Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-21
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Green Mccullough was hanged at Collu-
Ia, Texas, for the murder of Charles A.
Bragg.
was killed by the explosion of cannon at
Flora, Ill.
Chas. Schlor, OF Bloomfield, N. j., was
so affected by an earthquake of the 10th
inst, that she died in few hours.
At Lima, Ohio, ex-Sheriff Goliath and
Mrs. Leatherman were killed by their horse
springing before freight train.
At Elkhart, lad, Mrs. F. Shaffer and
Mrs. Andrew Swinehart were killed while
driving across the Lake Shore track.
A company has been organized at South
Bend, Indiana, with capital stock of$150,-
OO0, to build u belt railway seven miles in
length.
In an affray between gamblers in Bali
timore, George Gamble was MORALLY
wounded by Harry Brooks, the proprietor
of rival den.
by A. Frederick and DIR. ]. 3. Weida of
Philadelphia, surrendered themselves and
admitted having stolen John Mays body
from graveyard.
AZ SOlLOI OldllOL, 1--we pCISOilS
were driving across the railway track, when
q locomotive cut the carriage into fragments
and killed four of its occupants.
Geo. Metz, an insane man of Pittsburg,
threw an infant child of his sisters out of
second-story window. Marvellous as it may
appear, the little one was not injured.
A staging on the seventh story of new
building, on fremont street, Boston, gave
way with two masons, one of whom was
killed outright and the other received fatal
injuries.
Business was suspended at Kalama-
zoo, Michigan, to receive the remains
and to hold the funeral of Sergeant Ed
ward Israel, meteorologst of the Greeley
expedition.
Fire at Cattletsburg, KY, caused loss of
$4,000. Falling walls buried a number of
fireman. James Mckenzie, David Kinner,
Jr., and John Graham were killed. Robert
Miller and Samuel Kelley were fatally hurt.
John Butler, q farmer of Hanover county,
Va, shot and killed his wife. He had been
beating his child and his wife interfered,
when he turned upon her. She had him
arrested, but he escaped from the officer,
and returning home, shot his wife.
Gravel and freight trains on the Wiscon-
sin Central road, running at the rate of fif-
teen miles per hour, collided on an em bank
ment 100 feet high, near Chippewa Falls,
but chung to the track. One brakeman was
killed.
Recently passenger train was ditched
by q broken rail near Whitesboro, Texas. |
Mcmahon, the express messenger received
fatal injuries, and several passengers were
slightly hurt.
The receiver of ]. C. s. Harrison's bank
at Indianapolis found only $11S in cash |
in the safe, but made the discovery that
the defaulter had So, 600 to bis credit in |
New York from speculation in Western |
Union stock.
Michael Mcdonald, engineer in box
mill at Milford, Mass, caught his sleeve in |
the screw of shaft and for some time was |
whirled at the rate of four hundred reyolu-
tions per minute. Every stitch of clothing
was torn from his body, but when he fell |
to the floor he was absolutely uniniured.
Sam Faulkner and Henry Allen were en-
route to Texas camp meeting. They met
the Woodall brothers and proceeded TO set
tie an old feud with Winchesters. Allen
was shot dead. One of the Woodalls was
wounded and lay on the ground while
Faulkner and his brother fought with
knives. Faulkner buried his bowie in
Woodall's breast and turning around was
shot in the breast by the other Woodall
The wounded trio will die.
At Jackson, Mich, Edward Lynch, a
boilermaker at the II. C. Railway shops at
the Junction, while underneath q locomo-