The Dickinson press., 1884-03-15

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OF the house, apparently dying from suffoca-
uon by coal gas. Their faces were black and
blood was oozing from their mouth and nos.
tr!s. physicians resuscitated all but Lizzie
Schneider, whose case is thought hopeless. A
partially uncovered stove was the cause.
The Criminal calendar.
A Connecticut county treasurer sec, 900 short
has vamoosed.
Theodore Holman, the murderer Of the ped
Ter, Marks, at White Plains, N. Y, has been
sentenced to be hanged April Is.
William S%winburne, son of the mayor of New
port, r. l., shot himself, but did not die, for a
pretty girl who refused him.
>. w. Hawkins, private secretary of Nelson
Holland Of Buffalo, speculated in grain and
LOOK soo,VW OF his employers money.
-Four arrests have been made at Corning,
Ohio, for the lynching of Richard Hickey two
weeks ago, on a charge Of murder in the first
degree.
Benjamin Beatty Of Easton, Pa, attempted
to chastise his seventeen-year-old boy, Harry,
when the boy drew q revolver and shot his
father.
duel with pistols was fought at Groville,
France, recently, between LIE Pelletier, a jour
nalist and Viardot, a %violinist. Both were Sc
verely wounded.
Belleville, Only special: William Brown, q
negro aged thirty-seven years, and his wife
and stepdaughter were lodged in Jail charged
with q most atrocious murder, which they con-
fessed.
Desire Boudoir, before the police court at
Great Falls, N. H., pleaded guilty to the charge
Of killing Frederick Grant, for which crime his
(Boudoir's) father stands convicted. He will be
tried in September.
John W. Hawkins, United States lumber in
spector and private secretary of Nelson Hol-
land, of Clark, Holland & Co, lumber dealers
OF Buffalo, is charged with the embezzlement
OF moneys OF Holland aggresating $4,000.
A man named Ben Swistleton shot and killed
wo men, one named Henry Leeper of Helena,
Mont, and q man named c. E. Rogers, nick
named Bill or Charley, at John humans. No
Water ranch on the Big Horn, Jan. 80 1884.
o. Van Wen treasurer of Huron county, Conn,
%abscoundcd recently, and has not been heard
from since. His cash account is short $4,000
to $Gn,WO. His bondsmen are good for the
amount taken. 1t is thought he is in Canada.
Carrollton, Ohio, is excited over the discov-
cry thatthe county treasurer's Office was robbed
some time ago Of $14, 600: that a detective sum-
moned from Chicago succeeded in replacing
$l2, zoo, and left with the consent of those who
employed him.
A shooting scrape occurred at Topeka, Kan.
among the colored population, in which
George Blackman was killed and Peter Blood
son mortally wounded. Isah McClary is the
murderer. The two victims seem to have been
intimate with McClary's wife.
James l. Dougherty, mail agent of the At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe company, shot and
seriously wounded Prof. Nutting, a music
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great sensation, and grew out of the well known
intimacy between Nutting and oughrety's wife.
The Cashes, father and son, still defy arrestat
Cheraw, S. G. Old Cash intimater his i~ntontion
to surrender, with his son, at a time and place
selected by himself provided his trial takes place
N the United States court. Young Cash held
the appointment of United States deputy mar
shall.
Tim Depew, while attending a revival meet
ing at the Baptist church at Blenheim, Ont,
was arrested by dectives from Hamilton and
Buffalo, N, Y, charged with robbery and the
murder OF o railway engineer at Hamilton and
a murder at Buffalo. He was taken to Hamil-
ton.
John McGinnis was hangedin the county pris-
on at Philadelphia, forthe murder of his moth
%er-in-law, Mrs. Mary Reed. On the scaffoldhe
embraced and kissed the priest In the middle
of a repetition of the sentence, sJesus, receive
my SOU, j" the drop fell. He seemed to die with
out pain.
For some time trouble has existed between
Rev. B. N. o'Boylan of Corning, Ohio, and A.
j. McDavitt, a druggist of that place, and who
also is a Catholic and has beena member of o.
Bloylon's church. Sunday night a mob of be-
tween forty and fifty men called at the store of
McDavitt, and took him three miles in the
country, where they exacted promises from him
that he would retract what he had said about
the priest. The leaders of the crowd have been
arrested and a warrant is out for Rev. O'Boy-
Ian.
At Massillon, Ohio, Sarah Stark, aged four
teen, applied for the arrest of F. D. Farmer, r
Seigner, Charles Fogle and Charles Rite, for
rape. She alleges that while going home We'd
nesday night Farmer waylaid her in a lone spot
and forced her to accompany him to a wagon
shed, where he ravished her. Tho other men
accused found them, drove Farmer of, and
each in turn twice ravished her, and then es-
capped. Farmer was arrested and put under
$3O0 bonds for hearing, but was afterward re-
leased from custody on bail, and fled. The
mayor offers a reward for his capture.
William Mcmillan, living near Huron, Ohio,
went home drunk and abused his wife, who
threatened to call on neighbors for help. Nc
MILAN swore he would kill the first man who
came to the house. Presently George Thomp-
son, aged nineteen, appeared in the dooryard,
having an Grand at the place and ignorant of
the trouble there. Mcmillan, installing him
for another person, shot and killed him. Then,
discovering his mistake and fearful of diseov-
cry, he tried to shoot himself, but only infic-
ted a trifing flesh wound in a side. Mcmillan
was arrested and jailed at Huron, and was
found dead in his cell.
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