Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-17
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NEAR Chester, ILL.,, on the 9TH, a
young man named Louis Tockstein, who be-
came insane few days before from religious
excitement, broke away from his guards,
dashed out Of the house, and went TO the house
Of Thomas Ryan, an old man Of sixty-eight
| years, with whom lived his widowed daughter,
Mrs. Smith, and her little girl Of twelve years
and boy stlll younger. Arrived at the house,
Tockstein, who had stripped himself naked on
the road, rushed wildly In, ordered the inmates
to kneel down and pray, saying they had but
fifteen minutes 10 live. They all obeyed but
the little boy who escaped from the house,
ran to the neighbors and gave the alarm.
When friends arrived at the scene they found
Ryan and Mrs. Smith dead, with their skulls
smashed in by an Ak, and the little girl lying
heAdleGs on the floor, the maniac having
chopped the child's head completely oil.
Having finished his bloody work at this place
he seized the bleeding head OF the innocent
child by its long, haxen hair, and, swinging IL
at arms length over his own head he dashed
down the road again. About a quarter OF a
mile beyond he stopped at the house of DIR.
Gordon and entered Here he found only
servant girl. He ordered her, as he had the
Ryan family, to kneel and pray. The girl
screamed, which brought hired man from
the stable, and DIR. Gordon appearing at the
same time. After fierce and desperate
struggle they overpowered and bound him
with a rope.
A SEVERE cyclone passed over a por-
ton OF Southwest Missouri on the 4th, At
sarcoxie several buildings were blown down
and two little children we're fatally injured.
The town Of Marshheld, which was nearly
destroyed last summer, was visited by the
storm and great damage is reported TO have
been done, nearly all the northern part of the
town being blown down
A SERIOUS accident happened to an
east bound passenger train on the Chicago,
Rock Island 81 Pacific Railway near Rdgerton
Junction, Mo-, on the night OF the 7th. The
entire train was thrown from the track aud
the mail, baggage and two or three passenger
cars caught fire and burned. Mall Agent Ly-
ons was burned 70 death, but no other en-
ployos or passengers were very seriously In
jured.
ALL the stores and other buildings on
the east side Of Main Street in Lauransbury,
N. O., were destroyed by Ore on the 7th. Loss
from S40,O 900 TO $4,000
THE Presidential Electors of Georgia,
on the 9Th, cast the vote ofthe State for Han
cock and English.
The official majority for Pettigrew,
Republican candidate for Congress for Dakota
u elsI
A BLOODY fight occurred between
John Brophy and Tom Casey, two Louisville
policemen, on the sth. Brophy was killed
and Casey WIN probably die.
Two GRAVE robbers in Adrian, Mich,
have iuat been sent TO the penltentary for one
year and eighteen months, respectively.
THE American Public Health AssocIa-
ton convened at Now Orleans on the sth.
A SHOCKING tragedy occurred at
Newberry, g. c., on tho 9th. James Thomas
aud his son,in-lAw, John Lyles, had a dispute
about some property and Thomas killed Lyles.
Before Jyiea fell he shot Thomas and his son.
Young Thomas died on the 7th.
/ By the premature explosion Of blast
IN mine at Virginia City, New, on the 9th,
Charles Roberts and John Doty were Instant
ly killed aud Charles Joeelini seriously and
several others slightly injured
THREE negroes, one woman and two
men, who murdered Mrs. Kennedy IN Claren-
don County, s. O., on the 9th, were captured
on the 9Th and hung 10 the nearest tree to the
place of the murder that would hold them.
NICHOLAS FoRD, Republioan-Groe
hacker from the Ninth Congressional District
Of Missouri, received a certificate on the 9th
The vote, as canvassed by the Secretary Of
State, shows 91,77O for Ford, and 81, ,7os for
Craig, Democrat.
1T Is claimed that Louisiana cannot
he eouRted for Hancock because the Electors
Of that State met In New Orleans instead Of
Baton Rouge. I.
MRS. GLAssNER, a German woman Of
Marquette, Wis, in a ht OF temporary insan-
ity, on the 9th, instantly killed her babe by
cutting its head nearly on aud thon killed
herself by cutting her own throat,
THE Grand Jury in the United States
Circuit Court At Richmond, Va, on the 9th,
indicted the election judges OF Manchester,
Va, for refusing the rights OF suffrage To
voters in the Presidential election who pre-
sented themselves 10 vote with eapitation tax
receipts, alleged 10 have boen Illegally issued
from the State AUDITORS Office.
JOHN B. HARDIE, United States Dep
uty Marshal, was shot by Joseph Culbreath,
an Illicit dis'''ler, aud instantly killed, near
the 9th. Horace j. Bone,
'tnded by Culbreathia