Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
In Allen County, Ky., near the Tennessee
State line, on the 2Sth ult., Anderson Carve
i'm fit of jealousy shot and killed his wifi
and then blew his own brains out with pis
tol.
George Schwartz, proprietor of ciga
store on Montgomery Street, San Francisco
n politician Of some local note, was shot ant
instantly killed in his own store, on tn,
morning of the I'd. His assassin was
young man named Haskell, a clerk in a Law
Office. A personal alteration that tool
place between them at a public meeting helt
the previous night was the cause of tn,
shooting.
Two masked men robbed the Eureki
stage-coach near Nevada City, Cal, on tn,
1st. William +. Cummings, banker OF
Moore's Flat, resisted the robbers when they
attempted to take gold bar belonging tC
| him, and he was shot through the head and
instantly killed.
At Delphos, o., on the I'd, Joseph W
Hunt, President of the Toledo, Delphos and
Burlington Railroad, was crushed to death
| between two ears.
Prof. De Ham, instructor of music i'm the
Pittsburg Female College, and author of
| several popular musical works, was shot and
| instantly killed on the night of the LIST. Prof.
De Ham and his family We're occupying a
summer house few miles from the city.
Hearing a noise i'm the yard he went out
about midnight to investigate it, taking his
revolver with him. His wife heard him call
out apparently to some person, and then the
report of his pistol, quickly followed by that
of another. He was found i'm dying condi-
ton, with pistol shot in his left side, just
below the heart. He was 10 years Of age, n
native of Belgium, and the father of a large
family.
An explosion of fire. damp in some coal
mines at Bonchamp, Department of Haute-
Saone, France, killed fifteen persons. A large
number were injured.
At Santa Fe, n. NJ, on the 1st, j. Ii.
Lamey, nephew Of Archbishop Lamey, shot
and killed Mr.. +. Mallct, an architect en-
ployed upon the new Cathedral. 1t was
case Of jealousy. The parties all belong to
the highest social stratum.
A family named Cusick, at Elizabeth, N
j., ate toadstools by mistake for mushrooms.
Two children died, and the other two il was
thought could not recover. The parents
were less seriously affected.
Three men, Elijah Frost, Bige Gibson and
Tom McCracken, under arrest at Wilett's,
California, for stealing various property,
were hanged by mob on the night of the
Sd.
The excursion steamer Alaska, of the De-
troit and Put-in-Bay Line, Lake Erie, on
the 5th exploded the dome of her boiler, in
stantly killing both engineers and one deck
hand, and seriously scalding 10 other deck
hands, two fatally. Out of the large number
of passengers on board only one was slightly
injured. The steamer City of Detroit took
off the passengers and crew and towcd the
wrecked steamer to port.
The wife of Sheriff Kearn of Philadelphia
died Of hydrophobia on the 9Th. Six weeks
previously she was bitten by pet dog.
The yacht Westward capsized i'm Hender-
son Bay, Lake Ontario, on the 9Th. Byron
Westcott, Nelson Westcott, Edward Benja-
min, Drake Lewis, Schuyler Howard, Allen
Ramsey and Edward Yorke were drowned.
Two Of the party were rescued. Five of
those lost have families.
Five lives We're lost near New Iberia, La,
during the late tornado.
Alice Cottrell, aged IL, Ellen Dellinger,
aged 10, and John Summit, aged 22, were
drowned while crossing the White River at
Morgan's Ferry, Fiske County, Ind, on the
4th. Their team was crowded off the ferry
boat by the backing Of another team i'm front.
The horses We're drowned.
A two-story brick building at Cheyenne,
w. T., fell i'm on the night of the 4th, bury
ing number Of persons i'm the ruins. Col.
q. /. +. Vandersande and two children of
Mrs. Bell were killed, and number of 9TH
ers We're seriously injured. The accident is
attributed TO the giving way of defective
wall.
London dispatch Of the 9TH says The
steamer Brest, Of Glasgow, conveying 100
passengers, Italian, Swiss, German and
French, from Havre to Liverpool en- route
for New York, went ashore off the Lizard.
Five Italians, German and Frenchman are
missing.
Clark Brown has been arrested at West
Winchester, Ont, for the murder Of his
father and sister. Brown confesses that he
is the murderer, and says he was impclled by
some strange feeling TO commit the awful
crime.
Theodore Daniel, eolored, under arrest at
Union, Boone County, o., for an assault up
on young lady, the daughter of his employ
er, was tied to a tree and shot by Il mob ON
the night of the Sd.