The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-02-06
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person, who escaped.
Three boys were drowned at Brooklyn, N.
Y, the other day, by the breaking of the ice
on which they were skating,
A sad accident occurred at Emmetsburg,
Ind, the other day. Atwo-year-old child OF
James Sweeney wandered upstairs, where q
pistol was left lying in q box. On hearing a
report the mother, too much alarmed to go
herself, sent her little daughter, who re-
turned. carrying the dead baby in her arms,
shot through the heart.
"A horrible execution took place at Mar
tinez, Contra Costa county, CAL, on the
23d Of Janu ary, a man named Marshall Nor
ton being the victim. When the drop fell.
Morton's head was entirely severed from the
body, which tumbled lifeless TO the ground.
A lawyer, named Moore, was recently
hung by a mol at Rulo, Neb., for horse-steaa-
ing. He confessed to belonging to.an extern
sive gang.
At Cleveland, Ohio, a few days ago, a little
boy eight years old stabbed a playmate with a
pocket-knife, inficting a fatal wound. He
then got hold of his fathers revolver andblew
his own brains out.
Miss Minnie Phelps was killed and Mr..
C, wilkins dangerously injured, at Madison,
Wis. the other day, while riding in a sleigh,
the cutter coming in cnntact with a tree and
throwing them out with great violence.
In Pittsburgh, Pa, one DR.. Wm. Smith
is charged with wholesale murder, by poison
ing. Seven of his patients are supposed to be
victims of poisoning. Smith is a ~weil-known
physician in the vicinity. Some years ago he
was convicted Of passing counterfeit money
and sentenced to the penitentiary. He WAS
subsequently pardcned, and resumed the
practice of a physician.
"A large amout of silver plate and jewelry
which belonged to the Steiner family, four
members of which were burned in New York,
a short time ago, is missing, and murder and
robbery are now i~nsinuated in connection with
the terrible affair.
Alex. D. Hamilton, City Treasurer OF
Jersey City, is missing, together with $780, DOC
of the city's funds.
David White, aged u years, soon after
returning home from school at New York, the
other day, hanged himself with his book
strap.
The Olympic Theater, in Philadelphia. has
been burned. Two persons were killed and
six seriously injured by a falling wall during
the progress of the fire.
James and Rebecca Jacobs, brother and
sister, of Decatur, Ind, are under arrest fol-
the revolving crime of incest.
Some startling revelations have just beer
made in regard to the interment of paupert
in the Potter 8 Field, at New York. Strenuous
efforts have boon made by members Of the
United Order of Free Masons Of that city tc
obtain possession Of the remains of Nathanie.
French, Most Worslipful Grand Master of the
Bahama Islands, who was beaten to death and
robbed, several months ago. and buried in
the Potter's Field. They applied to the Com
missioners Of Charities and Corrections for
the body, but these officials evaded their in.
them to give up the remains. On being
pressed for an answer why this was so. they
made the startling statement that the body
was buried at the bottom of a pit, in which
were 603 other bodies, and that, as no
record was kept Of the row in which the de-
sired body was placed, they could not deliver
it to his friends. This revelation has produced
intense indignation in New York, and the mat
ter is heing investigated.
"A brute named Samuel Baughman was
arrested and lodged in jail ct Monroe, Adams
county, Ind, recently, for severely whipping
and kicking his aged mother.
Jacob Mills, of Lagrange, Ind, has been
required to give bail for appearance in court,
for committing rape on a widow named Mrs.
VIM. Dragoo. Both parties move in the first
circle Of society.
Three Frenchmen were detected in Austin,
Mimi, in the act Of stealing wheat-their
mode Of procedure being to bore holes under
the floor AMI extract the grain in quantities to
suit themselves.
A man named Paul MORALLY wounded Jas.
ONeil at Carlinyille, H., by cutting the top of
his head off with a scythe. Whisky was the
cause OF it.
DR.. VIM. Smith, the Pittsburgh, Pa. pois-
oner, asserts his innocence of all bad intention
with great candor, which is poor consolation
to the friends Of his victims.