Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10
A Violent Tornado.

! Early on the morning of the 9Th inst, a ter
rife gale, accompanied by thunder and light
! ming, visited portions of Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky, inficting considerable damage in It's
| track.
| At Cleveland, O., several small frame build
ings were wrecked, and the headlight at Doan's
IRON works was thrown against and set fire to
gasoline tank, involving $50 worth of damage.
! Three hundred dollars worth of plate glass IN
/ the front of Odd Fellows block Pearl street.
was ruined. The Cleveland female seminary,
Woodland avenue, was half unroofed, and part
| of the upper west wall demolished. About
seventy young ladies were sleeping in the ilSti-
| tuition, but none were injured. The roof OF the
new brick wire mill of the Cleveland Rolling
| Mil company, in the Eighteenth ward, was up
/ lifted and one end Of the wall blown in on the
! workmen, killing julius Brown and severely in
! juring several others.
| At Toledo, chimney Of the Buckeye brewery
! was blown down, falling on and crushing the en-
| CINE house in which Policemen John Hassett
and NJ F. Doyle and nightwatchman at the
| brewery had taken refuge. The two former
were killed and the latter seriously injured.
At Indianapolis, Ind, a large number of
houses were unroofed, chimneys blown down,
and trees uprooted. The Central Avenue Meth
Odist Church was almost entirely demolished
and one dwelling house was lifted from its
foundation and carried five or six feet. The in
mates of the house escaped with but slight in
! jury. Two or three persons were seriously in
! JJlreQ, DuG SO lar as KNOWN no lives were lOSI.
Recent Tragedies.
Some time since George Kohl, a farm hand in
! tie employ of Fred WlIitcamp. ST., near Cairo,
/ H., reported that his employer had drowned by
! falling into the Mississippi. This statement was
at first believed, but later suspicious led to an
! investigation which resulted III the arrest of
| Kohl, who, on the 7th inst, confessed that he
murdered Whitcamp and assisted in the
| deed by Mrs. Whitcamp. The body was found
buried in the rear CT the stable on the premises
| 1t will be remembered that Willie Anderson
murdered his mother, Mrs. HATTIE, Mrs. Week.
and her daughter, near Waynesville, o., last
August, and subsequently killed himself when
| arrested. 1t seems the end is not yet, for on
| 9th inst, Daniel Anderson, father of Willie
was arrested at Cincinnati, charged with the
| murder. 1t is now claimed that proof has been
obtained that he left Cincinnati, went to Waynes-
yille committed the murder and returned before
daylight, and that bis son only had a guilty
knowledge of the crime. Mrs. HATTIE was An
dersons divorced wife.
At Cincinnati, O., on the morning of the 5th
inst, Chas. Link inflicted fatal knife wound on
Louis Schmidt, the two having previously had
some difficulty at ball about young woman
! Waring Schooley, aged IA, son of prominent
citizen OF Pittston, Pa. was found on the even
ng OF the 4th inst. on the outskirts of the
been shot and fatally wounded by an unknown
party. Mrs. Schooley dropped dead when her
son was carried into the house. -t..
John and George, sons of Whitfield Moody,
farmer living near Kingston, KY, quarreled
on the night OF the Sd inst. John was about to
assault George with knife when the latter shot
him dead.
Near Chillicothe ILL.,, on the Sd inst, John
Guttliffe and jeremiah Webster, farmers quar-
relied about a fence, when Guttliffe shot Web
ster fatally.
On the 20th ult., q one-armed negro namep
Louis Kinder outrageously assaulted white
woman named Bird at Georges station, Cole
ton county, South Carolina. He was captured
on the 29th and lodged in jail. On the list in
slant, while the prisoner was being transferred
to another jail, the guard was overpowered by a
mob, and after being identified by his victim,
Kinder was hung and his body perforated with
bullets. st the last moment he acknowledged
the outrage, confessed to having outraged col
ored woman in Newbelry six years ago, to kill
ing a colored girl near Kings Tree last April, to
four burglalies andinnumerable thefts.
The dead body of G. w. Parker, a man of
considerable means, found floating in the
canal at Cincinnati, on the I'd instant. His gold
watch was missing; consequently foul play is
suspected. He was widower, IS years old.
Rawlings Wy, was the scene of two murders
on the I'd inst. In one case man named Ed.
Clarke, returning home about o'clock, A. NJ,
was shot and mortaly wounded by his partner,
John Lee, for the tl1fling offense of attempting
to start fire, and at later hour saloon
keeper named Knuth was stabbed and instant
~ killed by teamster named Frank Harring-
ton. The parties quarreled over liquor bill.