Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-10-09

At Alfred, Maine; Oscar E. Blaney ant
Mary E. Barrows were sentenced to deatf
for the murder of the latters husband.
Geo. Westfall, painter, was shot at Ne
vada, Missouri, by Ed. Requa, a wealthy
farmer. The cause is a mystery.
A fire at Pittsburg, which ragged furi
ously, destroyed the glass-works of Abel
Smith & Co., valued at 100000.
Chas. Gibson, of Houston, Texas, tried tt
kill his wife, and was fatally shot by FREQ
Matchett, who took the woman's part.
A stroke of lightning at Elmwood, Hi
nois, killed baby lying asleep between it,
parents, leaving the latter unframed.
DR.. Abram Babcock, of Syracuse, New
York, who lay in Jail on indictments fol
abortion, killed himself with morphine.
Bill Smith, colored, who assaulted dusky
damsel in Fran kiln county, Mississippi, wa
taken from magistrate and hanged by 6
mob.
Fire bugs made another attempt tt
burn property at Allentown, Pennsylva
mia, and the Mayor called meeting of citi
zens.
A boiler in the engine room of the Mill
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ed, killing John Hanna and a number Of
others.
During political meeting at Springfield,
Illinois, recently, an insulting remark
led to the murder of Percy Gilman by q
maintained Whaley.
An unknown man, supposed to have
hailed from East St. Louis, threw himself
on the track at Moberly, Mo-, and was hor-
ribly mutilated.
General w. A. Throop, of the firm OF
Tappan d Throop, well known citizen and
politician, shot himself in the head but at
last accounts he was alive.
Daniel W. Fuller, and Adventist exhorter
of Chesterfield, Michigan, grew weary of
waiting for golden slippers, and hanged him
self in his barn.
| In a row in boarding house at Otanon-
gan, Michigan, Andreas Sunds shot William
Berg through the heart and then fled to
the woods. He is still at large.
William Kluge, who murderously as
sauted his wife in Milwaukee, and evaded
capture, committed suicide by jumping in
front of a Lake Shore and Western train.
Mrs. Ellen S. Holt, of Gardner Massa-
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causing the arrest of Rev. Frank B. Sleeper
on charge of rape committed twenty seven
months ago.
Ella Larabee handsome girl of TO- was
sentenced to the penitentiary for three years
| by Brooklyn court. Despite her refined
looks and good breeding, she is said to be
professional thief.
A tornado which swept through the vii
lase of Shongo, on the Genesee river, New
York, some days since, demolished half the
buildings in one minute, killed two persons
and wounded fifteen.
Miss Magdalena Drake, daughter Of q
wealthy man of Harrison, n. Y, ran away
and married Jesse Carroll her fathers coach
man. The groom is said to be q man of
education and has 81 600 saved up.
William Haynes of Boston, has been con-
victed of using the mails to defraud. He
received Sc, 600 or more by advertising rem.
Dants of silk at starvation prices, and
usually sent skein in return for dollar.
A caisson of the railway bridge at French
town, Maryland, sank with seven men
under it. Air was forced into the chamber
by two pumps, and the sufferers were res
cued after confinement of five hours, and
While riding on one of the roads near
Pittsburg, Miss Strohm was ordered by a
tramp to dismount and give him the horse.
Upon her refusal he beat her until she was
insensible. The rascal was caught and
Judge Lynch came very near trying the
case.
A loss of $40, 900 was incurred at Nep.
onset, Massachusetts,, by the burning of the
property of the A. T. Stearns Lumber Com.
pany. The fouring-m of William Fun
da & Sons at Syracuse, New York, valued
at $40, 600. and twelve dwellings at st. Anne,
Quebec, were swept away by fire.
William Bloodwortb, a farmer near
Richwoods, Arkansas, discovered two
years ago that his wife was intimate with
George Bullen, and he quietly killed the
latter in the woods. 1t has taken many
months to trace out the murder, and sem
tence of twenty-one years in the penitenti-
arc was pronounced.
Lon Incl, living at Bee Camp, near Mad. |
ison, Indiana, seduced girl by the name |
of Brinson some time ago, and finding that |
she would soon become q mother, enticed |
her into the woods and attempted to muir.
der her, leaving her for dead. She was
found short time afterwards in an uncon-
scious state with three ribs broken and
otherwise injured 80 that in all probability |
it will result in her death.
George Tice, q cattle dealer of Polk coun.
ty, left Nevada, Mo-, for home, short dis
lance, in a wagon, accompanied by several
friends. The party was shortly after over
taken by Charles Thornbill, with whom
they drank. A dispute then arose between
Tice and Thornbill, and the latter received
a cut on the wrist, which resulted in his
death the next day from loss of blood. Tice
was arrested, but denies that he was armed,
as do his companions. The cutting is re-
garded as mysterious.
By the explosion of gun in April last an
iron breech pin an inch and half long
and weighing els grains, was blown into
the brain of Emerson McColm, of Fort
Wayne, Ind. This heavy piece of iron, sew
eral pieces of bone and piece of his felt
hat were withdrawn from quite q distance
in his head, and without trepanning the
opening in the frontal bone through which
half teaspoonful of brains oozed. The
wound has healed and the patient been
dismissed. He experiences no inconven-
fence except from the hot rays of the sun,
and is as we'll as ever. The case is consid-
cred one of the most remarkable on rec
ord.
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.