The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-14
Casualty and Crime.

onists in settling difficulties according 10
the code duello, and fighting bravely IN
der Gen. Taylor, in the Mexican war, COM
mitted suicide short time since
At Bowling Green, few days ago,
negro boy, Moses, the property of Mrs.
Laura Veteran, in the service of J. L.
Row, as miller, was caught in some wheel
and so seriously injured, as to prove fatal
in a few hours
We learn from the Mt. Sterling Ky
Wing that Joseph E. Curry was shot and
mortally wounded in Stanton, Powell coun-
ty, few days ago, by Robert Maxwell
On account of little difficulty the Satur-
day before, Curry commenced alterca-
ton with Maxwell, on Monday last, and
when shot was in the act of attacking him
with bigknife. The ball entered the alb
domen, and the wound is considered very
dangerous.
The Louisville Journal says that George
Putnam, one of the carriers of that pa
per, was accidentally shot Sunday af-
ternoon, and received wound which will
no doubt prove mortal. He and his broth
er Rufus were looking at a pistol, and while
the latter held it in his hand he FELL and in
the fall the weapon was discharged and
George received the shot, the ball entering
! the back of the head and ranging round
near the eye Medical aid was called in at
once, but there was no hope that the boys
life could be saved. The accident occurred
at the residence of the boys widowed moth
er.
The Vincennes Sun learns from CORES
pendent at Carmel, Ill, that deliberate
murder was committed in that county on
Thursday evening, about o'clock. Chas.
Brines, q citizen of the county, was seated
on load Of hay with his boy, a child of
twelve years of age, when some one with a
rifle, seated in a fence corner, deliberately
fred upon him, sending a ball through hi
brain. The murderer has not been identi
fed, and the probabilities are that he never
will be, as there was no witness but the
child.
The Salem (Hl.) Advocate contains a
horrid account of the death of young lady
from Vandalia She left the little village
of Patolza in company with a woman, as
a guide, to visit neighbours house. They
started about ten o'clock at night, and get
ting lost wandered around ill morning,
when they came upon a fire and stopped to
warm Here the young lady's clothing
caught fire, and the woman instead of try
ing to put the fire out, left the young girl
and started for a farm house about half q
mile distant When she returned the
young lady was in a dying condition, hav-
ing every particle of clothing burned from
her body, and her flesh a. blackened crisp.
From the suspicious manner Of the woman
leaving just as the young girls clothes
caught FIRE, and the fact that she had the
girls money in her possession, it is suspect
ed there was foul play. The young lady
was teacher from the East.
The Fort Wayne Times says that three
Irishmen in that city call at a drug store
recently and inquired for article that the
clerk understood to be acid. He asked
them if it was " oxalic acid, they wanted
to which they replied, in the affirmative
He gave them the Quantity desired, labeled
"Oxalic Acid-poison;' but accidentally
the label became detached from the pack
age The men intended to procure EPSON
Salts, and two of them took the acid in
ternally without discovering their mistake
/ as both-the acid and salts closely resemble
each other The life of one of the men
who took a large dose, was for time des-
= paired of, but the attending physician says
4 they are beyond danger. --.-