Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1885-11-26
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 14th the Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Furniture Company's factory fell, killing
Henry Epping and seriously injuring three
others.
On the 18th Detective A. NJ. Pound, of
Omaha, Neb., was convicted of man.
slaughter for killing James Griffin, who
robbed the Treasury of Nebraska last Feb
ruary.
FRANK JOHNSON and his wife, living
eight miles from Hopkinsville, KY, were
killed and their child fatally injured dur
ing heavy storm on the morning of the
18th.
On the 18th three Chinese farmers were
murdered by Apache Indians near Lake
Valley, N. M. a
On the 14th three Italians, Azzaro, Syl-
vester and Litardo, who murdered Filippo
Caruso at Chicago and shipped his body to
Pittsburgh, Pa, in trunk, were hanged in
Chicago.
On the Nth Mrs. Alfred Fritz and her
five children were found dead in bed at
their home in New York, from the effect of
prussic acid administered by the mother.
ON the 18th Lizzie d. Pale was killed in
Smiths mill at Philadelphia, Pa, her hair
becoming entangled on revolving shaft,
which whrled her around and mangled
her in shocking manner before the ma
chinery could be stopped.
CHARLES STEWART, a wagon driver, was
instantly killed by the fall Of a derrick at
the new City Hall building at Indianapolis,
Ind, on the 14th.
On the 14th ten men were sufocated in
the Bull Domingo (Col.) mine by the shaft
taking fire. Their bodies were recovered
after almost superhuman efforts.
MISS KATIE ST. JOHN sustained a severe
fall at a roller skating rink at Bellaire, o.,
on the evening of the 14th, and died in a
few minutes.
THE public school building at Kittanning,
Pa, burned on the 10th.
ENGINEER MIKE HOGAN, of Boone, Ia,
was killed in an accident on the Chicago &
Northwestern Road.
On the 10th Lord and Lady Mayo were
thrown from carriage at Goodwood,
Eng, and the latter is thought to be fatally
injured.
On the 10th Andrew Dempster, assistant
train dispatcher of the Michigan Central
Railroad at Detroit, Mich, while working
| in the yards, had his skull fractured by
timber that had been knocked off a car,
! from the effects of which wound he died.
He leaves widow and four children.
A YOUNG girl named Mollie Mckee, of
Des MoiEes, Ia, accidentally shot herself
| fatally on the 18th with pistol.
WIN. SANBRooK and his wife, well l-to.do
| farmers, were run over and killed by
railroad train on the 18th, near Pontiac,
| Mich.
A FRENCH tailor named Edward Quevit
was shot and dangerously wounded by his
| discarded mistress, Adeline Duval, at Chi
cago, on the 18th.
N. WEBSTER, assistant Pullman agent at
| the town of Pullman, ILL.,, has been arrested
| charged with embezzlement.
On the 18th Felix Griffin and Tom Starr,
! at Briartown, 1. T., in which both were
wounded.
1T has been decided by the Baltimore &c
Ohio Railroad officials that the recent ac-
| cident near Connellsville was caused by a
| defective frog
On the 18th, while repairing one of the
blast furnaces of the Cambria Iron Com
pany at Johnstown, Pa, j. B. Smith was
overcome by foul gas and fell headlong
into the furnace on top of the tamping.
He was literally baked, and seventeen
workmen were successively overcome by
the gas and dragged away from the mouth
of the furnace before his body could be re-
| covered.