Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-10-27
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

George Mclaughlin was recently
killed in the woods at Greenfield, Me,
a tree falling on him and breaking hi,
neck
The schooner Brandt, bound to New
London, Conn, from Virginia with @
cargo of oysters, capsized the other day
and the mate and steward were drowned
The schooner Maggie Hunter, Capt
Nixon, of Toronto, coal laden, is reported
TO have gone down with all hands during
the passage from Oswego to Toronto,
recently.
"A servant girl in the family OF
Horace w. Gilman, of Nashua, N. H.,
was strangled to death the other day by
falling down the cellarstairs and being
caught between the stair-frame and o
post.
"A boy ten years old, son of Charles
Bennett, Of Salem, Mich, was leading q
horse to pasture few days ago, when
the horse wheeled and suddenly kicked
the little fellow just behind the ear, kill
ing him instantly.
While Frank Manner, aged fourteen,
of Fort Wayne, Ind, was examining q
rife, a few days ago, the weapon was
accidentally discharged, the ball entering
his mouth, inflicting wound from the
effect of which he died the following day
An infant child of Capt. Uriah
Todd, of Marshalltown, Iowa, was acci-
dentally poisoned few nights since by
its mother, who gave it large dose of
morphine, supposing it to be Dover
powder. The child was shortly after
ward taken with convulsions, and died
the following morning
In firing a salute at Franklin, N H.,
the other day, over the result of the
election, premature explosion occurred,
which severely injured George Dawson.
He lost finger from the right hand and
an eye, and his leftsarm and one leg will
have to be amputated. Another man
had his face filed with powder.
"A little slate-picker named Francis
Davis, thirteen years of age, recently
met with fearful fate in the breaker of
the Pyne Colliery, near Scranton, Pa,
where he was employed. The unfortu-
nate lad, while playing with one of his
comrades close to the machinery, fell
backward over pony screen and was
dragged down between it and the plank
ing, where he was crushed to death.
William Suter, farmer of Manyas-
ka, Marion County, Mimi, met with a
curious and fatal accident short time
since. He went to his sheepfold with
the intention of slaughtering a sheep,
having in his pocket sharp butcher
knife incased in a leather mitten. In
his struggle with the sheep Suter was
thrown to the ground, the knife pene-
trating his right side, just below the ribs,
to depth of about four inches.
"A young lady named Ragis, residing
near Teed's Grove, Iowa, was fatally
burned few days since by her clothes
fire while boiling pumpkins.
Her screams brought the aid of her sis
ter, who attempted to extinguish the
flames by pumping water on the burning
girl. Ea&ing in This she piled slab-wood
on her. The fire was at last extinguisbed.
The victims body was terribly burned,
and she lived only twenty-four hours.
The dead body of Henry Schaffer, a
aged fifty-eight, was found
in the woods in West Deer Greek Town
ship, Pa, the other morning, and the
condition of the corpse gave evidence of
a dreadful murder, the head being
crushed and out of all shape, the pock-
cts rifed and portion of the clothing
carried away. Henry Lenkner, a part
ner of the deceased, has been arrested
md committed to jail on suspicion of
the deed.
"A terrible accident occurred at q
railroad crossing in Lincoln, Neb., the
other afternoon. A man named Nelson
Russell, from Howard County, Neb., on
his way to Iowa, attempted to cross the
track with his wife and three children in
a covered wagon, when engine backed
down upon them, killing the woman and
one child instantly and fatally injuring
another child. Russells leg and collar
bone were broken. The other child es-
capped unhurt.
Capt James Howard, a well-known
builder of Jeffersonville, Ind,
was recently drowned while crossing
from Louisville. He was seated in his
buggy on the ferry-boat and when half
way across the river his horse backed
the buggy against the apron, which was
not fastened, and the horse, buggy and
Mr.. Howard went into the river. He
swan to within fifty yards of the shore
before he sank, His body has been re.
covered.
AT Jefferson City, Mo-, the other
George Busekins, an aged
German, was shot and killed by James
Myers. The latter was counting Buse
kin's daughter and had been forbidden
the house. Myers went to the house
and, an alteration ensuing, drew a
pistol ON the old man, who drove him
away with rife, Myers then borrowed
a double barreled shotgun and, as the
Did man was entering his house, fired,
putting forty. three buckshot in his back,
killing him instantly. Myers was ar
rested.
Lewis Titherington, of Anderson,
Ind. was-.illed the other night in his own
house by Ddniel jenkins, ms DroJner-ln-
aw. Titherington returned home drunk
after all had retired and abused his wife
FOR locking the door. Her sisters coming
in, he attempted to put them out of the
house. Mrs. Titherington screamed for
her brother, who, partially dressed, came
10 the relief of his sisters. Tithering-
ton met him with an uplifted chair,
to kill him. jenkins then
drew a revolver and fred five shots into
The body of Titherington, killing him.
-sissie Strong, a daughter of r. II,
Strong, of Meridianville, Ala, aged
about fifteen years, in company with
another young lady was out riding on
horseback one day recently, when her
horse became frightened and ran away,
The young lady was thrown from the
saddle and her foot caught in the stir
rup. While hanging in this position the
horse jumped a fence, the body of the
helpless young lady striking the fence,
breaking her back and otherwise mang-
ling the body in most terrible manner.
Death was instantaneous.
James Ryan, forty-five years old, a
in Peterboro, Ont, has been
found guilty of wife murder and SEN
fenced to be hanged Nov. 81. The crime
was committed May 8 last, The prison
er had been drinking for some days, and
quarreling with his wife, very accom-
plished lady, highly connected. In the
evening he called her to his side and sud
denly stabbed her through the heart with