Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-10-13
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

while on hunting excursion at Beaver
Lake, Indiana, recently. pHLlLE9
Burglars entered the store of Frank.
lin & Horton, Fulton street, New York
city a fewinights since, broke open the
safe, and secured $4,000 worth of
Jewelry. No clew to the robbers.
-Neils Nelson, a laborer in the shops
of the Union Pacific Railroad, at Omaha,
while adjusting belt, the other day, was
caught by it and dashed to the ceiling,
instantly crushing and killing him.
John Smith, residing at Avilla, Ind,
shot himself by accident few days
since, while carclessly handling rifle.
cane. The ball entered his head below
the jaw, cutting the juguiar vein, and he
bled to death in twenty minutes.
While a well-digger named Welch
was tamping a charge of powder in
well he was digging in Llano County,
Texas, the other day, the blast was exl
ploded, driving the tampingrod through
his heart. .tt.... nj
Charles Baldwin, of Baldwin Uni
versity, Long Island, was shot in the leg
the other evening by John Carman, a
neighbor, who mistook him for a tres
passing tramp. Baldwin will be Grip
pie for life
Three men fell from the scaffolding
of the Gore Street Methodist Church in
Montreal a few days ago. One was in
stantly killed, and the other two fatally
injured. About the same time man
fell from the new Catholic Church and
will probably die. .........- 80
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Lament and an extensive broker and
lumber merchant of Stratford, Ont, has
absconded. His liabilities are heavy
and mostly to farmers who had deposits
with him. Several banks are also inter-
eSted, but are said to be secured.
Julius Blank, blind professor of
music in New York city, shot his wife
Mary a few nights since, inflicting a
mortal wound. He also shot his dau9h-
ter Amelia, three and half years old,
fatally, He then shot himself, dying al
most instantly. .-r. ..-... = -
"A girl about fourteen years of age,
named Maggie Reynolds, living with her
parents in Peoria, H., was probably
fatally burned the other morning. The
girl was taking coffee-pot off the stove
when, in some manner, her dress caught
fire, and she was almost Immediately en-
veloped in flames, and before assistance
arrived her body was horribly burned.
"A little daughter of Capt. Haws, of
Magnolia, ILL.,, met her death in very
singular manner recently. By some
means she swallowed pistol cartridge,
which lodged in her windpipe. Trache-
otomy, or making an incision in the or
gan, was done, but it could not be found.
No serious Inconvenience was felt, and
hopeful results were anticipated, when
she was taken with spasms and died sud
denly.
---Obed Smith, bow oarsman of the
Halifax IN. 81 champion four-oared
crew who distinguished themselves at
Philadelphia, and Mark, his brother,
were drowned the other morning in Hall
fax harbor. They were returning home
in their schooner boat, with some coal
and winter stores on board, when they
were run down by the mail steamer Nova
Scotian, from Baltimore. A woman
named Luke, a passenger with them,
was rescued. s,...-
"A stabbing affray recently occurred
in Bristol, Conn, resulting in the instant
death of Patrick Smith. The deceased
first had a street brawl with John Greek
in and came to blows, but friends separated
them for time. Subsequently they met
again on the street, and GrecRin drew
knife and stabbed Smith to the heart,
killing him instantly The murdererfied
Immediately. Greckin is a hardened
young rough, only nineteen years of age.
"A few evenings since j. B. Laplant,
Frenchman, and his son Joe, living
near McCook, Dakota, visited saloon
at that place, became partially intoxicat-
ed, and engaged in playing cards, the
son winning two calves, which the old
man bet on the game. He became in
furiated at the loss, and stabbed his son
in the left breast with dirk, the blade
passing about an inch below the heart,
causing probably fatal wound. La
plant was Immediately arrested. /
The county Court House at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, was set on fire in the office |
of the Registrar of Deeds the other
night. The fire was extinguished with
some damage to the books. Two books
were missing entirely, A Dr. J, S. Burns
has since been arrested with the missing |
books in his possession. He had recent
ly bought an abstract of titles covering |
all but these two books, and. would have |
made large amount of money had he
not been detected.
james Smallwood, a young man liv-
ing at Shepherdsville, Ky, shot and !
killed a man named Slaughter, near
Louisville, few nights since. They
became involved in quarrel and |
Slaughter seized butcher-knife and |
started toward Smallwood. The latter
ran into an adjoining room, and, seizing
a shotgun, fired, the charge taking effect |
in Slaughter's head, killing him instantly.
Smallwood surrendered to the .authori- I
ties, claiming that the act was done in
'elttaeiense' EVsb q FTUgwF 81,
"A horrible aud mysterious murder
was committed in Shrewsbury, a farming |
Iown near Worcester, Mass, a few even [
ngs since The victim was John Bull
lard, man about forty-five years of age.
lie with his brother lived in a house
alone, carrying on a farm. About seven |
o'clock John was left alone in the house,
Lhe brother going to store about mile
distant. He was gone about Onu hour,
and upon returning horrible scene was |
John was lying on the floor,
his body covered with blood, his head
nearly severed from his body, and long,
deep cuts about his head andface. 4 The
body was also badly cut, and blood was
still flowing from the numerous wounds. |.
LyiHgby the side of the bodywasal
latchet withwhich the terrible deed was
The object of the murder
IS supposed to have been money, as the
deceased was reported TO have a small
amount in his possession, which could
not be found after the murder. & EpF 8tl
The boiler of an engine used in
Irving a threshing-machine on the farm |
Of William johnson near Argos, Ind !, Y
exploded the other morning with terrific
force. Thomas Jones was blown 100
feet, his clothes torn off, and himself in
'tantly killed Thomas Wort, band-out.
Ier, died soon after, William w. John
'onews thrown 100 feet, and fatally in,
Iured. William Hughes was blown 11Q
ieet his right leg broken, and his body