Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-06-11
NEWS DISPATCHES.

NEWS DISPATCHES,
A despatch from Baltimore Md. under
date of the 4th says Two terrible deaths
from hydrophobia. one particularly dis
tressing. occurred in the vicinity Of Bal
timore since yesterday morning. About
four weeks ago, on the farm Of Mr..
Friebe. about three miles from the city.
his son, Charles Friebe, returned from
Europe, graduate of tho University Of
Heidelberg. assisted by Anton Aver and
another German, gardeners, while remov-
ing a dog from one side Of the garden to
the other. were bitten BY the dog, Aver
very slightly on the left finger.
On Sunday morning last Aver was
seized with al the symptoms Of hydro
phobia, and died at six o'clock yesterday
morning. On Tuesday, about noon.
young Friebe went to see Aver. taking
with him the family physician, and be
came greatly alarmed when he saw Aver
suffering from hydrophobia. He went
home, took to his bed and was soon after
ward seized with violent convulsions -
Hydrophobia in its worst form manifes-
ted itself, and he died at one O'Clock to
day.
The other German who was bitten
started for Pennsylvania on Mondoy to
consult female doctress who claims to
have a specific for bydrophobia. and has
not since been heard from. The dog.
which was chained in Friebe's garden,
died day or two after biting the parties
who had no suspicion that the animal
was mad. Mr. Friebe, the father. sailed
for Europe few weeks since.
A St. Louis despatch of the 4th says
Joseph II Foxe, who shot and killed
Munson Deach, his brother in-law. in
August, tried and acquitted in 1871 on
the ground of emotional insanity, return
ed here from Natchez on Monday last,
and this afternoon made a mur5erous as
sault upon his wife. He accosted her on
the street. urging her to live with him
again. which she refused to do until he
would stop drinking.
After following her some distance he
again approached her, and asked her to
shake hands with him as Fl nal farewell.
She extended her hand, when he seized
it. drew her toward him. pulled hatchet
from underneath his clothing, and dealt
her three heavy blows on the head. She
fell senseless on the pavement.
The murderer ran but was captured.
A surgical examination revealed three
severe gasbes on Mrs. Fox's head, one
Of which would doubtless have proved
fatal but for the thick mass of hair she
wore. She lies in a critical condition,
but may recover.
A despatch from Richmond Va. under
date of the 4,h says Jim Brown, the
alleged murderer Of the two old ladies,
Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Dosicr near Suffolk
was captured last night and jailed to-day.
He confessed that he beat his victims to
death with billet ef wood and then
robbed the house. He informed the
sheriff where the stolen money was con
cealed. The feeling against him is in
tense, and it is more than probable he
will be lynched.
Horace Venable, the neg. o, who MUIR
dured Mary Holmes two weeks since by
knocking her in the canal, was convic
ted of murder in the first degree.
On Saturday the 3lst uk. Patrick
boss in stone quarry near
Boonville, Missouri, discharged three
men, named Tom Graney, Joe Mason.
and Pat Murphy. These men were i'm
mediately hired by another boss. named
O'Nell. which fact was reported by Nc
Namara to the chief engineer of the
works, and O'Nell and the three men
were dismissed. On Saturday evening
O'Neil and the discharged men assaulted
Mcnamara and beat him badly. In the
melee McNamara shot and instantly kill
ed Graney. and mortally wounded Ma
son. McNamara gaxahimself up to the
and was discharged on the
ground that the homicide was justi6a.
bic.
AN attempt was made, by persons un-
known, to throw the Providence mail
train from the track Of the Shore Line
Railroad. near Westerly, R. l.. at II 2.
NJ. on the 4th, by placing distractions
on the track. They were discovered
and removed in time to avoid disae.
ter.
A New Orleans Times (Austin) des-
patch says the Legislature adjourned on
The 4th. The House being four.6fths
Democratic, and Conservative majority
in the Senate, all the purely Republican
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