Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-03-16
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A fiye-year-old daughter of Patrick
Lynch, of Providence, II. l., died recently
from the effects of kerosene lamp ex-
plosion.
Alexander Mckinley was crushed bv
a falling tree at Wilder's Camp, in Clare
County, Mich, the other day, and died
an hour after the accident
AT Eagle Mills, Wis, few DAYS ago,
two little boys, sons of Mr.. Long, found
an old revolver. While playing with it,
it exploded, instantly killing one of
them.
Henry o. Gravelin, convicted at
Woodstock, Vt, of the murder of Her.
bert o. White, has been sentenced to be
hung on the second Friday in March,
1870.
Lafayette Anderson, driver of a mail
wagon in Boston, has been arrested for
systematic robbery of the mail bags. A
package Of opened letters and duplicate
keys were found on him.
Alexander Bailey, of Haddam, Conn,
was instantly killed by the premature
explosion of blast, the other day, while
excavating place for the water.wheel
of a saw-mill in Middle Haddam.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, the other
day, a blacksmith named Walter Cum
mlngs was kicked by horse which he
was shoeing, and died from the effects
Of his injuries.
The British bark Ellerhauser, recent.
ly arrived at Portland, reports that on
the passage from st. John she was struck
by lightning, and one man was killed,
another seriously injured and all the
crew prostrated.
During jolliication meeting at
Portland, Mich, the other afternoon, q
can of powder in the hands of George
Rush, colored man, exploded, fatally
injuring him. Charles p. Starr and N.
A. Meeker we're severely burned.
"A cheeky Vermont forger, when he
got we'll out of the State, wrote back to
his father-in-law: "Take good care of
my wife and child, take up the forged
note 1 gave George Tisdale, and send me
twenty-five dollars"
I'm the town of Thomasville, N. c.,
a few nights since, while William Thorn
as and Miss Forney were before the
altar for the purpose of being married,
more than half the ceremony being per-
formed, the bride dropped dead, vic
tim of heart disease.
The boiler of Kocher & Bakers saw
mill, in Huntington, Ind, exploded re-
Gently, killing Samuel Hall, Frederick
Allen and Joseph Brown, and fatally
wounding James Collins, w. Frazer and
John Kocher. The building was shat
tered to atoms.
Bill Mccoy borrowed pistol of his
friend, Sword, at a dance near Lancas-
ter, KY, the other night, and, when
Sword asked for it again, shot him dead
through the forehead. Some undiscov-
cred person in the room then put ball
through McCoy's skull.
Near Batavia, N. Y, few after
moons since, while German named Nett
and his two little boys were drawing
wood with a handsled on Tonawanda
Creek, the boys broke through the ice.
After a desperate struggle Nett saved
the boys, but was himself drowned.
j. Conelly's Lighthouse, at Hazelton,
Mich, was burned the other night, and
his wife and five children burned to
death, and he himself dangerously hurt.
Conelly had just received $4,000, and it
was thought the family were drugged,
the money stolen and the house fired.
AT Baltimore, few days ago, James
Kirk, boy aged sixteen, was murdered
by William Scott, negro boy of four
teen. Scott ordered Kirk off a schooner
The latter declined to go, and a quarrel
ensued. After exchanging blows Scott
drew a knife and stabbed Kirk in the
abdomen, disemboweling him.
"A tramp called at the house of a
farmer named Chris Hugg, near Paris,
Ill, the other evening and asked for a
nights lodging. Hugg told him he had
no room, whereupon the tramp got very
abusive, and Hugg put him out. There
upon the tramp seized stick of wood,
drew knife and started for the door,
when Hugg seized an old musket and
shot him dead.
The Monterey County (Cal.) Court
House at Salina, recently burned, is
found To have been fred for the purpose
of destroying the records and covering a
defalcation of $4,000 in the Tax Col
lector's office. 1t is proved to reason
able certainty that most of the money
has been gambled off by w. NJ. Ramsey,
Deputy Collector, and that number of
prominent citizens of Salina, including
certain county officials, won it.
AT Memphis, Tenn, the other day,
julius Levy shot his wife three times,
and then placing the pistol to his right
temple fired, killing himself instantly,
His wife was shot twice in the right
shoulder, and once through the left
lung, near the heart, and will probably
die. The parties had been married but
a few weeks and suit for divorce had
been instituted by Levy, and the quarrel
grew out of dispute about property.
Edward Kelly, young Molly Ma
guire, in Jail at Pottsville, Pa, has con-
fessed that he murdered John P. Jones,
a Superintendent of the Lehigh g. Wilkes
barre Coal Company, at Lansford, Pa, in
1875. He says that he did
not want to commit murder, but was
afraid to back out on account of the
consequences of having cowardice at
tributed to him by his brother-members
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
"A bold robbery was recently perpe-
trated at Boston, by which Joseph Brig
ham lost $4,000 in stocks and bonds.
He had Just returned home from the De-
posit Company's vaults with a small
trunk containing the bonds, when two
men called and inquired for him, and,
while one engaged him in conversation
in the parlor, the other slipped upstairs,
seized the trunk and escaped unnoticed.
A portion of the stolen property has
been recovered.
Two boys, Willie Park, aged four
teen, and Harvey Baker, aged fifteen,
cousins and warm friends, residing in
Knoxville, Tenn, got out couple of
unloaded" pistols belonging TO Harveys
father and proceeded to have sham fight.
The first three rounds the pistols be-
haved beautifully-the dull snap of the
hammer on the empty tubes assuring the
boys of their safety, and emboldening
them to take closer ground; but the
fourth round brought with it loud re-
port, a scream of agony, a heavy fall
and Harvey Baker lay pierced through