Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-23
Deeds of Blood.


was found suspended to tree at Chippewa
Falls, Wis. on the 10Th inst. Suicide.
An unknown man leaped into the Ohio from
| the suspension bridge at Cincinnati on the
| 9th. The body was not recovered.
! Theo. Hoffman. who murdered a Jewish
peddler named Zif Marks, was hanged at
White Plains, N. Y, on the 18th.
Chas. A. Spaulding, under arrest at New
Haven, Conn.,, on suspicion of being jewelry
thief, shot himself five times, on the 18th inst,
infictng fatal wounds. He could not bear the
disgrace of arrest.
lobe Turner, while awaiting the hour fixed
| for his execution for the murder of one
Shuttles, at GreenviIe, Ga, on the 18th,
| strangled himself with handkerchief.
. Daniel Campbell, aged about 70 years,
climbed into tree near Millfeld, o., on the
10th, and leaped from height of sixty feet
He was instantly killed.
At Tucson, Ari., on the 16tb JAS. Casey was
! hanged for the murder of Jailor Holbrook last
April He refused to give his right name or
| history.
J. r. B. Danforth killed William Landsburg,
one of his employers. at Macon, Ga, on the
18th, on account of disagreement in regard to
wages.
| band of men took Henry Kilburn and Ben
| Strong, murderers, from the jail at Jackson,
| KY, on the 18TH and hanged him.
The riot investigation began at Cincinnati
on the 14th. The coroner and special grand
| Jury are the workers.
In quarrel on farm near Carrollton, Mo-,
on the 18th, Jessie Glover shot and killed his
uncle, Humphrey Bunch.
Minor Mention.
Rev. f. d. Hemenway, professor in the Gar
rett institute, at Evanston, ILL.,, died on the
| 10Th inst.
While serenading a newly-married couple
near Erie, Pa, on the night of the 18th inst, a
cannon used in the ceremonies exploded,
seriously injuring several of the players.
A freight train was derailed near Omaha on
| the 10Th inst, by mule which had become
stuck in bridge. The engineer was killed and
| the fireman badly injured.
While John Canadian, an old resident of
Rock Island, ILL.,, was walking along the street
car track at thatplace, on the night of the 18th,
he was struck by passing car and instantly
killed.
Two men were killed and their bodies hor-
ribly mangled by train on the Long Island
road, near Williamsburg, n. Y, on the even
ing of the 10Th.
Three colored girls were drowned near Cairo,
ILL.,, on the goth inst, by the capsizing of a
boat.
Mark Phelps, and two boys named John
Murphy and Olaf Magnussen, were drowned on
the 18th, by the capsizing of a skif at Quincy,
III.
Bothrick's grist mill. near Flint, Mich, was
wrecked by the explosion of the boiler on the
18th. John Miller, the engineer, was fatally
hurt.
The Senate committee on library has report
ed adversely on the newspaper copyright bill.
James Rowe and Elnathan Woodland were
drowned In the James River, near Port Emma
OAK, on the 18th, by the capsizing of q skiff.
A driving wheel broke and threw an engine
and mail car from the track at Newport KY,
on the 18th. Daniel HuffnagIe, fireman, was
fatally injured.
The engine and four cars of a freight train
were wrecked near Newark, O., on the 18th.
VIM. Mccarthy, young man who was stealing
a ride, was killed.
Thomas G. Appleton, the noted critic and
connoisseur, died at Boston on the 18th.
Thomas Connolly, of PeWaukee, was stran-
gled by a piece of beefsteak at the Cambrlan
House, Waukesha, on the 18th.
Five men were badly burned by an explosion
Of gas i'll the Pennsylvania colliery at Green
Ridge, Pa, on the night of the 10th. Three Of
them will die.
Leonhart Ames, mate of the steambarge G.
2. Heath, of Saugatuck, was swept overheard
and drowned while the barge was entering
Grand Haven harbor, on the morning of the
18th.
The holders lockout at Troy, N Y, ended
on the 18th, by the acceptance Of a reduction
of 20 per cent. by the men,.
A dredge company, backed by the govern
ment, has commenced the task OF making nav
igablo $50 miles of the st. Francis River, Ar
kansas.
An S-year-old boy named Thomas Monks, at
the 18th inst. and was run over and killed.
DR.. Pogge, the German explorer, died on the
18th.
The Ohio Legislature has adjourned till next
January.
A railroad switchman named Albert Alden,
was decapitated by the cars at Chicago on the
14th.
James Maher, aged IS years, and his daugh-
ter Maggie, aged 5, were struck by train at
Hyde Park, Chicago, on the 18th, and instantly
killed.
Two brothers, named Spencer, were killed by
boiler explosion at Ford Station, Ia, on the
Wabash Railroad on the 14th.
Two men were killed and number wounded
by an explosion of fire-damp in Woods colIiery,
near Elizabeth, Pa, on the 14tE.
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