Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
TragiCal Tales.

In Green county, Ga, on the 14th inst three
colored convicts at work on McWhorter's farm
killed 3. L. Langston, white guard, and
escaped.
In fight with road agents near Niobrara,
Neb., on the 14th, Lieut.. Sam A. Cherry, of the
Fifth Cavalry was killed.
At Batesville, Kansas, on the 18th inst,
James York and w. B. Marshall engaged in a
difficulty, in which Marshall, after receiving q
severe cut in the shoulder, inflicted fatal
wound in York's abdomen.
John Ferguson was fatally hacked by a hatch
ct in the hands of Alex. Hawkins, at Louisville,
KY, on the 18th.
Thomas Coleman was shot dead by George
Sprout in q quarrel in Bath county, KY, on the
9Th inst.
A bailiff named Corners, serving under Lord
Dumsandle, was mortally wounded at Dooken,
near Loughrea, Ireland, on the night of the
18th. Two arrests were made.
picnic party near Talledeia, Ala, on the
18th inst, had among its participants child
of 7 years, .dorned with gold ornaments and
diamond pin. On being missed, search was
made, and she was discovered dead in the arms
of negro thief, who was about to throw her
body over the falls. 1t took but moment to
hang the scoundrel to tree, where his corpse
was left to bangle in the wind.
Frank Thuma, German residing at Phila-
delphia, Pa, instantly killed his wife on the
18th in fit of anger and then hung himself
A shocking domestic tragedy was enacted in
in Spartansberg, S c., on the 18th inst. Benz.
W. Hicks. aged So killed his wife by first shoot
ing her and then cutting her throat, after
which he made two unsuccessful attempts to
sever his own windpipe. He is under arrest.
John Saverbrack became involved in a quar-
rel with his landlord at Cincinnati, O., on the
18th, when the latter shot Saverbrack in the
face lnflIctlng mortal wound.
Policeman Dorsey shot a colored ship thief
named Alfred Wiggan at Baltimore ON the night
OF the 18th. The wounded man either jumped
or fell overheard and was drowned
Mrs Marion Haskell was shot dead by her
husband in New York city on the 11th
The fostering corpse of woman was found
III a long unused vault at Lowell Mass, and
the theory is that it is q case of foul play
An engineer named Stakeholder became in
sane in the camp of the American railroad con-
tractors Palmer & Sullivan, near Acambaro,
Mexico, on the 7th and, attacking two brother
engineers, Martin and Jones, killed them. The
maniac murderer was afterward shot dead by
the chief of the party, Mr.. Filley.
Two chivalric Georgians named Hart and
Register fought q duel with knives in Sumter
county on the 9th inst. The duel resulted in
the death of both. In Dooley county, in the
same state, Joe Stova1 was indulging in the
pastime of beating his wife, when his brother
JEFF interfered, whereupon Joe shot JEFF in
dicting mortal wounds.
1,, Daniel Carpenter, negro, residing, at
young man named Wheeler on the river bank,
but claims to have acted in self-defense.
Two policemen at Chattanooga arrested
Albert Savald for drunkenness, and when he az
tempted to run away fired five shots at him,
with fatal effect. The coroners jury rendered.
verdict of murder in the first degree.
A negro boy IS years of age, who raped and
murdered negro girl eight years old, was
taken from Brenville Parish jail, Sparta, La, on
the night of the 7th, and shot dead by party
of men. mostly colored.
Maggie Clark aged 10 years, auarrelled with
a boy named VIM. Egan at New York city on
the 7th. about the ownership of some chips.
Young Egan knocked Maggie down and kicked
her in the abdomen, from the effects of which
she died.
On convict farm near Memphis, Tenn, two
OF the prisoners quarreled over game, when
one seized billet of wood and Drained his COM
panion.
A farmer named Lyman Cody, residing at
Lamont, Mich, was killed by hired man Oh
the 9Th inst. The origin of the difficulty is not
known. Cody leaves wife and one child.