Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-05-26
MurderOus Deeds.

The excitement over the outrage and killing
of Mrs. George Salmon by the brute Joe john
son, near Fairyiew, KY, has about subsidized.
The carcass Of the fellow was burned to ashes,
and his head was cut off and placed on q pole
near the plase Of his execution
The deranged wife of DR.. J. Bryan. of Lexing-
ton, KY, gave her child large dose of morphine
and then dosed herself on the 17th. The child
died, but Mrs. Bryan's life was saved, as she
took an overdose. The poor woman was taken
to an insane asylum.
Two brothers named Hall were shot at East
Cairo, KY, ON the 10Th inst, by one Rogers,
owner Of fish boat, they having had quarrel.
One will probably die, but the other is not
fatally injured.
William Oehm, while in an intoxicated con-
dition, went to the residence Of Miss Charlotte
Joiner, at Chicago, Huron County, O., and de-
manded admittance. She ordered him to leave,
and on his refusal fired the contents of shot
gun into his stomach and breast. He died
shortly after.
On the 18th inst, Robert Bird, employed as
track-hand on the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta railroad, at Columbia, S. c., killed his
wife, Hester Bird, at point between Kelhan's
and Sharpes stations. Reports of criminal in
timacy between his wife and another having
reached Birds ears he went home inflamed
with liquor, and enraged with jealousy struck
his wife down with the butt of an ak, and then
proceeded to cut her head Off with the az.
n
drowned himself.
An Italian organ-grinder named Charles Gar
della, was arrested at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the
18th instant, charged by a 10-year-old daugh-
ter with having shot dead her sister, aged live
years.
William Tomasson, a seaman belonging to
Boston, killed mate Henry Metcalf, of the bark
Annie Burr, in fight at sea. The ship arrived
at New York on the 18th inst. with the prison.
er in irons.
Horace Burr shot his wife at Corpus Christi
Texas, on the 14th INST. Mrs. Barnard, his
shot twice. Burr then struck his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Brewster, over the head with the pistol,
telling her to the floor. Reloading the pistol he
shot himself dead. Mrs. BarnaIds wounds are
pronounced fatal. The cause Of the trag edy
was q disagreement between Burr and his wife
resulting in the latter returning to her fathers
home
negro drowned the baby Of his paramour
in street cistern at Columbus, Ga, and disap-
peared Since then he has been hiding in the
lattice work Of the Western railroad bridge over
the river. His mother told the officers Of the
place of his concealment, and they appeared at
either end Of the bridge and demanded his sur
render. The fugitive leaped 40 feet into the
river, and, uninjured by the leap, he sought the
deepest water and drowned himself.
A mob Of about one hundred masked men
surrounded the jail at Osceola, Mo-, on the
morning of the 18th inst, took therefrom three
men charged with murder, and hanged them.
Recently hard feelings sprang up between
Henry A. Stocks and John R. Russell, farmers
residing ON adjoining places on Eighthmile
prairie, Williamson county, ILL.,, on the 11th
inst. They met on the road and an alteration
ensued, during which Russell shot Stocks, kill
ing him instantly.
At Parkersburg, W. Va, on the night of the
10th inst, Elmer Bartlett, son of . prominent
merchant, deliberately shot J. P. Tracewell, of
Newport, inhicting fatal wound. Cause, do
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