Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-10-12
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES,


Near Jacksonville, Ky, a day or two
ago, Mrs. Black was shot twice and NOR.
tally wounded by Doc Ward.
Michael O'Hearn fell from trapeze
at the Bristol County fair grounds at
Taunton, Mass, recently, and broke his
neck.
"A seven.years-o daughter of j.
Harner, of Pleasant Plains, ILL.,, was
drowned in the house cistern the other
evening.
Thomas Mars, chief engineer of the
steamship Hewes, drank carbolic acid by
mistake for claret, the other day, and
died in an hour.
Henry Murray, at Decatur, ILL.,, ac-
cidentally shot himself dead the other
day while cleaning gun which he did
not know was loaded.
AT Lincoln, Neb, few days ago, a
money package was taken from the
United States Express wagon while
standing at the depot.
Andrew Diehl, a German farmer,
living near Carroll, Iowa, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed few days
since. He was stacking flax at the time.
While attending church recently the
wife of Mr.. Jacob Unrue, prominent
and well-known citizen of Rushville, Ind,
was stricken with paralysis. Her physi
clans think the case fatal one.
"A twelve-years. son of Richard
Spring, of Sumner, Ill, recently, acci-
dentally caught his foot in a horse power,
crushing his leg to above the knee. He
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William Oakley and William Petre,
two Chappells Gap (Ky) farmers, be-
tween whom there had been family
feud for years, had an encounter the
other day, and Oakley killed Petre. The
murderer fed.
Thomas Coleman, a farmer living
near Lafayette, had his arm caught in
the wheels of sorghum'mill the other
day, and before the machinery could be
stopped, his arm was literally torn from
its socket at the shoulder.
About week ago party of gentle
men, while having little target prac-
tice, near Cheyenne, Wyoming Ter, ac-
cidentally shot drunken soldier, named
Turner, three times. He died shortly
after.
John Keane, a saloon-keeper of Gin.
ton, Iowa, was arrested lately by United
States Marshal for making and passing
counterfeit money. The implements
used in its manufacture were found on
the premises.
"A coal miner named George Jones,
picked quarrel with fellow miner,
Adolph Seiger, at Nicholas mine, near
o'ra11Un, Ill, JHe VtlIoI nignJ, ana sGaOOed
HIM three times in the breast, killing him
almost instantly. Jones was arrested.
John Perry and wife of Hydeville,
Vt, quarreled lately and she agreed to
give him $500 if he would leave her.
But in the evening she withdrew her
offer, which so enraged Perry that he set
fire to the uninsured house, burning it to
the ground, and then shot himself dead.
AT Victoria, Washington Territory,
recently, an Indian woman, while bath
ing was seized by an octapas or devil
fish and drowned Her body was dis
covered by the Indians the next day, ly-
ing at the bottom of the Bay IN the grasp
of the octopas. They cut the tentacles
and recovered the body.
"A shooting affray occurred at Lave
do, Tex, few days ago, between an
American named Jim johnson and two
Mexicans on one side, and the Mayor of
the town and several Mexicans on the
other. Casualties: johnson killed, the
Mayor seriously wounded, and two Mex
leans badly wounded and arrested.
Perry Alexander and VIM. Pallman,
who were ancient enemies, had a row in
a saloon at Bluffton, Ind, the other night,
when Marseilles Alexander, a brother of
Perry, interferred, and Pallman drew a
knife and stabbed him four times in the
breast, ripped his bowels open, and drove
the knife into his temple about one inch.
Alexander's wounds are mortal.
Peter Morris, yard-master of the
Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cincinnati Rail
road, suffered a fearful death in the
yard at this point recently. While
he was coupling cars he stepped
under locomotive and was run over.
When he was taken from beneath the
engine leg and an arm were haning by
the shreds, his side was cut open, and
his intestines were protruding, and a
deep cash was cut in his head. He sur
vived only two hours. Morris was un-
married, and about thirty years of age
The soap factory of ]. c. Fox, at
Minersville, Pa, was, together with
the engine-house, entirely destroyed by
an explosion of one of the boilers the
other afternoon. The houses for several
blocks were terribly shaken, and in some
houses not pane of glass was left un-
broken. The houses adjacent were very
badly damaged, several taking fire. The
fragments of wood and iron ratified down
on the roofs of houses in distant parts of
the town, some striking pedestrians.
Three men were in the building at the
time of the explosion, and escaped with
slight wounds.
The U. S. Marshals in their raids on
Illicit distillers in Arkansas occasion
ally meet with sharp resistance Dep
uty Marshal Woodard, in charge of a
posse captured two stills, destroyed a
large amount of mash, beer and raw
whisky and arrested four men; and while
on the way to Opposition, in Sharp Coun-
ty, where he intended leaving the pris-
oners under guard preparatory to making
other arrests, he was attacked by twenty
friends of the prisoners, but after sharp
fight, in which one of the attacking par
ty was killed and others wounded, he
succeeded in driving off his assailants