, 900 each, and say that to ex-
empt those moneys from the transfer
tax affords every descendant All easy
method for evadlng the statute. and
that it is expressly a fraud.
ONE of the most disastrous accidents
in the history of the Delaware, Susque-
hanna & Schuylkill railroad happened
at Gum Run, Pa, on the 11th, when the
boiler of an engine attached to a coal
train exploded, killing four men and
fatally injuring one other.
WILLIAM WEHRII, residing in Woods
county, Okla, was found dead IN his
house on the 18th. He was sitting mp
right in his chair with bullet in his
head, the work of some assassin. There
is no clew to the murderer.
A GANG of Mexican desperadoes
crossed the river, ON the 11th, near
Fort Hancock, Tex, and captured 1850
sheep, belonging to q Mr.. Pitchery.
They drove the sheep to the Mexican
side and into the plains. The Mexi-
can frontier guards started In hot pur.
suit of the thieves.
II. Fl. MCDONALD, Jr., president OF
the dcfunct Pacific bank of San Fran
cisco, was, on the 11th, acquitted of the
charge of falsifying the records of the
concern. Mcdonald was arrested two
years ago, after the failure, and has
been in prison ever since. The jury
disagreed in former trial.
AN attempt was made to rob the
First national bank at Germantown,
O., early on the morning of the 18th.
The robbers were evidently green at
the business, and used so much giant
powder that the bank was wrecked.
The town was aroused and the robbers
fled.
THE small British schooner Queen
Mistley was sunk off Beachy Head, on
the south coast of England, on the
18th, by a collision with a steamer
Sayn. The captain and three of the
crew of the schooner were drowned.
The mate and one seaman were res
cued.
In the recent attack made by the In
surgents on Sagua Tanamo the presi-
dent of the Cuban government, the
marquis of Santa Lucia, fell from his
horse and was seriously injured. He
is Is years of age.
THE alleged filibustering steamer
Commodore, loaded with arms and mu.
nitions of war, went to sea from
Charleston. S. c., on the 18th.
WHILE DIR. Henry Il. Berghill was
experimenting with some chemicals at
323 Center street, Chicago, on the 12th,
an explosion occurred, blowing of
both his hands and destroying the
sight of both eyes, besides injuring
him about the head and face. The
house in which the explosion occurred
was damaged considerably.