Progue Bryant, a negro. was hanged at Pu- s
laski, Tenn., on the 10th, for the murder of
Alexander Steel some two years ago. The
execution took place in public, a large con
course of people, black and white, being
present.
Lowenstein, convicted of the murder of a
one-armed peddler in New York State last
fall, was executed at Albany on the 10th.
By the explosion of the boilers on the
steamer Tigress, formerly of the Polaris ex
pedition, while engaged in seal fishing, two
engineers and twenty of the crew were
killed. The accident occurred off Newfound
land.
A passenger train on the Cairo and Fulton
Railroad met with a serious accident near
Boughton station in the Little Missouri River
bottom, on the 10th, caused by a portion of a
trestle-bridge giving way, by which the lo
comotive and baggage-car were wrecked and
the engineer killed.
John R. Breckenridge, e law student at
Lebanon, Tenn., was shot and killed by John
L. Anderson son of the Mayor of that town, a
few days ago. The two had been on a drink
ing bout during the day, and the shooting was
brought about by a trivial and apparently
friendly dispute regarding an umbrella.
Anderson had not been captured, but a posse
was after him. Young Breckenridge was
the youngest son of the late Dr. Robert
J. Breckenridge, of Danville.
Two men, named Fred. Eckert, Jr., and Ja
cob Petri, have been arrested and lodged in i
jail on the charge of being implicated in the
Steltzereide murder in St. Clair county, Ill.
Both were neighbors of the murdered fam
ily, and the elder Eckert is one of the admin
istrators of the Steltzereide estate. J
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