Daily Republican., 1882-08-14
An E1tendea onsp.er Of vlolenee.

In New York, on Saturday evening,
Frederick Lager fatally stabbed Rob
ert Burgess for slandering his wife.
james Connors, q carpenter, killed
his wife at Scranton, Pa, last night, by
cutting her with q square.
| Thomas Elder, O saloon keeper on
Shelbyville Pike, KY, was shot dead
on Saturday nj ght by an unknown
person.
At UlIin, near Cairo, Ill, on Satur.
day night, James Goodman knocked
Douglass Heathcote down with club
and killed him. Goodm an Is in Jail.
Thomas Devine, aged IL years, has
been fatatally shot by John Mcdonald,
companiol, while playing with re-
volver.
William johnson has been arrested
near Oak Creek, on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad, tor twice try
ing to wreck a train By placing a tie
across the track.
The first wife beater to he lashed un-
der the late act Of the Maryland Legis.
lature is David Gardner, colored, of
Baltimore, who will in a few days re-
ceive thirty lashes.
The dead body of Frank Ferry was
fonn0 on the track at AUhol, Mass,
with one arm cut off. There were also
two cuts on his head, which indicated
foul play.
Henry Seager and William Roeper,
who aided Christmau, the murderer, to
escape from Albany, New York, have
been arrested there charged with being
accessories to the killing of Charles
Trinkl ley.
The New York police are said to be
searching for John A. Garner, who ran
off with $4,000 of s., 800 which his broth
or, Erasmus, had drawn from bank to
pay the hands of Robinson & Wallace,
builders, by whom he was employed as
an architect.
Stephen r. Rathburn, q discharged
employe of the Geneva Woollen Mill,
Providence, r. l., was caught on Sat-
urday WI lie trying to steal $3982 which
was ready to pay the employees. He
was arrested,
During fight between John Metz
ger and his drunken wire, at Co
lamb us, Ohio, oD Saturday night, Char
les Wagner, aged II years, step son,
took his mothers part, and killed his
father by stabbing him in the heart
with penknife.
A mob attacked, on Friday, the
Campbell boys, desperadoes, in house
in Caldwell county, KY, and one Of
the former was killed. The house was
then fired, and as the Campbells were
driven out they were riddled with bull
lets.
Dispatches from Muskogeey Indian
Territory, speak of fight between the
Sandmen and Chicotos, contending
tribes of the Creek Nation, in which
two men were killed and several
wounded.
During an affray at an election on
Saturday, between the Mccoy and
Hatfield families, in Pike county, KY,
one of the Hatfelds was shot and
stabbed so badly that he died. During
a subsequent fight his friends tied three
of the McCoys to trees and shot them
dead
Alex. Weber, his wife and their
7-year-old son were found murdered in
their house at Evansville, Ind, yesJer-
day morning. Their heads were crush
ed with q hatchet and their throats
cut and mapgled. A months old
infant was found unharmed. Four men
have been arrested on suspicion.
Frank FL. Smith, the Harvard st u
dent who was shot on the 20Gh ult., by
Sergeant Dennis Kelley, Of the Regular
Army, at Fort P0pham, Me-, while
within the Government enclosure, died
unexpectedly yesterday. Kelley, at the
time, claimed that the shooting was
accidental, but was placed under $500
bonds to await the result of Smiths in
juries.