The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-19
Grimes and Casualties.

The Hamilton Woolen Mills, at Cincin-
natl, were struck by lightning, on July 4,
and burned to the ground. One man was
killed by falling roof.
At $50 p. NJ, on the evening of July l,
a tornado struck the house of MIR. Gid
dings, living at Galesburg, Kansas, blow
ing it to the ground and burying in the
ruins Mrs. Giddings and three children.
The latter were instantly killed. The
house of Mr.. Roder was also blown
down, and Mrs. Roder fatally injured.
Thos. Feeny beat his mother to death,
at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the night of July
l. He was arrested.
wife in New York city, few weeks ago,
has been sentenced to imprisonment for
life.
The trial OF young Walworth, the par
ricide, was concluded. on July 2. bya YER
dict of murder in the second degree.
James Bulger, residing near St. Jo-
seph, Mo-, while harvesting with his
reaper, on July 2, was thrown before the
cutter-bar, and so badly mangled that am
p1tation of both feet became necessary.
The business portion Of the town of
Belleville. Jefferson County, New York,
was destroyed by fire, on the morning of
July 2. Loss $4,000.
Kay's felting mill, at Unionville, Mass,
was destroyed by fire on the night of
July 1. Loss 100000. A case Of sponta-
neous combustion.
In South Acton, Mass, on July 4, Geo.
Curtis, aged eight years, enticed boy
named Lane, three years of age, into the
woods, and there beat him with club in
a most frightful manner. Lane was soon
discovered, but died of his injuries four
hours after. The child-murderer fled,
but was arrested in Cambridge.
On the morning of July 5, at Wheeling,
w. Va. one Evans, an officer in the Sig
nal Service, at Cincinnati, visited Mrs.
Dunlap. Finding at her house a young
man named Flanagan, he atts cked and
attempted to shoot him, but Flanagan
managed to turn the direction of the wea'
Don. so that Evans himself was shot.
Frank Walworth was sentenced to the
State Prison for life, on July 5, at New
York, for the murder of his father some
weeks ago.
A man, woman and child went ou
boating on Niagara river, on the after
noon of July 4, and are supposed to have
been carried over the falls. Two OF th'
party were John Elliott and Margaret
Rollinston, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The business portion of the town o
Grom Level, in Newberry County, S. G.
was destroyed by fire ON July 6. Los
SIS, 1000. ,
Louis Jaceznies and wife were drowne'
while sailing on the lower bay. New
York, on July7. Three men accompa
nying them were rescued.
e A French woman and child, in Dudley
!. Mass, were so badly burned by the ez
plosion Of kerosene on the night of Jul
; s that both died. Another child canno
e recover.
: Dr.. Fonaine, Of Spencer, Mass, wa
It held in $4,000 bonds on July for maj
slaughter, in causing the death Of chill
u y by using smallpox virus for vaccEnati
# instead OF vaccine matter.
r A dispatch from Winchester, Va, state
,e that while family named Little were
a breakfast, on the morning Of July 8,
feud broke out, when two sons name
: Oscar and Lycyus commenced firing
four other sons and their mother, the fl
being returned by the other sons. Osc'
IL was wounded, captured and sent to ja
$ Another son named Clinton was wounde
n also the mother. Clinton died the ne.
evening, and the mother will die,