Show i dihins A HE SAVES THE TRAIN HE DRAGS HIMSELF FOR OVER A MILE wat AMOK ABI succeeds in saving atie lives of people springfield mo dea 18 tho second attempt to wreck the texas express on the st louis santa fa railway was made this morning at lemau the switch bolts were removed and the rails were spread so as to throw the train over an embankment fortunately for the people on the train a wild engine was running ahead this plunged through the switch the engine haq demolished and the rails torn up for a quarter of a mile the fireman with a broken ankle dragged himself back more than a mile flagging the train saved it from destruction A Jen loiis dec 18 at caine a small place in the northwestern part of the state today to day stephen mead shot his wife and then kaled himself tho tragedy was the outgrowth of the husbands jealousy they leave four small children lie bot NEW YORK dec 18 edward F honeywood who was arrested in newark a week ago on complaint of P mcdonald a dry goods merchant charged with having obtained money under false pretenses was arraigned in court loday lo day and pleaded not guilty he chained to be the son of lady honeywood of belgrade square london when arrested but his story was not believed capt griffiths late of the british army but now a philadelphia merchant however identified honeywood as the parson he claims to be tho robbery mass dec 18 nothing new concerning conce the train robbery the popular opinion is that bunch who six weeks ago robbed the ox press messenger on the new orleans sc northwestern railway bossed the duckbill job governor lawrey yesterday offered a reward of the capture of the robbers and thy illinois kc JACKSON tean dec 18 A desperate fight occurred between the negroes and whites in a remote part of this county friday it grew out of a lawsuit the fight occurred in court and several persons were badly hurt the negroes sent to this city sunday for ammunition they are armed with shotguns revolvers and knives and swear they will not be arrested officers wont from hero yesterday the result is not known A serious riot is feared A tenn dee 18 A negro gambler driven from camp on the cumberland gap eail road yesterday returned with a party of friends and attempted to shoot some of the men they wora driven US without any injuries having been inflicted and the leader was arrested on the road to the jail a mob took him from the officers and bung him to a tree motive ATLANTA ga dec 18 the motive of dick hawes in murdering his two little girls and his wife has been discovered A few days before her death mrs hawes settled all her property on her son of whom the father is guardian and which puts him IQ control of the property the two sisters of mrs hawes who have died within the past year willed their estates respectively to may and irene the girls to come into possession upon attaining their majority in order therefore to control all the property hawes found it necessary to get rid of the two girls as well as the mother so that as their heir he would come into possession of the entire block of property left by col pettis his father in law on dec 18 an exciting shooting affair occurred on griswold street opposite the city hall today to day A comanor was selling the property ot herman luther under the order oi the court to sell and divide it with his divorced wife the property was first bid in by luther but he was unable to make the required deposit and tho wife succeeded in bidding in the goods This enraged luther who drew a and fired at his wife and daughter they ran down the street and as the daughter turned the corner she tripped and fell and as she lay on the ground luther bevelled levelled level led the revolver to fire at her A bystander grabbed his arm and the bullet atrock an spectator in another shot was fired by him and struck his son in the neck inflicting a irenous wound the froia lunching lynching lyn ching him 0 vrho ried a him to OAN dec 18 ati Ss s to alo r 1161 y rola aarti wll not make an ir i r ort of the haytian affairs but it is learned from 5 that the steamer haytian ee public in tho harbor of por AU pance when the saginaw sailed passengers by tho saginaw bring im newa from hayti on the morning of the ath of december as the passengers state four of imes men of war the dessalines belize toussaint LOvert eur and one other bombarded cape haftl the gunboats gun boats dropped anchor four or five miles off shore lying broadside onto town the guns were fired with blank cartridges to give notice of warlike intentions tho foreign consuls in the city sent out a petition to the commander of ahe fleet asking to get out of the city they were given thirty six hours to ate the town people fled into the hills taking all their possessions they could conveniently carry the supply of paek mules being limited to fifty or sixty the animals were in great demand and fabulous prices were paid to convey a single mule load of the more valuable effects of wealthy residents to a place of safety those of the poorer classes who were fortunate enough to own a mule preferred renting out to using tho animals to save their own goods short ly after daybreak on sunday after the arrival of the fleet the haytian officers their guns on the town and the bombardment commenced operations were begun al this early hour because the favoring tide enabled the four vessels to lay broadside to the town the toussaint fired the first shot which went whistling through the air and buried itself in the sand on the beach in front of tho frail thatched bamboo houses of the poor natives the other vessels followed suite and fired wildly in a few minutes however the shots began to tear through tho town demoralizing the frail houses the bamboo succumbed easily but the stone buildings in the central and more elevated portion of the town were not so easily destroyed the heavy walls resisting the firo for several hours despite tho warning that they had received to leave many of the residents clung to their habitations tat ions impossible to remove many of the sick within the time allotted by the commander at the top of all the houses in which sick persons were known to bo a white nag was placed but the shot and shell were no re specters of emblems none of the people who arrived today could estimate with any degree of accuracy the number killed but it was thought fifteen or twenty succumbed to the deadly fire is by degrees losing the confidence of tho people aad most ja the sympathy is with the north the agents jn new republic Ke public aro surprised at the report their vessel aul wul aadil for hayti toony to ony n of an american crew chieh sailed from here last week on the atlas line ship alene to be delivered at the american port subject to the disposal of this government mr austin one of the agents says I 1 dont see what either hayti or tha atlas people gain by this I 1 doubt very much whether they can bring tho haytian Eo publio up here she had no stores no fuel nor anything on board and she must be in a bad condition they say she will leave this morning the galena ought to bo thero today to day and will probably reach them before she can sail 1 suppose galena will take possession of her at once mr morse one of the owners is on tho galena and he will tako charge of his vessel |