Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-10
GRIMES AND OAsuALTlEs.

ing, of Middlebury, VT, was fatally
poisoned recently by dose of pulverized
opium given by mistake for rhubsrb
William Mattock, former Postmaster
at Cockville, Tenn, has been sentenced
to imprisonment in the Penitentiary for
two and half years, at hard labor, for
having robbed registered letters.
W. N. Edwards and his three sons
have been committed to Jail at Little
Rock, Ark, for the murder of Byford,
son-in-law of the old man. The murder
was committed in the Choctaw Nation,
Sept. 80.
w. j. Lewis, Superintendent of the
East Franklin colliery at Lower Rausch
Creek, Pa, was run over and killed
while walking down the slope the other
afternoon. Sixty cars passed over his
body before the accident was discovered.
Jacques Garvin, a Worcester Mass. J
peddler, met with fatal accident few
days ago. He was driving home, and,
it is supposed, while asleep, fell out of
the wagon, the wheel crushing his skull
and causing instant death.
"A man known as Bill Jones died at
Little Rock few days ago of pneu-
monia. He made a voluntary confession
that two years ago he murdered neigh
Dor sixteen miles from Nashville, Tenn,
and that his right name was Theophilus
Williams
An alteration took place between
party of men at Locustdale, Pa, few
evenings since, and subsequently one of
the party named John Boshen was way
laid and shot dead. Three men named
Laughlin, Lenner and Collegar have been
arrested.
John Davis, an employe in Howe &
Gleason's box shop at Hubbardstown,
Mass, was killed a few days since by
getting entangled in belt which he was
adjusting. Both legs and one arm were
broken, and his side and head were also
injured.
Leonard Amblam, the Belgian who
escaped a few days since from COM
partment in a railway train, between
Ostend and Brussels, after having mur-
dcred an officer in whose custody he
was going to Brussels, charged with rob-
berry and murder, has been:captured at
Lille, France.
"A boy named John Osmer, son of
wealthy farmer at Tetes des Morts, Iowa,
recently met with an accident by which
he lost his life. He was employed haul
ing logs down hillside to repair a min
dam. He had fastened his chain to one
log, and, while pulling it down, another
started to roll and passed over his body,
crushing him SO badly that he died al
most Immediately.
The jury in the case of Joannah
Turbin, colored, indicted for the murder
of her husband at Washington, D. c., on
the 9th of July last, and who cut up the
body and hid it in an ash-pile, returned
a verdict of guilty, accompanied with
petion to the President, signed by the
full panel, to commute the death pen
atty to that of imprisonment forlife.
There was fearful explosion at
Calhoun Falls, VT, where a company are
building dam for a new paper-mill, the
other day. A piece of rendrock, which
had been put near a fire in the basement
of small building to dry, burst from
the heat, blowing the building to pieces,
throwing into the air and seriously injur-
ing three workmen, one of whom, Joseph
Heon, of St. Johnsbury, was frightfully
mutilated, and will probably die.
The family of John G. Klein, of
Buffalo, ate heartily of liver sausage the
other evening and soon after all became
violently i'll. The wife of the butcher
from whom the sausage was procured
ate of it to disprove the assertion that it
was the cause of their illness, as did
also several of the neighbors, whereup-
on they, too, became alarmingly sick.
Mrs Klein, mother of Mr.. Klein, died
before morning. The others are recov-
ering.
An extraordinary duel between two
negro women occurred the other morn
ing in Louisville. Annie Simmons and
Mary Boules, having quarreled, resolved
to fight duel with knives. They met,
by agreement, in front of Baptist
church. No witnesses were present,
and they fought fiercely for half an hour.
Boules was stabbed and gashed horribly
in six different places, her right eye be-
ing cut out. Simmons was only slightly
hurt. The cause of the trouble is not
known. Simmons has been arrested.
"A shocking accident occurred at
Maroa, H., few days since, by which
an occasion of rejoicing was turned into
one of sorrow. Frank Schenck returned
home with his bride, nee Miss Longstreet,
of Middletown, Ohio, and they were ten
dered a reception and supper by the
parents of the groom. While seated at
| table waiter knocked over a lamp.
In an instant the fluid spread over the
head and body of the bride and she was
burned in shocking manner, though it
is hoped not fatally. The skin was
burned from the chest and arms, and
from a portion of the face. Her hair
was also almost entirely consumed. Her
husband and a Mr.. Sargent were badly
burned on the hands, and the latter on the
face also.
Frank A. Wooley, of Grafton, VT,
was shot by his brother Solon few days
ago. There had been feud between
them for some time, growing out of the
distribution of some family property.
Frank, however, was on his way to
Solon's house with some friends to en-
deavor to bring about reconciliation.
Solon appeared at an upper window as
they approached, and, without much
conversation, discharged the contents of
his gun into his brothers body, infiict-
ing wounds from which he subsequently
died. The next night Solon's house was
burned, and his wife has been arrested
for setting fire to it, her motive being
revenge, as a quarrel had arisen between
herself and her husband relative to a
division of this and other property be-
longing to them.
John Reese, farmer living near
Marshall, Mich, man forty years of
age, after a quarrel with his wife, few
days since, struck her with chair, upon
which she ran out of the house toward a
neighbours, when he seized a gun and
shot her in the back of the head with a
charge of shot. A neighbor heard the
gun and saw the woman fall, and has
tened to her aid, and as soon as possible
sent for the neighbOrs with view to ar
rest Reese; but before they ar
rived he had loaded his gun,
put it to his chin and fred it of,
cutting off his chin and triHe of his