Western Kansas world., 1885-03-21
CRIMES AND MlSHhPS,

A bloody wife murder occurred at Scully-
vile, Choctaw Nation, March, 10th. Jack
son entered the house where his wife was
washing dishes and shot her twice in the
breast with a double barrelled shotgun,
killing her instantly. Jackson immediate
ly shouldered his gun and walked three
miles after a woman to attend his wife,
whom he said was very ill. Upon reaching
the house where his wife lay dead Jackson
appeared startled and reported that his wife
had been murdered during his absence.
Suspicion pointed SO plainly toward him as
her murderer that he was arrested and
brought to Fort Smith for trial. Jackson
recently became enamored of another
woman and wanted to get his wife out of
the way, hence the motive for the killing.
to fright. The other man, Joseph Taylor,
under sentence of death for murder, became
delirious with fear when he heard the noise
as he sat in his cell. The echo of the falling
doors had hardly died away, when the mur
derer was found writhing in commissions.
About three weeks ago John M. Oliver, q
prosperous white man living near Stone
wall, Chicasaw Nation, sent to a neighbor
named Crockett for some hay and Croc kett
refused to send the hay until Oliver paid a
small debt he was owing him for a few days.
Later Crockett while passing divers house,
was shot by Oliver. Several Deputy Mar
sbals pursued Oliver and attempted to ar
rest him. He resisted with rifle, but final
ly after being wounded four times bullet
struck him in the mouth, killing him in
stantly.
A magazine containing 5000 pounds
of nitro-glycerine, exploded at Bradford,
Pa, and w. II. Harrington, one of the pro-
prietors. and II. V. Pratt, an employee were
instantly killed. The factory, twenty-five
feet away, was blown to atoms. Pratts body
was found 200 feet away, with all the bones
broken, but the skin was intact. Mr.. Har-
rington weighed 100 pounds. One or two
p eces of flesh was all that could be found
of him. Trees were torn up by the roots
and great holes made in the earth.
Three negroes, named Ambrose Young,
Charles latham and Frank Freeman, were
arrested charged with being implicated in
the murder Of Montgomery near the State
line last December, and while under guard
at Union City, Tenn, q mob of ice men
overpowered the guards and took the pris-
oners and hanged them, just outside the
city. Their lifeless corpses were found next
morning suspended from q tree. Union
City is greatly excited over the matter.
A fire in J. D. Gill's art store building,
dt lAdSs.s uAo SiVos uouuoSC,
mainly by smoke. Loss 1000, of which
$40, 900 will fall ON Gill, whose entire stock
of pictures, books, rich paintings, stationery
and bric-a. bric are badly injured. The
smoke ipju ured the art gallery where several
artists paintings of great value hung,
which were also affected by the smoke, but
the damage there cannot now be estimated.
Northwestern Indians are dying off in
large numbers from a singular disease, the
first symptoms of which are stiffening OF
the knees and joints, from which death
soon follows. Chicken pox and diphtheria
is taking off many more, and they arein q
generally starving condition.
Jas. G. Mackin and VIM. Gallagher, Chi.
cago, who were found guilty in the cele-
brated Eighteenth ward election case, were
denied q new trial and sentenced to two
years each in the penitentiary, besides be
ing fined s., 900 each.
During thunder storm the saloon oI
Harry Burton, in the village of Roseville
o., was blown to pieces by . keg of powder
exploding beneath it. 1t was the only
saloon in the place, and had been only re
cently opened