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On the afternoon of the 25th inst., at Kokomo,
Col, Charles Morton shot and killed Policeman
O'Neil, who attempted to arrest him for drunk
enness.
Fred. Welcom was arrested on the Oath for
the murder Of John F. Turner in Echo Canon,
Utah, July 18th. Welcom confessed and gave
the name Of ah accomplice. The murder was
for theft, and extremely brutal.
w. Il. Lance shot and instantly killed VIM.
Carnes, his neighbor, near Vanalstyne, Texas,
on the 25th inst. Both farmers.
Abraham Martin attacked bis wife with an ak
at Aberville, S. c., on the Oath inst, and in
ficted wounds from which she cannot recover
Mrs: Martin, who was the mother of fourteen
children, had demonstrated with her husband
Tor living with woman named Greenwood, but
her remonstrance being of no avail she was
about to leave him. He insisted that sho should
not, and becoming enraged during the wordy
crime.
An unusual homicide occurred at Cincinnati,
o., on the 25th inst. Paul Smith (colored)
quarreled with John King, an Irish laborer,
when the former threw his antagonist and seiz-
James Wood, aged co, engineer of the STA
tionary engine for the Lehigh Coal and Naviga-
ton company, was murdered on the night of
the 21st inst. at Bull Run, between Tamaaua
and Summit Hill, Pa., by masked men.
John Houston (colored) an ex-convict, was
lynched in Bedford county, KY, on the night of
the 21st inst, for having attempted to rape a
six-year-old daughter Of Jason Cannon, Jr., on
the afternoon previous.
Chas' es Simmons, refugee from justice, went
to his nome in Tecumseh, Mich, Oh the night
OF the 21st inst, and failing in an attempt to pre-
vent MS wife from suing for !. divorce, beat her
with wooden chair, inf1icting probably fatal in
juries. Simmons escaped.
At Memphis, Tenn, on the night of the 21st
inst, Annie Hardy, a colored girl Is years old,
was found by her parents on returning from
church with her jaw broken and several wounds
on her throat, neck and breast, as if inflicted by
q pick axe. The girl had been sick for several
days. She died next morning from the effects
of the wounds. No clue to the perpetrator of
the bloody act.
Mrs. Mary Rodly, died at Cincinnati, O., on
the 21st inst, under circumstances indicating
that poison was administered by herself or
some one else.
Policeman barley, killed drunken ro1st-
about named John Schocking, who resisted
arrest at Louisville KY, on the 22d inst.
A discharged laborer shot and dangerously
wounded T. A. Phillips, railroad superintendent
at Gallon, O., on the 21st inst.
A convict named Vonderheid, belonging to
Louisville, Ky, escaped from the penitentiary at
Frankfort, KY, on the Goth instant, and after
stealing a suit of citizens clothes from resi-
dence, he met colored girl in field whom he
outraged and murdered. After killing the child
he threw her body into ravine and covered it
with stones Vonderheid was captured in the
vicinity.
AtAuburn, N. Y, on the 21st instant, Patrick
Swayne confessed that he and Horace Exner
murdered Henry Page at Montezuma eight
years ago. Rcmorse led to a confession. Both
we're arrested.
On the night of the 18th instant, at Whining
ton, N. c., Stephen Richardson (co]orcd) killed
his mother-in-law named Phinney and probably
fatally injured his wife and father-in-law.
Justus Hoffman, German shoemaker, of
Pttsburg, Pa, shot and killed his wife and baby,
on the 10Th inst. He had been drinking hard
all day.
A Mrs. Frye, of Keolzuk, insane and locked
up with her baby in the Jail at Fort Madison,
Iowa, fc: safe keeping, killed the child by hang
ing it to the bed.
The marshal of Bucyrus, O., knocked man,
whom he had arrested, on the head and placed
him in cell. The next morning the prisoner
was dead.
Cash Davidson killed'Alcx. Taylor, a colored
boy, near Louisville, KY, on the 18th inst.
The murder was unprovoked. Davidson had q
quarrel with another negro and rushed home
for bis weapon. Returning he failed to find
his intended victim, and in his rage shot Taylor,
an innocent boy who was on an errand for his
mother.
A body Of armed men waylaiG q coach in
which was Gen. Skobcleff's mother half wav
between Constantinople and Tchrpan on the
18th inst, and killed Madame Skobeleff. A
servant was dangerously wounded. Consider
able money was stolen. A Russian captain, con-
cerned in the outrage, was arrested but fatally
shot himself.