The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-02-10

St. Louis, murdered his mistress, Agolia Mar
rot. and killed himself.
August Schultz, l5.year-old lad Of
Milwaukee, hanged himself through fear Of
punishment for having stolen e5 from bis
parents.
At Grantsville, New, Mathis Salmon,
q bad character, killed 8. Missel, miner. Sal
mon wan arrested and hidden BY IN officer to
pres rye him from lynching. Salmon's hiding
place was discovered, and he was taken out and
hanged to the framework Of Windmill.
Five Of the nturderers OF Col. Charles
Potter have already been lynched. Fausteno
Gationis, another OF tho party, has been capt.
urcd, and will be sent ont from Albuquerque,
under strong guards, to point out the hiding
placs Of others involved
Tom Buford has been locked up in the
mad-house at Anchorage, Ky.
Wiley Embrey, q respected farmer Of
Butler county, Ky., and six Of his children
were burned to death, Mrs. Embrey and daugh-
ter escaping. The fire broke out in an upper
room after the family had retired.
Tie town OF Plymouth, n. c., was
devastated by fre, originating in : kerosene
explosion. Only store and freight warehouse
were left standing.
Three children Of the Rev. Manning
Hunter, colorcd preacher, OF Sumter county,
s. c., were burned TO death by fire caused by
the explosion Of kerosene lamp.
Co... Bayler,. with squad Of Texas
rangers, surprised : band Of twenty Apaches
near Qnitman, and killed six and captured
three of their number.
A party Of citizens Of Augusta, Ark,
lynched three men who attempted an outrage
on worthy young lady. The mob rallied AZ
the jail at midnight, gagged tho guards. and
took the prisoners across the river, hanged
them to tree until life was extinct, and com
plctcd the ghastly work by cutting tho bodies
down and cast ng them into the river.
Rush Bennett, colored man, was ex-
ecuted at Eldorado, Ark, for the murder Of
Col. A. G. Jamison.
A blood-curdling horror is reported
from Owensville, Ky. George Preiat, bachelor,
aged 10 years, and his sister. Mrs. Elizabeth
Goodpaster, years older, lived alone together.
The sister has for a long time been paralyzed
and bedridden. Before retiring at night,
Preait started to throw on back .og and build
up tho fire. He lifted the log, and, in throw
ing It on the fire. fell with 1t, and being unable
10 rise, was burned to death. HIS sister WAS
laying on the bed, but was unable in her con-
dition Of health to get 10 him or render him
any assistance. At last, by an almost superhn-
man effort, she got out Of bed and dragged her
brothers body out Of the fire, and man.
aged 10 get back In bed, and there was
compelled to lie, being completely exhausted
and unable to turn over, with her brother =
d .ad and burned body lying in full view on the
hearth. Nothing MAS known OF the AFFAIR until
tho following day, when Mrs. 0oodpaster's son
went to his mothers to help his uncle feed
the stock. AZ he stepped into tho door
the horrible and blood-curdlng scene was
opened to his view. There In req lav
his mother, with eyes widely extended
and she looking wildly with them, while on the
hearth lay the body Of his uncle, stih and
stark in death, badly burned, ana WIN eyes,
checks, eara and portion Of bis neck eaten by
cats, the whole presenting . ghastly sight.
Mrs. Goodpaster had never closed her eyes
during the whole night, and was lying there
facing the body OF her dead brother. and nna'
bic to move at all or mako any noise whatever
and was compelled to zee the cats eating the
hesh from the face Of her trother.
| A woman with considerable money
stopped for lodging At the house Of negro
named John Demps. in Charlotte county, Va
She was put in room with Dcmps' wife, but
! in a different bed. Demps determined to mur
| der the woman, and entered the room at mid
night with an ax, and. with two fearful blows
! he killed his wife. supposing her to be the Wis
itor. The screams OF the other woman informed
him OF his mistake She fed !; and he. aftel
buryinx his wife, was arrested while burning
the bed-clothing to conceal his crime.