Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-29
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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few evenings since, by John Bennett.
Duffer was trying TO break in Benefits
door.
Park Adams, a boy fifteen years Of
age, while playing pull.away, at Fond du
Lac, Wis, few days since, stumbled
and fell, breaking his neck and causing
instant death.
WIN. j. Williams, under arrest on a
charge of completely in the recent ex-
press robbery on the Utah Central Rail
road, waived further examination at the
conclusion of the evidence of the prose
cution and was held in $4,000 bonds to
answer.
Charles Creighton was shot at Hyde
Park, near Chicago, the other morning,
during heated political discussion, by
Abe Kleinman. Creighton is con
tractor, and man of property. Klein
man is one of the best pigeon shots in
the country and we'll known.
During s brawl in saloon near the
Union depot at st. Louis, short time
since, Pat Branigan was stabbed in the
thigh by j Common. The knife severed
the femoral artery and Branigan bled to
death before proper medical aid could
be procured. The murderer was arrest.
cd after fierce struggle.
-Justus T. Marson, Danish Vice Con-
sui at Porto Rico, was killed during the
recent trip of the steamship Cambria from
New York to England. He was sitting
in the deck-house when a sudden lurch
of the ship threw him against the bull
wark with great violence, crushing his
head He died in few minutes.
While two Wells, Fargo & Co.
guards who came down to Ogden, Utah
from Montana with gold dust were pass
ing along on the railroad platform the
other night one of them dropped his shet-
gun, loaded heavily with slugs, which
was discharged and shot a lady and gem
tleman. 1t is doubtful if either will re-
cover. '--'
John Hallenbeck, an estimable citi-
zen of Athens, N. Y, recently met with
fatal accident. While engaged in pro-
curing load of sand from sand bank
near his residence, the bank, about twelve
feet in height, suddenly caved in, strik-
ing him with such force as to throw him
forward against his wagon. His head
struck the latter with great force, break
ing his neck and killing him instantly.
AS party of hunters were returning
home from hunt the other afternoon,
and when near the fairgrounds at
Onawa, Iowa, a young man named Sam
uel Gubsell took his gun from under the
wagon seat, drawing it toward him by
the muzzle. The hammer caught, dis
charging the gun, blowing away the en-
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ing him instantly. ett s.
While George Desbaun, John Hoern-
bern ana Philip Kepp were descending
on an elevator at the boot and shoe house
of Joseph Brown, in st. Louis, the other
afternoon, the machinery gave way and
the elevator and the men were precipi-
tated from the third story to the ground
floor. Kepp was instantly killed, and
the other two men were dangerously hurt
internally. The elevator was loaded with
goods, and descended with great velocity
and force.
John Gossman, supposed to be from
Texas, was run over by a railroad train
ON the Atchison, Topeka 81 Santa Fe
Railroad, near Lawrence, Kan, the other
day, and instantly killed. He had been
in Lawrence the previous day and repre-
sented himself too poor to pay the ex'
pressman for carrying his baggage a
short distance. Sewed up in his clothes,
however, was found over 81 800 in gold
and greenbacks. Other articles found
upon him indicated that he was eccen-
trio, if not partially insane.
The tow steamer Juniata left Ha7re
de Grace, Md, with twelve barges in
tow, few afternoons since. During the
following night a terrible gale was en-
countered, which cut the barges loose,
nine of which sank Persons on board
of the sinking baTges took refuge on the
other three, which drifted toward the
shore, but before it was reached one of
them sunk and all on board, eight per-
having twenty-five persons on board,
reached shore safely. u0I 1er
j. S. Maybery, revenue detective,
living at Blount Springs, Ala, was bru-
tally assassinated few nights since.
The murderer shot him through rear
door. Several buckshot entered his head,
killing him instantly. The night was
dark and the murderer escaped. The
general impression is that the assassin
was one of gang of counterfeiters now
under Indictment and whose trial will
soon come off. Mayberry was the most
important witness against them. Great
indignation is felt and earnest efforts are
making to ferret out the murderer.
"A serious stabbing affray took place
at the depot in Leavenworth, Kan, a
few days ago. Mr.. Dubois, a conductor
of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, had as
passenger on his down trip a man
named Kennedy, who had ticket only
as far as Leayenworth, but who wanted
to go farther down the road. He refused
to pay his fare and when Dubois at
tempted to put him off he turned and
stabbed him ten or eleven times in, va
rious parts of the body and head, intiict-
ing what the doctor pronOunces fatal
wounds. Kennedy was arrested.
"A deliberate attempt TO take human
life was made in Easton, Mass, afew days
ago, by ayoung man named Frank Hughes
He was passing Williams blacksmith
shop, carrying a double-barreled shot
gun in his hand, and upon the appear.
ance of Henry Williams, the proprietor,
Hughes pointed the gun at Williams
breast, saying; "Pd just as lief shoot
you as anybody" and pulled the trigger
Just at this moment Williams struck the
gun down, and the charge entered the
inside of the fieshy part of his thigh,
making an ugly wound. Hughes was
arrested.
Mr.. Seymour Hollister, living few
miles from Charles City, Iowa, was chlor,
oformed few nights since and robbed
of s., $50, then stabbed and his house
fired. He was sleeping alone in the
house, as his family were absent, and was
aroused by thinking he saw light. On
opening his eyes he saw two men bend
ing over him, one of whom at once
stabbed him twice in the breast and once
in the arm, infiicting severe wounds
The doctors say his wounds are serious
but not fatal He had drawn this money
for the purpose of turning it over to the
school officers. James Dunlap, neigh
| Dor, has been arrested on suspicion.