The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-07-23
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CkIMf-S AND CASUALTIES.
PHILIP ScHUN and his wife, Of Ian
caster, Pa. the husband merchant, were
both killed BY their carriage being struck BY
a railway train - they were crossing the
track.
THE following executions took place
on the 9th. all the victims being coiored
men: George Price. At Cincinnati. for kill
i'm Willie Black. his former employer, Alex
ander Howard, AZ Goldsb0ro, y. O., for kill
ing Robert Antry, an inofensiye
old white man: Henry Ryan. NJ
Augusta, Ca. for killing Mary Thomas.
also colored; and Daniel Washington.
At Charleston, ;. c., for killing Allen Coll
lins-
4 DOUBLE hanging took place At
Osceola. Ark. on the loth- The culprits
were George Lanford and Richard Mckee,
both colored- Together they murdered Ar
instead Penn, also eolored, in November
last
At Danville, Va. on the night Of
the s.a. Thomas ID. DeJzrnefte snot
his sister Mollie fiye times, wDunding her
fatally. The brother slys he shot her in
order 10 wipe out the disgrace she had caused
the family The affair took place In house
OF bad repute. where the giri was an in
mate she was Il years of age; be only %.
The wounded girl begged that her bro;her
be not arrested, a he had only done
what was right
GEORGE GAM. q wealthy retired mer-
chant Of Buffalo, arose the other morning.
took a rope. szwbuck and block u wood
into his orchard. placed the sawbuck under
. tree, adjusted the rope round hi- neck, tied
It 10 the tree, then kicked away the sawbuck
and hanged himself.
A LOCOMOTIVE blew up in the yard
Al Peru, Ind. On the 9th, killing Bachelor.
the yardmaSter, and seriously wcunding
Charles Wilson, the engineer, Applegafe,
fireman. and Jim Pierce. brakeman.
The Hodges Bank, At PlAtteville. Wis,
was very cleverly swiniled ont Of 81 800 on
the 9Th, BY james Drew. professional bank
swim Her, BY means Of forred draft and let
tiers Of Introduction He got on safe with
his booty.
JACOB KUNTx, who resided AZ Home
stead Station on the Northern Railroad. New
Jer<cs, went 10 the house ~ bis son At Union
Hill, where his wife resided. and forbade
her going 20 picnic Ipon her refusing
Jacob fatally sho; her. He then went to the
barn and shot himself. kunix had severaI
times attempted 70 take his wife's life and
also that u his son. who protected her.
Kuntz and wife were both over sixty years
Of are.
DR. REUBEN M. HILLS, one OF the
Oldest physicians 81 Covington, Ind. com
mIrted suicide BY placing the nuzxle Of a
loaded revolver in his mouth and then dis
charging it, The Doctor had been An invalid
for several years He was sixty-two years
Of age. bachelor, and had property worth
50. 600.
Mrs. BRowx has been found guilty o.
the murder az her husband a indianapolis
and sentenced % be hanged.
AT Byers, Colo, an unknown tramp
stabbed three men with huge butcher knife
without any apparent prosscaiion- lie wzs
then shot dead by the Civ Marshal.
Cor CASH, who killed Col. shannon
in duel in south Carolina, has been ar
rested ON : warrant from The Coroner %
ker~haw County
BIZ the upsetting Of a stage on Mount
Washington. ~ H.. containing 4 party II
Michigan exrur~i0ni-is. nne lady. Mr. Ira
Chichester Of Allegan. Mich. was killed.
and several oihers u the party were badly
bruised. The driver, LINDSEY. VINO l. said
70 have been drunk, was probably fatally in
iured-