Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-04
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES,
An Oshkosh Hotel Burned with Serious
Lcss Of Life-The Usual Friday Hemp
Matinee-A Few Minor Accidents and
Misdemeanore

Lvss of Life-The Usual Friday Hemp
Matinee-A Few Minor Accidents and
Misdemeanors.
HANGING OF JOHN CALLAHAN.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 3.-John Callahan was
hanged at Wooster to-day, for the murder of
Benjamin Tornie, Oct. goth, 1879. Gala
han was one of the gang of roughs ct an
agricultural fair, who set upon young man
named Frank Martin. Tornie went to Mar
tins rescue, when Callahan turned on him
and stabbed him in the back, inficting NOR
tai wounds. or the resi- Of the gang, James
Saddler has been sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for twelve years; Alexander McGown,
senior and junior, twelve years each; and
Michael Burke and Michael Mulready were
never arrested, having fed. Callahan,
though but % years old, bore hard reputa-
ton, and was regarded as Desperate. He
was calm during his last days. Last night
his spiritual advisers remained with him till
10, and his parents till and the sheriff till
2, after which he retired and slept soundly
till morning. He ate hearty breakfast with
apparent relish.
By THE KEROSENE ROUTE.
DETROIT, Mich, Dec. ga servant girl of
this city named Wilhelmina SCHNEIDER under
took to kindle slow fire this morning by
pouring on kerosene oil. The usual result
followed the ignition of the oil, an explo-
sion setting the girls clothing on fire. When
discovered she was one mass of flames.
Every shred of clothing was burned from her
body. She survived in terrible agony, when
death came to her relief.
FOUND DEAD.
New YORK., Dec. 8. John Fisher, a we'll
known furniture dealer in the Bowery, was
found dead in the cellar under his store
early this morning.
CONVICTED.
August D. Leighton, colored, on trial the
past few days for the murder of Mary Dean,
was found guilty after an all nights session
of the jury.
HOTEL BURNED.
OsHKosH, Wis, Dec. 3.-The Beckwith
house, a brick four story building built in
1876, took fire at o'clock this evening and
was entirely destroyed. Loss, 100000; in
surance, $4,000 on furniture and $4,000 on
building. Mrs. s. B. Paigt, boarding in the
hotel, was suffocated by smoke and died.
Her body was recovered. Mrs. Charles E.
Harlow, visiting Mrs. Paigt, bravely jumped
from the fourth story window and escaped
with bad burns. Mollie Hslloran, a waiter
girl, is missing and believed to have per-
ished. The fire originated from broken
kerosene lamp. Had the fire occurred in the
night the loss of life must have been
frightful.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 3.-This evening fire broke
out in the Beckwith house, Oshkosh. and be-
fore the arrival of the fire department the
flames had made such Roadway it was impos-
sible to save the fine building, and attention
was turned to save the surrounding buildings.
The crowd was Mortified to see in the fourth
story windows ladies to whom escape seemed
impossible. Mrs. c. E. Harlow, wife of q
prominent citizen, jumped. her fall being
broken by robes and blankets, and escaped
without serious injury. Mrs. Simon B. Paigt,
wife of wealthy retired lumberman, with
whom Mrs. Harlow was visiting, feared to
Jump and was burned in the building, her body
being taken from room half an hour after
the fise started, by the fremen, who finally
secured a ladder long enough. It is feared
Two or three lives were lost among them a SER
want girl and negro porter, who are missing.
The latter is supposed to have been asleep in
his room. Mr.. Paigt, who was away
from the scene, arrived almost frantic and
offered 81 600 TO anybody to recover the body
of his wife. The inmates of the hotel, among
them a large number OF commercial travellers
lost largely, and had it not been for the cool
ness of outsiders the loss of life would have
been larger. Stocks in the stores in the vi
ciuity of the burning building were moved
into the streets, and the loss will be large on
that account. In two hours after the
fire broke out the hotel was mass
of ruins. 1t is said Mrs. Paigt often feared
danger by fire, and rope fire escape had been
placed in the room by her husband. but was
not thought Of by the unfortunate lady in the
dow, but retreated in sight of those who cried
for her to leap. The fire is aseribed to the
bursting kerosene lamp under the main stair
way; an instant after the explosion the house
was filed with dense smoke. The Beckwith
was one of the finest hotels in the Northwest
The loss on building and furuitnre is estimated
at 600. Insured in the Manufacturers,
Boston, 80 500; Phoenix. Brooklyn. $4,000;
Traders, Bottom. 80 500; North British & Mer-
camille, 50 800; Boston Underwriters, $1,000;
Cleveland Mercantile, 81 500; Newark, 1900;
Queen, Liverpool. $4,000; Amazon. $4,000;
Bauman & Co., druggists, loss $4,000; insured
in North British, 81 400; Lancashire, $500, and
81 900 each in the Liverpool, Scottish CONNER
cial & Commercial Union. Other losses by
moving goods about 3D. 00
ACQUITTED.
CHICAGO. Dec. 3.-B. F. Allen was acquitted
by the Jury this afternoon in the federal court
of the charge of making false returns to the
comptroller of the currency while president of
the defunct Cook county national bank. TIE
Jury deliberated only ten minutes.
SHOT HIMSELF.
NEW YORK, Dec. S.-The following dispatch
was received this evening:
CEDAR KEYS. Fla.-Supt. Walling, chief of
IL NJ I'll
rested. Shot himself. Acknowledged his
identity. Probably will recover.
lSigned. GEO. 81. RICHARDS, Mayor.
Gillen was the young man who shot Miss
Segerson because she rejected his offer of mar
riage.