Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-03-23

ago, Alfrex Rex shot his elder brother,
killing him instantly. He was arrested.
Frederick Wilder, of HerseY was
killed few days ago while loading logs
at his fathers camp in Clare Coul ty,
Michigan.
"A boy four years old, son of Rich
ard Fleming, of Detroit, fell into tub
of boiling water the other day and was
fatally injured.
Stephen J. Farrell, aged nine years,
was crushed to death in New Orleans, the
other night, by an alley-gate violently
slammed by gust of wind.
Charles Burroughs, lately an actor
at Portland, Me-, who was en- route for
New York, was knocked from the top of
the steamboat train at Olneyville, r. l.,
the other night and killed. ....,
-Twigg, the proprietor of the pool.
room on Bowdoin Square, Boston, has
decamped with $1,000 belonging to par
of the Presidential election. ,t,
The ship Berthany, from Hong Kong,
recently went ashore near Cape May, N.
j., and is total wreck. Her cargo,
consisting of silks, teas, ETC., valued at
$500, 600, is insured in New York.
Charles Calter, a patient in the
Brooklyn City Hospital, jumped from
one of the windows of that building, the
other morning, while laboring under an
attack of delirium, and was instantly
killed
The second trial at Concord, N. H.,
Of Joseph La Page, for the murder of
Josie Langmaid, resulted in a verdict of
murder in the first degree, and he was SEN
fenced to be hanged on the 9th of March,
1878.
Mrs. Susan Ferguson, of New York
city, had completed preparations for
journey to Missouri to see her sister.
The other evening she received dis
patch announcing the sudden death of
her sister. She was utterly prostrated
by the news, and died in half an hour.
The house of Mr.. Kellery, near
Leavenworth, Kan, was burned few
nights since, and himself and mother
burned in horrible manner. The old
lady was brought out of the fire by her
SON. She would soon have been suffo-
Gated, with an infant child in her arms.
Last month Orrin Lindsey, four
teen-year-old boy of Sebewa, Mo, while
wrestling with one of the neighbor's
boys, was thrown, the boy falling heavily
upon his chest, breaking blood-vessel
in the region of his lungs. The boy was
Immediately taken i'll, and continued to
grow worse until he died.
AT Pigeon Creek, H., a few days
ago, an alteration occurred between two
young men named Simmons and Haskins
regarding the ownership of dog.
Words ran high, when Haskins drew a
knife and plunged it into the breast of
Simmons, causing death N short time.
Haskins was arrested and is now in Jail.
The United States District Court
Grand Jury at New Haven, Conn, has
found three indictments against John @.
Tracy, President of the Farmers and
Mechanics Bank of Hartford, for misap-
plying $50, 900 of the funds of the bank,
and five indictments against John l..
Chapman, Cashier, for assisting the
President, and for embezzlement and
perjury,
Thomas w. Thompson, nineteen
years of age, was arrested at Westfield, N.
Y. the other day, for attempting to defraud
various parties by representing himself
tins of the Ashtabula disaster who died
of injuries while under his care, and who
had left instructions that the valuables
should be forwarded to the parties whom
Thompson addressed through the mails.
"A man named S. Sheridan was found
lying on the railroad track in Lafayette,
Ind the other morning, with both legs
and one arm cut off and his body badly
crushed When found he was still
alive, but unable to give any account of
himself, and died soon after. He was
subject to fits, and it is supposed that,
as he was walking home on the track, he
was taken with fit, fell upon the
track, and was run over. ..-..
BY the explosion of boiler at the
steam saw.mill of Roush & Pyle, at
Rockford, Ind, recently, George Roush,
one of the owners, was instantly killed.
Abalaski Morgan, aged fifteen years,
was fatally injured, and Robert Pyle,
partner of Roush. was severely hurt.
The mill is complete wreck. The ex-
plosion was caused by the scarcity of
water in the boiler.
Recently resident of Somerset,
Wis, who was digging awell and had
reached depth of 107 feet without
finding water, came upon rock
and concluded to give up the job.
That he might save little expense
he began to remove the curbing,
not appreciating the fact that the well
was through quicksand. The removal
of the bottom board let the earth upon
the well-digger, and before help could
reach him he was buried beyond hope Of
recovery. Ha 'a.'
Three children named Bevan were
recently left alone in a house by their
mother at Stockton, Pa. There was
nothing in the house to eat, and the chill
/ dren becoming hungry, and accompanied
by some neighbors' children, went to a
swamp near by, where they dug up a
quantity of "skunk cabbage" roots and
ate them In short time one of the
Bevan children died. Before night a lit
tie girl named Jones and another named
Davis also died in great agony, The
others were all very sick, but were re-
stored by antidotes.
"A shocking accident recently oc-
CURED in Troy, N. Y. Joseph Kautz, a
young man employed in a lager-beer
brewery, while leaning over vat of
boiling malt to arrange faucet, 1ell
into the seething liquor. A piercing cry
brought fellow-workman to the scene,
who pulled him out with great risk to
his own life. When Kautz was drawn
from the boiling vat he was literally
boiled TO a jelly, and his tongue hung
out shriveled. He suffered the most ex-
cruciating torture for two hours, when
death came to his relief. .l-aa3L .
"A fire, attended with fatal cOnse-
quences, occurred at New York the other
night in a fiYe-story tenement.house oc-
cupied by Germans and Polish Jews.
The children of Mrs. Manson upset a
kerosene lamp, and soon the room was
in blaze. She hurried out with the
children and gave the alarm. The other
occupants of the building fled IN terror.
In the rush, Hattie Manson, aged ten,
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