Iron County register., 1880-04-22
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CKIMES AND CASUALTIES.
CHARLES ABBOT, aged Sc, and Smith
/ A. Brown, alias McHenry, were suffocated
in burning building at Haverhill, Mass.
on the morning Of the 18th. Mrs. Emma
Roberts was severely burned and injured
internally by jumping from window.
ENOCH MASSLANDER, a rich bachelor
farmer, who lived alone three miles from
Bellaire, o., across the West Virginia line
was the other morning found burned tc
| death in his house. 1t is believed that he
was tortured to death by robbers in order to
make him disclose where his money was Sc
creted.
The family of Cornelius Palmer,
living near Tweed, Ont, were recently poi
soned by eating wild parsnips. One child
died, and the mother and four children were
in dangerous condition.
JOHN POWELL and Robert TAYLOR
were killed and several other quarrymen in
jured by an explosion of dynamite at Read
ing, Pa, on the 10th.
KING ALPHoNso has signed the death
warrant of Otero, his would-b murderer.
The steamer Dariti was sunk by a
collision on the river Danube. Sixteen per-
sons were drowned.
EZRA BECKER and William Schum,
firemen, were killed by falling wall at the
burning of Thompson & Co.'s Touring mill
at Dixon, Ill.,, on the morning of the Sth. A
number of other fremen were badly hurt.
The walls was thrown down by an explo-
sion.
AMOS WooTEN was hanged at Ben
nettsville, s. c., on the 9th, for the crime of
arson.
SAMUEL ROBINSON, colored, was
hanged at Leesburg, Va, on the 9th, for the
murder OF Edward Thomas, last October.
AN explosion occurred on the Sth in
the Preston Colliery, one Of the largest in
the Scuylkill region, by which five men were
badly injured, three fatally.
ALBERT SCHELL, late city editor of
the Cleveland Anzeiger, committed suicide
on the 9th by drowning himself in the lake,
previous to which he had cut his throat. He
was dissipated and in pecuniary straits.
LOUIS KEENAN,, aged "a, night
watchman at Iler & Co.'s distillery, Omaha,
Neb., fell into large tub of scalding slop
and was found there in the morning, literally
cooked to death.
JOHNSON G. WHITAKER, the only
colored cadet at West Point, on the morn
ing Of the 9Th was found bound hand and
foot in his room at the barracks, with a
piece of one ear gone and otherwise bruised
and battered. He said that during the
night three masked men attacked him while
in bed and committed the outrage. 1t was
at first taken to be an atrOcious case of haZ-
ing by his brother cadets, but an
investigation by the commandant satisfied
the authorities that no member of the corps
committed the crime. Some suspicion hav-
ing been created that the affair was "put
up job" on the part of Whitaker for ulte-
rior purposes, at his request a court of in
quiry has been granted to fully investigate
the matter.
A NEGRO tramp boarded train on
the Bee-line Railway at Sidney, o., on the
9th, and having no money the conductor put
him off at Hardin Station. As the train
started he got on the platform and fred
through the window, presumably at the con-
ductor, but the ball struck and killed a
passenger, Joseph NJ. Lehman, of Houston,
Shelby County, o. The negro escaped.
A NEGRO cabin twelve miles north of |
burned on the night of the 4th,
and three young children who had been |
locked in by their parents while the latter |
went to church perished in the flames. The |
fire originated from a coal oil lamp.
MAMIE FAHIE, aged Z, was fatally |
burned at Cincinnati, on the morning of the
9Th. Her mother had gone out early to |
market, and during her absence the little |
one got up and attempted to light the fire
in doing which she set fire to her clothing |
When the mother returned she found her
writhing with pain, but still conscious
though she died in about an hour after |
ward.
MISCELLANEOUS.