The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-01-08
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

OnlMES AMI OASUhLAlESs
An YUNG, q Chinaman, committed
suicide in Chicago on account of continued
financial reverses sustained by him in en-
deavoring to master the mysteries of the
American game of poker.
LOUIS B. PALETTE, aged &C., form.
erly well.known retail merchant Of Bos.
ton, is under arrest charged with completely
in the death of Rebecca 7. Long, a young
woman with whom he had lived on terms of
intimacy.
Ed. LONG, colored, was hanged at
Jackson. Tenn. on the 18th, for the murder
of Rogers, also colored; and Daniel Keith,
white, was hanged at Rutherfordton, N. c.,
on the same day, for the murder Of young
negro girl named Alice Ellis.
L. H. BlRGE & SoNs' wallpaper
mandatory, at Buffalo, N, Y, burned on
the 18th. The building was five stories in
height, 800 feet deep and GO feet front. 1t
was filed with inhammable material, and
kept throughout at high temperature in
order to hasten the drying Of the paper.
In consequence the fire spread with
great rapidity, and within three minutes,
apparently, after the alarm had been
given, the whole building was enveloped
in flames. About one hundred and fifty
hands, mel, AMI boys, were employed. Many
Of those at work in the upper stories were
unable to escape except by jumping from
the windows. Thomas Fields and John Ma.
hone were instantly killed; several others
were fatally and many badly injured. 1t is
also certain that several burned to death
rather than take the desperate leap, but the
number could not be ascertained until the
ruins were cleared away. +.a
Two colored children who had
been locked in the house during the absence
Of their parents in Prince George County,.
Va. we're, cremated by the burning down Of
the edifice. u ailg. ;ata. .,...,
The residence of Mrs. Amarillo
Mitchell, At Newton, Iowa. burned the other
night and Mrs. Mitchell was consumed in
the building. The cause is supposed to be
the upsetting Of kerosene lamp. She was
50 years old. a.t,.f .-. .
Two brothers named Muller were
killed by Albert and Alfred Quackenbush,
also brothers, at the Kellogg ranch, about
ten miles from Santa Rosa, CAL, in diff
Guilty about some lands. 1t is claimed the
shooting was done in self.defense.
john CHEW and John Mead, colored
men, attempted to cross the railroad tracks
at Fulton Station, near Baltimore, when
they were struck b. train aud both I'm.
stantly killed. y 7sa'a;
JOSEPH SMlTHERs, a prisoner in the
Columbus co., Jail awaiting sentence for
arson, committed suicide by cutting his
throat, ,a
GEORGE PARRATr, alias diagnosed
George" a famous border desperate and
robber, has been sentenced to be hanged at
Rawlins in April. aa fu e5
a. Ross and J. McWhinney, of
Lskeport, CAL, went out shooting in boat
and were drowned. They had been drink.
ing heavily, and it is Supposed became too
drunk to manage the boat.
DIR. REID and Henry Page, whose
families live in the same house near Bastrop.
Tex, had an impromptu duel with reyoly.
ers, growing out Of family difficulties. Page
was shot in two places and probably fatally
wounded. The Doctor received only sight
flesh wound.
DR.. K. GRAFTON, a well-known
Of Wyandotte, Kans., committed
suicide With morphine. He leaves a wife
and family. No cause assigned. 81
FRED. OIDs, young man serving
term Of life-imprisonment in the Kansas
Penitentiary, for the, murder Of an old man
named p. w. Farris, in Topeka, in 1874, has
withdrawn his former plea Of guilty, and
makes statement charging his father, now
dead, with having committed tho murder.
The prisoner says he took the onus of the
crime upon himself in order to shield his
|ather, who would otherwise have been
convicted. and that an additional motive for
The act was the belief Of the father that he
could secure his sons pardon on account Of
ais youth, the latter being at the time Of his
conviction but IL years Of age. Failing in
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