Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-06-29
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

tne CarrapaSset hlVer near AnSOn, Me,
recently, while breaking a jam of logs.
George Tennant, wife and child were
drowned at Smiths Falls, Canada West,
few nights since, by the upsetting of
boat.
Mr.. John Dolan was fatally asphyxi
ated at the Lewis House at Fond du Lac,
Wis, the other night. He blew out the
gaslight.
Joseph Tarbox, of Biddeford, Me,
died few days ago from lock- jaw, re
sulting from wound received in falling
from a hayloft.
Jonathan Graves, colored, in shoot
ing at his wife at Wilmington, Del, the
other afternoon, missed her and killed
his granddaughter.
The steamer Lizzie, from New Or
leans for Pensacola, was burned few
mornings since and three lives were lost
two negroes and white man.
Patrick McSully was instantly killed
and Thomas. Morgan fatally injured by
the fall of a roof in the Cayuga colliery
at Scranton, Pa, the other day.
Cyrus Taylor, residing near Jackson
vile, Iii, was struck by lightning while
riding, short distance from his home,
the other day and instantly killed.
Rev. S. G. Lusk, prominent Bap-
tist minister in Pamela County, Miss,
accidentally shot himself few days
since, producing death instantly.
Arthur Akline, the resident partner
in New York of the clothing of @.
Dahlman & Co., has disappeared with,
it is stated, 800, 900 of other peoples
money.
Mathew Welch, Patrick Doherty and
John Dinley were drowned in the Pas
sumpsc River near st. Johnsbury, VT,
the other morning, by the upsetting of
| boat.
John Fike, thirteen years old, living
at Shelbyville, Nd, recently shot him
self in the abdomen while playing with a
revolver. The ball inflicted terrible
wound, from which the boy will proba-
bly, die.
John H. Barrett, a saloon-keeper of
Auburn, N. Y, was shot dead by Cora
Young, few days ago. The woman
then attempted suicide by shooting her
self twice in the head, and is not ex-
pected to recover.
%. K. Vinton, an old and respected
citizen of Burlington, Iowa, while at
tempting to jump on street-car, a few
nights since, missed his footing, fell
under the car, and his neck was broken
by the car wheel
Frederick Hendricks, a wealthy
farmer residing near 0ldtown, ILL.,, shot
and killed his wife, to whom he had
been married twenty-five years, few
nights since, and then blew his own
brains out.
The dress of q young married lady
named Frank Poats, residing in Algansie
Township, near Coldwater, Mich, caught
fire from a stove the other morning, and
before assistance was rendered she was
fatally burned.
"A. w. bennett, one of the graduat-
ing class at the Wisconsin State Uni
versty at Madison, has been arrested for
smothering and throwing his seven
months-old child into the Milwaukee
River last March. He confesses his
guilt.
John Mcclure was shot and killed. in
the dooryard of Mrs. B. f. Bissell, at
West Hartford, Conn, the other evening,
by Elias N Ives, laborer employed on
Mrs. Bissell's farm. Mcclure had been
discharged by Mrs. Bissell, and had
threatened her life.
William Leith and William Henry
Leith, father and son, convicted of forg-
ing checks to the amount of $22, 900 on
the Merchants Exchange National Bank,
of New York, have been sentenced to
the State Prison, the father to ten and
the son to seven years. Veltman, an ac
complce, pleaded guilty and got two
years.
DIR. j. o. Whitney and wife, of Paw
tucket, r. l., were poisoned the other
day by drinking bottle Of ale, and their
lives were with difficulty saved Will
am Burbank, lately the doctors Office
boy, has confessed that he put strych-
! nine in the ale because the doctor would
not give him fifteen dollars which was
not due him.
Mrs. Oliver Gilbert, Miss Gilbert,
Mrs. Goblet and child, of Kelloggs Cor
: ners, Wis, were drowned in Eagle Lake,
few miles from their home, the other
day, while attending picnic. They
7 were out in row-b0at when the acci-
dent happened The boat leaked badly
and swamped before they could get back
to the shore.
4 "A horrible murder was recently COM
. mitted near Burlington, Kan. Two
4 Young ulCn, uhIlGu =. ., kOOh anu .. VI.
. Hedges, former partners in business, Oc-
I cupied the same room over night. Hedges
arose in the night, procured an AK, and
I with it crushed in the skull of his bed
y fellow. He admitted the killing, and
justified the act by saying Cook had
: stolen his money. He has been arrested.
I -Chas. II. Payson brutally murdered
s his wife at NOrthfeld, N. H., recently.
A He stole up behind and dealt her three
= violent blows with an AK, two on the head
i and one on the shoulder. She ran about
0 fifty rods, and then fell from the loss of
d blood. Payson pretends to know moth
c ing of his crime, and does not show the
l. least feeling on the subject, but says his
= wife and children were in a conspiracy
+ to get his money away from him.
G AT Washington, d. O., the other
G day, Robert Richer, aged forty, and for
). a long time clerk in the Quartermaster-
!, Generals office, quarreled with his wife
l. about her cat and kittens breaking down
:, his flowers, and remarked: "If you don't
7! keep those kittens out of the garden |
!" will kill them" His wife answered;
n If you do, will tear up all your to-
5 mato vines" Richer began to beat the
# cat and his wife to tear up the vines;
d Richer then placed revolver to his fore
IS head, and exclaimed: You see me
/, shoot myself" fired, and instantly ex-
C pired. He was appointed from Missouri.
= "A cOlOred man named Tom Caldwell
II was arrested at Spring Hill, Tenn, afew
o days ago on a charge of numbering his
l. son. At the Coroner's investigation a
d surgeon testified that he had made care
u full examination of the body of the de-
ceased, and found it lacerated by blows
made with a plow-line, or something of
(. the kind, all over his chest, bowels and
l. limbs, and on his back from his head to
= his legs. There were also marks as Il
IT made by boOt.heel with tacks in il,
n near the groin. These injuries could not
g have been made by horse, as claimed
d by the prisoner, nor by being dragged by