Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-08-17
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Leroy B. Frost, of Franklin, N. H.,
drank sugared 1y-poison, the other night,
and died in six hours.
John Stockes was struck by light
ming near Abba, Iowa, a few evenings
since, and both he and the horse he was
riding were killed instantly.
Edward Fulton, the defaulting Tax
Collector of New Orleans, has been ar
rested at San Francisco The amount of
his embezzlement is $21 900.
Frank McCamman, living near Sull.
van, Ind, has been arrested on the
charge of beating and kicking his
brothers child to death.
Jacob Groh, of Harrison, N. j., re-
Gently attempted TO kill his wife and
four children with an AK. He was ar
rested and hanged himself in his cell.
The boiler in Taxworth's saw-mill at
Baldwin, Mich, exploded few after
Moons since, totally wrecking the mill
and killing Harry Taxworth, one of the
owners.
Bertha Wallin, thirteen years old,
used kerosene to build fire at her home
in Watertown, Wis, few days since.
She died in fearful agony few hours
later.
AN eight-year-old daughter of Mrs.
| Conners, of Anderson, Ind, started fire
with coal-oil, a few mornings since, with
the usual result. She was horribly
burned.
"A fire at Straw's Point, N. H., re-
Gently, burned two cottages and dam
aged others. Henry Groves, of Concord,
while assisting In removing the furniture
was overcome by the smoke, and burned
to death.
During an alteration near Kokomo,
Ind, few days ago, NJ Miller shot AL.
Needham, the charge of shot taking eff
feet in the breast, inflicting fatalwound.
1t was the result of an old trouble.
Rev. James N. Baker, living near
Brush Creek, Iowa, was recently killed
by horse kicking him in the head and
neck, while trying to drive him out of
his field.
AT Augusta, KY, a few days since,
a man known as Buck" Morgan stabbed
an iuoffensive colOred man in the stom-
ach and lungs. The wounds were fatal
No cause is assigned for the act.
The propeller Favorite recently ran
into and sunk the schooner Grace A.
Shannon on Lake Michigan. All on
board were rescued except Alexander
| Graham, little son of one of the owners
of the Shannon.
AT Newark, N. j., the other day,
Mrs. Charles Kinley, while preparing din
ner, tried to quicken the fire with kero-
sene. She succeeded and also set her
clothes on fire, burning her so badly that
she died in few hours.
Frank Staley, living alone on his
| farm, fifteen miles south of Greencastle,
Ind, was found dead in his house few
mornings ago with pistol-wound in his
head. Robbery is the supposed object,
as 5000 are missing.
The little daughter, aged nine years,
of Mrs. S. f. Masher, living in Salt
Creek Valley, near Leavenworth, Kan,
was recently bitten by rattlesnake, and
died twenty-four hours later, after suffer
ing extreme agony.
S. Sprig Beet, Cashier of the Frank
lin Bank of Baltimore, was found dead, a
few days ago, in the woods attached to
his country seat, twelve miles from the
city. He had left his house in the morn
ing for a hunt.
Joseph Cox met with a fatal acci-
dent the other afternoon in a wheat field
in Fuma, III. He was driving a reaper,
and one of the horses having stepped
over trace he dismountcd in front of
the sickle. The horses started up and
he was horribly mangled by the sickle
and his neck broken. He died in fifteen
minutes.
Mr.. E. ]. Ricketts,, of Olney, ILL.,,
just before retiring few nights since,
tried to extiDguish the light of kero-
sene oil lamp by blowing down the chin
ney. The lamp exploded, throwing the
oil all over his person, and it catching
fire burned his head and shoulders to a
crisp. He lived only few hours.
Joseph Chamberlain, from Oean, N.
Y, recently elopcd with the daughter of
Stephen Wait, of Augusta, Ky. Her
father swOre revengeance, and few nights
since hid in the bushes, and when Cham
berlain came along shot him, the ball en-
tering the lower part of the chest, COM
ing out through the left side, killing him
instantly. He claims that Chamberlain
had threatened his life.
Robert Johnson, logger of Manis-
tee, Mich, while walking about near a
logging shanty about fifteen miles from
that city, the other morning, was shot
dead with load of buck-shot by some
unknown person in ambush. The muir
derer is supposed to be man With whom
johnson had difficulty few weeks ago,
and who has since been absent from camp
"A shocking murder was committed
In Clark County, Mo-, few nights since,
the victims being Lewis Spencer and his
four children-two sons and two daugh-
ters. When discovered in the morning
the father and both sons were still breath
| ing, but were in an unconscious cOndi-
tion. The father and one son lived about
two hours, and the other son little long
er. The girls and one of the boys were
sleeping in the house, and the father and
one son in the barn, about forty rods dis
tant. From the condition of the wounds
when the physicians were called in, it is
thought the massacre was committed
just before daylight. The murderers
procured an ak from the wood pile, and
evidently went first to the stable and
climbed ladder ON the outside of the
loft, where Mr.. Spencer and his son
Willis, aged ten, were sleeping, and
commenced the bloody work upon them,
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each. Mr.. Spencer had in his possession
at the time about 81 200, which the as
sassins secured. They then proceeded
to the house, crept in the kitchen win
dow, and forced open door into bed
room on the first floor in which were
sleeping the daughter Jane, aged eight
cen, and the son Charlie, aged seven.
Jane seems to have been struck while
asleep, but the boy was partially awak-
ened, and struggled across the body of
his sister, and was found in that position.
The other daughter, Alice, aged twenty,
was sleeping upstairs alone, and did not
appear to have moved after the fatal
blow was struck. The object of the
murder was evidently robbery. The
Coroner's inquest led to suspicion of
Spencer's brother-in-law, named Lewis,
and man by the name of Bailey, and
they were arrested.