The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-01-15

twenty persons In tho County Jail mutinied
several being seriously wounded before they
we're subdued.
JOHN SHEA, Chester Moore, and j.
Bruce, attempting to cross the track in ,
wagon, near Natick. Mass, were struck by
Boston & Albany locomotive and Instantly
killed.
A DAUGHTER Of John Hanrahsn, oil
Darlington, Wis.,, was scalded to death BY
falling into kettle Of boiling water.
H. FITZPATRICK, City Marshal Of
Clinton, Ind, was fatally stabbed on Christ.
mas morning while endeavoring to Quell &
disturbance at ball. G. W. Shirley Is I'm.
der arrest charged with the murder.
JASPER ERNsr's building in Bridge
water, Nova Scotia, burned on the 26th, and
bis two children persisted in the flames.
GEORGE WEIR, awaiting trial fol
burglary At St. Clairsville, O., shot and kill
ed Sterling Riggs, an accomplish who had
turned States evidence.
A PASSENGER train ON the Carolina
Central Railroad went through trestle neal
Lincolnton, N. c., plunging sheer fifty feet
into the abyss. The locomotive passed over
in safety. The wrecked cars caught fire and
were consumed. The following Is q list Of
the killed: N. Smith, salesman Of Benedict,
Hall & Co., Of New York; e. w. Goodson, Of
Statesville, N. c., agent Of the Piedmont and
Arlington Life Insurance Company; ]. F,
Bloom, mail agent; VIM. Mckenzie and
James Wsrlick, brakemen, and one passen'
ger, name unknown. These were all buried
under the cars and were burned, only theil
charred bones remaining. 1t IL probable
that most of them were killed in the fall. A
number received injuries, but not Of q fatal
character. .. .....
AT Napoleon, O., on Christmas morn.
ing, W. G. Drury, aged g, a drug clerk, was
shot and Instantly killed by General r. X.
Scott, formerly Governor Of South Carolina
SCOTS son, in company with . party Of
other young men, had been celebrating
Christmas eve in sconvtvial manner, and moi
desiring to 60 home in his semi.inebriated
condition, he accepted an invitation from
Drury to share his bed in the drugstore.
Some time after midnight the elder Scott,
ascertaining his sons whereabouts
went to the drug store. He was
admitted BY the clerk, but upon attempting
to enter the bedroom Drury protested
against it, whereupon Scott drew revolver
and shot the former through the head, kill.
Ing him instantly. He then got his son and
went to his hotel, where he announced what
he had done, saying 1t vas accidental. Scot,
was arrested and taken to Defiance for safe
keeping, there being some threats made Of
lynching him. Drury was most estimable
young man and was to have been married
the following week. 30 "
A. N. CoNKLlN, editor Of the Socorro
IN. Mex.) Sun, was shetland instantly killed
on Christmas night by = young Mexican
whom he had elected from . church festival
where he was an usher, for an alleged insult
to a young lady present. The murderer es.
capped. 80"
A sLE1GHlNa party of six, crossing
the railway track on the London, Huron
and Bruce Railway, near Claudeboy Station,
Ont, Christmas night, were struck by q
train at full speed. James McGrath, hia
wife, aud brother Mathew, and Ellen Blake,
cousin, were instantly killed. McGrath's
child, 10 months old, was dangerously hurt
but may recover. Annie McGrath saved
herself by jumping. ,s........... ....
Miss ADA HEBDEN, aged %, daughter
Of the rector Of an Episcopal Church at
Hamilton, Ont, but for the past six months
visitor at the house Of her brother, Robert
Y. Hebden, at Chicago, on Christmas day
committed suicide by shooting herself
through the heart with small revolver.
She was handsome and accomplished girl.
Two young negroes, named Sam and
John Campbell, were lynched near Rowlett's
Station, in Hart County, Ky, for the rob-
berry and attempted murder of Esquire John
A. Gardner. ''''
The Lockwood Hotel, at Parsons,
Kans., burned at an early hour on the
morning Of the 18th. Several Of the inmates
were injured, but all escaped with their
lives. ~ a., =. IT.
!, The house of the Widow Anthony,
two miles from Weston, o., burned OF
Christmas eve; and her daughter, aged IA,
and niece, aged Il, persisted in the flames.
Z JOSEPH L. PIKE, . prominent stock
man Of Onaway City, Iowa, committed sui
eide on account Of financial reyerses.
The boilers in Dodge & Co.'s shoe
factory at Newburyport, Mass, exploded
st noon on the 9th, killing instantly John
Harrington, engineer, and John H. Basley,
fireman, and fatally injuring John Teel and
Oscar Satkins. Oh Of whom were In the boil.
er-room at the time Of the explosion. The
disaster occurred, fortunately, during
tho dinuef hour, or the loss Of
life among the 500 operatives must have
been fearful to contemplate, a. the boiler.
house was blown to atoms and the debris
scattered In oil directions, while one Of the
boilers was landed 200 yards away, crushing
everything in its path. The cause Of the ex-
piosionis not known, ~ the boilers are said
to hsve been nearly new and Of the best
quality. % r. '''s.s.7 .'I5 ~.
JACOB GoaLE and wife, residing
four miles from Bethlehem, Pa, on the
morning Of the 9Th were found dead IN
bed, their heads neatly severed from their
bodies. A bloody Ak was found In the
apartment end tho walls were splashed with
blood. Joseph Snyder, . miner, who board.
ed with the Goggles, was believed to be the
murderer. he was caught BY an Infatuated
mob soon after the discovery Of the crime.
forced to confess his guilt, and hanged to
the nearest tree. The Goggles leaves three
children,