The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-16
CHASTITY RECORD.
The Killings of the Last Year.

The Cincinnati Comm ercial has a
statistician who, among his other duties,
keeps record of crimes. This CHASTITY
catalogue has just been printed, and
from it we find that l ,132 persons in
this country were killed in 1878 not
by accident Or natural agencies, but by
their fellow-beings, and now sleep in
their graves, the victims of rum, insan-
ity, jealousy, lust and hate. From his
statements of causes of these crimes il
would appear that murder rarely, if
ever, has anything of the heroic in it's
environments. Nearly all these killings
occurred in low life. The surroundings
were coarse, gross and brutal. The
causes, in many instances, were INSULT
cient; in some they were grotesque !;
and, if it were possible to invest muir
der with any quality of humor, they
would appear funny. Here are a few
samples from the Comm erciars list:
II have got the largest and best crop of
corn, !" said Alexander Siley, at Forest Depot, in
Virginia. That WAS enough. His brother-in-
law then and there killed Alexander. But
ridiculously foolish was Mrs. Jennie Miller's
conduct, June 8 at huntsville, Pa. ''There is
fly in the gravy" he remarked to his wife, as
they sft at the dinner table. Unlucky remark
She seized an ak and, at one blow, before he
could demonstrate, get out of the way, or take
his cwn part, the husbands head was Off Oct
10, Joseph Katourky wanted Miss Augusta Sim
mons to go to the st Louis Fair with him. She
declined. He instantly shot her. On the Goth
of July, Mrs Sist, high-toned Virginia lady
was peeling peaches with her old and faithful
colored servant; trifing dispute arose: the
old negress remarked that she did not say or do
such thing, and that anybody who said so was
sinking liar. Thereupon Mrs. Sist cut the
negress' throat from ear to ear In Boston, in
October, Andrew P. Anderson wanted his
clothes. His washwoman, Betty Rivoldo, did
not have them done. She never lived to finish
them, for he shot her on the spot Lewis Ty-
man selected a curious place and singular mat
ter to kill fellow man about. He cut Nathan
Coye, at Culpepper, Va, at Methodist prayer
meeting, in quarrel as to who should have
the hymn book
There have been numerous murders
in which women were the cause, either
through the jealousy of husbands or
from the rage of rejected suitors.
Trouble about other mems wives, in
fact, ended the existence of sixty four
victims Numerous wives have been
killed by their husbands in drunken
frenzy, and high-toned Virginia
Colonel, Wilson Houchins, killed his
wife, children, and mother-in- law, and
as grand finish blew himself up on a
key of gunpowder. There have been
during the year no less than nine out
and-out child-murderers, some of them
not over II years of age. Several have
been killed for small sums, and five of
the victims came to their end in quarrels
where the sum involved was only few
cents. There were 25 persons poisoned,
and y women were killed by abortion
lists. The heat of political quarrels eud-
ed the career of IA men. Eighteen
fathers killed their sons, 81 mothers
killed their children, IS husbands killed
their wives, and II wives killed their
husbands. Fiftythree officers have
killed persons. and IS officers nave been
killed. Ten men have been killed in
quarrels in bagnios, "a in bar-room
brawls, 4 on account of dogs, nearly 100
on account of women, Is on account of
cards, Sc by feuds,. IS on property dis
putes, 20 by mobs, and 81 by thieves.
In all this long and CHASTITY list there is
scarcely one case that has redeeming
quality about it. It is all a brutal,
bloody business, an exhibition of the
animal Instincts, and lowest, basest pas
sions that almost makes one doubt
whether these human beasts have con-
or not.