The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-06-11
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


JAMES WEsTAuEEE's young daughter,
aged II. living at Markcsan, Wis, poisoned
herself with strychninc, because her father
had forbidden the house to her lover, Daniel
s. Murray, aged IS. The Latter, learning OF
the girls death, committed suicide in asim-
liar manner.
Mrs. WILLIAM HAEDGRAvEs, Of Har-
mony, Ark, tricdthc experiment OF kind'in-
her kitchen fire with powder. The bottle
containing it suddenly exploded, killing her
almost Instantly. Dc.
A TELEGRAM from St. John, n. b.,
says Eli Martin, Napoleon Martin and James
Bo,lchard, breaking jam of logs on Fish
River, were carried over the falls and
drowned.
CAPT. A. j. FRITZ, a well-known To-
cal politician and sporting man of San Fran
cisco, hanged himself on account OF tenn
porary financial revcrses. n' 1T az :.
Two children were locked up
alone in a house in Alexandria, Va. During
the absence of their parents the house took
FIRE and one Of the little ones was burned to
death. The other climbed out Of a window
and saved itself.
DEMsEY, a farmer who took the land
from which a tenant had been evicted, was
fired at from behind hedge in the County
Galway and killed.
TIE Collier White lead Works at St.
Louis burned on the 18th. More than LOG
men were employed. Loss estimated at
10000: partly insured. Two men We're
run over by hose.reels, one of whom,
Michael Anslinger, German stOne.cutter,
aged %, died soon after. Louis Cohen, s
newspaper man, dropped dead on the side
walk while running to the fire. ''.'''
In Woodruff County, Ark, recently, {
boy named Bonnie johnson, seven years old
was attacked by couple of vicious dogs. liz
tried torun, bat The brutes quickly overtool
him and Knocked him down, laccrating hi
! flesh in It shocking manner and causing hi
| speedy death. ..r..i.
THE boiler, of 4 Nashville & Chatta
noo@a locomotive exploded the her day
! Fireman Charles Iandcman was blown lift!
yar;s and instantly killed. A piece OF ir"l
Weighing nine pounds was thrown half ;
mile and struck J. c. Finch, Cur inspector
Of the East Tennessee, Virginia 4 Georgi;
Railroad, causing instant death. - -
EDwARp'D EZENDOIF, a composltor
residing liz Brooklyn, \. Y. shot his wife
! iuiictifig a mortal wound, and then killct
himself. He had been drinking much o
late and had frequent qtlarrpls with his wife
| Il Two boys, aged respectively 10 an(
10, sons of a prominent farmer named vii
liasns, OF Miller County, Ark, undertook tt
fill burning lamp during the teuporar!
absence Of theic parents. While thus en-
gagged the oil ignited, exploding the LAM
and setting fire tothe clothing ofthe boys
The eldest ran out OF the house and into tn
open air and was burned to death before as
sistance could be procured. The younscs
I was not expected to live. - 49,. ....
HA,TRAlN on the Pennsylvania Roa
ran into an open switch near Trenton, N. J
on the 3Oth. The Pullman palace-car onl
kept the track. All others left the rails, an
one arturned completely over. Three per
sons we're killed, about a dozen persons al
said to have been injured severely, and sey
eral others slightly. ..g.,r.. -,
Ar Indianapolis, on the S0th, job
Enrich, 4 dissipaed German, shot his vii
and her father, William Hand, and then p,
bullet through his own brain. The tw
former were not seriously injured. Enrich
dead. His wife had sllel for divorce 3
the ground of continued ill-treatment, an
had gone home to live with her fathe1
where the shooting took place. "..'i''
Bel. ISrlcKNEY, a mining man, Ell
tered al Denver (Colo) boarding -hou
while the inmates were at table and opene
fine Oh Mr.! Il. Campan, a real-estate agc,l
Two shots struck Campau, causing insta
death, and another pierced Mrs. Deycrau
through the heart. The latter shot was a
cidehtal. The murderer Is under arres
, Campan's attentions to Mrs. Stickney we
= the cause Of the 'sang?iinary attack. . ''''
The Anchor Line steamer Macedoni
from New York May 10, has been wreck
, off the English coast .dinf u,L aari1