West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-11-09

W. S. Christie, of Fairmont, fell
down stairs, Tuesday morning,
while intoxicated, and died in a
few hours.-Rttchie Democrat
CINcINNATI.-In a drunken fight
in a saloon in Stringtown, a West
Ender cut Skinny Bohrer over the
eyes, severing an artery, from which
he came near bleeding to death.
DEAD.-Mr. John McGahn, of
Cameron, died on last Friday, after
short illness. The deceased had
been drinking rather freely, which
is thought to have been the cause
of his sudden death. -Moundsoale
Reporter.
SANDUsKY, O., Nov. 2.-During a
row in Jacob Schlessman's saloon,
this city, tonight, Schlessman, it is
alleged, struck Joseph Link in the
head with Ratchet, cutting sever
al large gashes in the scalp and in
juring the skull. Link is in pre-
carious condition.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo, Nov. 1.-About 3
o'clock this morning John Mahon-
ey, Tim Moran, and Ed. Hardy, got
into drunken quarrel in a saloon
on Walnut street, in which Mahony
shot both Moran and Hardy. Mo-
ran died this afternoon and Hardy
lies at the point of death.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Nov. ga.
Stein, prominent figure in police
circles for several months, cut his
wife's throat, chopped up his moth
er-in-law, and Killed himself bv
poison. Stein and his wife are
dead, but the mother-in-law may
recover jealousy, insanity and IL
quor are the causes.
FATAL Row.-The Wellsburg
Herald gives the particulars of a
drunken row that occurred few
days ago at saloon IN the. town of
Lagrange, Ohio, opposite Wells
burg, resulting in the death by
stabblng Of q young man named
y ock" West, and the serious if not
fatal cutting of another man named
Montgomery.
TRAGEDY ON A TRAIN.-News
from Kaufman, Texas, of the Sd
inst, give an account of a bloody
encounter between Wooley, Robin
son and Tom Smith, which occurred
on the West-bound train of the
Texas Trunk Railway, resulting in
the death of the later and the seri-
Gus, if not mortal wounding of Rob
inson. Whisky was the cause
Time8-Star.
KILLED IN a SALooN-While
drinking in a saloon in Cincinnati
a week ago last Sunday, VIM. H.
Lukens, in drunken recklessness,
shot and instantly killed Frank
Hopping. Lukens, thinking the
gun was empty, put on a cap, and
pointing it at the head of his com
panion, told him he was going to
shoot him. Hopping said call
right" just as the gun was dis
charged, blowing his brains out.
George Johnson, Scotch stone
cutter, while drunk, attempted sui
eide in Cincinnati, last Friday af-
ternoon. He was walking along
the streets while under the inhu-
ence Of liquor, when he took out a
jack knife and thrust it into and
then jagged it about his throat.
Afterward he staggered up to a tele-
graph-pole, into which he thrust
the knife and then rolled into the
gutter, where he was found by some
children. He cannot recover.
Last Saturday prisoner confined
at Police Station No. 1, Cincinnati,
named Xavier Weishar, who had
been arrested for disorderly conduct,
while laboring under an attack Of
mania @ potu, stabbed himself in
the neck with a pocket-knife, after
which he twisted the instrument,
severing the carotid artery and
windpipe. Then he deliberately
shut the knife, put it in his pocket,
and quietly laid down upon the
floor, where he died in a short time.
Deceased was thirty-two years old,
and has brother in indianapolis.
He had been driver in the employ !