The Evening critic., 1881-08-08
A Chapter OF violent Deaths.

Thomas p. Domer 20 years old, commit
ted suicide at his residence in Brooklyn, N.
Y, Saturday, by ftsnging himself to bed
post.
Two boys, VIM Smith and Jacob Schme-
derer, aged II and Ia years respectively,
were found drowned in Rondout creek, N
Y, Saturday.
The body of Jennie Cramer, aged 90, of
New Haven, Conn, was found in the water
off West Haven, Saturday morning. There
are suspicious of foul play.
George Harrington, aged 81 years, died at
Stcphentown, N. Y, Saturday, from inju-
ries inflicted during an alteration with
Michael Ward, a neighbor.
Samuel Miller has been arrested at Will
Transport, Pa, for poisoning his father, aged
"a. The accused held an insurance policy
of $4,000 OH his fathers life.
w. J. Logic, of jefferson County, West
Virginia, q candidate for cadet engineer at
the Naval Academy, was accidentally
drowned near Annapolis yesterday after
noon. .n
Mary Kenny, Of Philadelphia, was found
lying dead in bed in q room in the Wall
House, Brooklyn, New York, yesterday.
Investigation showed that she had ended her
life by taking Paris green. She was appar-
emily about forty-fve years Of age.
At Buffalo, N. Y, last night, George
Leonard Smith took hold Of two of the
brushes Of tho commentator of tho general
ing machine of the Brush Electric Light
Company In such manner as to unite
the current and was instantly killed.
A special dispatch from Boonville, Mo-,
says that in "a difficulty between Phineas
Silby, first mate Of the steamer Matte Bell,
and negro deckhand, name unknown, at
Rockport, Friday, the latter killed the for
mcr by stabbing him to the heart The me-
gro was arrested.
J. Il. Noakes was taken from the Jail at
Orville, CAL, yesterday, by body Of masked
and armed men, conveyed q short distance
from the town, and hanged to tree
Noakes had murdered an old man named
A. J. Crum, at Chico, three weeks ago by
kicking him to death.
James Ross, white, shot and killed VIM.
Jones, colored, at Nashville, Tenn, yester-
day. Ross had hit colored boy in the
back with q stone. Jones subsequently,
went to Ross house and desired to know
why he had acted so toward the boy. Ross
asked him what he had to do with it, and
ran into his house, got pistol and shot
| Jones dead.
While sitting in one CT the coaches on the
Wabash Railrond, near Glasgow, Mo-, yes
terday, George Wright, passenger, was
approached from behind by two men, one
of whom buried Ratchet in his skull and
the other fired a pistol-ball into his head.
The murderers then rushed from the car
and escaped into the woods.
Additional particulars Of the catastrophe
by lightning in Darlington County, s. c.,
have been received, showing that a party
of twenty white men, laborcrs, on Friday,
stopped under an oak tree to rest and
shelter themselves from the sun. Clouds
were visible ut distance, and rain was
J falling some miles away, but in that local
| ity the sun was shining. One Of the men
stepped Off u few yards, when suddenly a
terrific crash startled him, and, turning, he
bcheld his companions, some dead, some
! paralyzed, and Others wounded and strug-
Cling in the throcs Of death. ]. NJ. MAJ
, lingo, Rufus Mazzingo, Willie Waters, and
John B. Gatlin were killed outright. These
} were all young men and recently married
: Twelve others were struck and more OF
less stunned and mutilated, some of then
being seriously if not fatally injured
After the clouds had gathered, an hour later
there was heavy fall of rain. The tools
with which tho men had been at work may
have attracted the electricity.