Nebraska advertiser., 1878-08-08
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


of a couple. named Kinsiler, near
Troxberville, Snyder Co., Pa, last
winter. They got about $4,000.
James Anderson, milkman, who
lives on a rancho about ten miles
north of Deadwood, started for town
early on the morning of the 2d inst,
on his regular trip. When two miles
from the rancho he was stopped by
five masked men, bound, gagged, rob-
bed, and left In the edge of the woods.
The robbers took about $50 In money,
and span of horses from his wagon.
They then proceeded to the rancho
where they appropriated three more
horses and three saddles to their own
use, telling the man who was in
charge of the rancho to go and liber-
ate Anderson.
Last week nearly the entire town
Of Alta, Utah, was burned. 200 build
ings were destroyed. The disaster
was caused by gentleman dropping
fire from his cigar on the parlor sofa.
George Stevens, a prisoner in the
workhouse at st. Louis. was killed re-
Gently for insubordination.
A white man named Dave Morton
was killed by negro, at Polls Point,
Lookout Mon tain, on the 1st.
A. M. Tullis, wealthy farmer of
Grand Island, Sacramento county,
was murdered 1st inst. by parties un-
known, while at work in his orchard.
Robbery was evidently not the object,
all his property remaining untouched.
The deceased was unmarried and was
q native of South Carolina.
Saturday night of last week, John
Dayton, respectable farmer in Rob-
ertson County, KY. was shot by
band of men calling themselves
Regulators" The same men also
burned the house of the Marshal at
Mt. Olivet.
Walter Galbraith, Chicago, former
ly a commission merchant suicided by
shooting. on % ult.
Mike Madden, notorious bruiser
of Chicago, while resisting arrest, was
shot and mortally wounded, by an of
ficer, on the 29th ult.
n. N.Simmons, prosperous merchant
of Nashua, Ia, was drowned on the
2Sth ult. while attempting to ford Ce-
dar River horseback.
r. Wiswall, a prominent citizen of
Galesburg, Ill. was thrown from a
buggy on the 29th and probably fatal
ly hurt.
on the morning OF the 5otu uIJ., at
Columb bus, O., Mrs. Maria D. Kinna
was found In dying condition in her
bed. A little child about four years
old, who lives with her, stated that a
man, during the previous night had
come to the house and asked Mrs.
Kinna to go to bed with him, but she
refused. and during a struggle which
ensued the man took her by the throat
and poured something into her mouth
which made her vomit. Edward
Sheehy was arrested and at once iden-
titled by the little girl as the man.
One day last week fifteen girls en-
ployed by Madame Somers, dress
maker, Cleveland, o., were poisoned
by drinking milk. All recovered,
however, but two sisters, Nettie and
Mary Divitt, both of whom became
seriously sick, and Mary died, while
Nettie is stillin dangerous condition.
1t is thought that arsenic had been
placed in the milk.
At Lanacoining, Md, Mary Pritch-
ard, age 10, was killed; Robert Dick,
aged 20, probably fatally Injured, and
Abraham Linch severely bruised by
the breaking of swing.
At Hagerstown, Nd, on 3lst ult.,
at pigeonssh ooting match, Samuel
Donahue, aged so, was shot dead, ac-
cidentally by VIM. Cokenour.
George Kelly, of West Florence, O.,
suicided by hanging, at Keokuk, Ia,
on the 31st ult.
Samuel Meyers, a resident of Hart
ford, Ct., suicided in Chicago on the
1st, by shooting pistol ball through
his head.
Warren Cooper, near Des Moines,
Ia, while stacking wheat was killed
by lightning, two horses were also
killed and the stack burned.
George Smith, policeman of Jer-
sey City, was killed one night last
week while asleep In bed with his
wife. The assassin chloroformed
them and then entered the room and
stove in Smiths skull. His wife knew
nothing of it, when done.
The Bloomington Banking Insti-
tute, Bloomington, ILL.,, was robbed
on the night of the 30th ult., of 81 900 |
in money and $4,000 in bonds. The
burglars entered through the door, un
locking it, and locking again when
they left. The president kept the fig
ures of the safe-combination on card
in a drawer. This they found and
had little trouble in opening the safe.
On the 31st ultin Little Rock, Ark,
E. NJ. Orr shot and mortally wounded