Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-12-07
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


Capt. John Mesick, Sebastian
Adams and two seamen were recently
drowned near Baltimore.
Mary Tarelly was fatally burned at
Terre Haute, Ind, the other night, by
the explosion of lamp.
james Glenn was fatally stabbed
in the abdomen during row at Petrolia,
Pa, a few nights ago.
Cornelius Buckner killed Albert E.
Burnham with an AK at Cooperville,
Mich, recently. He is in jail.
BY the explosion of threshing-
machine boiler near Claypool, Ind, re-
Gently, Gideon Hartung was instantly
killed.
Samuel Hawkins has been arrested
at West Point, Ind, charged with the
murder of his wife at St. Thomas, Ont,
last April.
"A young child of Anson Monroe, of
Bellevue, Mich, was scalded to death
the other morning by the upsetting of
boiler of water.
Charlotte Sanders, a negro women,
dropped dead in church at Nashville,
Tenn, the other night, from intense re-
ligious excitement.
AT a dancing party of colored peo-
pie in Covington, KY, few nights
since, Maggie Sherman, a quadroon,
fatally stabbed Winnie Jackson. Jeal-
ousy.
Five Italians, playing cards in a
basement opening into Bottle alley, on
Baxter street, New York, the other
night, quarreled, and one of them,
Michael Cottari was killed.
Thomas Benson, Frank Lawrence,
A. E. Anderson and Daniel Mcdonald,
seamen of the schooner Grace Choate,
of Portsmouth, N. H., were drowned
off Middle Bank during recent fishing
cruise.
While some of the crew of Life
saving Station No. Z, at Point Pleasant,
N. j., were returning in a skiff from a
| fishing excursion, the other night, their
boat was capsized in the surf and David
| Newell was drowned.
"A child about four years old, named
| O'Neill, was burned to death at Ash
| land, Pa, a few days ago. 1t was left
to play alone and fell upon the stove,
where it literally rosted until the smell
of burning flesh alarmed the neigh
bors.
"A terrible domestic tragedy recent
| ly occurred at Fultonville, Ill. George
Armburster, wealthy real estate own
er of that place, shot and killed his wife
and John |. Richards, prominent
business man. He then surrendered to
the authorities.
Mrs. VIM. A. Hawkins, of Brook
lyn, N. Y, sick with fever, went to the
bathroom to bathe her head few days
since, and sat down on the edge of the
bath-tub while the water was running,
when her strength gave way and she
fell into the bath-tub and was drowned.
Orlando Abbott and wife, of North
Andover, Mass, while crossing the rail-
way track at Portland, the other day,
were struck and instantly killed by an
engine. The horse was also killed, the
wagon demolished and the engine and
tender thrown from the track and con-
siderably damaged.
Miss Lizzie Jacques was fatally
burned at Warsaw, Ind, a few evenings
since by the explosion of an oil lamp
which she was lifting. While endeav-
oring to put out the flames in her cloth
| ing her father burned both hands so Sc
verely that it is thought amputation
will be necessary.
Lizzie Tanner (colored) threw a
poker at her little daughter in Louis
vile, the other day The girl to avoid
the blow hid behind little negro boy
named Eddie Branche, and the poker
hit him on the head, knocking him
senseless. He has since died of lock-
jaw and Tanner was arrested for muir
der.
AT Fort Hall, Idaho, the other day,
the Indian-Agent arrested an Indian
who shot two white men there last sum-
mer, and turned him over to the Sheriff.
Shortly after an Indian friend of the
prisoners went to the traders store
where the Indian was delivered to the
Sheriff, and shot dead Alexander Rho
den.
William F. Maskell, a boy, was
struck on the back part of his head at
Lowell, Mass, some three weeks ago
by fruit-vender named Antonio Funie.
He was unconscious from that time un-
til his death, few days ago. Funie
was incensed by the larceny of pint
of chestnuts by some boys passing his
stand, and struck Maskell on the head
with stick of stove-wood.
The other night desperate named
A. L. Taylor met a man named BOlin
on the road near Richmond, KY, and
made an unprovoked assault upon him.
Bolin retreated, but his antagonist fol-
lowed him and fired his revolver three
times at him. Bolin then turned to de-
fend himself, and did it SO effectually
that he shot and instantly killed his as
sailant.
"A horrible fratricide recently oc-
cured near Versailles, Mo. George
Staples, Sr. went home and began quar-
reling with his daughter-in-law, and
finally knocked her down and kicked
her. George Staples, DR., her husband,
interfered, and in the melee which fol-
lowed the father attempted to shoot his
son, who wrenched the pistol from his
hands and fired three loads into the
fathers breast, causing instant death.
Two tramps entered the house of
G. T. KurtzhOlz, an old German liv-
ing alone in Eldorado, Wis, few
evenings since, and placing a pistol at
his head demanded his money. He
handed them his pocket-book, which
contained about twelve dollars, and not
satisfied with the size of their haul they
made murderous assault upon him,
one of the fiends holding him while the
other beat him on the head with a
heavy club. When he was reduced to
insensibility the wretches bound him in
chair, and the chair to the bed-post,
and then rummaged the premises at
their leisure and made good their es-
cape. Kurtzholz' injuries are fatal.
No trace has been discovered of the viii
lains.
L. j. Therasson, New York law
yer, has been arrested charged with the
embezzlement of moneys amounting to
upward of $130,000. For eighteen
years he had entire control of the prop
, erty of Mrs. Marie Titus and never was
called ON for an account. On her death,
in September he was named one of the
| axao,,toro and his dilatorinass in for