Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-11-06
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Eat Murray City, Mo-, Deputy Sheriff
Locke. in trying to quell adistuTbaneP. shot
two Polish miners, one fatally.
1t Salem, J., Howard Sullivan, who
was connected with the n urder Of Ella Wat
son, was sentenced to ,ba hanged Deem.
Der 3.
At Fitchburg, Mass, Neiman Jones, u
years Of age, was arrested for placing ob-
s.ructions on the tack to wreck train
for fun"
At San Francisco, Un!tad States District
Judge Hoffman sentenced Thomas Dono-
van. convicted Of Illegal registration, to
thres years imprisonment and hne OF
$500.
Arkansas City, c. B. Thomas, alias. J.
II. Baylor, a young lawyer OF Leaven-
worth, WIS arrested on q charge OF forging
a draft on the German American Bank OF
Leavenwo1th tor $500.
A Are at Lootg oote, Indiana, burned
eleven buildings, lneluding the Democrat
and three saloons. The loss is estimated at
1SVV,SSSs $ASS3SSS'
A boiler in the saw mill of South & Co.,
at Atoks, in the southern part Of Terry
county, Mo-. exploded and killed Joseph
Radcliffe, engineer. of Clayton, ILL.,, Frank
Choate and J. B. Oliver. and seriously dam
aged the mill.
The store of A. B. Smith at Rockaway
Beach n. J. was entered. The safe
was broken open and q large amount Of the
Rockawa Improvement Csmpany's bonds
were taken. Several hundred dollars and
many valuables were carried away. There
Is no clue to the thieves.
At Boston United States Duputy Mar.
shall seized the Fremont brewery for alleged
revenue frauds, and arrested the proprie-
tors, Mil and Henry Kenney. W. j. Catfy,
driver ofthe concern, who had defaulted
one of his bonds in tle case OF the alleged
revenue fraud some time ago, was also az
rested.
At Jersey City. George Mcveetey was ar
rested for the murder Of his wife, Ellen,
who died from the effects of burns, at first
supposed to have been caused by the acci.
dental explos GA OF an oil can from which
she was pouring kerosene on lighted fire;
but it is now thought be poured the oil over
her, and then set her clothes on fire.
st. Helena, Neb., stage driver brings
meager particulars of tragedy near ST.
Helena recently. A Deputy Sheriff of c.
dar county attempted to arrest Dane, name
unknown, for burning q number OF stacks
Of hay and grain. The Dane barIicaded him.
self and sho: Philips. who was taken home
In dying condition. A posse finally ar
rested the Dane, aud hanged him to tree.
A passenger train on the Fort Wayne rail.
road struck two horse wagon at the Nc
Clure crossing, ALLEGHENY City, Pa, denol-
ishing the wagon and killiNg both horses.
Thomas O'Neil, one of the occupants. es-
caped by jumping, but VIM. Ford stutk to
the wagon, and was fatally injured. One
of the horses was thrown distance OF
forty feet, striking Peter Farley, we'll
known citizen, who was standing on the
station platform, killing him instantly.
Joe Hickman, well and fsvorably
known miner at Good Hope, New Mexico,
was shot dead. At the ante mOrtem exam
Beck and Tom Welsh, had determined to
murder and rob another miner OF $500
which he was known to possess. They in.
sisted upon Hickman's joining them, and
upon his refusal they both drew their re-
volvers and fred. A large number are in
hot pursuit, and lynchins Is inevitable if
they are caught
News Of horrible triple tresedy in Cal.
houn county, West We. has been receiv-
ed. Mrs. Johnson, while temporarily in
sane, mixed some arsenic with sugar aud
gave it to her three step.children. One of
them refused to eat it, but the other two
partook of the fatal compound and died in 9
few minutes. Mrs. johnson then swallow
ed some of the poison herself and soon died.
She was q sister.in.law of ex-Postmaster
Johnson, who recently defrauded the Gov
eminent of $40, 900 and then eloped with a
woman. he was afterwards arrested at
Covington.
A package containing $1,000, wes con.
signed by bank q. New Lisbon, O., to the
United States Express Company, to be de-
livered in Pittsburg. It was received at
Niles. O., by Messenger Fredericks, of the
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad,
who checked IL In % the United States Ex-
press Office, Chief Clerk Miksell being pres
ent to receive the run. and the package
was placed in the safe with others. When
the messenger was ready to receive his run
1t was found that the package of 81 800 was
not in the safe. The officers have obtained
no clue to the package and no evidence
that warrants suspicion being cast upon
any ona
Lottie Francis, the thirteen-year-old
daughter Of VIM. ]. Francis, of Jamaica,
Long Island, attempted suicide by cutting
her throat. She inflicted terrible cash,
but was discovered in time to give hope
that life may be saved. Her father re-
Gently sued his own father for alleged
alienation of his 1.-THE eon's) wife's affection
He testified that bis vile had confessed that |
her father.in-law was the father of her six |
children. The jury rendered q verdict in |
favor of tie defendant. The young girls |
attempt vas the result Of her moytfcation |