The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-14
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

JOHN EDMoNDs, an old and respected
citizen of Paramount, Leavenworth County,
kans., died from the carelessness of ayoung
physician. DR.. Coffin, who administered
powdered opium by mistake for powdered
rhubarb.
WILSON'S mill, at Gurdon, Ark, was
blown up BY a boiler explosion. Charles
He'll was instantly killed, Cool French ia
tally injured, and several others were less
seriously hurt
AT Dallas, Texas, on the 9th, a run
away team collided with street-car, killing
one passenger, a lad of Il, fatally injuring
another and breaking the car-driver's hip.
Two men charged with murder, rob-
berry and arson have been lynched in South
ampton County, Va.
EDWARD HOPPE, a German resident of
College Point, Long Island, on Christmas
morning put two bullets through his wife's
breast, causing instant death, and then shot
himself through the heart with similar re-
suit. Hoppe was man of dissipated hab-
It's and had been on a drunken carousal on
Christmas eve.
In attempting to cross the Kanawha
at Charleston, W. Va, Peter Herring and
his two sons were drowned.
A son of DR.. T. p Russell, a promi-
nent surgeon Of Oshkosh, Wis, shot and
killed the son of A. H. Turner. The boys
were fooling with gun supposed to be I'M
loaded. The former was twelve years old /:
the latter six.
TIE bodies of Fernandez Pollock and
wife, proprietors of the Toll House, sixMile
Canyon, Nevada, were found in the charred
ruins of their house. The heads Of both were
crushed. They were evidently murdered
and the house fired to conceal the crime
They were supposed to have drawn a con-
siderable sum of money during the day from
the sale of real estate.
IT is reported that Col L. M. Bell,
residing in Ashley County, Ark, near the
Louisiana line, has been hung by mob. 1t
Is alleged that Bell habitually abused his
wife, an estimabe woman, and that on
Christmas she died a victim of his cruelty.
Her death aroused the neighborhood, and
the-sequel was the lynching of her husband.
A SANCTUARY encounter is reported
from Round Oak, Jones County, Ga A
young farmer named Jack VIM. Gray inter-
terfered with negro dance and was fatally
stabbed by three negro brothers, Bob, Hen
ry and AK Jackson. Gray fired into the
brothers, killing all three, one dying on the
spot, one before reaching the door, and the
other few hours later. Gray crawled out
Of the house and died on the steps.
A TERRIBLE tragedy is reported from
Bellefont, Ala, a small station on the NJ &
G. Railroad, fortyfour miles from Chat
tanooga, resulting in the probably fatal
shooting of w. d. Martin, his son John, and
c. NJ. Fennel. They are the only merchants
in the place, and the difficulty originated
through jealousy.
AT Biddeford, Me-, on the 2Sth, Lean
Moore, young man, shot and killed his
affianced. Miss Belle Cushnan, and then
put bullet through his own head. Moore
was clerk in n Boston store, at home on a
holiday visit. Miss Cushman was a school
teacher. Each was about twenty one years
of age. Their families are highly respecta-
bic. 1t is supposed jealousy was the cause
of the tragedy.
Mrs. M. F. KAPPEGE, of New Or
leans, gave her four-year- old boy pistol to
play with, at the same time showing him
how to aim it. The child pointed the pistol
at his mother, it was in some way dis
charged, and Mrs. Kappege fell to the floor
dead, the bullet having pierced her brain.
OF course She "did not know it was loaded.n
PHIIIP E. GLEY, of Yenango, Els
worth County, Kansas, on the night of the
26th was murdered androbbed and his house
burned. Tbs perpetrators Of the deed are
rot kaswN.