Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
NIsurderOxss Deeds.

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IurderOSus Deeds.
At st. Louis on the 18th inst, saoon-keep-
Ell named Wilhelms, shot and killed Agatha
Margot, and then ended his own life. Jeal-
! ousy.
Late Texas murders: Jack Lane killed one
| Caldwell, Llama county. ID. Wear, of Bold
Prairie, was assassinated by j. j. Hickman, at
Copeland. Wash. Carr was probably fatally
shot while resisting arrest.
At Grantsville New, Oh the 29th ult,, Math-
las Salmon was lynched for numbering miner.
o. E. Field was killed, and Ed. Phillips Sc
verely wounded III mining controversy at
Leadvile, Col, recently. =.
horrible story comes from Charlotte Court
House, Va. 1t appears that woman known to
have considerable money stopped at the lodg-
ing house Of John Demps, in Checkertown.
She was put in the same room with Demps'
wife, but in a different led. In the night
Demps came to the room with intent to murder
her. BY mistake he attacked his wife and
killed her with an axe. The other woman es-
capped
At the Gault House, Louisville, KY, on the
Sd inst, Tony App, the bar-keeper became in
volved in quarrel with Geo. Weber, q travel
ing salesman, and shot him fatally.
Elder Cass, of Hickory Ridge, KY, murdered
Mckinney, a Sabbath school superintendent, on
the 31st ult., during dispute.
The three murderers of Captain Potter were
taken from the jail at Denison, Texas, on the
night of the 30th ult and lynched.
John Hornstein, a German of so yeart, who
lived at Decatur, ILL.,, married girl of 10. AS
usual in such cases, their married life was not
happy. His wife deserted Hornstein last April.
On the list inst. he struck her with large iron
kettle. but failed to seriously injure her He
, then attempted to commit suicide by shooting.
Two shots aimed at his head proved Intellectual.
He then severed the iuguar vein by drawing
small wood-saw across his throat, and bled to
death.
Antoine Goschleich's daughter was so badly
used by her father that she sought refuge with
. a neighbor, August Klopp, at Dallas, Tex, on
the 1st inst. Her father tried TO force her to
return, but falling began to abuse Klopp. who
shot him dead. Goschleich was a wealthy Ger
man, and quite troublesome character His
wife committed suicide some time ago.
City Marshal Belly, of Pueblo, CAL, shot and
MORALLY wounded James Farrell, who was en-
gagged in a row on tie night of the 30th nit.
Some days ago Robert Hennegan. farmer
living about twenty-five miles from Charlotte,
N. c., was called out of his house by three men.
John Gray, Marshall Baxter, and Coy Ross, to
go to dance. He consented, but had not gone
far, when his three companions attacked him
with various weapons. He defended himself
bravely, but was finally overpO Iered and
br1tally murdered. His body was discovered
on the 31st ult. in q creek near the scene of the
murder. Gray has confessed. It appears that
the murderers were criminally intimate with
Hennegan's wife, and wanted him out of the
way. Gray tells the horribly brutal story that
he spent the night after the murder with Mrs.
Hennegan.
Abe Twiggs testified against his brother who
was Oh trial for his life, and on the 31st nit a
mob lynched him at Augusta, GA.
dispatch from Shreveport. La. gives par
ticulars OF the killing of a prominent merchant
named Sam. b. Lewis, at point on the river
younger brother. The murderer, who is a des-
perate character, mounted a horse and escaped
Minor vIishaps.
John Ritter, one of the proprietors. of the
Mokena mills, at Lancaster, o., was caught by
a revolving shaft on the 4th inst, and killed.
Sam. Varley and son, VIM. Law and an I'M
known man were drowned at Fall River, Mass,
on the 9th inst, by break up of the ice.
DR.. George Ferrel, member of the West
Virginia legislature dropped dead in his board
ing house at Wheeling, on the I'd inst. His
disease vas pronounced spinal apopleAy.
Andrew W. Hood, one of the oldest mer-
chants of Montreal, dropped dead from heart
disease, in lawyers Office.
Charles Kug was drawn into the rollers at
the rolling mills at Bay View, Milwaukee,
Wis, suburb, on the I'd inst. and instantly
killed.
A coasting sled having on board Charles
Barngert, his two daughters and three other
young ladies, ran off the wharf at College
Point, L. l., on the I'd inst, and plunged into
water, but it is thought two of the ladies will
die from injuries received.
Patrick Murphy was run over by Missouri
Pacific train at ST. Louis Mo-, on the I'd inst,
and fatally mangled.
Two fatal elevator accidents occurred in Chi
cago on the first inst, one at the F1rst & Brad
ley Plow manufacturing company warehouse,
where by the falling of an elevator from the
sixth story Joseph Speien lost his life. and
Christopher Munstock and Hermann Harsch
a4,~
was Peter Burns, who was struck on the fore
: head by the weight attached to an elevator
brake and was fatally injured.
John W. Dwinelle, prominent lawyer of San
Francisco, was drowned at Port Costa, opposite
Benecia, CAL. recently His body was picked
7 up on the LIST inst.
Selma Peters, aged r. was killed. and several
companions seriously injured, while coasting at
Bayside, N. j.
. Mrs. Rose Lowe, occupying apartments over
p Grand Rapids, Mich, store was suffocated to
E death by smoke which emanated from an in
i clpient blaze in the store.
At Tiffin, O., on the 31st ult., III. FL. Seaver
fell under the cars and was killed. He was on
his way to procure marriage license.
: Thomas Koenig was killed at Cincinnati, O.,
t on the 31st, while coasting. The sled struck q
tree.
!, Several business places in Genoa, ILL.,, burned
!. on the 31st ult, causing loss of from $15, OOC
a to 500, 900.
The Eden Baptist church, and Horticultural
hall adjoining on the northwest corner OF
Broad and Spruce streets, Philadelphia, Pa,
d were destroyed by fire on the 31st ult. The
b church cost $175,000, and the organ 81, 800.
r The furniture was insured for SO. O0O. Horti-
, cultural Hall sold last summer for 1900: in
sured for 100000. Loss $210,0O0; insurance on
e church $40, 900.
!. Shattucks pistol and shot gun manufactory
g at Hatfield, Mass, burned on the 31st ult.
Y Loss $25,000.
Fire and Smoke.
The Aldrich cigar factory at Rome n. Y.
4 was damaged to the extent of $40, 900 on the
5th inst.
5 fire at New York on the 5th inst damaged
] A. Prothers wooden ware factory to the extent