The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-27
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A Hydrophobic Family Killed by a 0hild's
Bite,

BROOKLYN, N. Y, July 2e.-On the eigh-
teenth Of July David Mitchell, aged twenty
He was bitten in the hand by an aged wo-
man whom he was attending as q nurse.
Lockjaw WIS feared. On the twenty fourth
he became delirious, and later had symptoms
Of tetanus or lockiaw. He has partly recov-
cred now. but Is still very nervous, and at
times talks In dazed and unconscious sort
OF way. One OF the woman's daughters Ia
said to have died Of q disease similar 70
Mitchell's, and which was contracted from a
bite OF g child three years of age. The child
while putting her fingers into it's mouth to
prevent its jaws closing, received q fatal
bite.
KILLED HIS EMPLOYER.
In Suffolk county yesterday Henry Such
ner crushed In the skull Of his employer,
Conrad Houser. They disputed about wages.
MRS. JENNIE SMITH vICToR1oUs-THE yER-
DICT AGAINST HER REVERSED.
New YORK, July 26.-The New Jersey Court
Of Error and Appeals. rendered q decision
sustaining the points taken by the counsel of
Mrs. Smith and Covert D. Bennett, now un-
der sentence OF death.
Chief Justice Beasely read an elaborate
to the conclusion that the charge of the Judge
on trial was misdirection on testimony.
Four Judges voted for the reversal of the
Judgment, on the ground that the charge in
reference to the letter was erroneous. This
reversal makes the trial and Its result Of no
effect, and If the State desires to move fur
ther in the case there must be a new trial.
Ex-senator Winfield, Of counsel for Mrs.
Smith and Bennett, returned from Trenton
this morning to inform the prisoners OF this
decision In their favor IN MT 1 Winfield was pro
read to Mrs. Smith and Bennett in their cells.
The prisoners received the intelligence with
great joy. tits not known when the new trial
will take place, but 1t will probably be at the
next term Of court to be held in September,
though. possibly, it may not be so, as counsel
may apply for change OF venue.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
CHICAGO, July 26.-Emma Faist, a German
girl, who lived at No. $50 Elson Avenue, three
weeks ago went into the country to work for
Lewis Geiger, a milkman. A few days after
ward she was called for by two men and a
woman In a carriage, who said her friends In
has been heard Of her.
SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED IN A RAILROAD
ACCIDENT.
CHICAGO, July 26.-At 6 o'clock this evening
gravel train on the Northwestern Railroad
was thrown from the track near Waukegan,
thirty five miles north of this city, by run
ming over calf. Ten flat cars were wrecked
are A. Joyce, John Duggan, Pat Connor and
Mike Sheridan. Five or six others were more
or less wounded, only two seriously. The
dead and wounded were put on train and
carried to Milwaukee.
BIG FLOODS IN PENNsYLvANIA-THE RIVER
RISING.
PITTsBURG, July 27.-The floods here to-day
were trem endous. The river at IL 80 o'clock
this morning was six feet six inches and ris-
ing rapidly.
1t was rising at Greensboro twenty inches
In an hour.
The rain fell in torrents at Petrolia and
Harms City, washing away the railroad and
sweeping away twenty-five houses. Only one
life Is reported lost.
Bad washouts are reported on the Pennsyl-
vania and Lake Erie Railroad, and the Erie
and Pittsburg Railroad at Clinton, Pa. also
on the Allegheny Valley Railroad at Hutton,
up the Monongahela.
At Monongahela City there were heavy
floods
Advices from Peters creek say that 1t was
the heaviest flood ever known washing whole
fields of corn and oats out into the river.
There was a washout OF the Fort Wayne
Railroad between Enon and Alliance, and at
Irwin, Pa, the Pennsylvania Railroad was
also visited and large amount OF damage
DONE
The Youghiogheny river is coming down
with big rush and will make things lively
here tomorrow.
All the towboats will get away from here
to-day with 15,OOO0O0 bushels of coal for Gin
cinnati and Louisville. The boats are
Whistiing and making night hideous getting