The patron of husbandry., 1882-05-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

day, killing Sergt. Richard Casey, of the
Third Cavalry. A mountain howitzer
transported the noble chief to the happy
hunting grounds. Jack was leader in the
Thornburg and Meeker massacres, and was
a very bad man.
THIRTY-THREE coal miners were ar
rested at AlpsvilIe, Pa, May 1, on charge
of conspiracy. The men were strikers, 1t is
alleged, and intimdateal men who were en-
gagged to take their places. They were re-
quired to furnish bail. to the amount Of
81 900 each.
THREE masked men broke into the
house of Mrs. j. Stump, near Greensburg,
Pa, on the 1st. Mrs Stump and her
daughters were bound and gagged; one was
strung up to the rafters in order TO extort
information as to where their money was
secreted, and another was brutally beaten,
but all refused to give the Information. The
burglars got about $500 and escaped.
EDGAR CHITTENDEN, son of DR.. Chit
tenden, of Anderson, Ind, was shot and
probably fatally wounded by a man named
RYAN, the defeated candidate for Town
Marshal, May .. The cause of the shooting
was Chittenden's hurrahing for the success
full candidate. Three shots were fired. Ry-
an was arrested.
ELLEN GoFF, an old woman who
lived in a shanty near the water tower in
Cleveland, o., was found dead in bed the
other afternoon, her body horribly mutilated
by rats. The ears were partially eaten off,
the side of one hand had been nibbled to the
bone, the eyelids were entirely gone, and the
flesh had been devoured from the forehead
by the voracous vermin, leaving a spectacle
sickening in it's ghastlinass- The coroner
decided upon epilepsy as the cause of death.
w. G. KRUGER, who recently OBJ
tanned patent for flying machine, and
had become penniless in making further ex-
periments, put bullet tsrough his brain in
New York the other day, after breaking up
his models.
ALFRED DRAKE, 16 years old, pu-
pill in the Public School at st. Paul, Mimi :,
cherished boyish attachment for fellow
pupil named Jennie Faulkner. The girls
parents lately interfered to check the inti-
macy The boy sought an interview with
the girl on the Sd, to urge secret marriage
and elopement. When she refused he be-
came frantic and fired three shots at her
with revolver, one of which made flesh
Cured on the sidewalk, and the girl ran in
to the house. The boy ran down the street
a short distance, and then put the revolver
TO his head, killing himself instantly.
ALBERT SoLEsKI, of Milwaukee, Wis,
went out with his intended bride the other
day to invite friends to the wedding, which
was to occur shortly. He keft the girl with
a friend until he went to invF1e others. He
was not seen sfterward until the Sd, when
he was found dying by the roadside 10 miles
from town. He had $50 when he disap-
peared, and had evidently been robbed.
WHILE Hugh Rapp, a well-known
gambler, was purchasing a ticket in-the
Union Depot at Leadyille, Colo, May 8,
Ella Harvey, to whom he had once paid
much attention, slipped quietly up to the
window and threw bottle of vitraol in his
face. making her escape in carriage wait
ing at the door. The unfortunate Rapp,
who was looking fellow, suffered the
most excrutiatng torture before relief
could reach him, and it is not unlikely he
will pass the rest of his days with one of his
ye-sockets empty and other dishguring
marks about his face. He fears the woman,
and says he viii not prosecute her,
NINE inmates of a boarding house
kept by Mary Robinson, in Piftsburg, Pa,
were poIsor1ys----1 ri1c- Cd -urae@->f- psEoz
can not recover. Nelson Fry, a boarder,
purchased poison and gave it to Julia Wat
llins, domestic, with instructions to mix
it in the dough. The girl was arrested, but
Fry managed 10 escape.
AN emigrant train on the Santa Fe
Road, while side tracked at Glorieta, N
Mex, the other day, was raided by three
desperadoes, who secured from the passen-
gers about 500 in money and goods. The
leader of the gang was formerly night
watchman at Bamy.
Hon. HORACE MAYNARD dropped
dead of heart disease, at Knoxville, Tenn,
May Sd. He was born in Massachusetts,, but
went to Tennessee after graduating at Am
herst. He was eight times elected to Con-
gress, and served as Minister to Turkey and
Postmaster-General.
THREE old books which arrived in
New York from Europe by mail few days
ago were found to have been neatly hol-
lowed out and flied with diamonds and
jewelry valued at $500. The package was
addressed to a leading jeweler of Cincinnati,
but found its way to the Custom-house-
S. J. BROWN, a shoe merchant at
Findlay, Ohio, recently started for Fort De-
fiance to enter into business with the post
trader In New Mexico he lost his reason,
and was found wandering about Las Vegas
with draft in his pocket for $1,000.
AT Opelika, Ala, on the 4th, Henry
Hart and W. Williams, policemen, were
shot during a difficulty with Robert and
Samuel Love, t. J. Key, and w. FL. Han
son. Hart will not recover.
DANIEL WISE fell from the roof of
the new rolling mill in Indianapolis, May 4,
a distance OF sixty feet, receiving fatal in
juries.
JOHN BIRD and Samuel Hines, of
Muncie, Ind, imbibed too freely the other
day and got into quarrel. Bird drew a
revolver; Hines took it away from him and
threw him on a railroad track with fatal
force, and then surrendered to the police.
HENRY LoCKHART and Frank Nelson
were killed and Jennings Wethers was seri-
ously injured by the explosion OF boiler,
near Newburg, Ind, on the 4th.
JOHN CLARK, while working in well
fifty feet Ideep, near Waupaca, Wis, May
4, was buried beneath mass of falling
earth.
GEORGE HANKEY, confectioner, of
Brookline, Mass, unwisely loved Boston
belle, named Mabel Raymond, who could
not confine he2 affection and made him
jealous. Burning with this passion and
liquor, the infatuated man decided that