The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-05-27
THE LATEST NEWS.

The Convention of the American
Society of Civil Engineers win meet
next year at Minneapolis, MINI.
+ Stephen q. Effier was hanged at
Marion, n. G. for wife murder, COM
mitted in Burk county, in January,
1881. ]
Mrs. John Martin was fatally
burned at Chicago, and her two chill
dren were seriously burned, by the ex-
plo ion of an oil stove. A -st--s
Augustus D. Leighton. colored. who
murdered his mistress, Mary Dean, in
June, 1880, by cutting her throat with
razor, was hanged at New York.
City Marshal R. A. Smith shot and
killed Charles Yost at Mount Vernon,
Ill, and then escaped on horseback.
They quarreled over personal mat
ter.
Mccarthy, the fire bug" has been
arrested at Winnipeg, Manitoba, and
confesses to the Brouse House fire.
He says he had no accompices, and
attributes his act to drink.
The steamer w. 8. Thanhauser was
sunk at West Franklin, Ind, and is
total loss. 1t was the property of J..
II. Morris & Co., and was uninsured.
One life was lost.
In the Massachusetts Senate the adj
dress for the removal of Judge Joseph
NJ. Day from Office OF Judge of Probate
and insolvency for the county of Barn.
stable was adopted by 6. vote of Is to 4.
Mrs. Holmes, tried at Syracuse, n.
Y, for poisoning her husbaI in May,
1881, at Bridgeport, was acquitted,
and nolle pros. was entered in the
case of George Roberts, jointly in
dicted with her.
w. w. Rea, condemned to be
hanged at PULASKI, Tenn, for killing
J. T. GoodIum, took teaspoonful of
morphine, but vomited shortly after
ward, and was subsequently hanged.
Rose Osborne and her daughter,
aged 10 years, were found dead at
Lebanon, KY, the mother in little
stream with a cut on the head, aud
the child in bed with the throat cut.
There is no clew to the criminal.
Mrs. Lizzie Wall, indicted for man
slaughter in shooting and killing her
husband, George Barry Wall, in Feb
ruary last, at New Utrecht, l. T., was,
al Brooklyn, admitted to bail in the
sum oil $500, pending trial.
Edward UrelI, resid ing at Fall
River, Mass, while drunk, assaulted
his wife, who was asleep, and the
woman will probably die, netwith-
standing which she expressed desire
that her husband, who is under arrest,
shall not be prosecuted.
The General Assembly of the Cum
belland Presbyterian Church met at
Huntsville, Ala. Rev. s. III. Buchanan,
of Little Rock, Ark, was elected Mod
crater. Rev. w. J. Darby, of Evans
vile, Moderator of the last Assembly,
delivered the opening sermon. ih9s
The Coroner's jury at Chicago in the
case of the tramp who was shot by a
freight train brakeman on the Chicago
and Alton Railroad decided that the |
shooting was justifiable. The dead |
man was identified as Charles Gran
ih, of Syracuse n. Y, aged % years,
q professional tramp.
jeremiah S. Frost, confined in lii at |
st. Adams, VT, awaiting extradition |
on the charge of highway robbery and
murderous assault in Canada, and |
Sabin, who was confined for small |
debt, broke Jail by digging under
the wall and sidewalk. Flood,
charged with larceny, the only other
prisoner, declined to escape. !3f
Mrs. Pierce, who fired into a coach
at Kingston, Tenn, in an attempt to
NIL tl1C OlAFCIj 4AOiudS w lllialus, LAS
not yet been arrested. Williams is |
under bonds to answer for breach of |
promise of marriage to Mrs. Pierce.
He returned Mrs. Pierce's fire, and |
shot her young daughter through the
head. 1t is feared that the child will
die. 4
The jury at Fort Madison, Iowa, re-
turned verdict of murder in the first |
decree against Poke Wills and Cook,
who murdered the Jail guard. and
verdict of murd er in the second degree
against Fitzgerald, who was their
accomplice. Wills and Cook are to be |
imprisoned for life, and Fitzgerald's |
sentence will be determined by the |
Judge. . ~
The Delaware Conference of the M.
E. Church, to meet at Centerville,
Md, on July 20, will be presided over
by Bishop Foster. The Pittsburg
Conference, at Indiana, Pa, on Sep
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