Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-10-30
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

An incendiary fire at Montague, Mich.
destroyed the Opera House block, postoifice,
express Office, and weekly Lumberman Of
fee. Loss, $4,000.
At Allegheny City, Pa, the extensive
slaughtering houses of w. G. Kimberlin
we're destroyed by fire. Loss, s. 600, fully
covered by insurance.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, fire broke out
in Miss Gibbons millinery store at Mon
tague, and destroyed two blocks. Loss,
SIS, 900; insurance, $4,000.
French's wooden mill at Foster, near Ann
ArbOr, Mich, burned. Loss. $40, 600; insur-
ance, unknown. 1t had 1900 pounds of
wool on hand, and orders for six months
ahead.
At Hartford, Conn.,, Martin Harrison, q
car driver, and his mistress, Ada Brown,
were killed. S. Gregory, former lover OF
the woman, has been arrested. Jealousy
was the cause.
At Easton, Pa, the Jersey Central rail-
road depot, together with the telegraph and
ticket Offices, James McGrath's news agen-
cy, and George Hummeli's restaurant, were
destroyed by fire.
A terrible accident occurred to passen-
ger train on the Mobile & Ohio road near
Tupelo, Miss. Every coach was damaged
badly, and all of the passengers more or less
injured, bui none killed.
Thomas G. Page, known as Coon" Page,
of Washington county, ILL.,, was arraigned
in the United States District court atSpring-
field, on charge of counterIeiting. He
entered plea of guilty, and was sentenced
TO the penitentiary at Chester for term of
one year.
At Milwaukee, the residence of Alex.
Mitchell, President of the Chicago, Mil
waukee d st. Paul Railroad. was entered
by burglars at an early hour in the morn
ing. Mitchelrs and his wife's elegant gold
watches, a quantity Of jewelry and a small
amount of money were taken. No clue.
Matte Freeland, highly respected
young lady of Washington, Ind, twenty.
FIVE miles east of Vincennes, committed
suicide by shooting herself in the mouth
and breast. This make the third attempt,
but she was too weak to accomplish her de-
signs. A love affair is the cause.
North Springfield, Mass, postoffice was
burglarized, and LOCO letters taken, togeth-
er with a small amounts of money and
stamps. Several other places were entered
DUH ouu ANOAtA diC
infested with band of housebreskers, who
have BEEN operating heavily for the past
week.
At st. Louis Mrs. Zerelda Samuels, the
mother, and Mrs. Jesse James, the widow
of the famous outlaw, were awarded DAM
ages of $3.50. in the suit against the Cham
bers' Publishing Company for violation of
the contract under which royalty was to
be paid for the publication of the life of
Jesse James.
An engine on the Philadelphia & Read
ing railroad, on which VIM. n. Ketchner,
superintendent of the signal towers Of the
company, was riding, ran into \ mixed
passenger and freight train near Exeter,
Pa. The engine was partially wrecked and
Ketchner instantly killed. Several persons
were hurt.
A special to the Chicago Journal from
VrOQua, Wis.,, says: John Huschka, a Ger
man farmer who murdered his wife few
days ago, was found in the WOODS in his
night cloths S, nearly frozen to death, and q
maniac. He was placed in jail, and when
apparently rational, was told of bis crime.
During the night he committed suicide by
hanging.
A special dispatch from St. Paul says the
boiler of threshing machine, on the Leech
d Nichols farm, ct Beltramie, exploded, in
s,antly killing Thomas Evander, the en-
gineer, John smith, John Tingwood, Chris.
swanson and John johnson, farm hands,