Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-16
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

The iron furnaces at Latonio, Ohio,
were destroyed by fire on the 7th inst.
Loss, $F5, ,oee.
Last week, near Oxford, Miss, a
tramp entered the home of a farmer,
and failing to outrage the lady of the
house, killed her with club. A lit
tie girl escaped and alarmed the
neighbors.
The Joliet, Illinois penitentiary
contains 1,730 convicts, 81 of whom
are women.
Morris Ellis, farmer near George.
town, ILL.,, started home from Yer
million Grove recently. with eight
stands of bees In his wagon, and In q
solid mass they lit upon the horses and
driver. The horses did not attem pt
to run, but lay upon the ground and
rolled in terrible agony. Both horses
have since died. and Mr.. Ellis lies in
very critical condition and is not
expected TO recover.
Recently near California, a village
a few miles from Cincinnati, O., a
tramp waylaid and outraged a lady
named Mrs. Vaile. The people of the
vicinity are hunting for the scamp to
lynch him.
Mrs. Alvira Wilcox, an old citizen
of Rochester, Ind, was found dead in
her bed on the 9th inst. She was 60
years old and had resided in Roches-
ter over 40 years.
AT Aledo, ILL.,, on the 7th a boy
named Leonard Robinson while
planting corn was killed by light
ming.
Near Centerville, Mich, on the Sth
Reuben w. Walz was killed by the
caviDg of a well which he was In.
Major Todd, of the U. S. A. ST.
Louis Arsnal was recently thrown
from his buggy and supposed to be
fatally injured.
At Indianapolis on the 9Th a cattle
thief named Fred Hoffman shot and
killed constable named Jesse Noble,
who was trying to arrest him. Hof-
man was afterward arrested and jail
ed.
VIM. B. Graham, Scales Mound,
ILL.,, committed suicide by shooting,
9th inst.
George Franz, painter, 'cf Canton,
Ohio, committed suicide by drown
ing, 9th inst. Cause, drunkenness
and domestic trouble.
Recently an old old man named
Graham was released from the Iowa
penitentiary after an imprisonment
of 20 years for crime he did not COM
NIT. Twelve years ago the woman
whose testimony convicted him con-
fessed that she had sworn to lie, but
Graham, whose unjust punishment
had made an imbecile Of him, was
in the prison instead of
luDatic asylum.
At Lawrence, Kas., oa the 9th, a
young man was killed suddenly by
Last week on CHEEKY Creek, near
Colum bus, Kas.. Allen Smith shot
and killed Ira Hyde. Both farmers.
On the 9Th at Galesburg, H., boy
of 8 years, leading vicious COW, tied
the rope round his body and was
dragged TO death.
At MeadvilIe, Pa, on the 7th, VIM.
Donahue' aged 40, while out hunting,
shot himself dead.
Rev. w. d. Morgan, pastor of the
Third Baptist Church, of North Ston-
ngton, Conn.,, was recently thrown
from a wagon and killed.
On the 10th inst. at Carlinville, ILL.,,
Miss Christy, aged II, ,uicided by
drowning.
A young man named John Daily
was drowned at st. Charles, ILL.,, On
he 10th by being swept over mill
lam.
A farmer at Elk Garden, Lee ooun-
~, Va, having had some butter sto-
en- from bis dairy, poisoned firkin
'or the use of the thief The butter
was stolen and sold to retailer who
'etailed it to customers. The conse-
Iuence was many person were poison
I'd and some four or five have died
rom the effects. The name of the
nan who poisoned the butter is An
lrew Miller. The thief is not idehti.
led.
On the 10th inst. lear Easton, Kan,
IN old farmer named Hoppenheimer
vas shot and killed, in quarrel, by a
nan named Rupp.
Capt. BOgardus. in an exhibition
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