Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-05-31
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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he was attempting to arrest at For
Clark, the other day. r
"A discharged convict of the Micbi
gan State Prison shot and killed an ole
man named Horton, near Summit
Mich, few nights since, il is sun
posed for plunder. The murderer es
capped.
Lewis Cameron was killed neal
Newaygo, Mich, the other day, by 3
tree which he was chopping falling or
him. His wife's first husband was
| killed in the same manner in the same
neighborhood.
Robert Robertson, an old citizen OF
Burrows, Ind, was struck by lightning
a few evenings ago, while sitting at !
table in his house, reading, and in.
stantly killed. His wife was knocked
senseless at the same time, but she will
recover.
Albert Roseboom was killed in a
shingle-nlill at Holland City, Mich, a
few days ago. He was caught in a
belt and carried around pulley which
was revolving 800 times a minute. His
brains were dashed out against the
frame standing near the pulley.
As farmer named j. L. Berry,
residing near Shellsburg, Iowa, was fell
ing a tree, the other day, his wife ap-
preached him with a small child in her
arms to tell him she was going to a
neighbor's, when the tree fell, killing
the wife and child instantly.
Tom Morris, recently arrested in
Pennsylvania for the murder of his
wife at Yates Center, Kan, committed
suicide at Kansas City, while being
taken to the scene of his crime,
with strychnine. His sufferings were
terrible. He made full confession to
priest before his death.
Kate Mckenzie, aged five years,
was burned to death at Derrick City,
Pa, the other evening, her clothes hav-
ing caught fire from stove during the
absence of her mother. The girl ran
out on the street and was met by two
men, who, in endeavoring to extinguish
the flames, were severely burned, one so
badly that one if not both hands will
have to be amputated.
Samuel A. Deal, living in Dry
Grove, ILL.,, started on horseback, few
evenings ago, to drive COW from past
ure, taking with him little daughter
aged two and half years. After driv-
ing the COW short distance she turned
and frightened the horse, causing him
to turn suddenly, throwing the father
and the daughter to the ground. Deal
was uniniured, but his daughter fell up
on her head and died five hours after.
Col John Budd, aged seventy, for
merly prominent politician in Ala
bama, eloped with Miss Ida Bouhniell,
aged twenty, the daughter of a well-to-
do farmer at Walhalla, S. c., few
nights ago. The lovers started for
Tennessee, where they intended to
marry, but were at once followed by
the girls father. who overtnnk them
and shot Budd, killing him instantly.
The girl was taken in charge by her
father, carried back home and put in
charge of her mother, and by daylight
the murderer had fed the country,
whittier no one knows.
Conrad Clouse, young man, met
a horrible death in a Port Huron mich.
planing-mill the other day. He was
engaged in oiling a shaft, when a pro-
jecting pin from a coupling caught his
sleeve and wound him around the
shaft, breaking both legs and one arm,
and pounding him almost to a Jelly.
He was forced through a small hole
carried around until his clothes were
torn in ribbons, when his body dropped
to the floor. He lived about two hours,
in senseless condition.
Joseph H. Fare, who shot and
killed his brother-in-law, Winson w.
Beach, in st. Louis, in July, 1871, was
murdered in the State Penitentiary at
Jefferson City, Mo-, the other evening
hp n convict named Rogers. Trouble
had existed between these men for
some time, and Fare is said to have
threatened to kill Rogers. While Fare
was eating his supper in the kitchen,
Rogers entered the room, and, saying
:" / understand you said cannot pass
through this Kitchen" Immediately
grappled him and with a pocket knife
inflicted fourteen wounds on Fares
body, one of them severing the jugular
vein. Fare only lived few minutes.
Frank Houlton, a prosperous and
popular farmer living in Hamilton, Ind,
was shot and instantly killed the other
night by burglar named John Abbott.
Houlton kept considerable money in
the house, fact well known TO his
neighbOrs. Late at night Abbott en-
tered the house and went into Miss
Houlton's room. The young lady was
awakened by his movements and
screamed, at which HoultOn jumped
from his bed and ran out of his room.
He was met at the door by Abbott, who
deliberately shot him through the head,
causing instant death. The murderer
then ordered the wife and daughter to
keep still under penalty of death, while
he calmly searched the house, but failed
to get any plunder. He then made his
escape, but was subsequently arrested
and lodged in Jail at Auburn. Abbott
was near neighbor of Houlton and
had served a term in the Penitentiary.
HOulton was seventy years old.
"A man named Gibbons was killed
near jackson, Mo-, a few evenings
since, by his brOther-in-law, Isaac
Hobbs, who then blew his own brains
out. The circumstances leading to the
tragedy are reported as follows: Hobbs
had been accustomed to treat his wife
in the most brutal manner and few
months ago attempted to kill her. She
made her escape and Immediately be-
took herself with her children to her
fathers house. A reconciliation was
effected and the family reunited, but
trouble again ensued and final separa-
tion took place. Hobbs brooded over
the matter and finally concluded to kill
her and,it is supposed, himself. Going
to his father-in-law's house he met his
wife and attempted to shoot her. Her
brother interfered and Hobbs shot him
through the heart. Then, retiring a
short distance, he ended his own ex-
istence. The relations of Hobbs and
his wife are parties of wealth and high
standing.
"A brutal murder was committed at
Camden, N. j., the other day, the vic
tim being an old man named Ernest
Schwartz, a resident of philadelphia.