Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-12-14
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Sunfield, Mich, while skidding logs, by
log rolling over him.
Margaret Barrett was burned to
death at Watertown, N. Y, on Thanks
giving Day, from fire caught from her
pipe.
Martin Haines was killed by COM
rade, by the accidental discharge of his
gun, while hunting near Charlotte,
Mich, a few days ago.
"A little daughter of George Wing,
of Livermore, Me-, was fatally burned
by her clothes taking fire from an open
CRATE few days ago.
Annie Eaton, eight years old, was
recently killed by locomotive at Pc
troleum Center, Pa, while crossing the
track, on her way to school,
DIR. j. G. De Wolf, of Mount Pleasant,
Iowa, dissected an old loaded shotgun
one day recently, and after getting it
apart portion of it exploded, inficting
injuries from which he cannot recover.
The three-years-old son of Samuel
Granger died of hydrophobia at Hart
ford, Conn, few nights since, after
series of commissions. He had been Bit
ten on the hand seven weeks previous
by fox-hound.
Miss Abbie Miller was shot a few
evenings since at Detroit by Samuel
Coreyon, a young man who had been
paying her attentions. She declined to
60 to the theater with him, whereupon
he drew pistol and fired at her, ,inhict-
| ing a serious wound.
Henry Shewsberry and Huldah
Rice, both colored, of Versailles, KY,
had a misunderstanding recently which
ended in fight, in which Henry struck
Huldah across the head with sharp
stick, fracturing her skull and mortally
wounding her.
On the Pennsylvania Railroad, a
few miles from Pittsburgh, the other
day, Celestine McKibbon, brakeman,
got his foot fast in frog, and Alexander
| Hughes, conductor, attempted to
rescue him, when freight train struck
them, killing both. They were both
residents of Pittsburgh.
AT Northampton, Mass, the other
day, Matthew Davenport pounded his
wife with club and stabbed her in the
breast, and then cut a man named
Pratt across the abdomen, letting out
his intestines. Pratt's wound is mortal
and the woman's probably so. Daven-
port was arrested. The cause of the
murderous attack was jealousy.
"A horrible accident occurred few
mornings since at the North Mahoning
| Pa )colliery. While Joshua Holt was at
work a lump of coal weighing a ton or
more fell upon him, crushing him ter
ribly. His bowels were forced out, his
heart was literally cut in ,shreds and his
| legs and arms were reduced to a Jelly.
He was in the mines alone when killed.
The bodies of Antonio Nicrosi and
Miss Aurelia Sharp were found in the
Montgomery (Ala.) cemetery, few
mornings since, with pistol-ball hole
in the head of each. A note from
Nicrosi indicated that they were willing
to die for each other. 1t is supposed
Nicrosi shot her and then killed him
self.
BY the explosion of the boiler in
Morris lumber mill near Garland Pa,
a few days since, the fireman, Harry
Wright, was instantly killed, George
Lobdell and Bennie White fatally in
jured, and George Price badly scalded
and wounded in the face. The cause
Of the explosion was 120pounds of steam,
low water and sudden checking to put
on belt.
Two crazy men, named Odenwald
and Ritter, locked up in one cell in the
insane asylum, Wards Island, New
York, engaged in desperate struggle
the other day, when Keeper Brynes
tried to separate them Odenwald seized
Brynes with his teeth and Brynes threw
Odenwald violently to the floor. In
falling Odenwald' head struck the edge
of tin pail. He became unconscious
and soon afterward died.
Two years ago Lyman Blackman, a
farmer living near Birmingham, Mich,
decided his farm to his son Henry on
condition that he should support his
parents and sister. He failing to do
this, his father started for Pontiac, few
days ago, to get out the necessary pa
pers revoking the deed. In his absence
Henry quarreled with his mother and
sister, which resulted in his shooting
and killing them both, and setting fire
to the house and barn. He is now in
Jail at Pontiac.
The body of Ed. Barlein, barber,
who has been missing since June last,
was recently found buried in the out
skirts of Lafayette, Ind, the skull being
} fractured and the right arm broken.
He was last seen on the evening of
June 10, in company with Henry Burn
er, his brother-in-law, and had upon
his person $500. Burner returned home
alone and left for Cincinnati the next
morning, wearing suit of Barlein's s
clothes Afterward in that city, Burn
er threw Barlein's clothes into an out
house, where they were found. Burner
is under arrest for the murder,
The twelve-years-old son of John
Campbell, farmer living on Graffith' $
Lake, north of Coboeonk, North Victo-
ria, Can, saw deer crossing the lake,
the other afternoon, and started in pur-
suit. A quarter of mile from shore
he broke through, but after desperate
exertions, during which his hands and
, legs were mangled by the ice, reached
rock in the center of the lake. He
+ cried for help, and his father and mother,
with the neighbors, ventured out after
+ him, but the ice broke under them. All
attempts to reach him were in vain,
and the boy, becoming numbed and
weak, tumbled headlong from the rock
J into the water, perishing in sight of his
parents.
An old man named David Stillman
Q and his wife were brutally murdered in
8 their house near Sheffield, Mass, few
nights since. Mr.. Stillman was eighty
2 years old and his wife a few years
. younger. They employed a chore-boy,
who worked for them in the day time
/ When the boy came to the house in the
q morning he found Mr.. Stillman on d
lounge, with his head mashed in and q
bloody ak lying near, and Mrs. Stillmar
l at the foot of the cellar stairs, dead
with her head frightfully crushed. As
sistance was called and the boy stated
that on the previous evening, on hi'
way home, he met John Ten Eyek, Z
negro, who asked him if he could get
some butter of Mr.. Stillman, and wheth