The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-07-30
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

OF his twelveyear-old daughter by his first wife
named Josephine, and il-treated her Hi
young wiie-the stepmother of the little girl
took compassion upon her and in measure
projected her from the drunk en- fathers bru.
talty. lie left the house and returned again
between six and seven o'clock His four older
children fled for safety to room in the second
story of the house and locked themselves in
The mother, with her babe upon her breast,
went TO n point just twenty three feet opposite
the front door and sat down spon log He or
dered hcr to get his supper, She replied that
supper was upon the tableand waiting his read
iness. lie demanded that she prepare supper
for the children. She replied that the childrcn's
| supper was also ready. lie then ordered her
into the house. She said; 'Justus, you are in
drink and angry, and you want to hurt me- You
have done it before and I'm afraid of you" He
then run after her but did no catch her He re-
turned to the house, and the wife came back
and took seat upon the aforementioned log.
He came again to the dor aud ordered her in
to the house. She said she would if he would
go in and lie down for while. "Then, say
she, he turoed round and went into the house.
l thought he was going 10 bed, but in minute
| saw him at the door with a doublc.barreled
shot gun leveled at me, l just had time to see
his eye run along the barrel of the gun when he
shot"
The charge completely took the scalp off the
babe, Sc seral other shots entered the breast OF
the wife and mother and portion of the charge
went across vacant lot and wounded a child
of a Mr.. CJok. The shrieks of the woman
brought the neighhors out and he waa appre
hended by officers Strah, Hineman and Armi-
| ize and quickly lodged in the county prison a
Wilke,b4rre. There can be no doubt but that
he has prem,ditate this murder for some time
Jas. Wood, superintendent of pumps and ma
chinery at No 10 breaker, operated by the Le
high coal and navigation company, located a
few miles east of Tamaqua, an Engiishman by
birth, sixty years old, married, with family
of ten children was murdered on the roadside
between Bull Run and Fosters tunnel last
week, Wednesday night When last seen alive
he was in company with William Orr, Scotch
Irisbman, aged about 3S years, who is given a
reputation for quarrelmg by his neighbor9.
| These two, together with the wife OF
Orr and james Churchill and his wife, had been
attending the funeral of Mrs. Boyle of Dry
| Hollow, at Summit HILL on Wednesday, and
after the interment INDUCED pretty freely in
drink. On the way home all being more or
less under the influence of liquor, Orr quarrel.
some disposition showed itself when he knocked
his wife down from no apparent cause. She
| appealed to Wood to protect her. and his in
reference produced reconciliation. To man
fest to her husband that she bore him no i'll
will for his brutal conduct she kissed him
whereupon he knocked her down again and at
once picked a quarrel with Wood, taking him
to account for his previous Interference. They
sat down 10 talk the matter over together, while
Churchill aud the two women went ahead
leaving them together Thursday morning a
woman going by the place where they sat
found the dead body Of Wood thrown across a
rock with the head battered in, bruised and
cut: Officer Samuel Pealer procured a warrant
j and proceeded TO Orr's residence, arrested him
and took him to Tamaqua where was lodged in
the station house.
The entire gang belonging to Boyer & Peters
circus, miserable show, was arrested last week
at Greensburg for an outrageous assault upon a
girl of II years, whom they waylad at night
Z after the show was out, From five to twenty
of the wreches assaulted her at different times
rendering her insensible for Two days. A more
atrocious crime was never committed in a civ
ilizcd community.
+ The excursion steamer Garland with l ,20C
p persons on board, under The auspices of the Dc
d trot moulders union, while going down the De
:. trot river co lided with steam yacht Mamie
+ coming up, cattin g her in two so that she almos
If instantly sank. The latter had on board twenty
h four persons consisting mainly of Father Bley
,. enbergh, pastor of Trinity Roman Catholic 0
e that city, and number of acoly yt-s and boys OF
IS ficiating in various capacities in the service o
i. the church, They had been on their annua
excursion TO Monroe and were returning home
The night was bright with moonlight and ther
l. would seem 10 have been no reason, save that q
lie criminal neglect, why the accident should hav
i occurred. Sixteen liv es were lost
An accident occurred at the Hudson Rive
tunnel now in course of construction at tn
foot of Sixteenth street, Jersey city, last Thurs
Of day morning that resulted in the death
lg twenty men, This tunnel is being dug unde
l. the river to New York, for an Underground raj
3 way between the two cities. As fast as the el
ID cayation is made heavy iron plates are put
Al. II. IL, nj
ia report of the engineers of the tunneli was th
i portion of the iron roof adjoining the shaft
Ia the connecting chambers between the two tul
= nels and the sinking shaft that fell in. Twei
N ty-eght men were in the tunnel at TIE tim
eight of whom escaped through the air loc
=, and twenty were killed. The engineers say.lh
" the accident occu rred at the connection of Il
90 iron plates with the brick wall Of the workiI
y shaft which, during he changing Of the shift
" was probably not watched as closely by Il
so men as it should have been, and the compress
et air was allowed to escape. This compress
air is relied upon to assist in supporting {
roof which was also sustained by strong timb
bracng, and the escape of the air has awa
7. been prevented by stepping any leaks with t
waste silt, As the roof fell, the plate closed /
h door of the air lock into the tunnel, and I
ct, water rising rapi dly cut off the escape of I
,ys twenty men who were killed, The building
i'll, this connecting chamber, though a dific
us. piece of work has progressed until now. Il
ID. roof was all in position and securely bolted 7
70 connection of the iron plates with the sh
ith was being made at the time of the ac eide
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