Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1855 — Horrible Tragedy in Missouri. [ARTICLE]

Horrible Tragedy in Missouri.

A letter from Pat on, Cape Girrardeau county, Mo., relates the following shocking affair. . "An atrocious murder and house-burn-ing took place on Wednesday night last, within eight miles of this place. A young man by the name of .Buckner some time «nee married a widow who.had a daughter nearly grown. Not long after they were married .Buckner seduced the young girt. or, as some say, ravished her, since which time, .Buckner, the old lady, and the girl have been quarreling and fight•*on Wednesday night last .Buckner returned home after an absence of some two months, when his wife caught him •&d held him, while her daughter killed him with an axe! To hide all traces of the work, they then set fire to the house, consuming the body in the flames. What led to the discovery of the murder was the circumstance of .Buckner being absent so long, and some of the neighbors seeing him come home on Wednesday evening. They saw no more'of him, so they went to raking and searching among the.; coals, and ashes of the hurnt house and found some bones which excited suspicions. An inquest was held, and they were determined to be human bones. All the parties concerned have been arrested, except young woman. The'wile has made a frill confession."

t OO*We learn from the St. Joseph Valley Register that the Railroad Suspension Bridge near Niagra Falls is completed; and a Locomotive, with a passenger car attached, has passed over iti The telegram says "the bridge is very substantial and steady, gifting less than two inches at the centre as the train passed over.” It may be entirely safe; bat When the thermometer is 20 degrees below zero, and iron Tsnaps almost like glass, we should prefer walking to. riding ever it = in a weU-filled passenger * trite* /growing to ill health and the inclem«soy of the weather, the Rev. Mr. East ’■SSfljl ff* p — v ~ the Presbyterian Siureb next fiabbstb. 2JHh in*., »f ft