Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-06
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
Murder, Suicide and Fire in CINCINNATI
Supposed Suicide ia Pittsburg.

CINCINNATI, July 5.-TWo soldiers
belonging to the Newport barracks
went into a saloon and boarding house
in this city, No. 81 East Pearl street,
about s O'Clock last NIGH, and engaged
room for the night. Their names
were James Mitchell and Chris. Zffrin.
ger. Shortly after 4 o'clock this
morning the proprietor was aroused
by q call for water from this room,
and upon going up he found that
Zfffinger had been shot just back of
the ear, and that Mitchell was dead,
having been shot in the head, the ball
entering behind. Zfringer was
alive, but in a very critical con-
dition. The soldiers testify that Zffrin-
ger was very peaceful, but that Mitch
ell was a dangerous man, and had
threatened Zfringer no longer than
yesterday.
A fire this morning destroyed Pull
man & -Roachers chair back factory
and three dwelling houses adjacent on
Wood street. The total loss is about
$185, 900; supposed to have originated
from the use Of fireworks.
PIFTsBURG, July 5.-A telegraph
operator named W. II, 81. Davy, of
Mansfield, Ohio, an employee in the
Western Union Office in this city, dis
appeared last night, leaving a note
threatening suicide, giving as his rea-
son disappointment in love and pc
cuniary troubles. He was a cripple,
having had his back broken, and was
very sensitive on that account. No
traces have as yet been discovered of
his whereabouts.
HORROR OF HORRORS.
CHICAGO, July ga dastar dly and
brutal murder was committed near
the village of Shabbona Grove, De-
Kalb county, Illinois, ON the evening
of the Sd instant. Miss Joanna Nc
Cormick, a beautiful young lady Of
II years, daughter of Mrs. Nc
COrmick, wealthy farmers widow,
while sitting at the supper table with
her mother, two younger sisters and
a brother, was shot dead by a farm
hand in the employ of Mrs. McCor-
mick, named John Reed. The reason
for his committing the horrible deed
was the fact that Miss Mccormick
had refused to accompany HIM to a
Fourth of July celebration. On the
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through q window from a double
barreled shot gun, the first shot enter
ing her brain, killing her instantly.
Reed returned the gun to neighbor,
from whom he borrowed it, and fed.
The whole neighbOrhOOd is in pursuit
of him, and If caught he will pretty
certainly be lynched at once.
Martin Meard, farmer in good cir
cumstances, residing near Gilman,
Iraquais county, Illinois, was arrested
on Saturday for numbering his boy,
aged eleven years, in most cruel and
fiendish manner, on the l4th ult.
II appears from the testimony of
Meard's wife that on that day, while
she lay sick In her bed, the brute
stripped the child, laid him naked on
q hot stove, and roasted his back in a
terrible manner. He then beat him
numerically, and placed him in his
sick mothers bed, where he died In a
few hours. The fiend buried the body
of the murdered boy under a hedge,
and then went to town and publicly
advertised that his boy had run away.
suspicious were subsequently aroused
that there had been ioul play. Search
was made, the body found, and the
murderer arrested, and is now in jail
at Watseka. Mrs. Meard witnessed
the whipping and death Of her boy,
but was helplessly sick in child bed at
the time.
CINCINNATI, July 5.-The family
of Robert Simpson, OF College Hill,
were poisoned by ice cream last night.
Antidotes were used successfully and
ell are expected to recover.
The steamer Judy johnson was
passing dow. the Mississippi river
Just above Quincy, when she was fired
into by some persons on shore. Ben.
White was shot through the abdomen
and another shot passed through his
clothes. He is now lying at the
Trement House, In Quincy, in criti-
cal condition. Two young men,
named Jas. @. West sAd Charles Orr,
have been arrested ON suspicion of
being the guilty parties.