Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-08
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Accident in Virginia.
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Especial Telegram to the Globe.
SHELBYvnLE, Ill, March THE par
ticulars of sad accident in the southwest
part of this county have just been received
here. During the recent sleety weather
Miss Hester Harvey left Cowden to visit
friends near Pleasant Grove. Since that
time until last Saturday the bad roads and
high water have prevented any communi-
cation between the two points But on
Saturday the friends whom Miss Harvey
had intended to visit came to Cowden and
astonished their friends with the informa-
tion that they had seen nothing of
| her, knew nothing of her, and knew
nothing of her proposed visit. aThe Cow
den friends were astoanded, as they had no
thought of any accident. On Saturday
| search was made, and in the day theiunfor-
tunate girls dead body was found in
drift in the swollen creek that crosses its
way between Cowden and Pleasant Grove.
1t is supposed she fell in trying to cross
the icy footbridge and was drowned on the
day of her departure fromIsshe ghome fin
| Cowden. Miss Harvey--was about Fifteen
years old and was universally respected.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER sUFFoCATED.
New YORK, March e7.-By ga fire this
morning on Cambridge fats, EastI..Six-
tyfourth street, Mrs.I WAKE
man, aged ifty-six, and her
daughter Rose, sswsre Gsuffcated. EThe
hr,il NV oil
Damage, $4,000; furniture $4,000. Mrs.
Wakeman was the wife of Abram Wake
man, who was surveyor of this port during
Lincoln's administration. At the time of
the fire he was on his way from Albany to
this city. Mrs. Wakeman was an invalid,
one side of her body being paralyzed. Her
daughter Was also suffering from illness.
Both the mother and the daughter were
found on the stairway of the third floor, to
which they had descended, and where they
had evidently been overcome Eby the
smoke. Many more lives would have been
lost had it not been for the fire escapes.
Later estimates mako the loss $4,000, of
which $4,000 is on the furniture. Every
thing was insured. ~ "a
SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.
CLEVELAND, March This afternoon
VIM. Lyon, fifty five years old, went to a
dwelling occupied by woman divorded
from him years ago, and asked her to
make bowl of soup for him. While she
was preparing to comply with the request,
| he drew a revolver and shot her in the
| face, inficting severe and perhaps fatal
wound. Then yelling, "rve settled you,
| now I'll settle myself" he put a pistol to
his right temple aud fired, killing himself
instantly. Lyon had been drinking
heavily of late and was under tbs influence
of liquor at the time.
HANGED.
MIDDLEBURG, Pa, March 7.-Uriah
Mayer was hanged this morning for the
murder OF G1rcher KirtzIe in 1877. Mayer
stated that the murder was committed on
Friday evening by him and Emanuel Ell
| finger; that he and his brother Jonathan
and E6tinger robbed and burned the body
and premises Saturday evening. Hs said
his brother Joseph was not present. III
A MURDERBR CoNFEssEs.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, March Joseph
B. LOOMS, to be hanged tomorrow for
the murder of David Levitt, Des. 1, 1881,
has made confession. He says he shot
the victim while the two were driving
throgh the covered Agawan bridge, two
miles from this city. IA threw his pistol
into the river, then drove to the nsighbor-
| ing woods, where he left the carriage and
corpse, and then walked to Westfeld. J Al
the latter place he concealed the money
and watch taken from Levitt's body. The
murderer promises to go through to -mo--
rows 6Yacuti01 without fiOchinn
DRUG FIRE.
NASHVILLE, March IA fire broke out
at $3.50 tonight in the wholesale drug
house of Litterer & Co., in Watkins block,
South Market. The drug store and stock
was total loss. aud the destruction of the
entire block is i'm ninent.
Li5terer'S store was the only one burned
in Watkins block. The wind was from
the north and the flames took a southerly
direction. burning several old buildings
south of Watkins block, including Lewis
q Cos. paper box factory; Cousens 81 Tab
| Ter, druggists; Carsey Bros. tobacco manu-
factory; Polston & Co., produce dealers;
| the steamboat Office of the Paducah &
Cairo line; Litterer's mandatory; L. II.
Mason d. Cos. tobacco warehouses; Reid &
Foley's brass foundry, all on Broad and
Front streets. Loss 100000, insurance
S125,000. The origin of the fire is not
known. A negro lad had leg broken by
| a falling wall. The fire was under control
by II o'clock.
BRAKEMAN KILLED. :-zt53ss fiT
COLUMBUS, O., Feb. IA Mount Vernon
special says: James F. Kelly, brakeman
on the Baltimore & Ohio railway, was in
5tantly killed this afternoon. His foot
caught in a rail and before he could extri-
cate it the engine backed down on him,
crushing him into an unrecognizable mass.
He was single man, aged twenty-six
years, and lived in Sandusky.
SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT
DANyILLE, Va, March IA train on the
| Spottsylvania & Franklin road ran off the
track. VIM. Payne, the conductor, proba-
bly, fatally injured; Charles Fortune, en-
gineer, badly scalded, and the fireman,
name not known, had leg broken.
FATAL COAL MINk EXPLOSION.