The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Ten tramps were secreted in the van at the
time. Two were killed outright and the
others were badly injured. The names OF
the unfortunates are unknown. M
THOMAS. HoFFMAN and Joseph Wait
son, employed at the Eekert ore mine,
Reading, Pa, were recently killed by an
explosion of fire-damp.
DIR. IL. L. WILLIFoRD, of Memphis,
Tenn, was aroused by his wife, early on the
morning of the LIST, who thought she heard
some one trying to break in. Shortly after
ward shadow appeared at the window.
The doctor fired Mt the object, thinking it a
burglar on the out >ide, but it proved to be
a young colored nurse. The bullet passed
through her body, inflieting a fatal wound.
THE liquor-importing firm of Cazade,
Crooks & Resnaud, of New York, whose
capital was $500, 900, made an assignment the
other day, giving as reason the shrinkage
in values.
MRS. GEORGE BARRY WALL, well
known in theatrical circles as Lizzie Mccall,
has been arrested in New Utrecht, suburb
of New York City, for shooting her hus
band. Mr.. Wall, on his deathbed, contra
dicted 4 previous statement that his wound
was the result of an accident, saving that
his wife shot him without word of warn
ing. Mrs. Wallprotests her innocence.
j. ScoTr and f Bovleston, young
men of good families, quarreled at Willis
ton, S. c., March 1st. Boyleston drew
knife and cut his friends throat from ear to
ear.
THE engine and baggage car of a
passenger on Lake Champaign Rail-
way ran into a wash-out near Ogdensburg,
n. Y, March ID, killing James Chambers,
engineer, and Henry Petrie, fireman. The
express messenger and baggageman were
badly injured. No passengers were hurt
ORyILLE B. Roe, of La Sale, H., an
idle, drunken carpenter, shot his wife,
March 1st, because she refused to longer
support him, and then killed himself.
WILLIS PULLAM and a man named
Berry quarreled oyer game of, cards, at
Denver, Colo, few days ago. Pistols
were used, and rullam was seriously in
jured.
THE court-martial trying Sergeant
Mason for attempting to kill Guiteau has
adjourned sine die. .- rs
Mrs. THOMAS GILLEM, the wife of a
welI-to-do farmer living al Bakers Corners,
four miles from Armada, Macomb County,
Mich, was shot through the body and al
most instantly killed, a few days ago, by her
son, Charles B., about Il years OF age. For
some wears Mrs. Gilem has been i'll,
and very fretful, SO much so that she was
once taken to Pontiac Asylum to be treated
for insanity. Her unfortunate falling m de
life very unpleasant for the family at times.
At the hour named Mrs. Gillem was sitting
up in bed and had been engaged in a wordy
dispute with her son, who went to closet,
got revolver and returning to the bed, Shot
her, the bali passing through her lungs, from
the effects of which she died within fifteen
minutes. Young Gilem manifests no grief
or contrition for his crime, simply declaring
that he is ready to go to the State-prison,
and that now. there will be peace in the
house. II q II 1
The engine of a Baltimore & Ohio ex-
press train, thrown from the track by a
large rock, at Toll Gate, West Va, March
LIST, plunged into several barrels of oil
standing ON the platform and broke into a
store kept by George James. The boiler
exploded, completely wrecking the engine.
The oil caught fire, and the railroad office,
the store, two passenger cars, one mail and
one baggage car we're burned. The engi-
neer, Geo. Gateley and Fireman John Brew
er courageously stuck to their post. The
former was instantly killed by the boiler
explosion and the latter was so seriously in
jured that he lived but an hour or two. The
passengers escaped without injury.
A DEsOLATING hurricane passed over
portion of jefferson County, Ark, few
inh4 he ~
Charlie Dutsche, and laying waste cabins,
houses and fences on the plantation Of Mr..
]. B. Cores. A number of his tenement
houses were blown down, and an elderly
lady, named Mrs. Waldron, was killed. A
church and house, and Masonic hall, ad-
joining Mr.. Cores plant alton, were demol-
ished. ty e--eE
c. j. LANSING, prominent lawyer of
Eureka, New, shot and killed his wife on
the I'd. The ball entered directly above the
right eye, and passed through the brain.
After the shooting Lansing walked to the
Jail and gave himself up. He refused to
make any statement of the affair. Liquor
was the probable cause of the shooting.
A SHOOTING affray occurred on Camp
street, New Orleans, March 2, between John
P. Roche, bookseller and sporting man,
| and VIM. NJ. Evans, cotton clerk. Roche
fred first. missing his man, when Evans
fired several shots. the first taking effect in
Roche's right side and spine. Roche will
die. A woman was at the bottom of the
| trouble. He
JOHN JOHNSON, a quarrelsome Swede
employed in the Stimson mill at Big Rapids,
Mich, was fatally shot by Valentine Kohler,
| a German, the other night. johnson threat.
ened to whip Kohler because he would not
pay for a drink. :. zs~ Eas
| A COLD-BLoODED murder is reported
| from Mount Pleasant, Pa. A man named
| Ward, through jealousy, lay in wait for his
betrothed at church, where revival meeting
was In progress, and as she left the meeting,
fired three shots, one Of which passed
through her body, infiicting mortal inju-
! ries.
Ed. G. UREER, brother of President
Urner of the Cincinnati Chamber of Com
merce, was found dead in his room, March 2,
with pistol ball in the right temple He
had recently been robbed, and it is thought
by his friends that the shot was fired .acci-
dentaily while under the Influence Of chlo-
| raj.
JOSH FULLER,sa saloon-keeper.at Ce-
dar Rapids, Iowa.. was shot through the
right side of the head by drunken gam
bier, March I'd. He had just put the gam
bier out of doors, and the fellow turned and
| fired through the window, hitting Fulle
and iniuring another man slightly. The
would be murderer was hurried to Jail in
time to save his neck, an excited mob hav-
/ ing determined to lynch him.