Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-10-02

A collision occurred on the Alton roa
near Pontiac, Illinois. John E. Zeublin,
telegraph superintendent at Chicago
was severely hurt. Two sleepers and fftee
freight cars we're burned, causing loss {
$35, 900.
Joseph Sarver, only Is years of age, VIII
murdered his father, was hanged at Ind
ana, Pennsylvania. At Ebensburg, in tn
same State, Michael Murray was execute
for shooting weak-minded lad on tn
turnpike.
Gillie Leigh, a member of the British
Parliament, lost his life in the Big Horl
mountains of Wyoming, where he becam
separated from hunting party few day
ago. His body was found at the base of
precipice.
In a drunken row between Charles Trac,
and man named Dodson at Seymour, Mo.
the latter struck the former. with piece o
scantlipg, fracturing his skull and killing
him. The men were personal friends ant
{ business patrons.
The Buchanan brothers, president ant
secretary of the wrecked distillery com
pany at Louisville, KY, have fled tt
Canada. They are charged with duplicat
ing warehouse receipts, and the assignee o
the company refuses to serve.
Isaac Jacobson, the murderer OF Geo. Be
dell, was executed in Chicago with such
mechanical precision that death was in
Simultaneous with the fall of the drop. The
condemned man appreciated the gravity Of
the occasion, and was almost overcome
with emotion.
John Langa shot his wife through the
head, at Dubuque, Ia, and then shot him.
self through the head. He is dead. She
may recover. Lange was laborer about
couple had quarrel which eliminated in
the shooting.
George Henderson, farmer while feed.
ing hogs at bis home near Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, was assassinated by some one
concealed in the woods, who fired thirty
buckshot into him, killing him instantly.
Jas. Reynolds, a neighbor with whom he
had quarrel, is suspected.
A slight shock of earthquake visited the
cities of Detroit, Chelsea, Grass Lake and
Adrian in Michigan. 1t was also observed
at Toledo and Cincinnati, O., and Fl. Wayne,
Ind. The damage in every case was slight
and in no place resulted seriously. The du-
ration of the shock was from 10 to 80 Sec
| onds.
| Theore Rouleau, aged Is, and Hortense
Paros, aged Is, both French Canadians,
while walking home from ball, near Do
yer, N. H., were struck by lightning. Rou-
lean was instantly killed, and Miss Paros'
hair, one arm and hand were badly burned,
and she lost her reason, which, it is feared,
will not be restored.
Harrison, the famous horse-thief had an
other exciting adventure. Two farmers
armed with rifles, captured him in Prince
Georges county. Nd, still handcuffed, and
placed him in their wagon for transporta
ton to Marlboro Jail. After riding quietly
along until the captors laid aside their guns,
Harrison took the wagon to himself and
drove off at lively rate.
A collision occurred between freight
and passenger train, eleven miles south of
Albuquerque, N. NJ, on the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe road, which resulted in the
deaf of the passenger engineer, w. K. Fish
er, and the fireman, Robert Baxter, and on
the freight train of q brakeman, name not
learned. The passengers were thoroughly
shaken up, but escaped unhurt.
On the Philadelphia e. Atlantic railroad,
about twenty miles below Camden, eleven
men were seriously, but none, it is thought,
were fatally injured. A. freight train
dashed into car on an accommodation
train and demolished it, throwing the occu-
pants, all railroad workmen, about twenty
feet from the trick. The injured were
brought to their homes.
At Hessville Ind, during scuffle over
a refusal to pay for drinks, in Joseph Hess's
saloon. a window was broken, which so in.
censed Hess that he stuck pitchfork into
the breast of q man named GearsOn, while
his son, Edward Hess, fired into the crowd
with double-barreled shotgun, fatally
Adams, and James Conley slightly. Young
Hess escaped.
A mob of forty men visited the Franklin
county, Louisiana, Jail, overpowered the
jailor and took out four Negro prisoners
and lynched them to trees in the court
house yard. One was charged with attempt
ed rape on white girl, two with the MUIR
der of other Negroes, and the other with
were in the Jail at the time, one charged
with rape and the others with arson, but |
were unmolested. The mob left word with |
the iailor that if the Circuit Court did not
clear out the Jail at the present term, they |
would return and make Q clean sweep |
This makes six men who have fallen vic |
Tins of Judge Lynch in that county in the |
past eighteen months.
A 12-year-old girl of Pennington, Mass,
packed valise with diamonds and negotia-
BILE bonds to the amount of 500 600, belong
ing to her mother, wealthy lady, and |
started to Boston to meet young man and |
elope with him. She was arrested, the val
Iables recovered and the girl taken home.
The amount stolen is divided as follows
SIS, 900 in bank bills, three one thousand |
dollar United States bonds, $1,000 worth of
and $35, 600 worth of railroad
stocks. The girls name is Sadie Robinson,
and she is daughter of c. E. Robinson.
Sadie's mind has been filled with nonsens-
ical stuff about runaway marriages. When
charged with stealing the valuables she at
first Indignantly denied. but subsequently
confessed. She said that on Friday morn
ing she took q valise with her when she
went to school to Boston, and had given it
to q woman. She told q blood-curdling
story of having her life threatened unless
she complied with the demand for money.
She said she met the woman in Albany sta
ton and gave her the valise containing the
valtables. The valise and valuables were
recovered in drug store. She confessed
she loved young man, whose name she
refused to give, and had taken the money
with the intention of clipping.
FOREIGN
Christine Nilsson is on her way to Amer
lea.
DR., Wolf q, Zurich has discoyered a