The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-27
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
VIM. G. Campbell (colore0 was hanged
at Cairo, ILL.,, August 20, for the murder of
Thomas Doyle.
Six persons were killed and ten or twelve
others injured by an accident ON the De-
troit and Milwaukee Railroad, near Muir,
August IS. The killed were emigrants
from Sweden and Ireland.
Mrs. Louisa Korchmeyer, of st. Louis,
was in hurry to get supper the other
evening, but being called away for short
time by the crying of her baby, she found
the fire nearly out on her return. With
her babe in her arms, she then grasped the
kerosene can and proceeded to g hurry up''
the fire. The usual pyrotechnie display at
once took place, and the doctorslsay that;
neither Mrs. Korchmeyer nor her child
will probably recover.
Judge Elisha Mears, of Clarksville,
johnson county, Ark, was shot by an un-
known assassin while going home to his
dinner, August 27. 1t is believed that his
murder was actuated by jealousy.
A sailor, giving the name of John e.
Irving, is inf Jail in San Francisco, " no
s:lys he had a hand in t1Tg SrrrDITIrUa aa
murder in New Y ork City. He says that
Washington Nathan and the housekeeper's
son were the instigators of the deed, and
that he had confederate named McNally.
1t is thought the prisoner is insane.
EaIt has recently been ascertained that
Rodman, the defaulting Secretary of the
Brooklyn Trust Company, and formerly
Assistant City Treasurer eff the City of
Brooklyn, embezzled some $500, 900 of the
city funds while in office. s'tA
y M. Bosanquest, Cashier of the First
NSeional Bank of Tarrytown, n. ", has
committed suicide.
YIN. R. Boyce, President OF the, First
National Bank of Lynn, Mass, recently
committed suicide.
Edward Beane, the conductor of the coal
|. train ON the Chicago and Alton Railroad,
which caused the recent terrible loss of life
at Lemont, was arrested at Monee, H.,
August %, and taken to Chicago and
lodged in Jail.
Five persons were seriously, but it is
thought not fatally, injuredby an accident
| on the Vandalia Railroad, near Terre Haute,
Ind, August23.
The reported Indian massacre at Fort
Sill turns out to be hoax.
| The investigation into the Wawasset dis
aster ON the Potomac was concluded Sept.
| l. The inspectors say that the steamer
was seaworthy in all respects; butfind that
| the master was incompetent and acting
without any license, and that there was no
organization or discipline on board. The
chief engineer is severely censured and
his license recalled. 1t was recommended
iii conclusion that the Potomac Ferry
Company be vigorously prosecuted for vio-
lating the steamboat law.
| w. w. Dundon, anomer vlcum of the
Galloway county (Mo.) outrage, has since
died.
A number of skillful bond forgeries
have recently been detected in New York
city.
The grand jury of Galloway county,
Mo-, have indicted some six or eight per-
sons for participating in the lynching of
Kessler.
An insane man named William Knight
ly, living at Knightly's station, ON the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
near Sedalia, No., recently set fire to his
house and then shot himself His sister
Adelaide, and his nephew, Louis Stobbs,
perished in the burning building, and it
was presumed that they also had been
shot by the insane man before the build
ing was fired.
More recent Investigations into the mas
sacre at Knightly station. renders it ex-
remely probable that Knightly was him.
self the victim of an assassin instead of the
perpetrator of the horrid deed laid to his
charge. There is said to be no evidence in
proof of the original charge, further than
that Knightly had been at times insane.
BY the eaving of sand bank at Pitts
burg, recently, teamster and his team
were completely buried under seventy
five tons of sand and all crushed to death.
| Newcastle, Pa, had $4,000 fire,
Sept. l,
MISCELLANEOUS.
| Gold closed in New York, September 8,
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