The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-07-24

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State recelyn ship View Hampshire, ata
Norfolk, committed suicide By shooting
himself through the head with a navy re-
volver. suicide is believed to have
been caused by disappointment in love.
Sands, Rear-AdRfral us. N.
"A young man named William Rob-
sTtsSa, Of Fort Wayne, Ind, went out
iftift fourth, and nothing was
heard of him until two days afterward,
when his body was found about two miles
from town, lying about fifteen feet from
large tree which had been struck by
lightning. His head was severed from his
body, and tue two were lying some dis
lance apart
Married ladies should be cautious
about disciplining their husbands, when
the latter come home tipsey, by sticking
their heads into bucket of water. At
such times the husbands are not fitted for
the reception of water. Mrs. Junk, of
Marietta, Ohio, was in the habit of so dis.
ciplining her husband, but she knows bet
ter now. Last week she tried it, and held
his head in the pail till he was subjugated.
Now she is lone widow.
In Jacksonville, Ind. James Murphy,
eighteen years old, quarreled with his
father, cooper, about where he should
work, his father wanting the son with him,
and the son determined to work in another
shop. James, booming exasperated, drew
a revolver and fired twice at his father. one
ball passing through the coat and vest, be-
tween the left side and arm, and the other
whistling close by his ear, when bystand-
ers interfered and disarmed the lad.
Jacob Youngblood, of Chicago, the
other day attempted to sever his Iugular
vein with a razor, and not succeeding, he
was taken to the station house and locked
up for safety. He proved equal to the
emergency, however, for, taking off his
shirt, he made rope of it, and tying one
end to the bars of the cell-door, he noosed
his neck in the other end, and when dis.
covered he was dead as door-nail. Do
nestle difficulties was what allied him.
Martin G. Evans, of Cincinnati, in q
fit of jealousy, went to Wheeling, w. Va,
with the avowed intention of killing Mrs.
Dunlap, whom he wished to marry, and
Mr.. Flanagan, of whom he was Jealous,
proposing to wind up the tragedy by kill.
ing himself 1t resulted, however, that
he killed neither the woman whom he
wished to marry nor the man of whom
he was jealous, but got killed himself
and thus the fool died of his own
folly.
AT South Acton, Mass, George Curtis,
a lad but eight years of age, took little
boy named Lane, five years of age, out
into the woods and beat him to death with
a club. The child-murderer then fled, but
was subsequently arrested in Cambridge,
many miles away from, the scene of the
murder. This is the third case of DELHI.
crate murder committed by young chill.
dren which has been announced within a
few weeks, the other two cases occurring
in Tennessee.
AT Owcnsvillc, Ky, the other day,
william &: Satterfeld was placed on trial
tor burning that place last April. While
one Hudson was testifying with regard to
being employed by Satterfeld to burn
the place, Sattcrtield and his friends rush.
ca toward him with revolvers in their
hands. Several determined citizens inter.
fered and averted a collision. The court
then adjourned over night. The next day
Satterfield and his friends rode into town
with double-barreled shot-guns and were
met by Hoon, the jailer, and other citizens
Hoon fired at Satterfield, killing him in
stantly, when the rest of the party fled
oatterfleld had been regarded as danger
Gus and desperate character, and his death
was not much regretted by law-abiding