St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-22
CRIME AND CASUALTY.
The Daily Record as Reported from
Various Places by Telegraph.
DIABoLIcAL ATTEMPT AT ARSON.

DIABoLICAL ATTEMPT AT ARSON.
New YORK, Sept. 20.-An elaborate and
well planned attempt at arson in house
full of people was brought to light to-day
The diabolcal crime, however, miscarried,
its only result was the killing of a woman,
the wife of the man whom the police arrested
charged with setting fire to the house. The
woman was Mrs. Gusty, wife of Geo. Gusty,
saloon keeper. The fire was discovered in
his house. He lived on the second floor with
his wife and child. Seven dodgers occupied
the third. Early this morning police officer
saw flames in the house and gave the alarm.
he and another officer went to an adjoining
room and raised the inmates, then ascend
ing to the roof they went to
rescue the occupants of the building,
They, however, a. the first alarm had fed to
the street. all but two, Mrs. Gusty and her
two-year-old boy. They were found on the
roof, the boy nearly choked with smoke
and the woman dying from horrible burns.
After the fire was extinguished coal oil was
found everywhere, all the gas turned on and
the fire started in three places.
he FOOLED WITH THE WRONG MAN.
DANvuLE, Va, Sept. 20-In Henry county
Allen Shaffer, blacksmith, dangerously
wounded J. A. Davis with shotgun. While
Shaffer was at work in the shop, Davis, who
had been drinking, tried to fight him, but
was ordered away, making many threats as
he went. Davis came back and stood in the
door with his hand upon his hip pocket,
whereupon Shaffer threw a hammer and
longs at him. Davis afterwards called upon
Shatfer, pointing a double barrel shotgun at
him; then Shaffer, who had prepared his gun,
and resumed work, fired a load of large shot
into Davis abdomen. Davis fell with the
shotgun in his hand. Some Of Davis friends
threatened an attack upon Shaffer, but he
was rescued and sent to Martin sville for trial.
STABBED BY CRANK.
MT. STERLING, Ky, Sept. 20.-Last night
Sam Clay, an old, respected school teacher,
made an attack on Miss Sallie Oldham and
sister, when in her buggy near his house,
and stabbed the former several times, in
fictlng probably fatal Injuries. He also made
au attempt to kill his wife, but she made
her escape. Clay is not regarded as crazy
and threats of violence are made against him
by the indignant citizens. No cause is as
signed for Clay's actions.
WHIPPED AND PILLoRIED.
WILMINGTON, Del, Sept 20.-Seven con-
victs were whipped at Newcastle this fore
noon in the presence of 400 people.
Among them was Edward Redden,
white, who was pilloried for an hour,
in addition to twenty lashes. Isaac Ander
son, negro boy, swore Justify while being
whipped, and colored thief named Sugar
Awful, who took twenty heavy lashes with
out murmur.
sUFFoCATED IN SEWER.
PITTsBURG, Sept. 20.-John Slim, brick
layer, and John Reno, his helper, were sutfo-
Gated by gas in a sewer, at Edgar Thompson
steel works, Braddocks, this forenoon. They
were repairing, and were overcome by gas,
which had accumulated in the sewer. Slim
was forty years old, and leaves a wife and
three children; Reno was Hungarian, and
unmarried.
SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER
DUBUQUE, Sept. 20.-John LANCE shot his
wife through the head this morning, and
then shot himself through the head. He is
dead; she may recover. LANCE was a la
borer, about So, and native of Darmstadt,
Germany. He was the woman's second hus-
band; aud she bis second wife. This morn
ing the couple had a quarrel which term mated
in the shooting.