Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-05-07
CHIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CHIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Damaging floods are reported in South
west Missouri.
Frank Mag wasIfound dead in slough
near Riverton, III.
Ira T. Wisner, well-known citizen of
Quincy, ILL.,, committed suicide.
w. H. Smith, q saloon keeper of Indepen-
dence, Mo-, left town owing 81 100.
Herman Green, wealthy farmer, COM
mitted suicide near MOawequa, III.
Ferdinand Kampmann, an old citizen of
Quincy, ILL.,, was found dead in bed.
Claude McVeye accidently shot himself
near st. Charles, Mo. He is unconscious and
cannot live.
A Chicago bHnko man swindled Josiah
Beardsley, pominent real estate dealer,
out of $4,000.
N. G. O'Donald, a well-known young
man of Clinton, ILL.,, died from an overdose
of chloroform.
The mill belonging to the Mississippi
Valley Transportation company at Mound
City, ILL.,, was burned.
Burglars secured $500 in money and lot
of registered letters and stamps by breaking
into the postoffice at Glenwood, Mo.
The rescuipg party recovered the dead
bodies of eleven mel killed by the snow
slide on Homestake mountain in Colorado.
Zed Strathan, Chicago & Alton brake
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track at Pearle, ILL.,, and was killed. Love
affair.
Two young Germans near Carlinville,
ILL.,. went coon hunting. Frank Trunk
took Jos. Deitz for the coon and shot him
fatally.
Robert G. Hall, young man in New
York City, while cierking for G. F. Hast
ings, embe zzled ST., 600, and is now in Jail.
He comes from good family.
The postmaster general has forbidden the
delivery of registered letters and money or
ders to F. Ridd & Co., Dubuque, Iowa, on
the evidence that they were conducting q
fraudulent business through the mails.
: Samuel C. Abbott and Julian A. Penni-
man are under arrest charged with having
attempted to burn the Hoffman house in
Boston. The first fire was started July Is,
1858, and at intervals since then four other
fires have been started in most mysterious
manner.
Harry Smith, aged % years, and Hattie
N. Null, aged 80, were found dead in bed in
second story room in Philadelphia.
Smith had shot the woman three time.
through the head, and then took poisons
The cause of the murder and suicide has
not been learned.
A dispatch from Butler, Ca, May LIST,
says that last night the Rev. Jesse Cook, be-
coming enraged at his wife, knocked her
down with an axe and then putting his foot
on her throat he dealt her three blows with
the axe knocking out her brains. Both are
colored. A posse of armed men are in pur-
suit of him.
German Hess, with his wife and child,
living three miles from Concordia, Ohio,
some time during the night, took an Ak
and severed the head of his child from its
body. He then beat his wife on the head
until life was extinct. The room bore
bloody evidence of a dreadful struggle
After the bloody deed Hess hung himself
to rafter, and when found all the bodies
were stiff.
An express train on the Louisville, New
Albany d Chicago railroad, was stopped at
Smithville Hill, Ind, by one man, and the
robber after shooting the baggageman and
express messenger took what money there
was in the Ger, pulled the bell chord and as
the train Stacked up left the train and
made good his escape. 1t is thought the
robber got about $1,000. In jumping from
the car he dropped $500 but aid not stop to
pick it up.
A Louisville, KY, dispatch says: Infor-
duel which was fought in the country by
two young farmers, John Augusta and Abe
Taylor, living on the Bargetown pike. They
were the rivals of Miss June Greenhouse
They quarrelled and finally arranged q
meeting which took place Wednesday
morning at daybreak. Pistols at fifteen
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Augusta, it is thought, will die from a
wound in the groin. Taylor received
slight wound on the left side. Taylor was
arrested and brought her for trial to-day.
Another man has been found dead in a
trunk. The baggage-master at the Union
depot at Pittsburgh received trunk which
contents gave out q suspicious odor, and af-
ter counseling with the officials of his road,
broke the trunk open and found therein
the body of man, securely bound and in
an advanced stage of decomposition. The
face was badly discolored and blotted, and
the stencil was SO great that it kept at
safe distance the large crowd which quickly
gathered. The trunk was Q common
wooden one, and evidently had not been
used before. 1t arrived from Chicago, but
no clew as to who checked it could be ascer-
tanned. No record of baggage is kept. The
body, in order to get into the trunk, had
been bent almost double. Around the
back, arms and legs was hemp cord about
one-eighth of an inch in thickness, which
had been drawn 30 tight that it had cut
deep into the flesh. There was no mark of
violence, and 30 far as could be ascertained
from an outward examination the stomach
was in . normal condition. The body was
that of q laboring man probably 30 years of
age, short heavy build, with q smooth
face.